Session Chairs:

  • 9 a.m. - 12 p.m.: Katariina Nykyri
  • 1 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.: Frederick Wilder
  • 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.: Brandon Burkholder

Note: Poster sessions begins at 5:30 p.m.

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Schedule
2022
Tuesday, May 10th
9:00 AM

Welcome from LOC and President Butler

P. Barry Butler

9:00 AM

9:15 AM

Plasma and wave characteristics during dayside reconnection: Summary and outlook

Frederick D. Wilder, Invited Scene-Setting Speaker, University of Texas at Arlington
Robert E. Ergun, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics
James L. Burch, Southwest Research Institute
Olivier Le Contel, Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas
Roy B. Torbert, University of New Hampshire
Barbara Giles, NASA GSFC
Robert J. Strangeway, University of California, Los Angeles
Kyunghwan Dokgo, Southwest Research Institute
Daniel Graham, University of Uppsala
Wenya Li, National Space Science Center, CAS

9:15 AM

9:40 AM

Spatial evolution of magnetic reconnection diffusion region structures with distance from the X-line

Marit Oieroset, Invited Speaker, University of California, Berkeley

9:40 AM

9:55 AM

Magnetic reconnection at multi-scales from the bow shock to the magnetopause

Jonathan Ng, Invited Speaker, University of Maryland
Li-Jen Chen, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Jason Shuster, University of Maryland, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Naoki Bessho, University of Maryland at College Park; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Brandon Burkholder, University of Maryland - Baltimore County
Yuri Omelchenko, Space Science institute

9:55 AM

10:15 AM

COFFEE BREAK

MMS

10:15 AM

10:30 AM

Magnetospheric Multiscale Observations of Turbulence-Driven Reconnection in Earth’s Magnetosheath

Julia Stawarz, Invited Speaker, Imperial College London
Jonathan P. Eastwood, Imperial College London
Tai Phan, University of California - Berkeley
Imogen Gingell, University of Southampton
Prayash Pyakurel, University of California - Berkeley
Michael A. Shay, University of Delaware
Naoki Bessho, University of Maryland at College Park; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Sadie L. Robertson, Imperial College London
Christopher T. Russell, University of California, Los Angeles
Olivier Le Contel, Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas (LPP)

10:30 AM

10:45 AM

Parametric Exploration of Magnetic Reconnection at the Bow Shock: Hybrid Simulations

Imogen Gingell, University of Southampton

10:45 AM

11:00 AM

Evidence for ion-scale magnetic flux ropes generated from electron-scale magnetopause current sheet

Hiroshi Hasegawa Dr., Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, JAXA
Richard E. Denton, Dartmouth College
Kyoung-Joo Hwang Dr., Southwest Research Institute
Kyunghwan Dokgo, Southwest Research Institute
Takuma Nakamura, Space Research Institute/Austrian Academy of Sciences
James L. Burch, Soutwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas

11:00 AM

11:15 AM

MMS: An Inspiration/Opportunity for Near and Distant Future Missions: TRACERS and MAKOS

Katherine Goodrich, Invited Speaker, West Virginia University

11:15 AM

11:30 AM

A Statistical Study of Magnetopause Boundary Layer Energetic Electron Enhancements Using MMS

Sanjay NF Chepuri, Invited Speaker, University of Iowa
Allison N. Jaynes, University of Iowa
Daniel N. Baker, University of Colorado
Barry Mauk, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
Ian Cohen, APL
Trevor Leonard, LASP
Drew Turner, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
J Bernard Blake, Aerospace
Joseph F. Fennell, Aerospace
T D. Phan
Vijay Harid, University of Colorado, Denver
Mark Gołkowski, University of Colorado, Denver

11:30 AM

11:45 AM

***CANCELLED***Reconnection Rates Measured in Dayside Electron Diffusion Regions

Kristina R. Pritchard

11:45 AM

12:00 PM

LUNCH BREAK

MMS

12:00 PM

1:00 PM

Compositional Pickup Ion Measurements Out of the Dayside Magnetopause

Roman G. Gomez, Southwest Research Institute
Justyna Sokol, Southwest Research Institute
Stephen Fuselier, Southwest Research Institute

1:00 PM

1:15 PM

On the Origin of Energetic Electron Microinjections at High-Latitude Magnetosphere: A Case study using information theory and MMS data

Katariina Nykyri, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Xuanye Ma, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Simon Wing, Johns Hopkins University
Yu-Lun Liou, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Shiva Kavosi, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Stephen A. Fuselier, SWRI
Roman Gomez, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX

