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.

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);

1. Magnetotail reconnection and its role in substorms, pseudo breakups,

PBIs and other substorm-related phenomena (joint with Substorm Onset FG);

1. 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