Gurnett Symposium

On Oct. 16-17, 2015, the University of Iowa and the Department of Physics and Astronomy organized events to commemorate and celebrate Prof. Don Gurnett's 50 years of teaching and space physics research excellence at the University, including a symposium at the University of Iowa campus in Iowa City.

See the symposium page for the detailed schedule, participants, photos, news articles, and videos of lectures.

• Sixty Years of Space Research at Iowa: The Legacy of James A. Van Allen (YouTube video), Feb. 2, 2018, at an Iowa City Foreign Relations Council luncheon. Presented in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the launch of Explorer 1. The talk describes the events leading up to the discovery of Earth's radiation belts, the tremendous expansion of space research at Iowa over the next 60 years, and the development and construction of scientific instruments on some seventy spacecraft, including the Voyagers 1 and 2 flights to the outer planets and interstellar space, the Galileo orbiter of Jupiter, and the Cassini orbiter of Saturn.
• The Voyager Interstellar Mission (audio), Iowa Public Radio interview, Iowa City, IA, Sept. 10, 2012
• Voyager 35th Anniversary Public Lecture and Panel Discussion (video), JPL, Pasadena, CA, Sept. 4, 2012
• From the Dawn of the Space Age to the Edge of the Solar System (video), 26th Annual Presidential Lecture, The University of Iowa, Feb. 15, 2009
• Physics of Flight - slides presented during a University of Iowa colloquium, Dec. 12, 2003 (PDF file)