2016 GEM-CEDAR Workshop

The "Fluid" Speaker List

Below is a fluid list of speakers in GEM sessions 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 as needed.

All other information about the 2016 Joint GEM-CEDAR Workshop can be found at the GEM Meeting Coordinator Website and the CEDARwiki 2016 Workshop Page.

Monday, June 20

0815-1000: Plenary Session

• Welcome by Josh Semeter, Mike Wiltberger, Students, and Therese Moretto Jorgensen

• Tutorial GC#1 by Roger Varney -- Geospace electrodynamics

1025-1200: Plenary Session

• Tutorial GC#2 by Jesper Gjerloev -- Multiscale MI coupling

1330-1530: Splinter Sessions

[FG] Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetosphere

This session will focus on kinetic physics in day- and night-side reconnection. With the recent launch of the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) satellites, there is already a wealth of new data on kinetic scale physics. Scene setting talks to frame relevant questions and generate discussion will include particle acceleration in dayside reconnection (Allison Jaynes, CU-Boulder) and how global/non-local physics impacts kinetic reconnection physics (John Dorelli, NASA-GSFC), both of which will include discussion of MMS data. Other speakers on dayside reconnection are (in no particular order) Joo Hwang, Sun Hee Lee, Richard Denton, Jan Egedal, Rishi Mistry, Kris Maynard, and Cong Zhao. In addition, we will have a discussion of magnetotail stability, with a scene setting talk on recent progress (Slava Merkin, JHU-APL). Other speakers on magnetotail reconnection are (in no particular order) Yongliang Zhang, Stefan Kiehas, Haoming Liang, Misha Sitnov, Andrei Runov, Joachim Birn, Phil Pritchett, and Tony Lui.

[FG] (Joint) Storm-time Inner Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Convection + Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions

• Topic: Impact of large-scale or transient electric fields on inner magnetosphere populations, and the role of particle precipitation of magnetospheric origin on the ionospheric electrodynamics
• Chairs: Stanislav Sazykin, Yiqun Yu

1. Joe Huba : Storm-time electrodynamics of the ionosphere/plasmasphere system using SAMI3/RCM
2. Richard Selesnick: Control of the inner electron radiation belt by large-scale electric fields
3. Sam Califf: Van Allen Probes observations of subauroral polarization streams (SAPS) electric fields
4. Scott Thaller: Van Allen Probes investing of the night/dusk asymmetries of the plasmapause and dawn-dusk electric field, a synoptic study
5. Carlos Martinis: Coincident observations of all-sky images and Van Allen Probes
6. Raluca Ilie: TBD
7. Margaret Chen: TBD
8. Yiqun Yu: A new ionospheric precipitation module coupled with RAM-SCB in geospace general circulation model

Tuesday, June 21

1330-1530: Splinter Sessions

[FG] (Joint) Transient Phenomena at the Magnetopause and Bow Shock and Their Ground Signatures + Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetosphere + Dayside Kinetic Processes in Global Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Interaction

Sanni Hoilijoki- Dayside magnetopause reconnection using a hybrid-Vlasov simulation code Vlasiator

Sun Lee- Inverse Energy Dispersion of Energetic Ions Observed in the Magnetosheath: the Extent of the Reconnection Line

Xuanya Ma- Magnetic Reconnection with a super-fast perpendicular shear flow (simulation)

Sasha Ukhorskiy- The role of KH instability in the magnetopause losses of energetic particles: Hight-resolution MHD-test-particle simulations

Andrey Samsonov- Magnetopause positions for northward and southward IMF: comparison between empirical and MHD models.

Naritoshi Kitamura- Geotail+MMS, TBD

[FG] Modeling Methods and Validation (Joint with CEDAR-GEM Modeling Challenge)

Dan Welling - Ionospheric Conductance in Global MHD

Ryan McGranaghan - High-latitude conductance observations and data assimilation

Contributed talks for conductance discussion

• Slava Merkin - Ionospheric turbulence contribution to conductivity and global effects

Wednesday, June 22

0815-1000: Plenary Session

• GEM Tutorial #1 by James Smith -- System science tutorial

• GEM Tutorial #2 by Marc Lessard -- Aurora and ionosphere/thermosphere coupling

1025-1200: Plenary Session

• GEM Tutorial #3 by Maria Usanova -- Student invited tutorial

1330-1530: Splinter Sessions

[FG] (Joint) Tail Environment and Dynamics at Lunar Distances + Modeling Methods and Validation

Mid-Tail Modeling Challenge: A prolonged N IMF event from 13 to 14 Feb 2014

Chih-Ping Wang: Overview of the event

Joseph Jensen: OpenGGCM

Slava Merkin: LFM

Ilja Honkonen: GUMICS

Xueyi Wang: Auburn University Global Hybrid code

[FG] (Joint) Transient Phenomena at the Magnetopause and Bow Shock and Their Ground Signatures + ULF wave Modeling, Effects, and Applications + Dayside Kinetic Processes in Global Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Interaction

Heli Hietala- Impact rates of magnetosheath high speed jets (to discuss observational inputs required for magnetospheric models)

Hui Zhang – HFA generated ULF waves in the magnetosphere

Boyi Wang - Triggering of poleward moving auroral forms by satellite-imager coordinated observations

Boyi Wang - Response of dayside aurora on closed field lines to solar wind driving

Desheng Han - Throat aurora: the ionospheric signature of cold magnetospheric plasmas interaction with the dayside magnetopause reconnection

Alexa Halford - BARREL observations of the open closed boundary

Mike Hartinger- Inter-hemispheric (Antarctica/Greenland magnetometers) comparisons of the response to an interplanetary shock

