[GEM] THE GEM MESSENGER, Volume 28, Number 20

Tue May 22 13:26:57 PDT 2018

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     THE GEM MESSENGER
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Volume 28, Number 20
May.22,2018

Announcement submission website: http://aten.igpp.ucla.edu/gem/messenger_form/

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Table of Contents

1. New GEM Focus Group: “Magnetic Reconnection in the Age of the Heliophysics System Observatory”

2. GEM Workshop 2018: "The Tail Environment and Dynamics at Lunar Distances Focus Group" Focus Group Sessions

3. MEETING: The C. Robert Clauer Research Symposium, Arlington, Virginia, May 31 – June 1, 2018

4. Postdoctoral Research Position - Magnetospheric Physics

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1. New GEM Focus Group: “Magnetic Reconnection in the Age of the Heliophysics System Observatory”
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From: Rick Wilder, Shan Wang, Anton Artemyev, Mike Shay (frederick.wilder at lasp.colorado.edu)

We are pleased to announce our new GEM focus group, “Magnetic Reconnection in the Age of the Heliophysics System Observatory.” We invite you to attend the new sessions and present your latest findings on the topic. The main goal of this focus group is to use the significant volume of data available regarding magnetic reconnection and compare with global and local models of the geospace environment. Our over-arching questions include the following:

1) What is the relation between magnetic reconnection and turbulence?
2) How does reconnection evolve beyond 2-D laminar models: waves, parallel electric fields, dissipation?
3) How is the energy associated with magnetic reconnection dissipated?
4) How does the local physics of magnetic reconnection depend on, and determine the global plasma dynamics and magnetic field configurations?

We will be hosting two sessions:

Session 1:
Tuesday, June 16, 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM, Local physics of magnetic reconnection, turbulence, and dissipation, and the relation between them.

Session 2:
Wednesday, June 17, 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM, global dependence on and consequences of magnetic reconnection. Focus will be on the magnetotail dynamics and global system, but all relevant contributions will be welcome.

We will also be hosting a joint session with the Dayside Kinetics focus group on Wednesday, June 17, from 3:30-5:00 PM. This session will focus on magnetic reconnection and turbulence specific to the dayside magnetopause, magnetosheath, and bow shock.

We intend to have this group be workshop style, with ~20 minutes available for open discussion at the end of each session. We therefore encourage you to condense your findings to 3-4 slides and be prepared for discussion and lots of questions.

Please send your presentations to the focus group organizers.

If you wish to present in the joint session with Dayside Kinetics, contact either Rick Wilder (frederick.wilder at lasp.colorado.edu) or Ying Zou (yingzou at bu.edu).

Best,

Rick, Shan, Anton, Mike

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2. GEM Workshop 2018: "The Tail Environment and Dynamics at Lunar Distances Focus Group" Focus Group Sessions
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From: Chih-Ping Wang, Andrei Runov, David Sibeck, Slava Merkin, Yu Lin (cat at atmos.ucla.edu)

The Tail Environment and Dynamics Focus Group welcomes all presentations for the whole magnetotail from near-Earth to distant tail. 

We will hold two sessions on June 20 (Wednesday) at 2018 summer GEM workshop

Session 1: Wednesday 01:30-03:00 PM
The session is open to any topics on magnetotail, such as plasma entry and transport, tail structures, instabilities and waves, solar wind-magnetosphere coupling, and magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling, interaction with Moon, etc.. We would like to solicit short (< 5 min) GEM-style presentations on observations or modelings.

Session 2: Wednesday 03:30-05:00 PM
Modeling challenge: We will initiate a modeling challenge for understanding the connection between the mid-tail and near-Earth tail. We would like to solicit suggestions on potentially interesting events for the model challenge. As an initiation, we will present candidate events from ARTEMIS-THEMIS, ARTEMIS-Geotail, ARTEMIS-MMS conjunctions.

If you would like to present, please contact Chih-Ping Wang (cat at atmos.ucla.edu) 

More information on this FG can be found at http://aten.igpp.ucla.edu/gemwiki/index.php/FG:_Tail_Environment_and_Dynamics_at_Lunar_Distances

Chih-Ping Wang, Andrei Runov, David Sibeck, Slava Merkin, and Yu Lin

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3. MEETING: The C. Robert Clauer Research Symposium, Arlington, Virginia, May 31 – June 1, 2018
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From: Joseph Baker (jo.baker at vt.edu)

The Virginia Tech Center for Space Science and Engineering Research (Space at VT) will host a 2-day research symposium to celebrate the career of Professor C. Robert Clauer. The program will include technical presentations covering the broad range of geospace system science topics Professor Clauer investigated during his career using data from space-based auroral imagers, ionospheric radars, and autonomous magnetometer arrays. Example science topics include: morphology of the ring current, solar wind – magnetosphere – ionosphere coupling, modes of magnetospheric activity, polar potential saturation, and interhemispheric conjugacy. A celebratory banquet will be held on the evening of Thursday May 31st at which participants can share personal reminiscences.

More information can be found at:

https://register.cpe.vt.edu/search/publicCourseSearchDetails.do?method=load&courseId=1185049

The final deadline for registration and abstract submission is May 24th. 

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4. Postdoctoral Research Position - Magnetospheric Physics
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From: J. D. Perez (j.d.perez at physics.auburn.edu)

A postdoctoral position is now available in the field of space plasma physics in Auburn University’s Physics Department.  The research work will focus on scientific investigations based upon energetic neutral atom images of the Earth’s inner magnetosphere from the TWINS satellite mission.  Experience in analysis of satellite data and comparison with models and simulations is highly desirable.  Review of applicants will begin 15 May 2018 and continue until the position is filled.  Starting date will be as soon as possible after candidate selection.  Interested candidates should submit an application on line at 

http://aufacultypositions.peopleadmin.com/postings/2347 . 

Specific questions regarding this position should be addressed to Prof. J. D. Perez (perez at physics.auburn.edu).

Auburn University is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer.  Minorities and women are encouraged to apply.

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