Friday, May 13th, 2022

LOC Updates

MMS

9:10 AM

Magnetic reconnection in planetary magnetospheres

Daniel J. Gershman, Invited Scene-Setting Speaker

9:15 AM

MMS’s contributions to our understanding of magnetic reconnection

Michael Hesse, Invited Speaker, NASA Ames Research Center
Dr. James L. Burch
Yi-Hsin Liu
Naoki Bessho
Shan Wang
li-Jen Chen

9:40 AM

Comparative Processes in Planetary Magnetospheres

George Clark, Invited Speaker, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
Lauren Blum, University of Colorado Boulder
Ian Cohen, APL
Allison N. Jaynes, University of Iowa
Peter Kollmann, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
Wen Li, Boston University
Robert Marshall, University of Colorado, Boulder
Barry Mauk, APL
Drew Turner, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
Sasha Ukhorskiy, APL

9:55 AM

COFFEE BREAK

MMS

10:15 AM

Shocks at Earth

Steven Schwarz, Invited Speaker

10:30 AM

Comparative collisionless shocks beyond Earth

Lynn B. Wilson III, Invited Speaker

10:45 AM

Energy transfer and proton-electron heating in turbulent plasmas

Riddhi Bandyopadhyay, Princeton University
Sohom Roy, University of Delaware
Yan Yang, University of Delaware
Tulasi Parashar, Victoria University of Wellington
William H. Matthaeus, University of Delaware
Subash Adhikari, University of Delaware
Hui Li, National Space Science Center, People’s Republic of China

11:00 AM

Test of accuracy of polynomial reconstruction and reconstruction of an event without MMS4 current density

Richard E. Denton, Dartmouth College
Yi-Hsin Liu, Dartmouth College
Hiroshi Hasegawa Dr., Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, JAXA
Roy B. Torbert, University of New Hampshire, Durham

11:15 AM

The Success of MMS in Characterizing Electron Diffusion Regions During Reconnection in the Earth’s Magnetosphere.

Jan Egedal, Invited Speaker, University of Wisconsin-Madison

11:30 AM

Statistical Study of Shock Non-Stationarity

Yuri Khotyaintsev, Swedish Institute of Space Physics
Ajay Lotekar, Swedish Institute of Space Physics
Daniel Graham, Swedish Institute of Space Physics
Andrew Dimmock, Swedish Institute of Space Physics
Andreas Johlander, Swedish Institute of Space Physics
Ahmad Lalti, Swedish Institute of Space Physics

11:45 AM

LUNCH BREAK

MMS

12:00 PM

Advancing our understanding of collisionless plasma turbulence with the Magnetospheric Multiscale mission

Julia E. Stawarz, Invited Speaker, Imperial College London

1:00 PM

Formation of double layers during magnetic reconnection in the presence of flat-top distributions of particles: Theory and observations

Muhammad Shamir, Government College University, Lahore Pakistan
Ghulam Murtaza, Government College University, Lahore Pakistan

1:15 PM

Measurements of nongyrotropic electrons around the cyclotron resonance velocity in whistler-mode waves

Naritoshi Kitamura, ISEE, Nagoya University
Takanobu Amano, The University of Tokyo
Yoshiharu Omura, RISH, Kyoto University
Scott A. Boardsen, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/University of Maryland in Baltimore County
Daniel J. Gershman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Yoshizumi Miyoshi, ISEE, Nagoya University
Masahiro Kitahara, Department of Geophysics, Tohoku University
Yuto Katoh, Department of Geophysics, Tohoku University
Hirotsugu Kojima, RISH, Kyoto University
Satoko Nakamura, ISEE, Nagoya University
Masafumi Shoji, ISEE, Nagoya University
Yoshifumi Saito, ISAS/JAXA
Shoichiro Yokota, Department of Earth and Space Science, Osaka University
Barbara L. Giles, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
William R. Paterson, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Craig J. Pollock, Denali Scientific
Alexander C. Barrie, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/Aurora Engineering
Daniel G. Skeberdis, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/a.i. solutions Inc.
Stephen Kreisler, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/Aurora Engineering
Olivier Le Contel, Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas (LPP)
Christopher T. Russell, EPSS, University of California, Los Angeles
Robert J. Strangeway, EPSS, University of California, Los Angeles
Per-Arne Lindqvist, Royal Institute of Technology KTH
Robert E. Ergun, LASP, University of Colorado Boulder
Roy B. Torbert, University of New Hampshire, Durham/Southwest Research Institute
James L. Burch, Soutwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas

