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1. "Comparative Planetary Magnetospheric Physics" Breakout Session
2. Solicitation of Participation to the "Dayside Planning" Session
   at the GEM 2010 Summer Workshop
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                                                  Volume 20, Number 18
                                                          June 4, 2010
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1. "Comparative Planetary Magnetospheric Physics" Breakout Session
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From: Larry Kepko (larry dot kepko at nasa dot gov) and 
      Mike Liemohn (liemohn at umich dot edu>

We invite all interested GEM attendees to participate in a special 
"comparative planetary magnetospheric physics" breakout session at the 
upcoming GEM workshop on Tuesday from 3:30-5:00 pm. The focus will be 
on how to utilize the knowledge gained from examining similar physical 
processes in the different systems to further the goals of GEM. These 
processes include MI coupling, dayside interactions, solar wind energy 
coupling, etc., and span the entirety of the GEM focus areas. We do 
not anticipate formal presentations. Rather, this is an open forum for 
discussion. Please bring your thinking caps!

GEM will also have two related plenary session tutorials, one by 
Margaret Kivelson, "Learning about Earth's plasma processes from 
studies of other magnetospheres," on Tuesday morning and a second by 
Jim Slavin, "Reconnection in planetary magnetic tails," on Thursday 
morning.

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2. Solicitation of Participation to the "Dayside Planning" Session
   at the GEM 2010 Summer Workshop
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From: Jean Berchem <jberchem at iggp.ucla.edu>, and
      Karlheinz Trattner <trattner at mail.spasci.com>

We would like to invite you to participate to the "Dayside Planning" 
Session on Tuesday, June 22 at 1:30 pm (Kearns). The goal of that 
session is to identify areas of interest and foster collaborations 
that will lead to proposals of new dayside focus groups at the GEM 
meeting during Fall AGU.


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