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The meeting will be held in the Presentation room of Building 263.
Refreshments and snacks are available in the lobby throughout the day. Breakfast is available at the hotel. Lunch is provided daily.
Virtual Attendees, Join over Teams.
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
April 9th, Tuesday AM: Leadership kick-off and Programmatic (Chair: Kristie LLera, kristie.llera@swri.org) | ||
| 09:15-09:20 | Kristie LLera | Welcome & Logistics |
| 09:20-09:30 | Jim Burch | Mission Status |
| 09:30-10:00 | Chris Riley | MMS Operation Status |
| 10:00-10:15 | Gina Lafferty and Marcus Piquette | POC/IS Status |
| 10:15-10:40 | Bob Ergun | Large Separation |
| 10:40-11:00 | Coffee Break | |
11:00-11:15 | Trevor Williams | FDOA Status and String of Pearls |
11:15-11:30 | Rick Wilder | SITL update |
April 9th, Tuesday late-AM: Data Mining -Science Methods and Techniques (Chair: Justyna Sokół, justyna.sokol@swri.org) | ||
| 11:30-11:45 | Joey Mukherjee | About data mining and ML tools and their application to MMS data |
| 11:45-11:55 | Justyna Sokół | Preliminary results for an automated search for pristine solar wind intervals for HPCA PUI analysis |
| 11:55-12:00 | Justyna Sokół (Leads) | Open Discussion |
| 12-13:30 | Lunch Break | *SWG meeting |
| April 9th, Tuesday PM: Special Topic (Chair: Kristie LLera, kristie.llera@swri.org) | ||
13:30-13:45 | Michael Starkey and Jason Beedle | MMS-inspired mission concept for 2024 Heliophysics Mission Design School |
| *Call for Total Solar Eclipse Media and/or stories for compilation on Wednesday | ||
April 9th, Tuesday mid-PM: Transient Magnetopause (Chair: Katariina Nykyri, katariina.nykyri@nasa.gov ) | ||
| 13:45-14:00 | Dinesh Radhakrishnan | Non-Linear KHI's at flanks of Earth's Magnetopause |
14:00-14:15 | Rachel Rice | Magnetopause Boundary Layers during Storm Recovery and Low Mach Solar Wind |
| 14:15-14:30 | Andrew Marshall | Substorm Triggered by an IMF By Reversal During a Period of Northward IMF |
| 14:30-14:45 | Katariina Nykyri | Fingerprinting plasma heating mechanisms during boundary layer/current sheets crossings using MMS FPI and FGM data: Are the power laws in kappa distributions of the heating rate universal for specific cross-scale heating mechanism? |
| 14:45-15:55 | Chair (Leads) | Open Discussion |
| 14:55-15:15 | Coffee Break | |
April 9th, Tuesday late-PM: Solar Wind Interactions near Earth (Chairs: Brandon Burkholder and Jason Beedle, burkbran@umbc.edu, jason.beedle@unh.edu) | ||
| 15:15-15:30 | Micheal Starkey | Enhanced Helium Concentrations in CMEs |
15:30-15:45 | Harsha Gurram | Earth’s Alfven wings from the perspective of electron distributions |
| 15:45-16:00 | Jason Beedle | Field-Aligned Current Structures during the Terrestrial Magnetosphere’s Transformation into Alfvén Wings and Recovery |
| 16:00-16:15 | Li-Jen Chen | Earth's Alfven wing magnetosphere: Sun-Earth connection in the new light from MMS, HSO, and simulations |
| 16:15-16:30 | Marc Swisdak | Numerical Simulations of Turbulence in the Structured Solar Wind |
| 16:30-16:40 | Chairs (Leads) | Open discussions |
| 17:30-19:00 | Reception | *off-site venue: Viola's Ventana, 9660 Westover Hills Blvd |
April 10th, Wednesday AM: Particle Acceleration (Chair: Jonathan Ng, jonng@umd.edu) | ||
9:15-9:30 | James Drake | Electron and proton powerlaw formation during magnetic reconnection |
| 9:30-9:45 | Mitsuo Oka | Evolution and effect of pre-existing non-thermal (PENT) particles in magnetic reconnection |
| 9:45-10:00 | Abhishek Rajhans | Energy partition between thermal and non-thermal components during magnetotail reconnection |
