Mini-Conference on Unsteady Reconnection in Laboratory and Nature I: Reconnection Rate and Dynamics

Presentations

• Reconnection in the Solar Wind: An Update

  ORAL

  Nov. 3, 2009, 9:30 AM – Nov. 3, 2009, 9:55 AM

  Authors

  • John Gosling

    • University of Colorado

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• The Tectonics Model of Coronal Heating: Unsteady Dynamics and Scaling in Statistical Steady State

  ORAL

  Nov. 3, 2009, 9:55 AM – Nov. 3, 2009, 10:15 AM

  Authors

  • C.S. Ng

    • Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks

  • L. Lin

  • A. Bhattacharjee

    • Center for Integrated Computation and Analysis of Reconnection and Turbulence, University of New Hampshire

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• Energy conversion by magnetic reconnection

  ORAL

  Nov. 3, 2009, 10:15 AM – Nov. 3, 2009, 10:40 AM

  Authors

  • Joachim Birn

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Michael Hesse

    • NASA GSFC
    • NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

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• Dipolarization fronts as a distinctive feature of transient reconnection in the magnetotail: Particle simulations with open boundaries and THEMIS observations

  ORAL

  Nov. 3, 2009, 10:40 AM – Nov. 3, 2009, 11:00 AM

  Authors

  • M. Sitnov

    • JHU/APL

  • A. Runov

    • UCLA/IGPP

  • V. Angelopoulos

    • UCLA/IGPP

  • M. Swisdak

    • UMD/IREAP

  • P. Guzdar

    • UMD/IREAP

  • A. Divin

    • KUL, Belgium

  • V. Sergeev

    • SPbU

  • S. Ohtani

    • JHU/APL

  • B. Mauk

    • JHU/APL

  • J. Bonnell

    • UCB/SSL

  • J. McFadden

    • UCB/SSL

  • D. Larson

    • UCB/SSL

  • K.-H. Glassmeier

    • TUBS/IGEP

  • U. Auster

    • TUBS/IGEP

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• A Hall-MHD model for dipolarization fronts

  ORAL

  Nov. 3, 2009, 11:00 AM – Nov. 3, 2009, 11:20 AM

  Authors

  • P.N. Guzdar

    • IREAP, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
    • IREAP, University of Maryland, MD, USA

  • M.I. Sitnov

    • APL, Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD, USA

  • A.B. Hassam

    • IREAP, University of Maryland, MD, USA

  • M. Swisdak

    • IREAP, University of Maryland, MD, USA

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• What Causes Electron Holes During Magnetic Reconnection and What Can We Learn From Them

  ORAL

  Nov. 3, 2009, 11:20 AM – Nov. 3, 2009, 11:40 AM

  Authors

  • Martin V. Goldman

  • David L. Newman

    • University of Colorado at Boulder

  • Giovanni Lapenta

  • Andre Divin

    • Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

  • Francesco Califano

    • University of Pisa, Italy

  • Haihong Che

    • University of Colorado

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• Dissipation of Thin Current Sheets Interacting with Nonlinear Alfven Waves in Relativistic Plasmas

  ORAL

  Nov. 3, 2009, 11:40 AM – Nov. 3, 2009, 12:00 PM

  Authors

  • Edison Liang

    • Rice University

  • Guy Hilburn

    • Rice University

  • Hui Li

    • LANL
    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Wei Liu

    • LANL
    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

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• Evolving Magnetic Reconnection in Well Confined Plasmas with Low Collisionalities$*$

  ORAL

  Nov. 3, 2009, 12:00 PM – Nov. 3, 2009, 12:20 PM

  Authors

  • O. Ohia

    • MIT
    • M.I.T.

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