2013 Summer Workshop

GEM will be holding its annual summer workshop June 16-21, 2013 at the Snowmass Conference Center in Snowmass, Colorado. Logistical information and workshop agenda can be found at the GEM Workshop Website.

Below are the calls for presentations by active GEM focus groups. Please note that in all e-mail addresses below the symbol @ is replaced by " [at] ". Information about the GEM Student Workshop on June 16, 2013 can be found at GEM Student Forum.

Poster submissions should be made online by Wednesday, June 5 at the GEM Workshop Website.

Radiation Belts and Wave (RBW) Modeling

Conveners: Yuri Shprits <yshprits [at] atmos.ucla.edu>, Scot Elkington, Jacob Bortnik, Craig Kletzing

The RBW focus group will have 6 sessions this year.

Sessions:

1. Wed, Jun 19, (10:30am-12:15pm) RBW 1 -- GEM particle transport challenge
2. Wed, Jun 19, (1:30pm-3:00pm) RBW 2 -- Dynamical modeling of the radiation belts (Preparing radiation belt models for Van Allen Probes data)
3. Wed, Jun 19, (3:30pm-5:00pm) RBW 3 -- Wave-particle interactions (Particle scattering and transport)
4. Thu, Jun 20, (10:30am-12:15pm) RBW 4 -- Wave excitation, propagation,

and distribution (ULF)

1. Thu, Jun 20, (1:30pm-3:00pm) RBW 5 -- Wave excitation, propagation,

and distribution (VLF/ELF)

1. Thu, Jun 20, (3:30pm-5:00pm) RBW 6 -- GEM wave challenge, overflow

You can submit the title of your presentation online by following the link below to reserve a time slot during each individual session. We invite potential contributions and encourage to participants to limit presentations to approximately 5 min.

Please submit the title of your presentations by June 5th at

http://goo.gl/B7BY9

In particular, we would like to encourage modelers to participate in the GEM particle modeling challenge as well as the wave modeling challenge.

Data and rules for the GEM challenge are given on the ViRBO web site at http://virbo.org/RBW#2010_RBW_Challenge.

See you at GEM.

Tail-Inner Magnetosphere Interactions

Conveners: Frank Toffoletto, John Lyon, Pontus Brandt, and Vassilis Angelopoulos

The GEM focus group on Tail-Inner Magnetosphere Interactions will hold its breakout sessions on Monday - Tuesday, June 17-18, 2013. We invite presentations that specifically address one of the following topics:

• Origin and evolution of BBFs and related phenomena (bubbles, dipolarization fronts, etc.)
• The impact of BBFs et al on transport during different levels of activity (e.g., quiet times, SMCs, substorms, storm main phases).
• The impact of BBFs et al on the inner magnetosphere, including ring current and radiation belts; braking oscillations and micropulsations.
• Auroral streamers and other ionospheric signatures of BBFs et al.

More information on the focus group can be found at: http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/index.php/GEM_Focus_Groups

We kindly ask presentations to be limited to 2-3 slides/5 minutes. If you would like to be put on the schedule, please contact Frank Toffoletto (toffo [at] rice.edu).

We look forward to seeing everyone at GEM and to your contributions.

Reconnection in the Magnetosphere

Conveners: Paul Cassak, West Virginia University <Paul.Cassak [at] mail.wvu.edu>, Homa Karimabadi, University of California, San Diego, <homakar [at] gmail.com>, Andrei Runov, University of California, Los Angeles, <arunov [at] igpp.ucla.edu>

We would like to solicit contributions to the "Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetosphere" Focus Group sessions at the upcoming GEM meeting in Snowmass, Colorado on June 16 - 21, 2013. The Focus Group goals description and other information is available at

http://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawikiwiki/index.php/FG:_Magnetic_Reconnection_in_the_Magnetosphere.

Thus summer we plan four 1.5 hr-long sessions to discuss

1. Dayside reconnection and its relation to transient phenomena at the magnetopause and bow shock (joint with Dayside Transient FG);
2. Magnetotail reconnection and its role in substorms, pseudo breakups, PBIs and other substorm-related phenomena (joint with Substorm Onset FG);
3. General problems of magnetospheric reconnection. Nominally, the session activities will address Signatures of Kinetic Scale Reconnection Physics (a prelude to the launch of MMS), but contributions on any topic including onset, evolution, and consequences are welcomed.

We welcome contributions based upon data analysis, simulations, and theory.

The tentative agenda of the workshop is available at http://www.cpe.vt.edu/gem/2013GEM_agenda.pdf.

To follow the GEM philosophy and the informal workshop format, your presentations need to be short and concise (without AGU-style introductions and conclusions) in order to engender discussions. We strongly suggest preparing 5 slides or less and 5 min-long presentations focused strictly on the topic. We encourage presentations by graduate students and postdoctoral researchers.

Please submit a tentative topic of your presentation (to help us plan the session) and address your questions, if any, to

Paul Cassak, West Virginia University, Paul.Cassak [at] mail.wvu.edu