ESS 9	Solar System and Planets (Lower Division): Properties of sun, planets, asteroids, and comets. Astronomical observations relevant to understanding the solar system and its origin. Dynamical problems, including examination of fallacious hypotheses. Meteoritic evidence regarding earliest history of the solar system. Chemical models of solar nebula. Space exploration and its planning.
ESS 200C	Introduction to Geophysics and Space Physics III: Plasmas --Aeronomy and the Interplanetary Medium (Graduate): Lecture, three hours. Requisites: Physics 105A, 110B, 112, 131. Solar surface features, heating and expansion of corona, solar wind, plasma and magnetic fields, interaction of the solar wind with Earth, magnetospheric phenomena.
ESS 265	Instrumentation, Data Processing, and Data Analysis in Space Physics (Graduate): Principles, testing, and operations of magnetometers and other instruments. Data processing, display, and archiving. Time-series analysis techniques, including filtering. Fourier series, eigenanalysis, and power spectra.

Professor Angelopoulos's current research aims to understand how particles are accelerated in Earth's magnetosphere, how the upper atmosphere and ionosphere respond to space currents, and how the lunar environment is affected by its interaction with the solar wind. Professor Angelopoulos holds appointments at the Space Sciences Laboratory, UCB and at the NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

He has been the Principal Investigator of THEMIS, the scientific and technical lead of this NASA/MIDEX mission, since its inception in 2001. He is currently working on storms and substorms at Earth, and on the development of a new mission, called ARTEMIS, to study the lunar environment with two satellites.

Prior to joining the University of California in 1995, Angelopoulos
worked at the Applied Physics Laboratory from 1993-1995. He received the American Geophysical UnionG€™s Macelwane medal in 1993 and the Zeldovich medal by the Russian Academy of Science and COSPAR in 2001. When not working, he enjoys playing music, solving puzzles, reading fiction, mountain bike riding and playing basketball with his two children, Nikolas and Constance.

Ph.D. in Physics, with specialization in Space Plasma Physics, 1993, UCLA.

For a full reference list of papers, please click here.

1. Runov, A., V. Angelopoulos, X.-Z. Zhou, I. Voronkov, M.V. Kubyshkina, R. Nakamura, C.W. Carlson, H.U. Frey, J. McFadden, D. Larson, S. Mende, K.-H. Glassmeier, U. Auster, and H.J. Singer (2008), Multipoint in situ and ground-based observations during auroral intensifications, J. Geophys. Res., doi: 10.1029/2008JA013493, in press. (accepted 19 September 2008)
2. Lui, A.T.Y., V. Angelopoulos, O. Le Contel, H. Frey, E. Donovan, D.G. Sibeck, W.W. Liu, H.U. Auster, D. Larson, X. Li, M. Nose, and M. Fillingim (2008), Determination of the Substorm Initiation Region from a Major Conjunction Interval of THEMIS Satellites, J. Geophys. Res., doi: 10.1029/2008JA013424, in press. (accepted 5 September 2008)
3. Ludlam, M., Angelopoulos, V., Taylor, E., Snare, R.C., Means, J.D., Ge, Y., Narvaez, P., Auster, H.U., Le Contel, O., Larson, D., and Moreau, T. (2008), The THEMIS Magnetic Cleanliness Program, Space Sci. Rev., doi:10.1007/s11214-008-9423-3. (20 August 2008)
4. Angelopoulos, V., J.P. McFadden, D. Larson, C.W. Carlson, S.B. Mende, H. Frey, T. Phan, D.G. Sibeck, K.-H. Glassmeier, U. Auster, E. Donovan, I.R. Mann, I.J. Rae, C.T. Russell, A. Runov, X. Xhou, and L. Kepko (2008), Tail reconnection triggering substorm onset, Science, doi: 10.1126/science.1160495. (24 July 2008)
5. Liu, J., V. Angelopoulos, D. Sibeck, T. Phan, J. McFadden, K. H. Glassmeier, U. Auster, and Z.-Y. Pu (2008), THEMIS Observations of the Dayside Traveling Compression Region and Flows Surrounding Flux Transfer Events, Geophys. Res. Lett., doi:10.1029/2008GL033673. (12 July 2008)
   
