*************************** ** THE GEM MESSENGER ** *************************** Volume 24, Number 2 February 18, 2014 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The 12th International Conference on Substorms (ICS-12) November 10-14, 2014 at Ise-Shima, Japan - Abstract submission started ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Kazuo Shiokawa We announce that the abstract submission site of ICS-12 has now been opened at the following ICS-12 web site. The deadline of abstract submission and financial support request is June 30, 2014. Title: The 12th International Conference on Substorms (ICS-12) Date: November 10-14, 2014 Venue: Ise-Shima Royal Hotel, Shima, Japan Web site: http://www.stelab.nagoya-u.ac.jp/ICS-12/ Tutorial Speakers (confirmed): Syn-Ichi Akasofu (UAF) Vassilis Angelopoulous (UCLA) Dan Baker (LASP) Invited Speakers (confirmed): Slava Merkin, Stefan Kiehas, Iku Shinohara, Toshi Nishimura, Frank Toffoletto, Larry Kepko, Victor Sergeev, Lasse Clausen, Jesper Gjerloev, Steve Milan, Eija Tanskanen, Joachim Birn, Phil Pritchett, Pontus Brandt, Mike Henderson, Evgeny Panov, Jonathan Rae, Suzie Imber, and Barry Mauk Description of the Conference: Over the half century since the first finding of the auroral substorm by Akasofu (1964), auroral and magnetospheric substorm has been one of the main topic for the scientists in space physics. Not only giving the spectacular auroral view, substorm contains various fundamental processes of plasma acceleration and dissipation in the magnetosphere and the ionosphere. Recent satellite missions of THEMIS and Van Allen Probes as well as several modeling efforts are giving more insights into the relationship between the mid-tail plasma sheet and the inner magnetosphere and the relationship between substorms and storms. Extended ground imager, radar, and magnetometer arrays provide more complex dynamical features of the magnetosphere during subtorms. During ICS-12 we are going to highlight the most recent results in substorm research. Topical sessions may cover substorm processes in the tail, interaction between the tail and the inner magnetosphere and ionosphere, substorm currents and its dynamics, and the role of substorm in geospace energetics, as well as the role of MHD and kinetic instabilities in substorms. Other substorm-related researches are also welcomed, such as storm-substorm relationship, ULF/ELF/VLF waves, and non-Earth substorm-like features. Ample opportunity will be given for discussions on the new results. SOC of the ICS-12 Olaf Amm, Eric Donovan, Mei-Ching Fok, Masaki Fujimoto, Karl-Heinz Glasmeier, Akira Kadokura, Marc Lessard, Mark Lester, Rumi Nakamura, Yoshiharu Omura, Andrei Runov, Mikhail Panasyuk, Ondrej Santolik, Jean-Andre Sauvaud, Kazuo Shiokawa (chair), Dave Sibeck, and Xiaogang Wang +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | To broadcast announcements to the GEM community, please contact | | Peter Chi, GEM Communications Coordinator, at: | | | | | | Please submit your announcements in plain text or Word document. | | | | To subscribe the GEM Messenger, send an e-mail to | | | | with the following command in the body of your e-mail message: | | subscribe gem | | To remove yourself from the mailing list, the command is: | | unsubscribe gem | | | | GEM Messenger is also posted online via newsfeed at | | http://heliophysics.blogspot.com and | | http://www.facebook.com/heliophysics | | | | Back issues are available at: | | http://www-ssc.igpp.ucla.edu/gemwiki/messenger/ | | | | URL of GEM Home Page: http://aten.igpp.ucla.edu/gemwiki | | Workshop Information: http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gem/index.html | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+