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						     Volume 11, Number 22
						     July 31, 2001

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Reports of 2001 GEM Snowmass Workshops: Student Tutorial Sessions
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From: David Murr <murr at bu.edu>

The 2001 student tutorial sessions were attended by (a record) forty
students.  An outline of the talks and speakers is listed below.  The
sessions were organized by David Murr, Paul O'Brien, and Scott
Thompson.  The talks were outlined after the GEM working groups (with
the inclusion of SHINE this year) and are intended to provide students
with the background and review necessary to participate in the GEM
workshops.

Following the student sessions feedback was gathered via an evaluation
sheet.  As with previous years the evaluations show that students find
the sessions to be of great value.  On a scale of 1 through 5 the
sessions were rated a 4 for the level of "helpfulness".  Also, 88% of
the students thought the level of the tutorials should be kept the same
for next year.  The evaluations also revealed the following
characteristics of the students: The students were evenly divided in
terms of number of years into their graduate careers (the choices were
1,2,3,4, and 4+ years).  Of the fourty students, 11 were female.  25%
were from UCLA, 25% from Rice, and 25% from Dartmouth, Alaska, and
Stanford combined (3 students each).  73% of the students had had a
graduate level Space Physics course (the most widely used texts being
Kivelson and Russell, Parks, and Wolf's class notes (Rice)).  In terms
of GEM working groups, 42% of the student were involved in Inner
Magnetosphere and Storms, 26% with Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling,
23% with Tail/Substorms, and 10% with GGCM.

An effort was made by the organizers to determine what other student
support could be offered through GEM in addition to the student
tutorials.  No outstanding desires were voiced, but it was concluded
that a well organized web site which retained student contact
information and a portion of the tutorial information (combined with the
general GEM tutorials, which are already online) would be useful.

Regards,
David Murr


2001 GEM Student Tutorials

I.   Introduction (David Murr)
II.  Magneto-parts Overview (Athanasios Boudouridis)
III. Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling
        A. Macro-Scale Electrodynamics (David Murr)
        B. Small-Scale Electromagnetic MI Coupling (Dimitri Pokhotelov)
        C. Ion Outflows (Karen Remick)
        D. MI Communication Timescales (Galen Fowler)
** Break for Lunch **
IV. Inner Magnetosphere / Storms
        A. Anatomy, Ring Current (Sorin Zaharia)
        B. Electric Fields (Amy Boonsiriseth)
        C. Energetic Electrons, Wave/Particle Interactions (Janet Green)

V.  Geospace General Circulation Model (GGCM)
        A. Overview (Paul O'Brien)
        B. MHD modeling (Katariina Nykyri)
        C. Rice Convection Model (Colby Lemon)
VI.  Tail / Substorms
        A. Substorms (Larry Kepko)
        B. Steady Magnetospheric Convection (SMC) (Scott Thompson)
VII. Solar, Heliospheric, and INterplanetary Environment (SHINE)
        A. SHINE overview (David Murr)
        B. CME modeling (Mayya Tokman)


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