[IGPP Everyone] Space Physics Seminar 2/26 3:30pm - Plasma Boundaries: A Bridge Between Macro-Scale and Micro-Scale Physics (D. Malaspina, CU LASP)

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SPACE PHYSICS SEMINAR 

DEPARTMENT OF EARTH, PLANETARY, AND SPACE SCIENCES 

DEPARTMENT OF ATMOSPHERIC AND OCEANIC SCIENCES 

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES 

(EPSS M288A, AOS M275A) 







David Malaspina 

University of Colorado, Boulder 

Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics 




Plasma Boundaries: A Bridge Between Macro-Scale and Micro-Scale Physics 



Space plasma physics research is frequently focused on either macro-scale or micro-scale processes, often treating them as independent. Yet recent advances in spacecraft instrumentation, simulation, and laboratory studies are breaking down that paradigm, demonstrating that interactions between large and small scales are critical for understanding and predicting the behavior of systems as diverse as the solar wind, the terrestrial magnetosphere, and laboratory plasmas. In each of these systems, plasma boundaries act as a bridge between physical scales. Macro-scale plasma motions drive boundary formation, micro-scale instabilities develop or are spatially sorted as a consequence of these boundaries, and finally, the aggregate effects of many micro-scale interactions modify the macro-scale system. Examples of interaction between macro- and micro-scale physical processes mediated by plasma boundaries in terrestrial inner magnetosphere, the solar wind, and laboratory plasmas will be discussed, with a focus on observational data. 

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Friday, February 26, 2016 

Room 6704 Geology 

3:30 - 5:00 PM 



Refreshments served after the seminar in Room 6850. 



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