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September 16th, Slichter Hall 3853, Geology 3814
| Time | Presenter | Presentation Titles | Location |
| 13:00-15:00 | EPD team meeting | Geologe 3814 | |
| 13:00-15:00 | HPCA team meeting | Slichter 3853 | |
| 15:00-17:00 | data splinter meeting | Slichter 3853 | |
| 17:00-18:00 | SWG | Slichter 3853 | |
September 17th, Faculty club Morrison Room
| 8:30-8:35 | Hanying Wei | Welcome and logistics | |
Session: Mission overview and updates; Chair: Kristina Pritchard | |||
| 8:35-8:45 | Jim Burch | Mission updates | 10 min |
| 8:45-8:58 | Christopher Riley | MMS Mission Operations Status MOC & FDOA | |
| 8:58-9:11 | Marcus Piquette | MMS Payload Operations Center Status | |
| 9:11-9:24 | Kevin Genestreti | MMS science objectives from the 2020 senior review | |
| 9:24-9:37 | Li-Jen Chen | MMS in the storms: Emerging opportunities for the next extended mission | |
| 9:37-9:49 | Steve Kreisler | Science Investigations and Graphics Generation using the MMS Data Visualizer | |
| 9:49-10:02 | Alexander Barrie | Development and Release of MMS/FPI High Time Resolution Pseudo-Moments for all Non-Burst Time Intervals | |
| 10:00-10:30 | coffee and morning refreshments | ||
Session: General reconnection; Chair: Jason Beedle | |||
| 10:30-10:55 | Paul Cassak | Quantifying and Interpreting Energy Conversion in Plasmas in the MMS Era | invited, 25 min |
| 10:55-11:08 | Bayane Michotte de Welle | Constraining Magnetopause Reconnection: A Global Scale Statistical Study | Invited |
| 11:08-11:21 | Jason Beedle | The Diffusion Interaction Region of Dayside Magnetic Reconnection | invited |
| 11:21-11:34 | Kristina Pritchard | Aspect Ratio of a Dayside Asymmetric Event with a Guidefield | |
| 11:34-11:47 | Haoming Liang | Impact of the Out-of-Plane Flow Shear on Magnetic Reconnection | |
| 11:47-12:00 | Narges Ahmadi | Properties of Lower Hybrid Drift Waves and Energy Transfer Near and Inside the Electron Diffusion Regions | |
| 12:00-13:30 | Lunch@ faculty club patio | ||
Session: Reconnection theory and modeling; Chair: Dominic Payne | |||
| 13:30-13:43 | Jan Egedal | Kinetic Properties of the Reconnection Electron Diffusion Region, Explored Through Theory and Experiment | invited |
| 13:43-13:56 | Michael Hesse | The Confusing EDR of Asymmetric Guide-Field Reconnection | |
| 13:56-14:09 | James Webster | Cross-Scale Temporal Evolution of Asymmetric Reconnection | |
| 14:09-14:24 | Tak Chu Li | Magnetic flux transport method: unraveling magnetic reconnection in complex plasma processes | invited |
| 14:24-14:37 | Jonathan Ng | Simulations underestimate wave amplitudes during reconnection | |
| 14:37-14:50 | Jason Shuster | Electrons Can Smile (even though they're negative!): A Decade of Discovery with MMS | Invited |
| 14:50-15:03 | Matthew Argall (by Hanieh Karimi) | A Space Physics Virtual Reality Environment for Education and Outreach using 3D Reconstructions of Magnetic Reconnection from NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission | |
| 15:00-15:30 | coffee and afternoon refreshments | ||
Session: Particle energization in reconnection; Chair: Weijie Sun, Gang-Kai Poh | |||
| 15:30-15:43 | Xiaocan Li | Plasma heating and particle acceleration in 3D turbulent magnetic reconnection | Invited |
| 15:43-15:56 | Steven Heuer | Spatial characteristics of electron energy dissipation during guide field reconnection | |
| 15:56-16:09 | Robert Ergun | Electron Acceleration by Strong Turbulence Associated with Magnetic Reconnection | |
| 16:09-16:22 | Weijie Sun | Energization of relativistic electrons in near-Earth tail reconnection | |
| 16:22-16:35 | Xiantong Wang | Electron energization with bursty bulk flows: MHD with embedded particle‐in‐cell simulation | |
| 16:35-16:48 | Rongsheng Wang | Turbulent magnetic reconnection and its energy dissipation in the magnetosphere | |
| 16:48-17:01 | Hanieh Karimi | Investigating Energy Conversion during Magnetic Reconnection using Non-Maxwellianity Measures and Relative Entropy | |
Poster session: 17:00-18:00 | up to 10 posters | ||
