The Schedule

Instrument Team Meetings [SPSC Building]

Fields Team  SPSC Room W120

HPCA Team  SPSC Room N248

EPD Team     SPSC Room N100

Break [In front of SPSC Room W120]

SWG Meeting [SPSC Room N100]

Light Breakfast 8:00 - 8:30 (Outside of Biotech Room A115)

Session 1 [Mission Updates, Science Highlights, future formations]

[Chair: Narges Ahmadi]

8:30-8:40 Narges Ahmadi (Welcome and Logistics) 10 min

8:40-8:50 Jim Burch (Project Updates) 10 min

8:50-9:05 Kevin Genestreti (MMS Accomplishments) 15 min

9:05-9:30 Bob Ergun (Large Separation Campaign) 20 min + 5 min Q

9:30-9:45 Alex Chasapis (Magnetosheath Unbiased Campaign) 12 min + 3 min Q

9:45-10 Li-Jen Chen (Strongly driven magnetopause reconnection during the 2023 April CME) 12 min + 3 min Q

Break 10:00 - 10:30 (Outside of Biotech Room A115)

Session 2 [General Magnetic Reconnection]

[Chair: Dominic Payne]

10:30-10:55 Jonathan Ng (Invited) (3D effetc in reconnection at the quasi-parallel shock and magnetopause) 20 min + 5 min Q

10:55-11:10 Thomas Moore (Factors controlling collisionless current sheet thickness) 12 min + 3 min Q

11:10-11:25 Steven Heuer (Calculating the reconnection rate for guide field reconnection using magnetic field gradients ) 12 min + 3 min Q

11:25-11:40 Kris Pritchard (Analysis of Reconnection Rates observed within Dynamic Dayside Electron Diffusion) 12 min + 3 min Q

11:40-11:55 Bayane Michotte de Welle (Global Environmental Constraints on Magnetic Reconnection at the Magnetopause from In-Situ Measurements) 12 min + 3 min Q

Lunch Buffet 12:00 - 1:30 (Outside of Biotech Room A115)

(Colorado Taco Bar)

Session 3 [General Magnetic Reconnection]

[Chair: Alex Chasapis]

1:30-1:45 Neha Pathak (Evidence of a Nonorthogonal X-line in Guide-field Magnetic Reconnection) 12 min + 3 min Q

1:45-2 David Newman (Addressing the Origin of Non-Orthogonal X-Lines in Magnetotail Reconnection through Current-Sheet Modeling and Simulations) 12 min + 3 min Q

2-2:15 Kevin Genestreti (Magnetotail reconnection onset: MMS case study) 12 min + 3 min Q

2:15-2:30 Mark Hubbert (Normal Orientation and Ion Outflow: Comparing Current Sheet Properties of Reconnecting and Quiet Current Sheets in Earth's Magnetotail) 12 min + 3 min Q

2:30-2:45 Seiji Zenitani (Hyper Boris solver for particle-in-cell simulation) 12 min + 3 min Q

2:45-3 Louis Richard and Yuri Khotyaintsev (presenting author) (Turbulence in Magnetic Reconnection Jets from Injection to Sub-Ion Scales) 12 min + 3 min Q

Break 3:00 - 3:30 (Outside of Biotech Room A115)

Session 4 [Electron-Only Reconnection]

[Chair: Bob Ergun]

3:30-3:55  Dominic Payne (Invited) (MMS Observations of Energy Transport Topology for an Electron-Only Reconnection Event) 20 min + 5 min Q

3:55-4:20 Prayash Sharma Pyakurel (Invited) (MMS observations of electron-only reconnection embedded in the magnetopause magnetic reconnection ion jets) 20 min + 5 min Q

4:20-4:35  Sohom Roy (Analysis of energy dissipation during transition from electron-only to ion-coupled reconnection) 12 min + 3 min Q

4:35-4:50 Daniel Gershman (The parallel energy equation for electrons at the asymmetric interface of collisionless plasmas) 12 min + 3 min Q

Light Breakfast 8:00 - 8:30 (Outside of Biotech Room A115)

Session 1 [Magnetotail Physics]

[Chair: Neha Pathak]

