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What is the MOP Conference?

The CU MOP group is one of many space science research groups that participate in international conferences on the Magnetospheres of Outer Planets. The main purpose of the conference is to enhance understanding of the physical processes that control the magnetospheres of the four giant planets through presentation of recent studies, discussions, and collaborative research. The conferences are usually held every other summer.

A graph of number of talks/posters over the years – here.  Survey of opinions taken at 2015 Atlanta MOP – here.

Recorded tutorials and invited talks from the Boston MOP are here – thoroughly recommended.

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Below are past MOP conferences listed with links to their home pages, as well as group photos.

2024 Twin Cities/Minneapolis, USA

MOP 2024 Home Page, to be held at University of Minnesota (Twin Cities), USA.

Dates: Monday July 8 to Friday July 12, 2024, Abstracts due March 29th, 2024.

2022 Liège, Belgium

Group photo, image credit @ULiège – M Houet

MOP 2022 Home Page, held at Université de Liège, Belgium.

Dates: Monday July 11 to Friday July 15, 2022.

Program & Abstracts 2022.

Image Gallery on Home Page link.
Full size image. (image credit @ULiège – M Houet)

2021 Liège, Belgium

MOP 2021 Home Page, held virtually by Université de Liège, Belgium.

Dates: Monday July 12 to Friday July 16, 2021.

Program & Abstracts 2021.  Watch some Youtube videos of presentations here

2019 Sendai, Japan


MOP 2019 Home Page, was held in Sendai, Japan

Dates: Monday June 3 to Friday June 7, 2019.

Program.     Image Gallery.   Full size image.

2018 Boulder, USA

Boulder MOP2018 Home Page

Hosted by LASP the 2018 MOP was held in Boulder, USA
Dates: Monday July 9 to Friday July 13, 2018.

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Numbers & Names Passing the mop

ESA travel awardees   Photo Album    Scientific Program

2017 Uppsala, Sweden

Uppsala 2017 Home Page
Hosted by The Swedish Institute for Space Physics, Uppsala (Institutet för Rymdfysik Uppsala, IRFU) and the Royal Institute of Technology (Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan, KTH).
Dates: Monday June 12 to Friday June 16, 2017.
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Passing the mop  NASA travel awardees  Scientific Program

 2015 Atlanta, USA

MOP2015_PhotoHosted by Carol Paty, Sven Simon (Georgia Institute of Technology).
Dates: Monday June 1 to Friday June 5, 2015.
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Passing the MOP.wmv (will download as zipped file)   Scientific Program

2013 Athens, Greece

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Hosted by Nick Sergis (Academy of Athens).
Dates: Monday July 8 to Friday July 12, 2013.

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Passing the mop, and mop passed

Scientific Program

2011 Boston, USA

Boston 2011 Home Page
Hosted by John Clarke, sponsored by Boston University.
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Passing the mop

Scientific Program

2009 Cologne, Germany

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Passing the mop

Scientific Program

2007 San Antonio, Texas


San Antonio 2007 Home Page
Hosted by Kurt Retherford (Southwest Research Institute)

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Scientific Program

2005 Leicester, England

Hosted by Emma Bunce
(The University of Leicester Radio & Space Plasma Physics Group)

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2002 Laurel, Maryland

Hosted by Barry Mauk and Chris Paranicas
(Johns Hopkins University – Applied Physics Laboratory)

1999 Paris, France

Hosted by Philippe Zarka and Renee Prange

1997 Boulder, Colorado

Hosted by Fran Bagenal  (University of Colorado at Boulder – Laboratory of Atmospheric and Space Physics)

Program

1994 Graz, Austria

Hosted by Siegfried Bauer

1992 Los Angeles, California


Goertz-Smith Memorial Meeting on Magnetospheres of Outer Planets

Hosted by Margy Kivelson, David Barbosa, and Khrishan Khurana
(University of California at Los Angeles)

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1990 Annapolis, Maryland

Fred Scarf Memorial Meeting on Magnetospheres of Outer Planets
Hosted by Jack Connerny   Program

1988 Lindau, Federal Republic of Germany

Third Neil Brice Memorial Symposium on the Magnetospheres of Outer Planets

Hosted by Vytenis Vasyliunas
(Max Planck – Institut fur Aeronomie)

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1986 Iowa City, Iowa

Second Neil Brice Memorial Symposium on the Magnetospheres of Outer Planets, Hosted by Chris Goertz (University of Iowa)

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1983 Cambridge, Massachusetts

The Fifth Conference on the Physics of Jovian and Saturnian Magnetospheres

Hosted by John Belcher (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Program

1981 Laurel, Maryland

Physics of the Magnetospheres of Jupiter and Saturn

Hosted by Tom Krimigis
(Johns Hopkins University – Applied Physics Laboratory)

1980 Houston, Texas

Physics of the Jovian Magnetosphere – The Book came out of this conference.

Hosted by Alex Dessler
(Rice University)

1977 Lindau, Federal Republic of Germany


Workshop on the Structure and Dynamics of the Jovian Magnetosphere

Hosted by Vytenis Vasyliunas
(Max Planck – Institut fur Aeronomie)

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1974 Frascati, Italy

The Magnetospheres of Earth and Jupiter, Neil Brice Memorial Symposium

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