1:15 PM

1:30 PM

MMS Science opportunities for a cross-scale colinear configuration campaign

Alexandros Chasapis, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics
Robert E. Ergun, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics
Steven Schwartz, Laboratory of Atmospheric and Space Sciences
Narges Ahmadi, Laboratory of Atmospheric and Space Sciences
Frederick Wilder, Department of Physics, University of Texas at Arlington
Maria E. Usanova, Laboratory of Atmospheric and Space Sciences
William H. Matthaeus, University of Delaware
Riddhi Bandyopadhyay, Princeton University
Rohit Chhiber, University of Delaware
Ramiz Qudsi, Boston University
Kristopher Klein, University of Arizona
Julia Stawarz, Imperial College London
Imogen Gingell, University of Southampton
Neha Pathak, Laboratory of Atmospheric and Space Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder
Tien Vo, Laboratory of Atmospheric and Space Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder
Yi Qi, Laboratory of Atmospheric and Space Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder,
Roy B. Torbert, University of New Hampshire
James L. Burch, Soutwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas
Michael Hesse, NASA Ames Research Center
Daniel Gershman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
Drew Turner

1:30 PM

1:45 PM

Relaxation of the Turbulent Magnetosheath

Francesco Pecora, University of Delaware
Yan Yang, University of Delaware
Manuel Cuesta, University of Delaware
William H. Matthaeus, University of Delaware
Sohom Roy, University of Delaware
Rohit Chhiber, University of Delaware
Riddhi Bandyopadhyay, Princeton University

1:45 PM

2:00 PM

Quantifying gyrotropy of proton-electron heating in turbulent plasmas

Yan Yang, University of Delaware
Francesco Pecora, University of Delaware
Manuel Cuesta, University of Delaware
William H. Matthaeus, University of Delaware
Sohom Roy, University of Delaware

2:00 PM

2:15 PM

COFFEE BREAK

MMS

2:15 PM

2:30 PM

Collisional-like dissipation in collisionless plasma: MMS and kinetic simulations

William H. Matthaeus, University of Delaware
Riddhi Bandyopadhyay, Princeton University
Yan Yang, University of Delaware
Tulasi Parashar, Victoria University of Wellington
Alexandros Chasapis, University of Colorado, Boulder

2:30 PM

2:45 PM

MMS Observations of Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability and Associated Ion Scale Waves

Rachel Rice, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Heidi Nykyri, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Xuanye Ma, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

2:45 PM

3:00 PM

Whistler wave excitation mechanisms in magnetopause reconnection diffusion regions observed by MMS

Shan Wang, University of Maryland at College Park
Li-Jen Chen, NASA GSFC
Naoki Bessho, University of Maryland at College Park
Michael Hesse, NASA Ames Research Center
Seung-Ho Choi, University of Maryland at College Park

3:00 PM

3:15 PM

Statistics of Energy Dissipation rate at reconnection sites

Sohom Roy, University of Delaware
Riddhi Bandyopadhyay, Princeton University
William H. Matthaeus, University of Delaware
Alexandros Chasapis, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics
Yan Yang, University of Delaware

3:15 PM

3:30 PM

On the short-scale spatial variability of electron inflows in electron-only magnetic reconnection in the turbulent magnetosheath observed by MMS

Prayash Pyakurel, University of California - Berkeley
Tai Phan, University of California - Berkeley
Michael A. Shay, University of Delaware
Julia E. Stawarz, Imperial College London
Marit Oieroset, University of California, Berkeley
Paul Cassak, West Virginia University, Morgantown
Colby Haggerty, University of Hawaii, Honolulu
James Drake, University of Maryland, College Park
Tak Chu Li, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA
Jim Burch, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, USA
Robert E. Ergun, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
Daniel Gershman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
Barbara L. Giles, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Roy B. Torbert, University of New Hampshire, Durham/Southwest Research Institute
Robert J. Strangeway, University of California, Los Angeles
Christopher Russell, University of California, Los Angeles

3:30 PM

3:45 PM

Statistical Study of the Energetic Electron Microinjections at the High-latitude Magnetosphere

Yu-Lun Liou, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Katariina Nykyri, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Shiva Kavosi, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Xuanye Ma, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

3:45 PM

4:00 PM

Kinetic Generation of Whistler Waves in the Turbulent Magnetosheath

Ida Svenningsson, Swedish Institute of Space Physics
Emiliya Yordanova, Swedish Institute of Space Physics
Giulia Cozzani, University of Helsinki
Yuri Khotyaintsev, Swedish Institute of Space Physics
Mats André, Swedish Institute of Space Physics

4:00 PM

4:15 PM

MMS observations of ion cyclotron waves in the solar wind and their indications of source ions

H Y. Wei, University of California, Los Angeles
Lan K. Jian, GSFC
Scott A. Boardsen, GSFC
Leon Ofman, GSFC
Christopher T. Russell, University of California, Los Angeles
Daniel Gershman, GSFC

