Table of Contents ============================================================================ 1. Solicitation of Contribution to the "Plasma Sheet Transport and Influence on the Inner Magnetosphere" Session at the Mini-GEM Meeting on Sunday, Dec. 10, 2006. Time: 3:30 - 5:30 pm. 2. Solicitation of Contribution to the "Transport at the Dayside Magnetopause and Cusp" Sessions at the Mini-GEM Meeting on Sunday, Dec. 10, 2006 ============================================================================ *************************** ** THE GEM MESSENGER ** *************************** Volume 16, Number 25 November 20, 2006 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Solicitation of Contribution to the "Plasma Sheet Transport and Influence on the Inner Magnetosphere" Session at the Mini-GEM Meeting on Sunday, Dec. 10, 2006. Time: 3:30 - 5:30 pm. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Terry Onsager Benoit Lavraud With this letter, we would like to invite contributions to this mini-GEM session held in San Francisco on Dec. 10 at the Marriott Hotel (3:30 - 5:30 pm). There will be two sessions related to the old GI-PATM working group during that afternoon (see http://gem.rice.edu/~gem/gem2006mw/index.html). Although the session will be held in a workshop-style, time for a few slides will be allotted for contributors to present results. In addition, we plan to have discussions about topics related to the magnetotail, and its coupling to inner regions, that ought to be addressed in the future. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Solicitation of Contribution to the "Transport at the Dayside Magnetopause and Cusp" Sessions at the Mini-GEM Meeting on Sunday, Dec. 10, 2006 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Jean Berchem Nick Omidi and Karlheinz Trattner In preparation for the 2007 Summer GEM workshop, two mini-GEM sessions on Transport At the Dayside Magnetopause And Cusp (TADMAC) will be held in San Francisco on Sunday Dec. 10 in the Marriott Hotel (for more information see http://gem.rice.edu/~gem/gem2006mw/index.html ). Through this mini-GEM sessions, we wish to discuss the current status of the research, identify specific research topics, and initiate collaborative efforts that would enhance the scientific returns of the sessions to be held at 2007 Summer GEM workshop. Reconnection at the dayside magnetopause (1:00 PM - 3:00 PM) Conveners: J. Berchem and N. Omidi The main objective of this session is to bring together people involved/interested in modeling as well as in-situ and ground based observations related to magnetic reconnection at the dayside magnetopause such as, inherent or upstream induced reconnection, component and antiparallel merging, and conditions of occurrence and controlling factors. The "dayside magnetopause" region is defined in a broad sense to include part of the flanks as well as lobe regions that are poleward of the cusps to incorporate studies of transport processes for strong IMF By and northward IMF Bz. Given the wide range of scales involved in transport processes at the dayside magnetopause, the discussion will address both local and global aspects of reconnection as well as a variety of modeling techniques including full particle, hybrid, multi-fluid and MHD simulations. Plasma injection into the cusp: Role of magnetic reconnection and ionospheric consequences (3:30 PM - 5:30 PM) Conveners: N. Omidi and K. Trattner The main objective of this session is to bring together people involved/interested in modeling as well as in-situ and ground based observations related to plasma entry and energization processes in the cusp and their ionospheric signatures and consequences. Although all physical processes leading to plasma entry and energization into the cusp are of interest, we particularly wish to examine the role of dayside reconnection and flux transfer events (FTEs) in plasma transport into the cusp during southward IMF conditions. This includes the poleward movement of FTEs and their interaction with the cusp and the associated ionospheric signatures such as poleward moving auroral forms (PMAFs). In addition, the impact of these processes in the structure and the dynamics of the cusp and the role of wave-particle interactions in the heating and acceleration of ions is of interest. Those who are interested in these topics are invited to attend these sessions and contribute through participation in the discussions and if necessary by showing a couple of relevant slides. Please send us your suggestions and notices of intent to participate at your earliest convenience to allow adequate planning for the sessions. For additional information contact the conveners jberchem@igpp.ucla.edu , omidi@solanasci.com or trattner@mail.spasci.com . +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |To subscribe GEM Messengers, send an e-mail to | | 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 | | | |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 | +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+