| Victoria Coffey | MMS Observations in Long Duration Pass through Southern Exterior Cusp | ||
| Brianna Isola | A Space Physics Virtual Reality Environment for Education and Outreach using 3D Reconstructions of Magnetic Reconnection from NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission | ||
| 18:00-19:00 | Reception and socialization at Faculty club Garden Patio | ||
| 19:00-20:30 | Dinner at Faculty club Main dinning room | ||
September 18th, Faculty club Morrison Room
Session: Particle energization in reconnection (continued); Chair: Weijie Sun, Gang-Kai Poh | |||
| 08:30-08:43 | Yi Qi | Magnetic reconnection in turbulence: A case study and the unbiased magnetosheath campaign | Invited |
| 08:43-08:56 | Sohom Roy | Energy transfer and conversion in turbulent magnetic reconnection | |
| 08:56-09:09 | Andrew Marshall | Non-Substorm Energy Transfer and Reconnection Onset in the Near Magnetotail | |
| 09:09-09:22 | Fik Beyene | Earthward-tailward asymmetry of plasma heating in reconnection outflow in Earth’s magnetotail | |
| 09:22-09:35 | Abhishek Rajhans | Energy partitioning and particle acceleration during magnetotail reconnection | Invited |
| 09:35-09:48 | Gangkai Poh | Reconnection X-line Associated with Dissipating Earthward Flux Ropes: MMS Observations | |
| 09:48-10:01 | Zhiyu Lin | Particle Energization during Magnetic Reconnection in the Earth’s Magnetotail | Virtual speaker |
| 10:00-10:30 | coffee and morning refreshments | ||
Session: Electron-only Reconnection; Chair: Prayash Pyakurel | |||
| 10:30-10:43 | Kevin Genestreti | Comparison of ion-coupled and electron-only reconnection rates | |
| 10:43-10:56 | Cheng-yu Fan | New Insights into the High Reconnection Rate and the Diminishment of Ion Outflow | |
| 10:56-11:09 | Frederick Wilder | Observations of Parallel Electric Fields and Whistler Waves During Electron-Only Reconnection | |
| 11:09-11:22 | Lucas Rovige | Laboratory study of electron-only magnetic reconnection in laser-driven mini-magnetospheres | |
Session: Shock Physics; Chair: Lynn Wilson, Terry Liu | |||
| 11:22-11:35 | Yuxi Chen | Simulating Kinetic Interactions Between Bow Shocks and Magnetopause Using the MHD-AEPIC model | Invited |
| 11:35-11:48 | Raddhi Bandyopadhyay | Sub-ion scale turbulence driven by collisionless shocks | |
| 11:48-12:01 | Hadi Madanian | Properties of a very low beta shock formed against a strong magnetic flux rope | |
| 12:00-13:30 | Lunch@ faculty club patio | ||
Session: Electron-only Reconnection (continued); Chair: Prayash Pyakurel | ||
| 13:30-13:43 | Shan Wang | A statistical examination of ion dynamics at 1-Hz whistler waves in the Earth’s foreshock |
| 13:43-13:56 | Sergei Kamaletdinov | Nonlinear electron scattering by electrostatic waves in collisionless shocks |
| 13:56-14:09 | Martin Lindberg | Statistical Study of Magnetic Overshoots at Collisionless Shocks in the Heliosphere |
| 14:09-14:22 | Naoki Bessho | Electron and ion heating and acceleration in magnetic islands produced by magnetic reconnection in quasi-parallel shocks |
| 14:22-14:35 | Savvas Raptis | Foreshock Accelerated Relativistic Electrons |
| 14:35-14:48 | Xochitl Blanco-Cano | Spontaneous hot flow anomalies observed by MMS in the foreshock |
| 14:48-15:01 | Qiang Hu | Magnetic and Plasma Structures across the Bow Shock from MMS and THEMIS Observations |
| 15:00-15:30 | coffee and afternoon refreshments | |
| 15:30-17:30 | Tour to Large Plasma Device (LAPD) in the south campus | |
Session: Kelvin Helmholtz instability and boundary layers;Chairs: Rachel Rice (rcrice@umd.edu), Harsha Gurram (hgurram@umd.edu) | ||||
| 15:30-15:45 | Dinesh Radhakrishnan | Plasma Mixing in KHI : A Machine Learning Perspective | invited | |
| 15:45-16:00 | Rumi Nakamura | Multi-point and multi-spacecraft observations of KH-like waves on November 27, 2021: Effects of KH-like waves on dynamics of the high-latitude magnetospheric boundaries | ||
| 16:00-16:15 | Adriana Settino | Multi-point and multi-spacecraft observations of KH-like waves on November 27, 2021: Propagation and evolution of the waves | ||
