*************************** ** THE GEM MESSENGER ** *************************** Volume 6, Number 32 June 13, 1996 ---------------------------------- NSF GEM '96 Summer Workshop Agenda ---------------------------------- Dear GEM Community, Please find attached the revised final agenda (as of 6/13/96) for the upcoming NSF/GEM summer workshop, to be held on 23 - 28 June 1996 in Snowmass, CO. This agenda replaces the previous draft dated 5/9/96 and has only minor changes. See you in Snowmass! Best regards, --- Harlan E. Spence --------------------------------------------------------------------------- GEM WORKSHOP AGENDA (AS OF 6/13/96) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUNDAY, 23 JUNE 2:00 - 6:00 Student Tutorials (...to be run by, given by, and FOR students) 6:30 - 7:30 On-site Meeting Registration 7:30 - 10:00 Welcoming Reception --------------------------------------------------------------------------- MONDAY, 24 JUNE Concurrent (but not colocated!) Boundary Layer and GGCM Campaigns 7:30 - 8:30 Continental Breakfast 8:30 - 10:10 Plenary Session (Chair - H. Spence) 8:30 - 8:35 GEM Workshop Welcome (H. Spence) 8:35 - 8:45 GEM Progam Overview and Status (J. Hughes) 8:45 - 9:00 NSF Program/GEM/NSWP Outlook (R. Clauer) 9:00 - 9:15 NSF ATM Status (R. Behnke) 9:15 - 10:10 Tutorial on GGCM modeling (R. Wolf) 10:10 - 10:30 Morning Break 10:30 - 12:00 BOUNDARY LAYER CAMPAIGN ACTIVITY - BL Working Group splinter sessions BL Working Group #1 (L. Lyons/A. Rodger) BL Working Group #2 (C. Russell/A. Otto) GGCM CAMPAIGN ACTIVITY - GGCM Planning session & GGCM Assembly (R. Wolf) This will be a pure discussion session, with no scheduled presentations. The primary discussion topics will be: (1) formulation of an overall scheme for a GGCM computer code, and (2) organization of the GGCM campaign for the next few years. This is an open meeting. The following persons have indicated an interest in participating: Kozyra, Quest, Hudson, Schulz, Richmond, Raeder, White, Stahara, Spreiter, Fedder, Lyon, Toffoletto, Sonnerup, Drake, Wolf, Hesse, Siscoe 12:00 - 1:30 Lunch Break 1:30 - 3:00 BOUNDARY LAYER CAMPAIGN ACTIVITY - BL Working Group splinter sessions BL Working Group #1 (L. Lyons/A. Rodger) BL Working Group #3 (N. Crooker/E. Friis-Christensen) GGCM CAMPAIGN ACTIVITY - Space Weather (G. Siscoe) Presenters will include the following (not all confirmed): K. Doggett, summary of SEC Verification Workshop; K. Scro or alternate, 50th WS operational experience with MSM; H. Singer, space weather developments at SEC; P. Pratt,the TRW space weather project; J. Fedder, Numerical space weather fore- casting at SEC. 3:00 - 3:30 Afternoon Break 3:30 - 5:30 BOUNDARY LAYER CAMPAIGN ACTIVITY - BL Working Group splinter sessions BL Working Group #1 (L. Lyons/A. Rodger) BL Working Group #2 (C. Russell/A. Otto) GGCM CAMPAIGN ACTIVITY - GGCM Science session (M. Hesse) Presenters include the following (not all confirmed): H. Petschek on global convection modeling; R. Lyatsky on connection between field-aligned currents and global convection, H. Spence on ring current modeling; F.Cheng on equilibrium modeling; J. Birn on the RCM/tail project; F. Toffoletto on the GEM RCM/MHD coupling project; J. Kozyra or R. Thorne on inner- magnetospheric loss; and contributions from other participants. 