Andrés Muñoz-Jaramillo, PhD - Solar Cycle and Solar Dynamo Research

Andrés Muñoz-Jaramillo - Presentations

Educational Presentations

From the Sun to the Earth: Much More than Light and Heat. With Interactive Visualization: Link.
Related Facebook Live at the SETI Institute (starts at minute 8): Link.
- • Physics Colloquium at the University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada, November 2018.
- • Space Weather Summer school, Boulder, CO, USA, July 2018.
- • REU introductory lecture, Boulder, CO, USA, May 2018.
- • IAU Symposium 340 – Summer school, Jaipur, India, February 2018.
- • Public Lecture at the University of Oulu, Finland, November 2017.
- • SETI Institute Seminar, Mountain View, CA, USA, July 2017.
- • CISM Summer school, Boulder, CO, USA, July 2017.
- • NASA-FDL Bootcamp, Mountain View, CA, USA, June 2017.
- • Bootcamp at NASA's Frontier Development Laboratory, Mountain View, CA, USA, June 2017.
- • Undergraduate Seminar at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, September 2012.
- • Colloquium at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia, September 2010.
Less is More: Ruminations on Data Mining and Analysis.
- • Computer Science Seminar at Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA, February 2016.
Solar Cycle & Dynamo (Including Extended Minima and Maxima), and the Large-Scale Field. 2-Hour presentation.
- • Solar Physics Invited Lecture at the Universidad Nacional, Bogotá, Colombia, October 2015.
- • International School of Space Science, L'Aquila, Italy, September 2015.
- • NASA's Living With a Star Summer School, Boulder, CO, USA, July 2015. Video Available: Part 1 - Part 2.
The Solar Cycle.
- • REU Seminar at Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA, June 2015.
- • REU Seminar at Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA, June 2014.
- • Salt Lake Astronomical Society in Salt Lake City, UT, USA, March 2013.
The Solar Cycle: Observations, Characteristics, Understanding, and Theory. 2-Hour presentation.
- • ISWI & MAGDAS School on Space Science, Bandung, WJ, Indonesia, September 2012.
The Sun's Interior and the Solar Magnetic Cycle.
- • REU Seminar at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, USA, June 2011.

Invited Presentations

Now You See it, Now You Don't: Challenges and Limitations of the Long-Term Sunspot Number Record.
- • Fifteenth Canadian Solar Workshop, Canada, November 2018.
Uncertainty, Under-counting, and Survey Inconsistency: Overlooked Issues While Working With Sunspot Area Data.
- • IAU Symposium 340, Jaipur, India, February 2018.
When Push Comes to Shove, Size isn't Everything.
- • Solar Cycle 25 Prediction workshop, Nagoya, Japan, December 2017.
Deep Learning: Teaming up Machines and Humans to Peek into the Black Box.
- • Committee of Solar and Space Physics, National Academy of Science, Irvine, CA, October 2017.
Theoretical and Observational Constrains on the Poloidal Signature of Active Regions and Their Origin Within the Convection Zone.
- • Dynamo Focus Meeting at the National Solar Observatory, Boulder, CO, USA, March 2017.
Advances on Our Understanding of Solar Cycle Propagation and Predictability.
- • 2016 SDO Workshop, Burlington, VT, USA, October 2016.
Demographics of the LWS Heliophysics Summer school (in Haiku Form).
- • 10th Anniversary Celebration of the LWS Heliophysics Summer School, Boulder, CO, USA, August 2016.
Contextualizing Solar Cycle 24: Report on the Development of a Homogenous Database of Bipolar Active Regions Spanning Four Cycles.
- • 2015 AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA, December 2015.
Modeling Active Region Emergence in 3D Flux-Transport Solar Dynamos.
- • NASA LWS Workshop on Solar Dynamo Frontiers, Boulder, CO, USA, June 2015.
One Model Doesn't Fit All: Recent Results of a Detailed Analysis of Sunspot Demographics.
- • Sunspot Formation Workshop, Stockholm, Sweeden, March 2015.
Insider's Perspectives of the Jack Eddy LWS Fellowship.
- • Living with a Star: Past Accomplishments and Future Promise, Princeton, NJ, USA, September 2013.
Helioseismic Perspective of the Solar Dynamo.
- • Fifty Years of Seismology of the Sun and Stars, NSO Workshop in Tucson, AZ, USA, May 2013.
Implications of Changes to the SSN for Solar Dynamo Studies & Climate Change.
- • Meeting of American Geophysical union in San Francisco, CA, USA, December 2013.
- • 3rd SSN Workshop in Tucson, AZ, USA, January 2013.
Solar surface observations and their role in solar-cycle predictions.
- • 26th NSO Workshop in Sunspot, NM, USA, April 2012.
Bridging the Gap: Recent Improvements of Kinematic Models of the Solar Magnetic Cycle. Fred L. Scarf Award presentation.
- • AGU Fall Meeting 2011 in San Francisco, CA, USA, December 2011.
Why was the Sun so quiet?
- • 2011 ILWS Science Workshop, Beijing, China, August 2011.
Forecasting the Solar Cycle: Lessons Learned from the Unusual Minimum of Solar Cycle 23.
- • 2011 ILWS Science Workshop, Beijing, China, August 2011.
Origins and Manifestations of the Solar Cycle: What We Know and What We Don’t.
- • SHINE Workshop 2011, Snowmass, CO, USA, July 2011.
Solar Internal Dynamics and the Unusual Minimum of Sunspot Cycle 23.
- • AGU Meeting of the Americas, Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil, September 2010.
The Unusual Minimum of Cycle 23: Observations and Interpretation.
- • Meeting of the Solar Physics Division in Boulder, CO, USA, May 2010.

