Fundamental Plasma: Magnetic Reconnection and Turbulence

Presentations

• Laboratory Observation of Transition from Collisional Slow to Collisionless Fast Reconnection

  ORAL

  Nov. 17, 2025, 2:00 PM – Nov. 17, 2025, 2:12 PM

  Presenters

  • Peiyun Shi

    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)
    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

  Authors

  • Peiyun Shi

    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)
    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

  • Jongsoo Yoo

    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)
    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

  • Hantao Ji

    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
    • Princeton University

  • Sayak Bose

    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
    • Princeton University
    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)

  • Masaaki Yamada

    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)
    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

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• Verification of Bifurcated Current Sheets and Their Role in Energy Conversion during Magnetic Reconnection

  ORAL

  Nov. 17, 2025, 2:12 PM – Nov. 17, 2025, 2:24 PM

  Presenters

  • Masaaki Yamada

    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)
    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

  Authors

  • Masaaki Yamada

    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)
    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

  • Jongsoo Yoo

    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)
    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

  • Hantao Ji

    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
    • Princeton University

  • Tongnyeol Rhee

    • KFE
    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

  • Peiyun Shi

    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)
    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

  • Sayak Bose

    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)
    • Princeton University

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• Electron Trapping by Lower Hybrid Drift Waves During Guide-Field Magnetic Reconnection

  ORAL

  Nov. 17, 2025, 2:24 PM – Nov. 17, 2025, 2:36 PM

  Publication: Sonu Yadav, Thomas Rood, Earl Scime, Peiyun Shi, Jongsoo Yoo, and Greg Howes; Nonlinear electron trapping by lower-hybrid drift waves in magnetic reconnection. Submitting to Physical Review Letters (2025).

  Presenters

  • Sonu Yadav

    • West Virginia University

  Authors

  • Sonu Yadav

    • West Virginia University

  • Thomas Rood

    • West Virginia University

  • Earl E Scime

    • West Virginia University

  • Peiyun Shi

    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)
    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

  • Jongsoo Yoo

    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)
    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

  • Gregory Gershom Howes

    • University of Iowa

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• Onset of Relativistic Magnetic Reconnection in the Presence of Shear Flows and a Guide Field

  ORAL

  Nov. 17, 2025, 2:36 PM – Nov. 17, 2025, 2:48 PM

  Presenters

  • Sarah Peery

    • Dartmouth College

  Authors

  • Sarah Peery

    • Dartmouth College

  • Yi-Hsin Liu

    • Dartmouth College

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• Modeling the "Electron-Only" magnetic reconnection rates at sub-ion-scales

  ORAL

  Nov. 17, 2025, 2:48 PM – Nov. 17, 2025, 3:00 PM

  Publication: Yi-Hsin Liu, Prayash Pyakurel, Xiaocan Li, Michael Hesse, Naoki Bessho, Kevin Genestreti and Shiva B. Thapa, An Analytical Model of "Electron-Only" Magnetic Reconnection Rates, Communications Physics 8, 128 (2025)

  Presenters

  • Yi-Hsin Liu

    • Dartmouth College

  Authors

  • Yi-Hsin Liu

    • Dartmouth College

  • Prayash Pyakurel

    • University of California, Berkeley

  • Xiaocan Li

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory
    • Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

  • Michael Hesse

    • NASA-Ames

  • Naoki Bessho

    • University of Maryland College Park

  • Kevin Genestreti

    • Southwest Research Institute

  • Shiva B Thapa

    • Dartmouth College

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• Topological Bifurcation Triggers Magnetic Reconnection in a Mini-Magnetopause

  ORAL

  Nov. 17, 2025, 3:00 PM – Nov. 17, 2025, 3:12 PM

  Presenters

  • Paul Gradney

    • University of Wisconsin - Madison

  Authors

  • Paul Gradney

    • University of Wisconsin - Madison

  • Jan Egedal

    • University of Wisconsin - Madison

  • Cameron Kuchta

    • University of Wisconsin - Madison

  • Jack M Schroeder

    • University of Wisconsin - Madison

  • Joseph R Olson

    • University of Wisconsin - Madison

  • Xinyu Yu

    • University of Wisconsin - Madison

  • John P Wallace

    • University of Wisconsin - Madison

  • Katariina Nykyri

    • NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

  • Cary B Forest

    • University of Wisconsin - Madison
    • Realta Fusion; University of Wisconsin - Madison

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• Current Sheet Formation under Radiative Cooling

