***************************
			 **   THE GEM MESSENGER   **
			 ***************************
						     Volume 15, Number 17
						     May 5, 2005

--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Call for Participation: Inner Magnetosphere/Storms Campaign
Breakout Sessions for All Working Groups
At the Joint CEDAR/GEM 2005 Workshop, Santa Fe, NM, June 27 - July 1
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: Mike Liemohn <liemohn@umich.edu>

The Inner Magnetosphere/Storms (IM/S) Campaign will hold numerous breakout
sessions at the Joint CEDAR-GEM Workshop this summer (June 27-July 1).
Below is a list of all of the IM/S sessions to all of the working groups.
Descriptions of each session will be given in future GEM Messenger
announcements.
 
IM/S Working Groups:
  WG1:  Plasmasphere and Ring Current
  WG2:  Radiation Belts
  WG3:  ULF Waves
 
MONDAY AM (after the break)
Session 1:  IMS Assessment Challenge: Plasmasphere
  WG Focus:  WG1 & WG3
  Conveners:  Dennis Gallagher and TBD
 
Session 2:  Observational evidence for local acceleration and theoretical
modeling
  WG Focus:  WG2
  Conveners:  Danny Summers and Richard Thorne
 
MONDAY PM (before the break)
Session 3: IMS Assessment Challenge: Ring Current
  WG Focus:  WG1 & WG3
  Conveners:  Mike Liemohn and Vania Jordanova
 
Session 4:  Electron variability caused by radial diffusion
  WG Focus:  WG2 & WG3
  Conveners:  Scott Elkington and Yuri Shprits
 
MONDAY PM (after the break)
Session 5:  Recent Advances in Ring Current Understanding: Ionospheric and
plasma sheet sources, electrodynamics, transport, and loss
  WG Focus:  WG1
 Conveners:  Margaret Chen and Paul O'Brien
 
Session 6:  IMS Assessment Challenge: Radiation Belts
  WG Focus:  WG2 & WG3
 Conveners:  Reiner Friedel and Joe Fennell
 
TUESDAY AM (after the break)
Session 7:  MI electrodynamics
  WG Focus:  WG1 & CEDAR, & WG3
 Conveners:  Stan Sazykin and Phil Erickson
 
Session 8:  Quantitative analysis of precipitation loss during storms
  WG Focus:  WG2 & WG3
  Conveners:  Jacob Bortnik and Terry Onsager
 
TUESDAY PM (before the break)
Session 9:  MI Mass Transfers and Storm Time Plasmasphere
  WG Focus:  WG1 & CEDAR, & WG3
 Conveners:  Dennis Gallagher and Bob Schunk
 
Session 10:  Radial profiles for electron PSD during different phases of a
storm
  WG Focus:  WG2 & WG1
  Conveners:  Geoff Reeves and Janet Green
 
TUESDAY PM (after the break)
Session 11:  Recent Advances in Plasmaspheric Understanding
  WG Focus:  WG1 & WG3
  Conveners:  Maria Spasojevic and Mark Moldwin
 
Session 12:  Statistical and empirical models for the radiation belts
  WG Focus:  WG2
  Conveners:  Reiner Friedel and Paul O'Brien
 
WEDNESDAY PM (before the break)
Session 13:  Requirements for the development of inner magnetosphere modules
for the GGCM
  WG Focus:  WG1, WG2 & WG3
 Conveners:  Aaron Ridley, Mary Hudson and Richard Thorne
 
WEDNESDAY PM (after the break)
Session 14:  GEM IM/S Campaign: What is left to do?
  WG Focus:  WG1, WG2, & WG3
 Conveners:  Mike Liemohn and the WG chairs

+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|To subscribe GEM Messengers, send an e-mail to <Majordomo@igpp.ucla.edu> |
|  with the following command in the body of your e-mail message:         |
|     subscribe gem                                                       |
|To remove yourself from the mailing list, the command is:                |
|     unsubscribe gem                                                     |
|                                                                         |
|To broadcast a message to the GEM community, please contact Peter Chi at |
|  <editor@igpp.ucla.edu>                                                 |
|Please use plain text as the format of your submission.                  |
|                                                                         |
|URL of GEM Home Page:  http://www-ssc.igpp.ucla.edu/gem/Welcome.html     |
|Workshop Information:  http://gem.rice.edu/~gem                          |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+