| 16:15-16:30 | Christy Lentz | MMS Observations of Extended Kelvin-Helmholtz Wave Activity and Associated Magnetic Reconnection Signatures Tailward of the Dawn Flank Terminator | ||
| 16:30-16:45 | Sarah Vines | Cold ion heating and acceleration in the magnetopause boundary layers during the 2019 MMS string-of-pearls campaign | ||
| 16:45-17:00 | Rachel Rice | Case Studies of Magnetopause Boundary Layers during Strong Geomagnetic Storms | ||
September 19th, Faculty club Morrison Room
Session: Wave and turbulence; Chair: Alex Chasapis, Riddhi Bandyopadhyay | |||
| 08:30-08:43 | Jim Burch | Pressure-Strain Interaction in a Magnetotail Reconnection Region | invited |
| 08:43-08:56 | Alexandros Chasapis | Unravelling the turbulent dynamics of Earth’s Magnetosheath: Insights from the 2023 & 2024 Unbiased Magnetosheath Campaigns | |
| 08:56-09:09 | Dominic Payne | How Magnetic Shear Influences Local Thermodynamics Before and During Reconnection Onset | |
| 09:09-09:22 | Xuzhi Zhou | Identification of Coupled Landau and Anomalous Resonances in Space Plasmas | |
| 09:22-09:35 | Xin An | Alfvén-Acoustic Energy Channeling: From Fluid to Kinetic Scales in Earth's Magnetopause Boundary Layer | |
| 09:35-09:48 | Justin Lee | Statistical analysis and modeling of magnetospheric ion composition during EMIC wave activity observed by MMS | maybe virtual |
| 09:48-10:01 | Neha Pathak | Observations of Parallel Electric Fields in the Magnetotail During Periods of Strong Turbulence | |
| 10:00-10:30 | coffee and morning refreshments | ||
| 10:30-10:43 | Tien Vo | Multiscale study of electric field turbulence in the magnetotail | |
Session: MMS as a Heliosphere observatory; Chair: Katariina Nykyri, Michael Starkey; Yingdong Jia | ||
| 10:43-10:56 | Katariina Nykyri | Giant Kelvin-Helmholtz Waves at the Boundary Layer of the CMEs Responsible for the Largest Geomagnetic Storm in 20 Years |
| 10:56-11:09 | Brandon Burkholder | Test Particle Simulations of Cusp Dispersion During a Storm-time IMF By Reversal |
| 11:09-11:22 | Christine Lin | A Heliophysics Systems Observatory View of the 18 August 2021 Substorm |
| 11:22-11:35 | Misuo Oka | Maximum attainable energy of particles in solar and space plasmas |
| 11:35-11:48 | Yingdong Jia | The evolution of counter-helical magnetic flux ropes |
| 11:48-12:01 | Michael Starkey | Effects of enhanced solar wind Helium on ion heating at the bow shock |
| 12:00-13:30 | Lunch@ faculty club patio | |
| 13:30-13:43 | Savvas Raptis | Multi-Spacecraft observations of Shock Generated Transmitted Transients |
| 13:43-13:56 | Sarah Vines | MMS as part of an inner heliospheric mosaic during the Whole Heliosphere and Planetary Interactions (WHPI) interval |
Session: Other topics; Chair: Hanying Wei | |||
| 13:56-14:09 | Jerry Goldstein | Statistical Analysis of MMS Observed Plumes | |
| 14:09-14:22 | Mykhaylo Shumko | Localized Burst of Relativistic Electrons in Earth's Plasma Sheet: Low- and High-Altitude Signatures During a Substorm | |
| 14:22-14:35 | Kylie Sullivan | A Study of Far-Flank Beam Switch Events | |
| 14:35-14:48 | Diana Rojas-Castillo | Mirror Mode Storms in the Terrestrial Magnetosheath | Virtual speaker |
| 14:48-15:01 | Brianna Isola | Update to ML-IMEF: A Data-Driven Model of the Inner Magnetospheric Electric Field | |
| 15:00-15:30 | coffee and afternoon refreshments | ||
| 15:30-15:43 | Jason Beedle | MMS Magnetopause Current Sheet Observations during the May 11th, 2024, Mother’s Day Storm | |
| 15:43-15:56 | Sheng Tian | A survey of MMS microinjection events | |
| 15:56-16:09 | Yu-Lun Liou | Study of Particle Energization in the Diamagnetic Cavity | |
| 16:09-16:22 | Haoming Liang | Observation of O+ Characteristics During the Terrestrial Alfvén Wing State | |
| 16:22-16:35 | Harsha Gurram | Characterizing Electron Distributions on Dual-Wing Reconnected Field Lines within Earth's Alfvén Wings | |
| 16:35-16:48 | Brendan Powers | Observing High-altitude Cusp Reconnection and Electrodynamics (TRACERS Student Rocket) | |
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