1:30 PM

Study of slow-mode shocks in magnetic reconnection based on hybrid simulations and satellite observations

Nehpreet K. Walia, The University of Tokyo
Kanako Seki, The University of Tokyo
Takanobu Amano, The University of Tokyo
Naritoshi Kitamura, Nagoya University
Daniel J. Gershman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Craig J. Pollock, Denali Scientific, Fairbanks
Barbara L. Giles, 3NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland
Stephen A. Fuselier, Southwest Research Institute
Christopher T. Russell, University of California, Los Angeles
James L. Burch, Soutwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas

1:45 PM

Energy conversion through various channels in turbulent plasmas induced by the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability at the Earth’s magnetopause

Rungployphan Kieokaew, Invited Speaker

2:00 PM

COFFEE BREAK

MMS

2:15 PM

A New Theory of Kinetic-Scale Energy Conversion and Dissipation

Paul Cassak, West Virginia University, Center for KINETIC Plasma Physics
M. Hasan Barbhuiya, West Virginia University
Haoming Liang, The University of Alabama in Huntsville
Matthew Argall, University of New Hampshire

2:30 PM

Observational Verification of the Electron Vlasov Equation with MMS

Jason Shuster, University of Maryland at College Park
Naoki Bessho, University of Maryland at College Park; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Shan Wang, University of Maryland at College Park
John Dorelli, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Daniel Gershman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
Barbara Giles, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
James L. Burch, Soutwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas
Li-Jen Chen, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Jonathan Ng, University of Maryland at College Park
Vadim Uritsky, The Catholic University of America
William Paterson, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Conrad Schiff, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Adolfo Viñas, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Levon Avanov, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Roy B. Torbert, University of New Hampshire, Durham/Southwest Research Institute
Richard Denton, Dartmouth College
Paul Cassak, West Virginia University, Center for KINETIC Plasma Physics
Steven Schwartz, University of Colorado, Boulder
Daniel da Silva, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Julia Stawarz, Imperial College London
Tak Chu Li, Dartmouth College
Matthew Argall, University of New Hampshire
James Webster, Rice University
Arya Afshari, University of Iowa
Frederick Wilder, University of Texas at Austin
Kevin Genestreti, Southwest Research Institute

2:45 PM

Measures of correlation length at quasi-parallel and quasi-perpendicular shocks

James Plank, University of Southampton
Imogen L. Gingell, University of Southampton

3:00 PM

Strong reconnection electric fields in electron-only reconnection and regular reconnection in shock-driven turbulence

Naoki Bessho, University of Maryland at College Park; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Li-Jen Chen, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Jullia E. Stawarz, Imperial College London
Shan Wang, University of Maryland at College Park; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Michael Hesse, NASA Ames Research Center
Lynn B. Wilson III, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Jonathan Ng, University of Maryland at College Park; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

3:15 PM

MMS Data Archived at the SPDF

Scott A. Boardsen, University of Maryland - Baltimore County

3:30 PM

Using MMS multi-spacecraft data for the determination of photon mass and Lorentz-Poincaré symmetry violation

Alessandro Spallicci, Université d'Orléans - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

3:45 PM

HORNET - A New Measure of Kinetic-Scale Energy Conversion

M. Hasan Barbhuiya, West Virginia University
Paul Cassak, West Virginia University
Haoming Liang, The University of Alabama in Huntsville

4:00 PM