MMS Community Science Workshop #6 - 2-5 October 2020

Roy Torbert and our University of New Hampshire team is working on a community workshop in Waterville Valley, New Hampshire on Oct. 2-5. Details later.

MMS Spring 2020 Science Working Team Meeting

Our NASA GSFC team will hold the next MMS SWT at Goddard Space Flight Center in the Spring of 2020. We will avoid the week of March 23.

Candidate dates:

~~Mon-Wed: March 30-Apr 1~~ → too close to Kyoto meeting
~~Wed-Fri: Apr 1-3 → too close to Kyoto meeting~~
Mon-Wed: Apr 6-8
Wed-Fri: Apr 8-10
Mon-Wed: Apr 13-15 → week of Maryland Spring Break?
Wed-Fri: Apr 15-17 → week of Maryland Spring break?
Mon-Wed: Apr 20-22
Wed-Fri: Apr 22-24
Mon-Wed: Apr 27-29 –> too close to EGU
Wed-Fri: Apr 29 - May 2 –> too close to EGU
Mon-Wed: May 4-6 → EGU
Wed-Fri: May 6-8→ EGU
REM: 24-28 May 2020 is joint AGU-JpGU

MMS Community Science Workshop #5 - 2019

22-24 Oct. 2019, Biarritz, France, Logistics, Hotel and Conference Center "Le Bellevue" Web Site , a few details

Please Note:

NCTS Clearance is required for this meeting because it is a conference. Clearance request page to appear soon here.
Breakout sessions for the MMS SWT and other team meetings will be held on Monday 21 Oct.
US Government per diem rates apply for lodging, meals and incidentals.

2019 MMS Science Telecon: Tuesdays, 11:00 Eastern US

10:00 am | Central Time | 1.5 hrs

Agenda for 1 October: Discussion led by Rumi Nakamura and ASPOC

Science talk:

“PIC simulation of the electrostatic environment of MMS with ASPOC “ by Fabrice Cipriani (ESTEC)

Senior Review White Paper topic:

“Spacecraft configuration for studying kinetic structures in the magnetotail”

Comments from other related white paper authors.

Senior Review Update:
The following is the schedule for the 2020 Senior Review for the Heliophysics operating missions:
Call for Proposals issued: October 24, 2019
Senior Review Proposals due: February 20, 2020
Senior Review panel meets: week of March 23, 2020
Publication of the panel’s report: late May 2020

Please provide updates to these lists (send updates to guan.le-1@nasa.gov):

Telecon Schedule:
(Jan, Mar, May, Jul, Sep, Nov)
1st Tue. Mission Ops Update and Science led by Burch, Moore or delegatee
2nd Tue. E-Field team leads discussion: led by Torbert, Ergun, or delegatee
3rd Tue. FPI team leads discussion: led by Giles, Gershman, or delegatee
4th Tue. Theory/Modeling team leads discussion led by Hesse, Chen, or delegatee
5th Tue., (if any) Break

(Feb, Apr, Jun, Aug, Oct, Dec)
1st Tue. ASPOC team leads discussion: led by Nakamura or delegatee
2rd Tue. HPCA team leads discussion led by Fuselier or delegatee
3rd Tue. Mag team leads discussion: led by Russell, Strangeway, or delegatee
4th Tue. Energetic Particle team leads discussion led by Mauk, Cohen, or delegatee
5th Tue., (if any) Break

MMS Science Working Team Meeting, 2019 --> Joint with NSF GEM Workshop

23-28 June 2019, Santa Fe, NM – GEM Website – MMS SWT details page

(CEDAR-GEM joint meeting on June 22nd, Student day on June 23rd, regular GEM week on June 24th - 28th)

Yes! Register for GEM and you are good to go for the MMS SWT.
Early Bird Registration Deadline: May 15th, 2019 by midnight at the end of the day
Late Registration Starts: May 16th, 2019
Deadline for poster submissions: May 31, 2019

Initial thoughts toward the MMS Senior Review: Williams, Cohen, Hesse1, Hesse2 , Delaware

MMS Community Science Workshop #4

19-21 Feb. 2019, Yosemite Lodge, Yosemite Valley, CA

Logistics, Web Site Please Note:

Correction: NCTS Clearance is no longer required for this meeting because it is domestic.
Contract travelers from the same institution should share rental vehicles.
Actual lodging expenses will be reimbursed only for 19-22 Feb.

2018 Fall AGU Sessions:

Fall 2018 AGU - December 10 - 14, Washington DC Convention Center
SM012: Multi-scale Investigations of fundamental plasma processes by in-situ observations and simulations
Session Link: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm18/prelim.cgi/Session/47120

Fall 2018 MMS SWT/SWG Meeting 22-25 Oct. 2018

22-25 Oct. 2018, SWT/SWG Meeting, Location: Schloss Seggau near Graz, Austria: Agenda
22 October 2018: Team Splinters
23-25 October 2018: SWT/SWG

NOTES:
NCTS requests are not necessary for this meeting, since it is an "operational" or project meeting and not a conference.
The conference "registration fee" is actually a meal ticket, to be claimed as "meals and incidentals" in your travel vouchers.