4:15 PM

4:30 PM

First Observations and Simulations of Multiple Diamagnetic Cavities at Dayside Magnetosphere and their connection to Energetic Electron Microinjections

Shiva Kavosi, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Katariina Nykyri, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Joseph F. Fennell, Aerospace
Xuanye Ma, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Yu-Lun Liou, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

4:30 PM

4:45 PM

High-speed Downstream Plasma Jet Generated due to Shock Reformation

Savvas Raptis, Royal Institute of Technology KTH,
Tomas Karlsson, Royal Institute of Technology KTH,
Andris Vaivads, Royal Institute of Technology KTH,
Craig Pollock, Denali Scientific, Fairbanks, AK, 99709, USA
Ferdinand Plaschke, Institute of Geophysics and Extraterrestrial Physics, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany
Andreas Johlander, Swedish institute of Space Physics, Uppsala, Sweden
Henriette Trollvik, Royal Institute of Technology KTH,
Per-Arne Lindqvist, Royal Institute of Technology KTH,

4:45 PM

5:15 PM

RECEPTION and POSTER SESSION

MMS

5:15 PM - 8:30 PM

5:15 PM

The Origins of MMS

Jim Burch, Invited Speaker, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas

5:15 PM

5:30 PM

Asymmetric 3-D Kelvin–Helmholtz instability

Xuanye Ma, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Katariina Nykyri, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Yu-Lun Liou, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Brandon Burkholder, NASA
Rachel Rice, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Shiva Kavosi, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

5:30 PM

5:30 PM

Dayside auroral bright spots and multi-spacecraft observations of fluctuations occurring along the dusk flank magnetopause

Steven Petrinec, Lockheed Martin ATC, Palo Alto, CA, USA
Jay Johnson, Andrews University, Berrien Springs, MI, USA
Simon Wing, Johns Hopkins University

5:30 PM

5:30 PM

Generation of Turbulence Near Reconnection Sites in the Magnetosphere

NEHA PATHAK, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, 80302

5:30 PM

5:30 PM

Identification of magnetotail current sheets with MMS magnetometer data based on a moving average algorithm

Tien Vo, University of Colorado

5:30 PM

5:30 PM

Lower hybrid drift wave motion at a dayside magnetopause x-line with energy conversion dominated by a parallel electric field

Andrew Marshall

5:30 PM

5:30 PM

MMS Observations of Energetic Particles in the Magnetosheath: Preliminary Case Studies

Luke H. Francis, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Katariina Nykyri, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Xuanye Ma, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Shiva Kavosi, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

5:30 PM

5:30 PM

MMS Observations of Upstream 3-Seconds Waves in Earth’s Foreshock Region: Initial Result

Gangkai Poh, The Catholic University of America / Goddard Space Flight Center
Scott A. Boardsen, GSFC

5:30 PM

5:30 PM

Observational Analysis of Small-scale Structures in the Earth's Magnetosheath

Rebecca Harvey, The University of Alabama in Huntsville
Qiang Hu, The University of Alabama in Huntsville

5:30 PM

5:30 PM

Out-of-plane magnetic field topology at the electron scale

James M. Webster, Rice University
Patricia H. Reiff, Rice University
James L. Burch, Soutwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas

5:30 PM

5:30 PM

Statistical Analysis of Electric Currents within the Magnetosheath using Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission Data

Hector Salinas, University of Texas at Arlington
Frederick D. Wilder, University of Texas at Arlington
Ramon E. Lopez, University of Texas at Arlington
Robert Strangeway
Barbara Giles, 3NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland
James L. Burch, Soutwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas
Roy B. Torbert, University of New Hampshire

5:30 PM

5:30 PM

The Magnetic Flux Transport analysis and reconnection at the interface of entangled flux tubes

Yi Qi, Laboratory of Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP)
Tak Chu Li, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA
Christopher T. Russell, Department of Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Robert E. Ergun, University of Colorado, Boulder
Stefan Eriksson, University of Colorado
Ying-Dong Jia, University of California, Los Angeles

5:30 PM

5:30 PM

Unraveling the Multi-Scale Solar Wind Structure Between Lagrange 1-point, Lunar Orbit and Earth’s Bow Shock: Better Space Weather Prediction Through Information Theory

Katherine Holland, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Katariina Nykyri, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Xuanye Ma, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Simon Wing, Johns Hopkins University

5:30 PM

5:30 PM

Velocity-Space Signatures of Ion Cyclotron Wave Resonance in the Earth’s Magnetosheath Plasma

Arya S. Afshari, University of Iowa
Gregory G. Howes, University of Iowa
Craig Kletzing, University of Iowa
Daniel McGinnis, University of Iowa
Jason R. Shuster, University of Maryland at College Park

5:30 PM