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Graduate Student Opportunities
For graduate students looking for postdoc positions or other opportunities, please visit the SPOReS website. The site collects job posting from a number of different sources and maintains a calendar of opportunities and due dates.
CEDAR-GEM 2010 Joint Student Workshop, June 26
All students attending GEM are encouraged to participate in the student workshop. We look forward to having some great student tutorials and discussion. See schedule below.
Sunday 26 June 2011
| Anasazi Ballroom | CEDAR/GEM Joint Student Workshop (Students ONLY!)
Theme - Magnetosphere-Ionosphere (MI) Coupling |
Co-Chairs: CEDAR: Roger Varney (Cornell) and Elizabeth Bass (BU); GEM: Brian Walsh (BU) and Jenni Kissinger (UCLA) |
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| 08:00-09:00 | Breakfast and Registration in hall, Sign Travel Vouchers | |
| 09:00-09:15 | What is CEDAR? | R Varney |
| 09:15-09:30 | What is GEM? | J Kissinger |
| 09:30-9:50 | Introduction to the Magnetosphere | K Greer (U CO) |
| 09:50-10:10 | Introduction to the Ionosphere | J Feldt (U Mich) |
| 10:10-10:30 | Geomagnetism and Geomagnetic Indices | M Gkioulidou (UCLA) |
| 10:30-10:50 | --- Break --- | |
| 10:50-11:10 | High Latitude Electrodynamics | N Frissel (VT) |
| 11:10-11:30 | Convection | F Jiang (UCLA) |
| 11:30-11:50 | Aurora: Magnetospheric View | C Gabrielse (UCLA) |
| 11:50-12:10 | Aurora: Ionospheric View | C Andersen (Fairbanks) |
| 12:10-13:30 | Pizza Lunch in the Pavilion for the students | |
| 13:30-13:50 | Ion Outflow | |
| 13:50-14:10 | Geomagnetic Storms | L Blum (U CO) |
| 14:10-14:30 | Applications of Incoherent Scatter Radar to MI Coupling | H Akbari (BU) |
| 14:30-14:50 | Introduction to Sounding Rockets | S Kaeppler (U Iowa) |
| 14:50-15:10 | --- Break --- | |
| 15:10-15:30 | CubeSats | A Crew (UNH) |
| 15:30-15:40 | Ionospheric Models | L Lomidze (USU) |
| 15:40-15:50 | GEM Models | M Gilson (UNH) |
| 15:50-16:10 | Student Welcome from GEM and CEDAR Chairs | M Liemohn, J Foster, D Sibeck |
| 16:10 | Adjourn | |
| 16:10-19:00 | Free time for student recreation (Annual CEDAR Soccer Game, Ultimate Frisbee; etc) | Park at Fort Marcy/Complex Magers Field (490 Washington Ave.) |
| 19:00-22:00 | dinner on your own at area restaurants OR CEDAR Science Steering Committee dinner/meeting |
2010 Workshop Student Tutorials
Topics
- Sun and solar wind- Mike Klida
- The terrestrial magnetosphere - Christine Gabrielse
- Plasma convection in magnetosphere - Jenni Kissinger
- High latitude electrodynamics - Rick Wilder
- Geomagnetic activity - Brian Walsh
- MHD models - Asher Pembroke
- Kinetic models - Roxanne Katus
- CCMC tutorial - Dave Berrios
- Dayside magnetopause reconnection - Ray Fermo
- Near Earth magnetosphere - Dmitriy Subbotin
- Tail dynamics: Substorms, Sawtooth events, SMCs - Matina Gkioulidou
- Future Missions - Alex Crew
Thank you to all who gave student tutorials. If anyone has any questions please contact Brian Walsh, [bwalsh@bu.edu].