8:30-8:50 Tak Chu Li and Yi Qi (presenting author) (Invited) (Extended magnetic reconnection in kinetic plasma turbulence) 17 min + 3 min Q

8:50-9:05 Krushna Barik (A Statistical study of energy flows in Earth’s magnetotail) 12 min + 3 min Q

9:05-9:20 Joachim Birn (Fluid and particle signatures in the DF stopping region) 12 min + 3 min Q

9:20-9:35 Sanjay Chepuri (Testing Adiabatic Models of Energetic Electron Acceleration at Dipolarization Fronts) 12 min + 3 min Q

9:35-9:50 Yu-Lun Liou (Statistical Study of the Energetic Electron Microinjections at the High-latitude Magnetosphere) 12 min + 3 min Q

9:50-10:05 Tien Vo (Mesoscale structure and properties of the magnetotail plasma sheet from MMS observations) 12 min + 3 min Q

Break 10:00 - 10:30 (Outside of Biotech Room A115)

Session 2 [Acceleration/Heating]

[Chair: Andy Marshall]

10:30-10:55 James Drake (Invited) (Particle Heating and Acceleration during Magnetic Reconnection and the Role of MMS Observations) 20 min + 5 min Q

10:55-11:20 Weijie Sun (Invited) (Acceleration of relativistic electrons in Earth’s plasma sheet by magnetic reconnection) 20 min + 5 min Q

11:20-11:35 Robert Ergun (Ion Acceleration Associated with Magnetic Reconnection-Driven Turbulence) 12 min + 3 min Q

11:35-11:50 Daniel Sega (Turbulent magnetic reconnection as an acceleration mechanism for ions in the Earth's magnetotail) 12 min + 3 min Q

11:50-12:05 Myeong Joon Kim (MMS Observations of Heating of Cold Ions (E < 100 eV) inside Plasmaspheric Plumes) 12 min + 3 min Q

Lunch Buffet 12:00 - 1:30 (Outside of Biotech Room A115)

(Colorado BBQ)

Session 3 [Turbulence and Waves]

[Chair: Alex Chasapis]

1:30-1:55 Francesco Pecora (Invited) (Three-dimensional energy transfer in space plasma turbulence from multipoint measurement) 20 min + 5 min Q

1:55-2:20 Julia Stawarz (Invited) (Magnetospheric Multiscale Observations of the Turbulent Dynamics Downstream of Earth's Bow Shock) 20 min + 5 min Q

2:20-2:35 Alessandro D.A.M. Spallicci (Testing the Ampere-Maxwell law on the photon mass and Lorentz-Poincaré symmetry violation with MMS multi-spacecraft data) 12 min + 3 min Q

2:35-2:50 Young Dae Yoon (Relaxation process of fundamental magnetized plasma structures) 12 min + 3 min Q

2:50-3:05 William Matthaeus (Collision-like Dissipation in Turbulent Space Plasmas) 12 min + 3 min Q

Break 3:00 - 3:30 (Outside of Biotech Room A115)

Session 4 [Waves]

[Chair: Rachel Rice]

3:30-3:55 David Hartley (Invited) (Whistler-Mode Chorus Waves: Electric Field Measurements and Angular Distributions) 20 min + 5 min Q

3:55-4:10 Kyunghwan Dokgo (Rising tone whistler waves near the electron-scale reconnection) 12 min + 3 min Q

4:10-4:25 Daniel Graham (Langmuir and upper hybrid waves in Earth's magnetotail) 12 min + 3 min Q

4:25-4:40 Zubair Shaikh and Ivan Vasko (presenting author) (Electrostatic solitary waves in the Earth's magnetosheath) 12 min + 3 min Q

4:40-4:55 Hanying Wei (Ion cyclotron waves in the solar wind: indications of wave instabilities and source ions) 12 min + 3 min Q

Poster Session at [SPSC Lobby] (Poster boards are 6' tall and 4' wide.)