Research Seminars

Using Deep Learning to Plug an Observational Gap in EUV Irradiance Observations.
- • Seminar at the High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, USA, November 2018. Video Available: Part 1.
- • Astrophysics Colloquium, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada, November 2018.
Solar Surface Magnetism: A Window Into Our Star’s Interior, Past, Present, and Future.
- • Seminar of the ReSoLVE center for excellence, Oulu, Finland, November 2017.
- • APS Colloquium, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA, March 2017.
The Rails Inside the Sun and the Butterflies that Ride Them.
- • Astrophysics Seminar at Georgia State Unversity, Atlanta, GA, USA, February 2017.
- • Seminar at the High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, CO, USA, March 2016. Video Available: Part 1.
- • Seminar of the Solar & Astrophysics Laboratory, Lockheed Martin, Palo Alto, CA, USA, January 2016.
- • Stanford Solar Group Meeting, Palo Alto, CA, USA, January 2016.
Using Sunspot Demographics to Probe the Small-Scale vs. Global Components of the Dynamo.
- • Seminar of the Solar & Astrophysics Laboratory, Lockheed Martin, Palo Alto, CA, USA, February 2015.
- • Stanford Solar Group Meeting, Palo Alto, CA, USA, February 2015.
- • Heliophysics Science Seminar at NASA/AMES, Mountain View, CA, USA, February 2015.
The Statistics of Magnetic Structures: The Future of Cycle Prediction and the Key to the Livingston-Penn Effect.
- • Brown bag seminar at the National Solar Observatory, Tucson, AZ, USA, September 2014.
Building the Next-Generation of Model-Based Solar Cycle Predictions.
- • Space Physics Seminar at the University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland. April 2014.
- • Astronomy Seminar at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia. March 2014.
- • High Energy Seminar at the Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia. March 2014.
- • Astronomy Seminar at the Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia. March 2014.
- • Seminar at the Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, USA, February 2014.
- • Seminar at the High Altitude Observatory, Boulder, CO, USA, February 2014.
- • Seminar of the Solar & Astrophysics Laboratory, Lockheed Martin, Palo Alto, CA, USA, January 2014.
- • Space Science Seminar, University of California - Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA, January 2014.
- • Heliophysics Science Seminar at NASA/GSFC, Washington, DC, USA, January 2014.
- • Solar Theory Seminar at the Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC, USA, January 2014.
- • SPA&CS Seminar at George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA, January 2014.
- • Stanford Solar Group Meeting, Palo Alto, CA, USA, October 2013.
- • Physics Seminar at Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA, August 2013.
Solar Cycle Propagation, Memory, and Prediction: Insights from a Century of Magnetic Proxies.
- • Numerical Analysis Seminar at Durham University, Durham, UK, June 2013.
- • HEAP seminar at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, February 2013.
- • Brown bag seminar at the National Solar Observatory, Tucson, AZ, USA, January 2013.
Improvements and Applications of Kinematic Models of the Solar Magnetic Cycle.
- • Heliophysics Science Seminar at NASA/GSFC, Washington, DC, USA, September 2011.
- • SPA&CS Seminar at George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA, September 2011.
- • Solar Theory Seminar at the Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC, USA, September 2011.
- • A&A Seminar at the Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada, March 2011.
- • Colloquium at the Udaipur Solar Observatory, Udaipur, India, January 2011.
- • SSP Seminar at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, USA, October 2010.
- • High Energy Seminar at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia, September 2010.
- • Colloquium at the High Altitude Observatory in Boulder, CO, USA, May 2010.
- • Physics Seminar at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata, India, April 2010.

