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                                                       Volume 17, Number 25
                                                           November 9, 2007
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Solicitation of Contributions to the "Near Earth Magnetosphere: Plasma, 
Fields and Coupling " Focus Group Session at the GEM 2007 Mini-workshop
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From: Sorin Zaharia <szaharia at lanl.gov>, Stan Sazykin
      <sazykin at rice.edu> and Benoit Lavraud <lavraud at lanl.gov>,
      Focus Group co-chairs

We would like to invite contributions to the Near Earth Magnetosphere focus 
group session at the upcoming GEM Mini-workshop (from 2:00 to 3:45 PM on 
Sunday Dec. 9 at the Marriott Hotel in San Francisco).

An outline of the major topics of interest for the focus group is accessible 
at:
http://www.spaceplasma.unh.edu/~jraeder/GEM/uploads/Main/GEM_FGProp-2006-
NearEarth.pdf 
While any study relevant to the focus group goals is welcome, following 
community input at the 2007 Summer Workshop we especially encourage studies 
that address the following topics, which could evolve into breakout session 
themes at the next workshop:

1. Studies of the relative effect of plasma sheet boundary input, 
electric/magnetic field self-consistency, anisotropy and losses in inner 
magnetosphere models; how well are the various new physics features added to 
the models verified by / improve consistency with observations?

2. Improving the empirical specification of the inner magnetosphere, 
including better: a). plasma sheet models (including activity binning and 
ion composition),  b). empirical electric fields, and c). plasmaphere models.

In order to encourage discussion, each speaker should be prepared to present 
no more than 2 or 3 slides. Please send the title of your contribution to us 
at your earliest convenience at the email addresses listed above.


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