Reserve time to brainstorm on how to connect the future activities of the new Dayside Kinetics and ULF Wave FGs

Thursday, June 23

0815-1000: Plenary Session

• Tutorial GC#3 by Phil Erickson -- Cold plasma effect

• Science Highlight GC#4 -- MI precursor to earthquakes

• Science Highlight GC#5 -- Ionospheric reconnection

• Science Highlight GC#6 -- LWS TR&T

1025-1200: Plenary Session

• Tutorial GC#4 by Shasha Zou -- TBD

1330-1530: Splinter Sessions

[FG] Testing Proposed Links between Mesoscale Auroral and Polar Cap Dynamics and Substorms

(Sweeney A)

Substorm event presentation & discussion

• Larry Lyons
• Larry Kepko
• Tony Lui

Short contributed talks

• Dick Wolf: Kelvin-Helmholtz instability and interchange stability in a growth-phase arc
• Tony Lui: BBF/DF-substorm connection
• Eric Donovan: Evolution and mapping of substorm onset arc
• Shin Ohtani: PBI-polar cap flow connection
• Misha Sitnov: Distinguish between roles as triggers of the substorm instability and drivers
• Larry Kepko: Statistical analysis of substorm onset and auroral streamers

1600-1800: Splinter Sessions

[FG] Testing Proposed Links between Mesoscale Auroral and Polar Cap Dynamics and Substorms

(Cont'd from the 13:30-15:30 session, Sweeney A)

Substorm event presentation & discussion

• Larry Lyons
• Larry Kepko
• Tony Lui

Short contributed talks

• Dick Wolf: Kelvin-Helmholtz instability and interchange stability in a growth-phase arc
• Tony Lui: BBF/DF-substorm connection
• Eric Donovan: Evolution and mapping of substorm onset arc
• Shin Ohtani: PBI-polar cap flow connection
• Misha Sitnov: Distinguish between roles as triggers of the substorm instability and drivers
• Larry Kepko: Statistical analysis of substorm onset and auroral streamers

[FG] Tail Environment and Dynamics at Lunar Distances

Anton Artemyev: Mid-tail current sheet

Peter Chi: Waves at ion gyrofrequencies in the magnetotail: ARTEMIS observations near the Moon

Babor Facsko (E Kallio, D. Sibeck, A. Kis, V. Wesztergom, and L. Szarka): Properties of the solar wind near the Moon in the magnetotail

Shin Ohtain: Poleward boundary intensification and polar-cap flows

Chih-Ping Wang: ULF waves at mid-tail and ground magnetic field during the 2014-02-13 N IMF event

Simon Wing: DMSP observations of polar-cap boundary during the 2014-02-13 N IMF event

Chih-Ping Wang: mid-tail and near-Earth tail connection: ARTEMIS-THEMIS tail conjunctions

Friday, June 24

0815-1000: Plenary Session

• GEM Tutorial #4 by Bob Lysak -- ULF wave modeling

• GEM Tutorial #5 by Mike Hartinger -- ULF wave observations

1025-1200: Plenary Session

• GEM Tutorial #6 by Hui Zhang -- SWMI

1330-1530: Splinter Sessions

[FG] Tail-Inner Magnetosphere Interactions

Location: Sweeney D

Speakers:

1. Slava Merkin

2. Misha Sitnov

3. Dan Baker: “Van Allen Probes and MMS combined studies of substorm injections"

4. Christine Gabrielse

5. W. Douglas Cramer: “Importance of Ring Current Plasma Transport Mechanisms in the Magnetotail”

[FG] Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetosphere

This session will begin by completing any presentations that were not finished during the Monday 1:30pm session. There will be presentations by Kai Germaschewski and Amitava Bhattacharjee on incorporating multi-fluid and kinetic effects into global models and an update by Yi-Hsin Liu on efforts to incorporate kinetic modeling into NASA’s CCMC. In the remaining time, there will be an open forum for discussion of topics about reconnection in the magnetosphere and a discussion on topics of interest for next year and the potential future of the reconnection focus group beyond when the current version ends next year.

1600-1800: Splinter Sessions

[FG] Testing Proposed Links between Mesoscale Auroral and Polar Cap Dynamics and Substorms

Xiangning Chu and Bob McPherron: Association of substorm onset lists with each other and with fast flow in the plasma sheet

Banafhseh (Bashi) Ferdousi: Mapping plasma sheet flows from the magnetosphere to the ionosphere

Nadine Kalmoni: Dynamics of the onset arc

Eric Grono and Eric Donovan: Analysis of the motion of aurora in the red line (REGO) imagers

Bob Lysak: Plasma bubbles and M-I coupling

Kyle Murphy: Statistical analysis of auroral motion during the growth and expansion phase

Jiang Lui: Plasma sheet--a source of both R1 and R2 Birkeland currents

Toshi Nishimura: Similarities and differences between auroral streamers during isolated, active and non substorm times

Katie Garcia-Sage: Magnetotail modeling and plasma sheet flows

Jian Yang: RCM perspective of growth phase bubbles and streamers

[FG] (Joint) Transient Phenomena at the Magnetopause and Bow Shock and Their Ground Signatures + Dayside Kinetic Processes in Global Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Interaction

Terry Liu - Observations of a new foreshock region upstream of a foreshock bubble's shock

Sanni Hoilijoki - Magnetopause-foreshock interactions induced by dayside reconnection

Heli Hietala - Growth rate and properties of ion beam generated foreshock ULF waves - ARTEMIS observations

Andrey Samsonov - Can we predict magnetospheric expansion for radial IMF using MHD codes?

Hui Zhang - A statistical study on Hot Flow Anomaly Current Sheets