美国麻省理工大学John C. Foster教授应邀来本研究室访问并做关于电离层暴以及地球空间耦合过程（Ionospheric Storms and Geospace Coupling）的学术报告，介绍了磁暴期间电离层磁层的耦合变化过程及其物理机制。与各位老师和同学就此问题开展了热烈的讨论。
下面是John C. Foster教授的简要介绍
Group Leader, Atmospheric Sciences Group, Millstone Hill Observatory
Associate Director, M.I.T. Haystack Observatory
Principal Research Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Physics of the magnetosphere, ionosphere, and thermosphere.
Topics of particular interest include:
Magnetosphere/ionosphere/atmosphere coupling
Incoherent scatter radar
Plasma waves and instabilities.
Ionospheric convection electric fields, and cleft and high latitude phenomena.
International research facilities and scientific collaboration (Former Soviet Union)