2015 Summer Workshop

June 14-19 2015

Viceroy Hotels, Resorts & Residences, Snowmass, Colorado

Below is a fluid list of speakers provided by the GEM Workshop Coordinator and Focus Groups. The information here serves as a rough guide for those who wish to know the most updated session plans. Due to the nature of the GEM Workshop, Focus Groups may continue to revise their agenda on this page or during sessions if needed.

All other information about the 2015 Summer Workshop can be found at the GEM Meeting Coordinator Website.

Monday, June 15

0815-1000: Plenary Session

• MPS tutorial by Toshi Nishimura -- title
• ??? tutorial by Alex Glocer -- Global modeling of the space environment system

1030-1215: Splinter Sessions

[FG] Tail Environment and Dynamics at Lunar Distances

• Hui Zhang: Transient phenomena at tail Bow shock and magnetopause
• Sheng-Hsien Chen: K-H at the magnetopause and waves at LLBL
• Denny Oliveria: Tail response to interplanetary shocks
• Tim Stubbs (presented by David Sibeck): Mid-tail structure
• Rob Fear: Magnetotail structure associated with transpolar arcs
• Peter Chi: Ion cyclotron waves at the Moon and their connection to the plasma sheet and the lunar exosphere
• Ivan Vasko:
• Andrei Runov: Reconnection in the mid-tail
• John Lyon: LFM simulation of bubble formation in mid-tail during growth phase
• Joe Borovsky: The role of mid-tail in Geospace Systems Science

1330-1500: Splinter Sessions

[FG] Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling

Session 1 (Mon, 01:30-03:00 PM): “Radiation Belt (RB) observations and modeling results”. We solicit short presentations discussing the models for the acceleration, transport, and loss of radiation belt particles.

Chair: Weichao Tu and Steve Morley

1. Mary Hudson: Recent simulation of the 'St Patrick's Day storm'

2. Alexander Drozdov: The VERB code modeling of the St. Patrick’s day Storm

3. Dan Baker: Impenetrable Barrier during March 17 2015 storm

4. Thiago Brito: Simulations on Radiation Belt Electron Precipitation Response to ULF Waves

5. Drew Turner: Storm-time analysis of RB

6. Wen Li: Quantitative simulation of radiation belt electron dynamics using 3D diffusion code

7. Xinlin Li: Deep Injections of 10s – 100s of keV electrons (RBSP observations)

8. Jay Albert: Nonlinear wave-particle interaction

1530-1700: Splinter Sessions

[FG] Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling

Session 2 (Mon, 03:30-05:00 PM): “Various magnetospheric wave characteristics and their global distribution required in RB modeling”. We solicit short presentations focusing on characterizing various wave properties that are required as inputs to RB models, including ULF waves, chorus and hiss, EMIC waves, magnetosonic waves, etc., and their effects on RB particles.

Chair: Wen Li and Jay Albert

1. Ashar Ali: Radial Diffusion Coefficients Using E and B Field Data from the Van Allen Probes

2. Seth Claudepierre: Advertisement for the GEM ULF Wave Challenge

3. Lauren Blum: The relationship between EMIC waves and radiation belt electron precipitation

4. Wen Li: Global distribution of chorus wave intensity using the statistical model and POES technique

5. Qianli Ma: Evaluation of electron scattering due to typical magnetosonic waves using analytical formula

6. Lunjin Chen: The effect of bounce resonance with magnetosonic waves on the radiation belt electrons

7. Jay Albert: Modeling “peculiar” pitch angle distributions with MS waves

8. Oleksiy Agapitov: Storm-induced energization and losses of radiation belt electrons: Effects of wave obliquity

Tuesday, June 16

0815-1000: Plenary Session

• IMAG tutorial by Weichao Tu -- title
• IMAG tutorial by Seth Claudepierre -- title

1030-1215: Splinter Sessions

[FG] Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling

Session 3 (Tue, 10:30-12:15 PM): “Seed populations, plasma density, and magnetic field configuration required in RB modeling”. We solicit short presentations specifying other required inputs for driving RB simulations, which include seed particle populations, plasma density, magnetic field configuration, last closed drift shell, etc.

Chair: Jay Albert and Weichao Tu

1. Natalia Ganushkina: Low energy electrons in the inner magnetosphere

2. Mick Denton: An empirical model of electron and ion fluxes derived from observations at geosynchronous orbit

3. Alex Boyd: Quantifying the Radiation Belt Seed Population During the Van Allen Probes Era

4. Oleksiy Agapitov: Time Domain Structures: generation mechanisms and effects for electrons

5. Xiangrong Fu: Double layers associated with electron/ion acoustic waves

6. Zhao Li: 3D test-particle simulation of the 17-18 March, 2013 CME-shock driven storm

7. James McCollough: DSX is still happening

8. Alex Crew: New results from FIREBIRD II

1330-1500: Splinter Sessions

[FG] Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling

Session 4 (Tue, 01:30-03:00 PM): “RB "dropout" and "buildup" challenges and Planning for future activities”. We have sent out a survey to the RB community regarding the selection of interesting RB “dropout” and “buildup” events and we will discuss the survey results. You are also welcome to propose potentially interesting events relevant to our “dropout” and “buildup” challenges. At last, we will wrap up and plan for future FG activities.

Chair: Steve Morley and Wen Li

1. Yuri Shprits: Recent results of the reanalysis and discuss how reanalysis can be used to study different events, compare with models and also discuss what future directions for improvement

2. Shri Kanekal and Dan Baker: Electron bursts during 17 March 2015 storm

3. Brian Kress: Observations and modeling of rebuilding during storms

4. Drew Turner: Candidate “Dropout” and “Buildup” challenge events

5. QARBM FG leaders: Discussion of “Dropout” and “Buildup” challenge events

1530-1700: Splinter Sessions

[FG] (Joint) Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling + Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions

Session 5 (Tue, 03:30-05:00 PM): “Joint session with “Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions” FG”. Since the two FGs have common interest in understanding how plasma waves are generated and how much they influence the radiation belt dynamics, we call for short presentations that address the coupled effects between important plasma waves in the inner magnetosphere and the changes in the energetic particle dynamics.

Chair: Weichao Tu and Yiqun Yu

1. Allison Jaynes: Fast diffusion of ultra-relativistic electrons: 17 March 2015 storm event

2. Yuri Shprits: Combined Convective and Diffusive Simulation: VERB-4D Results

3. Xiangfong Fu: Modeling EMIC wave generation from ring current ions

4. Anthony Saikin (UNH, student): The geomagnetic condition dependence of the spatial distributions of EMIC waves observed by the Van Allen Probes

5. Jacob Bortnik: Generation of chorus waves in a lab plasma

6. Xin An: Linear excitation of whistler waves

7. Shuo Wu: Hybrid Code Simulations of Whistler Waves in Compressed Dipole Field

8. Chih-ping Wang: Multi-point observation of ULF waves

Wednesday, June 17

0815-1000: Plenary Session

• Agency report by Vladimir Papitashvili -- Introduction
• Agency report by Janet Kozyra -- NSF GEM Program
• Agency report by Bill Lotko -- Overview of the Portfolio Review and Discussion

Thursday, June 18

0815-1000: Plenary Session

• ??? tutorial by Robert Fear -- Flux transfer events: Looking ahead to MMS
• Student-invited tutorial by Barbara Giles -- title

Friday, June 19

0815-1000: Plenary Session

• ??? tutorial by Stein Haaland -- Cold ion outflow from the polar cap