(Small Bites and Beverages)

1.     Gangkai Poh (MMS Observations of Upstream 3-Seconds Waves in Earth’s Foreshock Region)

2.     Kylie Sullivan (An investigation into far-flank reconnection at the Earth’s magnetopause)

3.     Jason Beedle (Differentiating EDRs from the Background Magnetopause Current Sheet: A Statistical Study)

4.     Hector Salinas (Analysis of Current Structures in the Magnetosheath)

5.     Chloe Liebenthal (Cross-Calibrating Solar Wind Monitoring Spacecraft)

6.     Anansa Keaton-Ashanti (Case Studies of Particle Acceleration in Magnetosheath Turbulence Behind Quasi-Parallel and Oblique Shocks)

7.     Justin Bowman (Comparison of Sub-proton Scale Magnetic Holes in the Magnetosheath and Magnetotail)

8.     Andrew Marshall (Dayside Reconnection Associated with an IMF By Reversal)

9.     Roy Torbert (3D Magnetic Field Reconstruction Improvements: Flux-ropes and Dipolarization events)

10.  Craig Pollock (Magnetopause Crossings during the Early-2019 MMS String-of-Pearls Campaign)

11.  Krishna Khanal (Measuring the flux content of Flux Transfer Events using space ground coordination)

12.  Victoria Coffey (Analysis of Energy Dissipation to H+ and O+ During Long Exterior Cusp Crossing)

Light Breakfast 8:00 - 8:30 (Outside of Biotech Room A115)

Session 1 [Shock Physics]

[Chair: Steve Schwartz]

8:30-8:55 Ivan Vasko (Invited) (Ion-Acoustic Waves in a Quasi-Perpendicular Earth's Bow Shock) 20 min + 5 min Q

8:55-9:20 Imogen Gingell (Invited) (Generation and Decay of Reconnecting Current Structures Downstream of the Bow Shock: 3D Hybrid Simulations) 20 min + 5 min Q

9:20-9:35 Yuri Khotyaintsev (Electron heating in shocks) 12 min + 3 min Q

9:35-9:50 Hadi Madanian (Energy dissipation through particle reflection across MMS shock crossings: a parametric study) 12 min + 3 min Q

9:50-10:05 Aaron Tran (Electron Heating in 2D PIC Shocks: Parallel Potential Structure) 12 min + 3 min Q

Break 10:00 - 10:30 (Outside of Biotech Room A115)

Session 2 [FTEs and Boundary Layers]

[Chair: Yi Qi]

10:30-10:55 Joo Hwang (Invited) (Atypical FTEs) 20 min + 5 min Q

10:55-11:20 Rachel Rice (Invited) (Dynamics of the Magnetopause and Magnetosheath Boundary Layers During Storm Main Phase: An MMS-THEMIS Conjunction) 20 min + 5 min Q

11:20-11:35 Katariina Nykyri (Potential Applications of the "Characteristic Heating Frequency" calculation using MMS data during magnetospheric current layer/boundary crossings under different physical processes) 12 min + 3 min Q

11:35-11:50 Lynn Kistler (Impacts of the MMS HPCA Data Compression Scheme) 12 min + 3 min Q

11:50-12:05 Kristie LLera (Extended tracking of the magnetopause motion using cold plasmaspheric ions) 12 min + 3 min Q

Lunch Buffet 12:00 - 1:30 (Outside of Biotech Room A115)

(Mediterranean Lunch)

Session 3 [Kelvin Helmholtz Waves]

[Chair: Narges Ahmadi]

1:30-1:55 Frederick Wilder (Invited) (The occurrence and prevalence of magnetic reconnection in the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability at under various solar wind conditions) 20 min + 5 min Q

1:55-2:10 Daniel Baker (MMS observations of substorm and K-H waves in the magnetotail) 12 min + 3 min Q

2:10-2:25 Harsha Gurram (Kinetic signatures of reconnection in Kelvin-Helmholtz waves during a geomagnetic storm) 12 min + 3 min Q

2:25-2:40 Dinesh Radhakrishnan (A Comparison of Magnetopause Characteristics at different stages of Kelvin Helmholtz Instabilities: A Preliminary Statistical Study) 12 min + 3 min Q

2:40-2:55 Shiva Kavosi and Katariina Nykyri (presenting author) (Multi-Satellite Observations of Source and Seed Populations of Energetic Electron Microinjections) 12 min + 3 min Q