Research topics

Research topics

Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs)

• Morphology, three-dimensional configuration

• Kinematics, expansion speed in orthogonal directions, deflections

• Evolution in the interplanetary medium

Solar Flares

• Chromospheric and coronal evolution 

• Morphology

Solar magnetic fields

• Non-linear, Force-free extrapolations of photospheric fields

• Scattering polarization 

Earth Atmosphere

•  Atmospheric Opacity at mid-infrared wavelengths 

• Optical and near-infrared sky brightness and quality

Instrumentation for Solar Physics

• Optical and infrared scientific cameras

• Data reduction and calibration

• High-cadence, ground-based spectropolarimetry

• High-resolution ground and balloon-borne spectropolarimetry

Machine Learning for Solar Physics

• We are actively looking for novel ways to apply ML to solve many challenging problems related to the topics listed above.  

• Deep Neural Networks (DNN's) for Solar data Segmentation

• DNN's for Stokes polarimeter calibrations.