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1. Call for Presentations at the 2010 GEM Workshop:
   Methods and Modules Focus Group
2. 2nd Call for Presentations at 2010 GEM Workshop:
   Plasmasphere-Magnetosphere Interactions (PMI)
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                                                   Volume 20, Number 9
                                                           May 3, 2010
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1. Call for Presentations at the 2010 GEM Workshop:
   Methods and Modules Focus Group
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From: Brian Sullivan <brian.sullivan at unh.edu>,
      John Dorelli <john.dorelli at nasa.gov>,
      Michael Shay <shay at udel.edu>, co-Chairs

The GGCM Methods and Modules Focus Group will hold 2 sessions at the 
upcoming GEM Summer Workshop in Snowmass (June 20-25, 2010). The 
sessions will be at 10:30 and 1:30 on Wednesday.

The overarching goal of this focus group is to understand the physics 
of collisionless magnetic reconnection on magnetospheric length scales 
(100-1000 ion inertial lengths). We invite potential contributors to 
participate with short presentations on the following topics:

1. Scaling of reconnection with local and kinetic scale parameters in 
MHD, multifluid, and kinetic models.
2. Plasmoid instabilities in high Lundquist number current sheets
3. Dependence (or independence) of the dayside reconnection rate on 
solar wind parameters.

or any other topics of interest to the focus group. This is the final 
year of the GGCM Methods and Modules Focus Group. Looking forward, as 
this focus group comes to an end, a major goal for this year's 
sessions will be to agree on a way to present the most significant 
results of geophysical magnetic reconnection research to the greater 
GEM community and to identify a few outstanding questions to address 
as we plan for future focus groups centered on the multi-scale physics 
of reconnection in the magnetosphere. A more detailed description of 
the objectives of this focus group can be found at

http://aten.igpp.ucla.edu/gemwiki/index.php/FG2._GGCM_Modules_and_Meth
ods

Potential Contributors are encouraged to contact Brian Sullivan 
(brian.sullivan at unh.edu) with the title of their presentation.

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2. 2nd Call for Presentations at 2010 GEM Workshop:
   Plasmasphere-Magnetosphere Interactions (PMI)
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From: J. Goldstein (jgoldstein AT swri.edu),
      M. Spasojevic, J. Borovsky

The Plasmasphere-Magnetosphere Interactions (PMI) focus group will 
hold several sessions at the 2010 GEM Workshop, during 20-25 June 2010.

We invite short presentations (several slides) related to any of the
PMI's broad topics:
+   Wave-Particle Interactions
+   Plume Dynamics & Recirculation
+   Plasma Density Structure & Evolution.

Specific topics of interest:
*   Dynamics of energetic particles
*   Wave theory and observations
*   Simulations or models of acceleration or loss
*   Morphology and dynamics of cold plasma density
*   Global circulation of plasmaspheric plumes
*   Dayside distribution of cold plasma ions
*   Fine scale plasma structure and flow turbulence.
*   Plume plasma and magnetospheric reconnection.

or any other topic you feel would be of interest to the PMI focus 
group.

If you would like to present, please e-mail your tentative title/topic 
to:
 JGoldstein AT swri.edu.

The focus group Wiki page is
http://tinyurl.com/pmiFGwiki

kind regards,
J. Goldstein (jgoldstein AT swri.edu)
M. Spasojevic
J. Borovsky


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