Workshop Programme
for period 9-10 August
Magnetic Reconnection in the Sun and the Magnetosphere
9-10 August
Timetable
| Monday 09 August |
| 09:00-09:30 |
Hornig, G (Bochum) |
MRT |
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The topology of three-dimensional reconnection | Sem 1 |
| 09:30-10:00 |
Gibbon, JD (Imperial College) |
MRT |
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Singularities in 3D-Euler \& MHD | Sem 1 |
| 10:00-10:15 |
Pontin, D (St Andrews) |
MRT |
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Kinematic 3D reconnection at nulls | Sem 1 |
| 10:15-10:30 |
McLaughlin, J (St Andrews) |
MRT |
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MHD wave propagation in the neighbourhood of 2D null point | Sem 1 |
| 10:30-10:45 |
Abel, G (British Antarctic Survey) |
MRT |
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Fractal reconnection at the Earth's magnetopause \& associated ionospheric convection | Sem 1 |
| 11:30-12:00 |
Pritchett, PL (UCLA) |
MRT |
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Overview of collisionless reconnection theory | Sem 1 |
| 12:00-12:30 |
Hesse, M (NASA, Goddard) |
MRT |
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The physics of the reconnection diffusion region | Sem 1 |
| 12:45-13:00 |
Huba, J (Washington) |
MRT |
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Hall magnetic reconnection in 2D \& 3D | Sem 1 |
| 14:30-15:00 |
Pegoraro, F (Pisa) |
MRT |
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The role of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in magnetic reconnection | Sem 1 |
| 15:00-15:30 |
Shimavoggi, BK (Central Florida) |
MRT |
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Critical exponents and universality in fully developed turbulence | Sem 1 |
| 16:00-16:15 |
Watt, C (Alberta) |
MRT |
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Parameter study of ion acoustic resistivity in collisionless plasmas | Sem 1 |
| 16:15-16:30 |
Petkaki, P (British Antarctic Survey) |
MRT |
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Nonlinear evolution of the ion-acoustic instability | Sem 1 |
| 16:30-17:00 |
Bhattacharjee, A (New Hampshire) |
MRT |
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Impulsive reconnection dynamics | Sem 1 |
| Tuesday 10 August |
| 09:00-09:30 |
Culhane, L (MSSL) |
MRT |
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Observational evidence for magnetic reconnection in the solar corona | Sem 1 |
| 09:30-10:00 |
Parnell, C (St Andrews) |
MRT |
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Reconnection \& coronal heating | Sem 1 |
| 10:00-10:15 |
Higgins, S (Lancashire) |
MRT |
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Space- and time-dependent heating of solar coronal loops | Sem 1 |
| 10:15-10:30 |
Coleman, I (British Antarctic Survey) |
MRT |
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A critical test of reconnection theories on the magnetopause | Sem 1 |
| 10:30-10:45 |
Kuznetsova, M (Washington) |
MRT |
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Anti-parallel merging \& component reconnection: role in magnetospheric dynamics | Sem 1 |
| 11:30-12:00 |
Kliem, B (Potsdam) |
MRT |
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Some open problems for magnetic reconnection in solar flares | Sem 1 |
| 12:00-12:30 |
Hudson, H (Berkeley) |
MRT |
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Active-region magnetic structures \& their perturbations by flares | Sem 1 |
| 12:30-12:45 |
Maclean, R (St Andrews) |
MRT |
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Topology of magnetic breakout | Sem 1 |
| 14:30-15:00 |
Alexander, D (Rice) |
MRT |
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Exploring the nature of magnetic reconnection in solar transients | Sem 1 |
| 15:00-15:30 |
Trattner, K (Lockheed Martin) |
MRT |
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Anti-parallel versus component reconnection at the Earth's magnetopause | Sem 1 |
| 16:00-16:30 |
Dorelli, J (New Hampshire) |
MRT |
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Magnetic reconnection at the Dayside Terrestrial Magnetopause | Sem 1 |
| 16:30-17:00 |
Baumjohann, W (Graz) |
MRT |
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Bifurcated \& thin current sheets: CLUSTER results | Sem 1 |
| 17:00-17:15 |
Eriksson, S (Boulder) |
MRT |
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Walen & slow-mode shock analyses applied to high-speed flows of the near-Earth magnetotail | Sem 1 |
| 17:15-17:30 |
Moretto, T (Washington) |
MRT |
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Plasma depletion at the high latitude dayside magnetopause: Cluster observations | Sem 1 |
