2 August
- 09:00 - 11:30
- Arrival and induction
- 14:00 - 17:00
- A plenary session with 5 minutes for each participant to introduce themselves and describe what kinds of questions they would like to try and answer
- 17:00 - 18:00
- Welcome Wine and Beer Reception
3 August (Overviews of the key outstanding problems/questions in reconnection)
To view powerpoint presentation, click on title- 09:30 - 10:30 Eric Priest
- MHD/coronal heating
- 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee
- 11:30 - 12:30 Jim Drake
- Collisionless
- 12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
- 14:00 - 15:00 Terry Forbes
- Flares/CMEs
- 15:30 - 16:00 Tea
- 16:00 - 17:00 Joachim Birn
- Magnetosphere
4 - 6 August
- 10:00 - 11:00 (each day) Gunnar Hornig
- Three tutorial lectures on the basic concepts of reconnection (flux, reconnection versus dissipation, 3D reconnection
- 1st tutorial lecture
- 2nd tutorial lecture
- 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee
- 11:30 - 12:30 (each day)
- Three tutorial lectures on collisionless reconnection
- (Diffusion region physics - Michael Hesse)
- (Onset of magnetic reconnection - Phil Pritchett)
- (Open questions - Jim Drake,Michael Hesse and Phil Pritchett)
- 12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
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