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                                                        Volume 19, Number 11
                                                                May 21, 2009
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GEM "Modes of Transport" Focus Group: Call for Participation
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From: Larry Kepko <larry.kepko at unh.edu>

The Modes of Transport focus group will hold 2 breakout sessions at
the upcoming GEM Workshop in Snowmass (June 21-26, 2009). Both
sessions will be held on the afternoon of Tuesday, June 23. This focus
group seeks to improve our knowledge of the physical mechanisms that
provide for different dynamical modes of response of the magnetotail
to the solar wind.

1) This first session seeks event, statistical and theoretical studies
of solar wind coupling and magnetospheric response. Topics include
(but are not limited to) sawtooth events, steady magnetospheric
convection, and pseudo-breakups.

2) In this second session we seek to: a) Identify questions that can be
addressed with global MHD simulations and b) Find events, particularly
during the THEMIS era, that can be used to answer the questions
developed in (a). This session will be old-school workshop format, so
participants are encouraged to bring plots and data for particular
events.

Interested participants should email either Larry Kepko (larry.kepko
at unh.edu) or Bob McPherron (rmcpherron at igpp.ucla.edu).


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