  ORAL

  Nov. 17, 2025, 3:12 PM – Nov. 17, 2025, 3:24 PM

  Publication: S. CHOWDHRY & NUNO F. LOUREIRO 2025 Current Sheet Formation under Radiative Cooling Journal of Plasma Physics (in prep)

  Presenters

  • Simran Chowdhry

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Authors

  • Simran Chowdhry

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Nuno F Loureiro

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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• Probing the role of kinetic effects in simulations of collisionless plasmas by varying velocity distributions with shared low-order moments

  ORAL

  Nov. 17, 2025, 3:24 PM – Nov. 17, 2025, 3:36 PM

  Presenters

  • Madox Carver McGrae-Menge

    • University of California, Los Angeles

  Authors

  • Madox Carver McGrae-Menge

    • University of California, Los Angeles

  • Frank S. Tsung

    • University of California, Los Angeles

  • Warren B Mori

    • University of California, Los Angeles

  • Paulo Alves

    • University of California, Los Angeles

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• First-principles modeling of ion acoustic turbulence in collisionless reconnection

  ORAL

  Nov. 17, 2025, 3:36 PM – Nov. 17, 2025, 3:48 PM

  Publication: Title: Role of ion acoustic instability in magnetic reconnection (Submitted to the Journal of Plasma Physics, posted on arXiv: arXiv:2505.08983)

  Presenters

  • Dion Li

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Authors

  • Dion Li

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Zhuo Liu

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Nuno F Loureiro

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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• Statistical properties of energy dissipation in magnetic structures during turbulent reconnection in the Earth's magnetotail and 3D Particle-In-Cell simulations

  ORAL

  Nov. 17, 2025, 3:48 PM – Nov. 17, 2025, 4:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Hantao Ji

    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
    • Princeton University

  Authors

  • Hantao Ji

    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
    • Princeton University

  • Rachel Wang

    • Princeton University

  • Greta Xicai Li

    • Princeton University

  • Christine Ramos Carvajal

    • Rutgers University

  • Adam T Robbins

    • Princeton University
    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

  • Xiaocan Li

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory
    • Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

  • Narges Ahmadi

    • University of Colorado, Boulder

  • Kendra A Bergstedt

    • Princeton University

  • Li-Jen Chen

    • NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

  • Michael Churchill

    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)
    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

  • Yuka Doke

    • Univ of Tokyo

  • Robert Ergun

    • University of Colorado, Boulder

  • Joshua Pawlak

    • Princeton University
    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

  • Peiyun Shi

    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)
    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

  • Jongsoo Yoo

    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)
    • Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

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• New SubmissionDust Particle Dynamics in a Complex Plasma

  ORAL

  Nov. 17, 2025, 4:00 PM – Nov. 17, 2025, 4:12 PM

  Presenters

  • Truell W Hyde

    • Baylor University

  Authors

  • Truell W Hyde

    • Baylor University

  • Evdokiya G Kostadinova

    • Auburn University

  • Lorin S Matthews

    • Baylor University

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• High-Order Numerical Methods for Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence

  ORAL

  Nov. 17, 2025, 4:12 PM – Nov. 17, 2025, 4:24 PM

  Presenters

  • Carolyn Wendeln

    • Michigan State University

  Authors

  • Carolyn Wendeln

    • Michigan State University

  • Andrew Christlieb

    • Michigan State University

  • Brian W O'Shea

    • Michigan State University

  • Philipp Grete

    • Hamburg University

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• Study of cosmic rays diffusion in anisotropic turbulent fields generated by the BxC toolkit

  ORAL

  Nov. 17, 2025, 4:24 PM – Nov. 17, 2025, 4:36 PM

  Presenters

  • Daniela Maci

  Authors

  • Daniela Maci

  • Fabio Bacchini

    • KU Leuven and BIRA

  • Rony Keppens

    • KU Leuven

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• Magnetohydrodynamic turbulence follows Kolmogorov scaling

  ORAL

  Nov. 17, 2025, 4:36 PM – Nov. 17, 2025, 4:48 PM

  Publication: M. Verma, A. Jha, and M. K. Verma, Magnetohydrodynamic turbulence follows Kolmogorov scaling, Submitted to Physical Review Letters
  
  M. Verma, A. Jha, and M. K. Verma, Numerical Demonstration of Kolmogorov Scaling in Magnetohydrodynamic, Submitted to Physical Review Fluids

  Presenters

  • Mahendra Kumar Verma

    • Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

  Authors

  • Mahendra Kumar Verma

    • Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

  • Manthan Verma

    • Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

  • Abhishek K Jha

    • Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

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