Mini-Conference on Unsteady Reconnection in Laboratory and Nature IV: Turbulence and Multiple Reconnections

Presentations

• Three Dimensional Fast Reconnection in the Magnetohydrodynamic Limit: Theory

  ORAL

  Nov. 4, 2009, 2:00 PM – Nov. 4, 2009, 2:25 PM

  Authors

  • Ethan Vishniac

    • McMaster University

  • Alex Lazarian

    • University of Wisconsin
    • University of Wisconsin-Madison

  • Grzegorz Kowal

    • Jagiellonian University
    • University of Wisconsin-Madison

  • Katarzyna Otmianowska-Mazur

    • Jagiellonian University

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• Non-stationary Magnetic Reconnection: plasmoids, turbulence, and what it all means

  ORAL

  Nov. 4, 2009, 2:25 PM – Nov. 4, 2009, 2:45 PM

  Authors

  • Dmitri Uzdensky

    • Princeton University/CMSO
    • Princeton Univ./CMSO

  • Nuno Loureiro

    • IPFN, IST Lisbon

  • Alexander Schekochihin

    • University of Oxford
    • R.Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford
    • R. Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford

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• Turbulent Reconnection in the Magnetic Reconnection Experiment (MRX)

  ORAL

  Nov. 4, 2009, 2:45 PM – Nov. 4, 2009, 3:10 PM

  Authors

  • S. Dorfman

    • PPPL
    • CMSO, PPPL
    • Center for Magnetic Self-Organization, PPPL, Princeton U

  • Hantao Ji

    • PPPL
    • CMSO, PPPL
    • Center for Magnetic Self-Organization, PPPL, Princeton U
    • Princeton Plasma Physics Lab
    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

  • M. Yamada

    • PPPL
    • CMSO, PPPL
    • Center for Magnetic Self-Organization, PPPL, Princeton U
    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

  • E. Oz

    • PPPL
    • CMSO, PPPL
    • Center for Magnetic Self-Organization, PPPL, Princeton U

  • J. Yoo

    • PPPL
    • CMSO, PPPL
    • Center for Magnetic Self-Organization, PPPL, Princeton U

  • William Daughton

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory
    • LANL

  • Vadim Roytershteyn

    • LANL
    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

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• Statistical Properties of Magnetic Reconnection in MHD turbulence

  ORAL

  Nov. 4, 2009, 3:10 PM – Nov. 4, 2009, 3:35 PM

  Authors

  • Sergio Servidio

    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716
    • Univ. of Calabria

  • William Matthaeus

    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716
    • Univ. of Delware

  • Paul Cassak

    • Univ. of West Virginia

  • Michael Shay

    • Univ. of Delaware

  • Pablo Dmitruk

    • Univ. of Buenos Aires

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• The time-dependent structure of the electron reconnection layer

  ORAL

  Nov. 4, 2009, 3:35 PM – Nov. 4, 2009, 4:00 PM

  Authors

  • Michael Hesse

    • NASA GSFC
    • NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

  • Seiji Zenitani

    • NASA GSFC

  • Masha Kuznetsova

    • NASA GSFC

  • Alex Klimas

    • NASA GSFC

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• Unsteady reconnection in MHD models

  ORAL

  Nov. 4, 2009, 4:00 PM – Nov. 4, 2009, 4:25 PM

  Authors

  • Giovanni Lapenta

    • KU Leuven
    • Centre for Space Weather, Leuven, Belgium

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• Electron scale structures in collisionless magnetic reconnection with multiple reconnection sites

  ORAL

  Nov. 4, 2009, 4:25 PM – Nov. 4, 2009, 4:45 PM

  Authors

  • Surjalal Sharma

    • University of Maryland, College Park, MD-20742
    • Univ. of Maryland

  • Neeraj Jain

    • University of Maryland, College Park, MD-20742

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• A new mechanism for the generation of anomalous cosmic rays: dissipation of the sectored heliospheric magnetic field in the heliosheath

  ORAL

  Nov. 4, 2009, 4:45 PM – Nov. 4, 2009, 5:10 PM

  Authors

  • J.F. Drake

    • University of maryland
    • University of Maryland

  • M. Opher

    • George Mason University

  • M. Swisdak

    • University of Maryland

  • K. Schoeffler

    • University of Maryland

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• The Role of Turbulent Outflow Jets in Electron-Positron Plasmas

  ORAL

  Nov. 4, 2009, 5:10 PM – Nov. 4, 2009, 5:30 PM

  Authors

  • Marc Swisdak

    • University of Maryland
    • U. of Maryland

  • Yi-Hsin Liu

    • U. of Maryland

  • James Drake

    • University of Maryland
    • U. of Maryland

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