FG: Magnetic Reconnection in the Age of the Heliophysics System Observatory

Chairs

Rick Wilder (frederick.wilder@lasp.colorado.edu)
Shan Wang (swang90@umd.edu)
Anton Artemyev (aartemyev@igpp.ucla.edu)
Mike Shay (shay@udel.edu)

2018 Workshop Agenda

We are pleased to announce the first GEM Summer Workshop sessions for this focus group.

We will have three sessions, one of which is joint with the Dayside Kinetics focus group.

Tuesday 19 June 2018, 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM: Local Physics of Magnetic Reconnection

This session focuses on the local physics of magnetic reconnection. This includes understanding energy conversion on the electron and ion scales, as well as understanding the overall kinetic physics on these scales. The relationship between magnetic reconeciton and turbulence are also covered. Talks are below.

1. 10:30 – 10:40, Blake Alastair Wetherton, “Equations of state applied to MMS data”
2. 10:40 – 10:50, Misha Sitnov, “New kinetic dissipation parameters”
3. 10:50-11:00, Tetsuo Motoba, “Calculation of kinetic dissipation using MMS data”
4. 11:00-11:10, Rick Wilder, “parallel electric fields and dissipation in the outer electron diffusion region.”
5. 11:10-11:20, Prasash Sharma Pyakurel, “Electron-only reconnection”
6. 11:20-11:30, Haoming Liang, “Boltzmann entropy in PIC simulations”

11:30 – 12:00 – Open discussion, walk-on presentations.

Wednesday 20 June 2018, 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM: Global Consequences of Magnetic Reconnection

This session focuses on the global drivers and consequences on magnetic reconnection. Talks focused on reconnection physics specific to the magnetotail are also welcome in this session.

1. 10:30-10:40, Chih-Ping Wang, “Distant tail plasma flows originated from magnetic reconnection.”
2. 10:40-10:50, Anton Artemyev, “MMS/Artemis conjugate observations of middle-tail reconnection.”
3. 10:50-11:00, Andrei Runov, “Probing electron ejecta in the near tail and at lunar distances.”
4. 11:00-11:10, Chris Bard, “GPU-Accelerated global Hall MHD imulations.”
5. 11:10-11:20, Chris Mouikis, TBD
6. 11:20-11:30, Joo Hwang, “Magnetotail reconnection with a guide field following the flapping motion of the magnetotail current sheet”

11:30-12:00 – Open discussion, walk-on presentations.

Wednesday 20 June 2018, 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM: Joint With Dayside Kinetic Processes Focus Group

This session is joint with the Dayside Kinetic Processes focus group, and therefore focuses on magnetic reconnection that is specifically relevant to the dayside magnetopause, magnetosheath or bow shock.

1. 3:30-3:40, Brian Walsh, “Maximum reconnection spreading speed at the dayside magnetopause.”
2. 3:40-3:50, Mike Shay, “Heating due to magnetic reconnection occurring in turbulence.”
3. 3:50-4:00, Sarah Vines, “Comparing dayside reconnection with inferred system measurements.”
4. 4:00-4:10, Allison Jaynes, “Whistlers and energetic electrons in the LLBL during reconnection events.”
5. 4:10-4:20, Jason Shuster, “Thin magnetosheath current sheet observations: resolving vlasov equations with MMS”
6. 4:20-4:30, Hjunju Connor, “Modeling of dayside magnetic reconnection and magnetopause movement.”

4:30-5:00 – Open discussion, walk-on presentations.