6. Runov, A., V. Angelopoulos, N. Ganushkina, R. Nakamura, J. McFadden, D. Larson, I. Dandouras, K.-H. Glassmeier, and C. Carr (2008), Multi-point observations of the inner boundary of the plasma sheet during geomagnetic disturbances, Geophys. Res. Lett. 35, L17S13, doi:10.1029/2008GL033982. (9 July 2008)
7. Angelopoulos, V., Sibeck, D., Carlson, C.W., McFadden, J.P., Larson, D., Lin, R.P., Bonnell, J.W., Mozer, F.S., Ergun, R., Cully, C., Glassmeier, K.H., Auster, U., Roux, A., LeContel, O., Frey, S., Phan, T., Mende, S., Frey, H., Donovan, E., Russell, C.T., Strangeway, R., Liu, J., Mann, I., Rae, J., Raeder, J., Li, X., Liu, W., Singer, H.J., Sergeev, V.A., Apatenkov, S., Parks, G., Fillingim, M., Sigwarth, J., (2008), First Results from the THEMIS Mission, Space Sci. Rev., doi: 10.1007/s11214-008-9378-4. (27 June 2008)
8. Sibeck, D.G. and Angelopoulos, V. (2008), THEMIS science objectives and mission phases, Space Sci. Rev., doi: 10.1007/s11214-008-9393-5. (20 June 2008)
9. Gabrielse, C., V. Angelopoulos, A. Runov, L. Kepko, K.-H. Glassmeier, U. Auster, J. McFadden, C. Carlson, and D. Larson (2008), Propagation characteristics of plasma sheet oscillations during a small storm, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L17S13, doi:10.1029/2008GL033664. (11 June 2008)
10. Keiling, A., V. Angelopoulos, D. Larson, R. Lin, J. McFadden, C. Carlson, J. W. Bonnell, F. S. Mozer, K.-H. Glassmeier, U. Auster, W. Magnes, S. B. Mende, H. Frey, A. Roux, O. LeContel, S. Frey, T. Phan, E. Donovan, C. T. Russell, I. Mann, W. Liu, X. Li, M. Fillingham, G. Parks, K. Shiokawa, and J. Raeder (2008), Correlation of substorm injections, auroral modulations, and ground Pi2, Geophys. Res. Lett. 35, L17S22, doi:10.1029/2008GL033969. (6 June 2008)
11. Angelopoulos, V., (2008), The THEMIS Mission, Space Sci. Rev., doi: 10.1007/s11214-008-9336-1. (22 April 2008)
12. Mozer, F. S., V. Angelopoulos, J. Bonnell, K. H. Glassmeier, and J. P. McFadden (2008), THEMIS observations of modified Hall fields in asymmetric magnetic field reconnection, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L17S04, doi:10.1029/2007GL033033. (18 April 2008)
13. Angelopoulos, V., J.a. Chapman, F.S. Mozer, J.D. Scudder, C.T. Russell, K. Tsuruda, T. Mukai, T.J. Hughes, and K. Yumoto (2002), Plasma sheet electromagnetic power generation and its dissipation along auroral field lines, J. Geophys. Res. 107, A8, SMP-14-1, doi:10.1029/2001JA900136.
14. Angelopoulos, V., M. Temerin, I. Roth, F.S. Mozer, D. Weimer, and M.R. Hairston (2002), Testing global storm-time electric field models using particle spectra on muliple spacecraft, J. Geophys. Res. 107, A8, SMP 21-1, doi:10.1029/2001JA900174.
15. Angelopoulos, V., M. Temerin, I. Roth, F.S. Mozer, D. Weimer, and M.R. Hairston (2001), Multi-spacecraft studies in aid of space weather specification and understanding, Proceedings of COSPAR Colloquium on Space Weather, Taiwan.
16. Angelopoulos, V., F.S. Mozer, J. Bonnell, M. Temerin, M. Somoza, W.K. Peterson, H.L. Collin, and B. Giles (2001), Wave power studies of cusp crossings with the POLAR satellite, J. Geophys. Res. 106, 5987.
17. Angelopoulos, V., T. Mukai, and S. Kokubun (1999), Evidence for intermittency in Earth's plasma sheet and implications for self-organized criticality, Phys. Plasmas 6, 11, 4161-4168.

AT&T Satellite 'Malfunction'

CNN Report: Solar Radiation Might Have Killed Satellite

ISTP Fleet Tracks a Geomagnetic Storm from Cradle to Grave

Polar UV Camera Observations of Magnetic Storm (oblivious to sunlight, responds to aurorae both at nightside and dayside):(1.2 MB Gif Movie); (8.6 MB Gif Movie). Courtesy of G. Parks and the POLAR-UV team.

Exploration of the Earth's Magnetosphere

Tail Reconnection Triggering Substorm Onset (July 2008)

Westward Propagation of Substorm in Space, Ground (May 2008)

First In-Situ Measurement of Scale-Size of Transport-Efficient Magnetospheric Flows (April 1996)

Magnetospheric Constellation

Geospace Multiprobes: A Feasibility Argument

Constellation Class Missions (Selected Articles)

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Fundamental Space Science Using Microsats: The QUATRO Exprience (NASA/JPL Workshop, April 4-5, 2002 (300k))

TH in tail; CL in SW, PO in South, GT in SW on March 23, 2007

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