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April 8th-11th, 2024
April 8 — Splinter (and meetup location for the extended eclipse viewing trip)
Holiday Inn SeaWorld
10135 TX-151
San Antonio, TX 78251
April 9-11 — SWT
Southwest Research Institute
6220 Culebra Road
Bldg. 263
San Antonio, TX 78238
April 9- Team reception
Viola’s Ventanas
9660 Westover Hills Blvd
San Antonio, TX 78251
Tuesday, from 5:30 – 7:00 pm
Only In-person presenters. Submit the title to secure a presenter time slot. Upload of presentations will be linked here; upload your presentation before your session starts.
Please include in the focus column, any that apply: 'team/mission updates', 'reconnection, turbulence, & waves', 'electron-only reconnection', 'collisionless shocks',
'particle acceleration', 'transient magnetopause processes', 'solar wind interactions near Earth', 'MMS among HSO (heliophysics system observatory)', and 'science methods and techniques'.
| NAME (Affiliation) | TITLE | Focus |
|---|---|---|
| Joey Mukherjee (SwRI) | About data mining and ML tools and their application to MMS data | science methods/technique |
| Justyna Sokol (SwRI) | Preliminary results for an automated search for pristine solar wind intervals for HPCA PUI analysis | science methods/technique |
| Micheal Starkey (SwRI) | The effects of enhanced solar wind Helium concentration on ion heating at Earth’s bow shock | solar wind interactions near Earth |
| Mitsuo Oka (UC Berkeley) | Evolution and effect of pre-existing non-thermal (PENT) particles in magnetic reconnection | particle acceleration |
| Katariina Nykyri (NASA GSFC) | 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? | ion&electron heating/methods/technique |
| Stefan Eriksson (CU/LASP) | MMS observations of oscillating energy conversion and electron vorticity in an electron-scale layer within a southward magnetopause reconnection exhaust | reconnection, turbulence, & waves |
| Chris Riley (KBR/GSFC) | MMS Operations Status | Operations |
| Trevor Williams (NASA/GSFC) | FDOA Status and String of Pearls | Operations |
| Weijie Sun (SSL/UC Berkeley) | Relativistic electrons in Earth’s plasma sheet during magnetic reconnection | Particle acceleration |