7:30 - 10:00 GGCM/BL Poster Session --------------------------------------------------------------------------- TUESDAY, 25 JUNE JOINT GGCM/BOUNDARY LAYER CAMPAIGN 7:00 - 8:00 Continental Breakfast 8:00 - 8:40 Boundary Layer/GGCM Introduction (Chair - G. Siscoe) 8:00 - 8:05 Setting the Scene (G. Siscoe) 8:05 - 8:25 Observations Framework (L. Lyons) 8:25 - 8:30 Input Data (R. McPherron) 8:30 - 10:00 --> Joint GGCM/BL Session - Presentation from the following modeling groups 1. Magnetosheath velocities, densities, and temperatures (Stahara,Spreiter) 2. Construction of the AL, AU, and Dst indices from IMP-8 solar wind/IMF, and the Polar Cap index. (Vassiliadis) 3. New model of polar cap electric potentials that can produce a pattern for any arbitrary IMF (Weimer) 4. IZMIRAN Electrodynamic Model (IZMEM) potentials (available at http://www.sprl.umich.edu/MIST) and AE index using only IMF input (Papitashvili) 5. Calculation of particle distributions for comparison with DMSP, using Toffoletto-Hill model outputs (Onsager) 6. Global model results (Winglee) --> Parallel BL Session BL Working Group #2 (C. Russell/A. Otto) 10:00 - 10:20 Morning Break 10:20 - 11:40 --> Joint GGCM/BL Session - Presentation from the following modeling groups (continued) 6. Potentials and separatrix in Toffoletto-Hill model using Stahara-Spreiter magnetosheath velocities (Toffoletto) 7. Schulz source-surface model separatrix, potentials, and boundary layers (Peroomian) 8. NRL MHD (Lyon) 9. UCLA MHD (Raeder, Berchem) --> Parallel BL Session BL Working Group #2 (C. Russell/A. Otto) 11:40 - 12:20 Plenary - "The way" forward discussion 12:20 - 1:30 Lunch Break 1:30 - 3:00 Boundary Layer Campaign - Outstanding Problems/Direction: Plenary session to include (for example) a discussion of: a) Longitudinal width of the cusp & closed to open convection region (P. Reiff) b) Links between the dayside and nightside (R. Greenwald) 3:00 - 3:30 Afternoon Break 3:30 - 4:15 BL Working Group 1, 2, and 3 Summary Sessions 4:15 - 5:00 Wrap-up Plenary; Working Group Reports and from chair(s) of modelling/data intercomparison session (Chair - L. Lyons) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- WEDNESDAY, 26 JUNE INNER MAGNETOSPHERE/STORM CAMPAIGN 7:00 - 8:00 Continental Breakfast 8:00 - 10:35 Plenary and Tutorials Session (Chair - M. Hudson) 8:00 - 8:05 Introduction (M. Hudson) 8:05 - 9:05 CEDAR Space Weather Tutorials Upper Atmospheric Modeling during Storms (A. Richmond) Equatorial Spread-F and Space Weather (M. Mendillo) 9:05 - 10:35 GEM Space Weather Tutorials WG1. Dynamics of Core Plasmas in the Inner Magnetosphere (J. Horwitz) WG2. Outer Zone Electron Variability and Storm Injection (D.Baker) WG3. Ring Current and Radiation Belt Dynamics (M. Schulz) 10:35 - 11:00 Morning Break Working Group Titles and Chairs ------------------------------- WG1. Plasmasphere refilling and ring current recovery (J. Horwitz) WG2. Storm injection mechanism:ring current & rad belts (D.Baker, M. Hudson) WG3. Outer zone electron variability (M. Schulz) 11:00 - 12:00 Working Group 1 and 3 splinter sessions 12:00 - 1:30 Lunch Break 1:30 - 2:50 Working Group 1 and 2 splinter sessions 2:50 - 3:10 Afternoon Break 3:10 - 4:30 Working Group 2 and 3 splinter sessions 4:30 - 5:30 Campaign Definition Wrap-up Plenary 7:00 - 10:00 Reception and Banquet --------------------------------------------------------------------------- THURSDAY, 27 JUNE TAIL/SUBSTORM CAMPAIGN 7:00 - 8:00 Continental Breakfast 8:00 - 10:10 Tail/Substorm Plenary Session (Chair - H. Spence) 8:00 - 8:05 - Campaign Introduction/Welcome to Second Half (H.Spence) 8:05 - 8:50 - WG#1 Tutorial: POLAR Imaging in the X-ray (D. Chenette) 8:50 - 9:25 - WG#1 Tutorial: POLAR Imaging in the UV (G. Parks) 9:25 -10:10 - WG#1 Tutorial: POLAR Imaging in the Visible (L. Frank) 10:10 - 10:30 Morning Break 10:30 - 12:00 Working Group 1 (Lyons/Maynard) and 2 (Onsager/Spence) splinter sessions WG#1 Theme: (see detailed agenda on WWW) WG#2 Theme: Fluid and Particle Aspects of Magnetotail Convection 12:00 - 1:15 Lunch Break 1:15 - 3:15 Working Group 2 (Onsager/Spence) and 3 (Hesse/Lotko) splinter sessions WG#2 Theme: (Joint with Working Group #3) WG#3 Theme: Mass Exchange with Electrodynamic Coupling between the Ionosphere and Magnetosphere - Observational constraints and ideas for empirical approaches (M. Temerin) - First principles approach to coupling large-scale ionospheric and magnetospheric simulation models (J. Sojka) 3:15 - 3:45 Afternoon Break 3:45 - 5:00 Working Group 1 (Lyons/Maynard) and 3 (Hesse/Lotko) splinter sessions WG#1 Theme: (see detailed agenda on WWW) WG#3 Theme: The Partial Ring Current-Inner Plasma Sheet Region - The tail-inner magnetosphere transition region (R. Wolf) 7:30 - 10:00 Tail/Substorm Poster Session --------------------------------------------------------------------------- FRIDAY, 28 JUNE TAIL/SUBSTORM CAMPAIGN (cont.) 7:00 - 8:00 Continental Breakfast 8:00 - 9:30 Tail/Substorm Plenary Session (Chair - T. Onsager) - WG#2 Tutorial: GEOTAIL results on storm and substorm signatures in the tail (R. Nakamura) - WG#3 Tutorial: Macroscopic representations of microphysical processes in the plasmasheet (F. Coroniti) 9:30 - 10:45 Working Group 1 (Lyons/Maynard) and 3 (Hesse/Lotko) splinter sessions WG#1 Theme: (see detailed agenda on WWW) WG#3 Theme: Quantitative Aspects of Global MHD Models 9:30-10:00 GGS sponsored code comparisons (S. Curtis) 10:00-10:45 Open Forum: Where does the x-line first form at substorm onset in global models, what is the field topology, and what are the ionospheric signatures? Any participants with quantitative model results are invited to address this question. Expressed interest so far from: Birn, Curtis, Lyon, Raeder, Walker, Winglee 10:45 - 11:00 Morning Break 11:00 - 12:15 Working Group 2 (Onsager/Spence) and 3 (Hesse/Lotko) splinter sessions WG#2 Theme: Substorm Triggers: Fact, Fiction, or Fantasy? WG#3 Theme II (continued) WG#3 Theme III:Future WG3 Directions - Snowmass 97 and Beyond 11:15 - 12:15 General Discussion 12:15 - 1:30 Lunch Break 1:30 - 3:00 Working Group 1 (Lyons/Maynard) and 2 (Onsager/Spence) splinter sessions WG#1 Theme: (see detailed agenda on WWW) WG#2 Theme: Data-Model Comparisons 3:00 - 3:25 Afternoon Break 3:25 - 3:45 Working Group 1, 2, and 3 Summary Sessions; Interim Tasks 3:45 - 4:45 Wrap-up Plenary; Working Group Reports (Chair - W. J. Hughes) +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Harlan E. Spence Asst. Professor of Astronomy Center for Space Physics and Department of Astronomy College of Liberal Arts and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Boston University 725 Commonwealth Avenue Boston, MA 02215 Ph: (617) 353-7412 Fax: (617) 353-6463 e-mail: spence at bu.edu WWW: http://bu-ast.bu.edu/people/spence.html =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |To add name to the mailing list, send a message to: editor at igpp.ucla.edu | |For message to whole GEM mailing list, send to: gem at igpp.ucla.edu | | | |URL of GEM Home Page: http://igpp.ucla.edu/gem/Welcome.html | |Please update your e-mail address. | |CAUTION: Do not send messages to gem at igpp.ucla.edu unless you want | | your message to go to everyone in the GEM mailing list! | +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+