Magnetic Reconnection: Theory, Experiment, and Astrophysical Applications

Presentations

• Flux ropes, current sheets, islands and turbulence

  ORAL

  Nov. 16, 2011, 2:00 PM – Nov. 16, 2011, 2:12 PM

  Authors

  • Thomas Intrator

    • LANL
    • Los Alamos National Laboratory
    • Los Alamos Natl Lab
    • P-24: Plasma Physics

  • J. Sears

  • T. Weber

  • D.T. Liu

  • D.R. Pulliam

    • Los Alamos Natl Lab

  • A. Lazarian

    • Univ Wisconsin

  • G. Lapenta

    • Univ. Katholique, Leuven Belgium

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• Instabilities of the separatrix regions in 3D kinetic reconnection

  ORAL

  Nov. 16, 2011, 2:12 PM – Nov. 16, 2011, 2:24 PM

  Authors

  • Giovanni Lapenta

    • Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
    • KU Leuven

  • Stefano Markidis

    • KU Leuven

  • Andrey Divin

    • KU Leuven

  • Martin Goldman

    • CPIS, CU

  • David Newman

    • CPIS, CU

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• Internal structure of plasmoids in collisionless magnetic reconnection

  ORAL

  Nov. 16, 2011, 2:24 PM – Nov. 16, 2011, 2:36 PM

  Authors

  • Li-Jen Chen

    • University of New Hampshire

  • Yi-Min Huang

    • University of New Hampshire

  • Amitava Bhattacharjee

    • University of New Hampshire

  • Brian Sullivan

    • University of New Hampshire

  • William Daughton

    • LANL

  • Naoki Bessho

    • University of New Hampshire

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• Onset and stagnation of reconnection in 3D geometry

  ORAL

  Nov. 16, 2011, 2:36 PM – Nov. 16, 2011, 2:48 PM

  Authors

  • Jason Sears

    • LANL
    • Los Alamos National Laboratory
    • P-24: Plasma Physics

  • Thomas Intrator

    • LANL
    • Los Alamos National Laboratory
    • Los Alamos Natl Lab
    • P-24: Plasma Physics

  • Thomas Weber

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory
    • LANL
    • P-24: Plasma Physics

  • D. Liu

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • D. Pulliam

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Giovanni Lapenta

    • Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
    • KU Leuven

  • A. Lazarian

    • University of Wisonsin - Madison

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• Onset of collisionless magnetic reconnection in two-dimensional current sheets and formation of dipolarization fronts

  ORAL

  Nov. 16, 2011, 2:48 PM – Nov. 16, 2011, 3:00 PM

  Authors

  • Mikhail Sitnov

    • JHU/APL

  • Marc Swisdak

    • University of Maryland, College Park
    • University of Maryland

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• Fast Shocks in Magnetic Reconnection Outflows

  ORAL

  Nov. 16, 2011, 3:00 PM – Nov. 16, 2011, 3:12 PM

  Authors

  • Eric Blackman

    • University of Rochester

  • Jared Workman

  • Chuang Ren

    • University of Rochester

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• Electron heating in collisionless magnetic reconnection

  ORAL

  Nov. 16, 2011, 3:12 PM – Nov. 16, 2011, 3:24 PM

  Authors

  • Nuno Loureiro

    • Instituto de Plasmas e Fusao Nuclear

  • Alexander Schekochihin

    • University of Oxford
    • Oxford University

  • Alessandro Zocco

    • University of Oxford \& Culham Centre for Fusion Studies

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• Gyrokinetic Studies of Magnetic Reconnection

  ORAL

  Nov. 16, 2011, 3:24 PM – Nov. 16, 2011, 3:36 PM

  Authors

  • Moritz J. Pueschel

    • Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics

  • Frank Jenko

    • Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics

  • Daniel Told

    • Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics

  • Joerg Buechner

    • Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research

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• 3D-MHD Simulation of the Dynamics of the Plasma Flow through a Magnetic Nozzle

  ORAL

  Nov. 16, 2011, 3:36 PM – Nov. 16, 2011, 3:48 PM

  Authors

  • Alfonso Tarditi

    • University of Houston-Clear Lake

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• The study of mode instability in rotamak plasmas driven by rotating magnetic field

  ORAL

  Nov. 16, 2011, 3:48 PM – Nov. 16, 2011, 4:00 PM

  Authors

  • Xiaokang Yang

    • Prairie View A\&M University

  • Jermain Goss

    • Prairie View A\&M University

  • Dhara Kalaria

    • Prairie View A\&M University

  • Saeid Houshmandyar

    • Prairie View A\&M University

  • Tian-sen Huang

    • Prairie View A\&M University

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• Satellite observations of plasma waves in the reconnection regions

  ORAL

  Nov. 16, 2011, 4:00 PM – Nov. 16, 2011, 4:12 PM

  Authors

  • Chijie Xiao

    • School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871

  • Xiaogang Wang

    • School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871

  • Haoming Liang

    • School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871

  • Zuyin Pu

    • Dept. of Geophysics, Peking University,

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• Reconnection-Powered Extreme Particle Acceleration and Gamma-Ray Flares in Crab Nebula

  ORAL

  Nov. 16, 2011, 4:12 PM – Nov. 16, 2011, 4:24 PM

  Authors

  • Dmitri Uzdensky

    • Univ. Colorado-Boulder
    • University of Colorado

  • Benoit Cerutti

    • Univ. Colorado-Boulder

  • Mitchell Begelman

    • JILA/Univ. Colorado-Boulder

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