| 10:00-10:15 | Joachim Birn | Electron acceleration in magnetotail reconnection events |
| 10:15-10:30 | Weijie Sun | Relativistic electrons in Earth’s plasma sheet during magnetic reconnection |
| 10:30-10:40 | Chair (Leads) | Open discussion |
| 10:40-11:00 | Coffee Break | |
April 10th, Wednesday late-AM: Reconnection, Turbulence, & Waves (Chair: Harsa Gurram,hgurram@umd.edu) | ||
| 11:00-11:15 | Neha Pathak | Detailed Observations of Parallel Electric Field Structures at the Plasma Sheet Boundary Layer |
| 11:15-11:30 | Jim Burch | Pressure-Strain Interactions and Parallel Electric Fields |
| 11:30-11:45 | Evgeny Panov | Midtail Ballooning-Interchange Heads as observed by MMS and in the conjugate ionospheric data |
| 11:45-12:00 | Yi Qi | Investigation of a magnetic reconnection event with extraordinarily high particle energization in magnetotail turbulence |
| 12:00-13:30 | Lunch Break | |
| 13:30-13:40 | Team Photo | *Assemble in front of Bldg. 263 |
| 13:40-13:45 | **Total Eclipse compilation back in presentation room | |
April 10th, Wednesday PM: Part-2 of reconnection, Turbulence, & Waves (Chairs: Kyunghwan Dokgo and Kylie Sullivan, kyunghwan.dokgo@swri.org, kylie.sullivan@contractor.swri.org) | ||
| 13:45-14:00 | Jonathan Ng | Electron acceleration by Lower hybrid waves in guide field reconnection |
| 14:00-14:15 | Naoki Bessho | Electron and ion acceleration in magnetic islands in shock turbulence |
| 14:15-14:30 | Riddhi Bandyopadhyay | Energy Transfer Across Scales in Turbulent Reconnection |
| 14:30-14:45 | Marit Oieroset | Scaling of ion bulk heating in magnetic reconnection outflows for the high Alfvén speed and low beta regime in Earth’s magnetotail |
| 14:45-14:55 | Chairs (Lead) | Open discussion |
| 14:55-15:15 | Coffee Break | |
April 10th, Wednesday mid-PM: Continuing with RxN, Turbulence, & Waves (Chair: Rachel Rice, rcrice@umd.edu) | ||
| 15:15-15:30 | Dominic Payne | Multiscale Energy Exchange from Magnetic Shear Equilibration and Reconnection |
| 15:30-15:45 | Kylie Sullivan | An Investigation into Far-Flank Magnetic Reconnection at Earth’s Magnetopause |
| 15:45-16:00 | Dan Baker | Long-duration Kelvin-Helmholtz wave activity along the magnetotail flanks |
| 16:00-16:15 | Stefan Eriksson | MMS observations of oscillating energy conversion and electron vorticity in an electron-scale layer within a southward magnetopause reconnection exhaust |
| 16:15-16:30 | Alex Chasapis | Unbiased Magnetosheath Campaigns 2023 & 2024: Unravelling the Turbulent Dynamics of Earth's Magnetosheath |
| 16:30-16:45 | Brandon Burkholder | Comparison of Foreshock Magnetic Fluctuations observed by MMS, MESSENGER, MAVEN, and Cassini |
| 16:45-17:00 | Chair (Leads) | Open discussion |
April 11th, Thursday AM: Electron-only Reconnection (Chair: Joo Hwang, joo.hwang@swri.org) | ||
| 9:15-9:30 | Prayash Sharma Pyakurel | Detection of large guide field electron-only reconnection in a filamentary current sheet immersed in a large-scale magnetopause reconnection exhaust |
| 9:30-9:45 | Kevin Genestreti | Normalized rate of electron-only reconnection |
| 9:45-10:00 | Steven Heuer | Scaling of the normalized reconnection rate with background plasma parameters- Magnetic reconnection |
| 10:00-10:15 | Tak Chu Li | Electron-only and ion-coupled reconnection in plasma turbulence: magnetic flux transport signatures |
| 10:15-10:30 | Katy Goodrich | An Update from GLIMPSE: Magnetic Holes and Waves at Shocks with MMS and Future Projects |
| 10:30-10:40 | Chair (Leads) | Open discussion |
| 10:40-11:00 | Coffee Break | Grab-n-go/Boxed-up Lunch |
| 11:00-12:00 | *walk-in talks (virtual presenters possible in this session) sign up below. | |
| Chole Liebenthal | ||
Joachim Birn | ||