Meeting web site link is:
http://www.iwf.oeaw.ac.at/konferenz/seggau-2018/home/

MMS Community Science Workshop #3 12-14 Jun 2018, Bergen, Norway

9-10 June 2018: MMS Outreach Event: VilVite Center, Bergen

11 June 2018: Team Splinter meetings in the afternoon Agenda TBS

12-14 June 2018, Location: University of Bergen, Update: Web Site (Abstracts, Transportation, Lodging, Meals, NEW: Workshop Program), NCTS Requests (or use NCTS link to right)

6-8 June 2018, FPI Team Meeting: Hosted by Benoit Lavraud at the Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie, Toulouse, France. PLEASE INDICATE YOUR INTEREST IN ATTENDING AT: https://doodle.com/poll/nyzn3x3pe8v58cxa . There is the option "If need be" = "50-50 chance I come".

MMS-Related Sessions at the TESS 2018, 20-24 May 2018, Leesburg, VA

Web site: Triennial Earth-Sun Summit

Coupling processes in Geospace during enhanced solar wind driving

Space Physics of Star-Planet Interactions

NCTS Requests (#32661-18)

MMS-Related Sessions at the EGU 2018

ST2.8 Observations and simulations of multi-scale magnetospheric phenomena

ST2.5 Mass, Momentum, and Energy Transport through boundaries in the magnetosphere

https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2018/sessionprogramme

NCTS Sign-up:

Winter 2018 MMS SWT/SWG Meeting

NEW: 27 Feb.-1 Mar. 2018, SWT/SWG Meeting: Location: Omni La Mansión del Rio Hotel, San Antonio, TX: Web Site, Agenda (v10)

Did you miss the hotel deadline for the SWT meeting in San Antonio? Pat Reiff (reiff@rice.edu) has an extra room in case anyone needs the special rate.

2017 Fall AGU Sessions:

Fall 2017 AGU - December 11 - 15
SM011: Magnetic Reconnection and Related Phenomena in Geospace
Session Link: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm17/preliminaryview.cgi/Session23465

SM012: Plasma Energization during Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection
Session Link: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm17/preliminaryview.cgi/Session25997

SM013: Physics of magnetic reconnection beyond 2D laminar models in space and in the laboratory
Session Link: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm17/preliminaryview.cgi/Session24892

Fall 2017 MMS SWT/SWG Meeting after Int'l Conference on Substorms (25-29 Sep. 2017)

1 - 4 Oct. 2017, SWT/SWG Meeting: Location: Portland ME Regency Hotel: Agenda (v6~~,v7~~,v8,v9); Web Site: http://swri-eos.sr.unh.edu/mmsswt (user: mms; pwd: mmsswt)
Deadlines: hotels: 2017-08-30; meeting registration 2017-09-01

Sunday: Am travel / SWG and splinters
Monday: Team Splinters; Program status
Tuesday: Science
Wednes: Science

25-29 Sep. 2017, ICS: Location: Sheraton Harborside Hotel, Portsmouth, NH, Web Site (http://ics13.unh.edu)

MMS Community Science Workshop #2 (and SWT/SWG Splinters)

NEW: drop off your presentation files at this link: Presentation File Drop

5 June 2017: SWT Team Splinter meetings in the morning, continue early pm, SWG meet in parallel, Plenary session after the break. SWT/SWG Meeting Agenda (v2,v3)

NEW: ABSTRACT DEADLINE: 20 April 2017
REGISTRATION NOW OPEN; Early bird deadline 1 May 2017.
6-8 June 2017, Location: LASP, CU Boulder, CO: Web Site (Abstracts, Transportation, Lodging, Meals, Workshop Program Agenda, Titles),

Millennium Harvest House is offering Govt. Rate as of 2 Feb 2017 (you have to select that option and bring docs) https://www.millenniumhotels.com

Joint JpGU-AGU

20-25 May 2017 @ Makuhari Messe, Bhiba, Japan
MMS Session: 20 May 2017
P-EM13: "Exploring space plasma processes with Magnetospheric Multiscale mission"

European Geosciences Union General Assembly

23–28 April 2017

ST 2.2 Abstract Submission Page (deadline 11 January 2017)

Winter 2017 Science Working Group / Team (SWG/SWT) Meeting

28 Feb. - 2 Mar. 2017, Location: Marriott Hotel, Key West, FL, Logistics (Transportation: Miami or Key West, Lodging: Marriott, Fairfield, or 24 North, Meals etc: Registration),

NEW Meeting Agenda (v1,v2,v3,v4,v5,~~v6a~~,~~v7b~~,v8e)

Splinter Meetings: 27 Feb. or 3 March, by request to Christine Williams at SwRIdotorg.

MMS Extended Mission (Senior Review) Proposal

Summer/Fall 2016 First MMS Community Science Workshop

Recommendedtobookrooms ASAP! See Hotels link:

6 Sep. SWT/ 7-9 Sept. 2016 Workshop, UCLA, CA: Logistics (Hotels, Transportation, Meals, etc.), SWT Meeting Agenda (v1,v2,v3),
NEW: Workshop Program (v1,v2,v4)

Note: a waiver has been issued raising the per diem for this meeting to $199 in some cases, per this link.