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.
Contents
- 1 Monday, June 15
- 2 Tuesday, June 16
- 2.1 0815-1000: Plenary Session
- 2.2 1030-1215: Splinter Sessions
- 2.2.1 [FG] Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling
- 2.2.2 [FG] The Ionospheric Source of Magnetospheric Plasma--Measuring, Modeling and Merging into the GEM GGCM
- 2.2.3 [FG] (Joint) Testing Proposed Links between Mesoscale Auroral and Polar Cap Dynamics and Substorms + Scientific Magnetic Mapping & Techniques
- 2.3 1330-1500: Splinter Sessions
- 2.4 1530-1700: Splinter Sessions
- 3 Wednesday, June 17
- 4 Thursday, June 18
- 5 Friday, June 19
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
[FG] The Ionospheric Source of Magnetospheric Plasma--Measuring, Modeling and Merging into the GEM GGCM
[FG] Testing Proposed Links between Mesoscale Auroral and Polar Cap Dynamics and Substorms
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
[FG] The Ionospheric Source of Magnetospheric Plasma--Measuring, Modeling and Merging into the GEM GGCM
[FG] Testing Proposed Links between Mesoscale Auroral and Polar Cap Dynamics and Substorms
1530-1700: Splinter Sessions
[FG] Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling
[FG] The Ionospheric Source of Magnetospheric Plasma--Measuring, Modeling and Merging into the GEM GGCM
[FG] Testing Proposed Links between Mesoscale Auroral and Polar Cap Dynamics and Substorms
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
[FG] The Ionospheric Source of Magnetospheric Plasma--Measuring, Modeling and Merging into the GEM GGCM
[FG] (Joint) Testing Proposed Links between Mesoscale Auroral and Polar Cap Dynamics and Substorms + Scientific Magnetic Mapping & Techniques
1330-1500: Splinter Sessions
[FG] Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling
[FG] Storm-time Inner Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Convection
[FG] (Joint) Tail-Inner Magnetosphere Interactions + Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetosphere
1530-1700: Splinter Sessions
[FG] (Joint) Quantitative Assessment of Radiation Belt Modeling + Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions
[FG] Storm-time Inner Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Convection
[FG] Geospace Systems Science
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
1030-1215: Splinter Sessions
[FG] Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions
[FG] Transient Phenomena at the Magnetopause and Bow Shock and Their Ground Signatures
[FG] Metrics and Validation
[Special] HSO coordination
1330-1500: Splinter Sessions
[FG] Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions
[FG] Transient Phenomena at the Magnetopause and Bow Shock and Their Ground Signatures
[FG] Metrics and Validation
[Special] SPEDAS Software
1530-1700: Splinter Sessions
[FG] Inner Magnetosphere Cross-Energy/Population Interactions
[FG] Transient Phenomena at the Magnetopause and Bow Shock and Their Ground Signatures
[FG] (Joint) Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetosphere + Metrics and Validation
[Special] TDAS demo
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
1030-1215: Splinter Sessions
[FG] Geospace Systems Science
[FG] Scientific Magnetic Mapping & Techniques
[FG] (Joint) Tail-Inner Magnetosphere Interactions + Storm-time Inner Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Convection
1330-1500: Splinter Sessions
[FG] (Joint) Geospace Systems Science + Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetosphere
[FG] Scientific Magnetic Mapping & Techniques
[FG] Tail-Inner Magnetosphere Interactions
1530-1700: Splinter Sessions
[FG] Geospace Systems Science
[FG] Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetosphere
[FG] Tail-Inner Magnetosphere Interactions
Friday, June 19
0815-1000: Plenary Session
- ??? tutorial by Stein Haaland -- Cold ion outflow from the polar cap