Contributed Presentations

The Harm that Underestimation of Uncertainty Does to Our Community: A Case Study Using Sunspot Area Measurements
- • Meeting of the Solar Physics Division, Portland, Oregon, August 2017.
A New Generation of Long-Term Variability Datasets with Better Estimates of Uncertainty
- • Boulder Solar Day, Boulder, CO, USA, April 2017.
The Rails Inside the Sun and the Butterflies that Ride Them
- • Space Climate Symposium 6, Levi, Finland, April 2016.
The Minimum of Solar Cycle 23: As Deep as It Could Be?
- • 2015 Triennial Earth-Sun Summit, Indianapolis, IN, USA, April 2015.
Automatic vs. Human Detection of Bipolar Magnetic Regions: Using the Best of Both Worlds.
- • Meeting of American Geophysical union in San Francisco, CA, USA, December 2014.
How the Statistical Analysis of Magnetic Structures Will Help Us Usher a New Generation of Solar Cycle Predictions.
- • 2014 Living With a Star Science Meeting in Portland, OR, USA, November 2014.
From the Tachocline Into the Heliosphere: Coupling a 3D kinematic dynamo to the CCMC.
- • Meeting of the Solar Physics Division in Boston, MA, USA, June 2014.
From the Tachocline Into the Heliosphere.
- • Meeting of American Geophysical union in San Francisco, CA, USA, December 2013.
What Makes Each Cycle Unique?
- • Meeting of American Geophysical union in San Francisco, CA, USA, December 2013.
Solar Cycle Propagation, Memory, and Prediction: Insights from a Century of Magnetic Proxies.
- • Meeting of the Solar Physics Division in Bozeman, MT, USA, July 2013.
Calibrating 100 Years of Polar Faculae Measurements: Implications for the Evolution of the Heliospheric Magnetic Field.
- • Meeting of the Solar Physics Division in Anchorage, AK, USA, June 2012.
Polar Faculae: A Proxy for the Evolution of the Solar Polar Field During the Last 100 Years.
- • CfA Postdoc Science Symposium in Cambridge, USA, November 2011.
- • Hinode 5 Meeting in Cambridge, MA, USA, October 2011.
Understanding the Origin of the Extended Minimum of Cycle 23.
- • IAU Symposium 286 in Mendoza, Argentina, October 2011.
The Double-Ring Algorithm: Reconciling Surface Flux Transport Simulations and Kinematic Dynamo Models.
- • Meeting of the Solar Physics Division in Las Cruces, NM, USA, June 2011.
The Unusual Minimum of Solar Cycle 23 Explained.
- • Hinode 4 Meeting in Palermo, Italy, October 2010.
Are Changes in the Solar Meridional Circulation Responsible for the Characteristics of Minimum 23-24?
- • SORCE Meeting in Keystone, CO, USA, May 2010.
Towards Better Constrained Kinematic Dynamo Models: The Velocity Fields and Turbulent Diffusivity Profiles.
- • Meeting of the Solar Physics Division in Boulder, CO, USA, May 2010.