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1. Solicitation of Contributions to the "Plasma Entry and Transport 
   into and within the Magnetotail (PET)" Focus Group at the 
   GEM 2010 Summer Workshop
2. Solicitation of contributions to the "Near Earth Magnetosphere: 
   Plasma, fields and coupling" GEM Focus Group -- Second Call
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                                                  Volume 20, Number 16
                                                          June 1, 2010
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1. Solicitation of Contributions to the "Plasma Entry and Transport 
   into and within the Magnetotail (PET)" Focus Group at the 
   GEM 2010 Summer Workshop
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From: Antonius Otto <ao at how.gi.alaska.edu>,
      Jay R. Johnson <jrj at pppl.gov>, and
      Simon Wing <Simon.Wing at jhuapl.edu>
 
We would like to invite contributions to the PET focus group at the 
upcoming GEM workshop in Snowmass on June 21-25, 2010.  The sessions 
will be held in a workshop (NOT AGU) style in which each speaker will 
be allotted time for a 2-3 slides, in order to ensure enough time for 
discussion.  In order to encourage this, at least one of the slides 
should deal with unresolved issues.  Speakers are encouraged to end 
the presentation with outstanding questions rather than a summary of 
what has/have been accomplished.  It is expected that there will be 
three sessions:

(1) ion outflow effects on the plasma sheet;
(2) Constraints on plasma sheet entry and transport; and
(3) GEM challenge, northward and southward IMF.  

All three sessions have been tentatively scheduled on Monday Jun 21 
(See http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gem/index.html for the definitive schedule).  
If you have not already done so, please send the title(s) and 
session(s) of your contribution(s) to us at your earliest convenience 
at the email addresses listed below.  
 
Simon Wing (simon.wing@jhuapl.edu)
Antonius Otto (ao@how.gi.alaska.edu)
Jay Johnson (jrj@pppl.gov)

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2. Solicitation of contributions to the "Near Earth Magnetosphere: 
   Plasma, fields and coupling" GEM Focus Group -- Second Call
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From: Sorin Zaharia (szaharia at lanl.gov), Stan Sazykin
      (sazykin at rice.edu) and Benoit Lavraud
      (Benoit.Lavraud at cesr.fr), Focus Group co-chairs:

There are still open slots in the Near Earth Magnetosphere: Plasma, 
Fields and Coupling Focus Group sessions at the upcoming GEM Summer 
Workshop in Snowmass. The 3 focus group sessions will be held on 
Wednesday and Thursday (June 23 and 24, 2010). We invite potential 
contributors to participate with short presentations (several slides) 
on the following topics:

1). Effect of plasma on storm-time electric and magnetic fields
2). Plasma sheet effect on ring current dynamics
3). Electric fields in the near-Earth magnetosphere (potential and 
inductive)
4). Coupling of physics-based inner magnetosphere with global 
magnetosphere models

or any other topics of interest to the focus group. It is the ultimate 
goal of the focus group to improve physical knowledge and modeling of 
the near-Earth (closer than 10 RE) magnetosphere and its coupling with 
the outer magnetosphere.

Potential contributors are encouraged to contact Sorin Zaharia 
(szaharia at lanl.gov) with the title of their presentation.


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