MRT
2 August 2004 to 27 August 2004
Magnetic reconnection is a fundamental process in a magnetized plasma or fluid at high magnetic Reynolds number, whereby magnetic field lines are broken and reconnected in an electric current singularity that is resolved by magnetic diffusion. It has the effect of converting inflowing magnetic energy into bulk kinetic energy, heat and fast particle energy. Reconnection is responsible for many dynamic processes in the Sun, the Magnetosphere, the laboratory and many astrophysical bodies, but in this Programme we shall be focusing on the fundamentals of the process and on the first two fields.
In the Sun, solar flares represent an explosive conversion of stored magnetic energy by reconnection into other forms. In addition, reconnection is likely to be heating the solar corona in many small current sheets to several million degrees by comparison with the solar surface temperature of only 6000 degrees. In the Magnetosphere, the solar wind sweeps back the Earth's magnetic field to form a tail. Occasionally, the field in the tail can reconnect in an explosive manner, producing a geomagnetic substorm. Reconnection can also occur sporadically over the front face of the magnetopause bounding the geomagnetic and interplanetary magnetic field to produce so-called 'flux-transfer events'.
The basic theory of MHD reconnection in two dimensions is now well developed and the time is ripe for two new developments, which are the main aims of the Programme, namely, to develop
We envisage having a two-day introductory workshop at the beginning just for the long-term programme participants to set the scene, at which we would each describe our recent results and make suggestions for possible future work during the programme.
There would be a series of seminars and informal brainstorming sessions on various key topics throughout the 4 weeks, with the emphasis on the sharing of ideas and genuine cross-fertilization. In addition we hope to hold a one-day workshop during the second week and another during the third week
There will be a core of about 25 long-stay participants who will stay for the whole 4 weeks. It is hoped that this will maximize the effectiveness of the programme. In addition, some short-stay participants would stay for a week or so.
The following is the list of people who have so far agreed to be long-term participants for the whole duration of the Programme.
Prof M Berger
University College London
Prof P Cargill
Imperial College
web page - http://www.sp.ph.ic.ac.uk/~cargill/
Dr L Fletcher
Glasgow University
web page - http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/users/lyndsay/
Dr T Neukirch
St Andrews University
web page - http://www-solar.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~thomas/
Dr C Parnell
St Andrews University
web page - http://www-solar.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~clare/
Prof E Priest
St Andrews University
web page - http://www-solar.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/~eric/index.shtml
Prof HK Moffatt
DAMTP Silver Street
Prof MRE Proctor
DAMTP Silver Street
web page - http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/mrep/
Prof NO Weiss
DAMTP Silver Street
web page - http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/now/
Dr J Buechner
Max Planck Institut fur Aeronomie, Lindau
Dr K Galsgaard
Astronomical Observatory, Copenhagen
web page - http://www-solar.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~klaus/
Dr. Gunnar Hornig
Ruhr-Universitaet, Bochum
Dr M Scholer
Max-Planck-Institut fur Extraterrestriche Physik, Munich
Dr V Titov
Ruhr-Universitaet, Bochum
Dr A Bhattacharjee
University of New Hampshire
web page - http://www.eos.unh.edu/Faculty/amitavabhatt
Dr J Birn
Los Alamos National Lab
web page -http://www.igpp.lanl.gov/JoachimsBio.html
Dr. James F. Drake
University of Maryland
web page - http://www.glue.umd.edu/~drake/
Dr. T.G. Forbes
University of Durham
Dr M Hesse
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
web page - http://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/sed/index.cfm
Dr K Kusano
Hiroshima University
Dr M Linton
Naval Research Laboratory, Washington
Dr D Longcope
Montana State University
web page - http://solar.physics.montana.edu/dana/
Dr P Pritchett
UCLA
Prof M Hoshino
University of Tokyo
Click here to download the programme's final scientific report
Title | Year | Programme | |
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Production of energetic electrons during magnetic reconnectionAuthors: M Swisdak, Michael Shay, ET Al, J Drake |
2004 | MRT | 21 October 2016 |
9 August 2004 to 10 August 2004
Tuesday 3rd August 2004 | |||
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09:30 to 10:30 |
Eric Priest |
Room 1 | |
11:30 to 12:30 | Room 1 | ||
14:00 to 15:00 |
Terry Forbes |
Room 1 | |
16:00 to 17:00 |
Joachim Birn Los Alamos National Laboratory |
Room 1 |
Wednesday 4th August 2004 | |||
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10:00 to 11:00 | Room 1 | ||
11:30 to 12:30 |
Three tutorial lectures on collisionless reconnection Diffusion region physics |
Room 1 |
Thursday 5th August 2004 | |||
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10:00 to 11:00 | Room 1 | ||
11:30 to 12:30 |
Philip Pritchett |
Room 1 |
Friday 6th August 2004 | |||
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10:00 to 11:00 | Room 1 |
Wednesday 11th August 2004 | |||
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10:00 to 11:00 |
Role of the lower-hybrid drift instability in the onset of magnetic reconnection |
Room 1 | |
11:30 to 12:30 |
Karl Schindler |
Room 1 |
Thursday 12th August 2004 | |||
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10:00 to 11:00 |
Manfred Scholer |
Room 1 | |
11:30 to 12:30 |
Kanya Kusano Hiroshima University |
Room 1 |
Friday 13th August 2004 | |||
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10:00 to 11:00 |
Joseph Huba |
Room 1 | |
11:30 to 12:30 |
Masahiro Hoshino University of Tokyo |
Room 1 |
Monday 16th August 2004 | |||
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10:00 to 11:00 |
Dana Longcope Montana State University |
Room 1 | |
11:30 to 12:30 |
Mark Linton |
Room 1 |
Tuesday 17th August 2004 | |||
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10:00 to 10:45 |
David Pontin University of St Andrews |
Room 1 | |
10:45 to 11:30 |
Mervyn Freeman British Antarctic Survey |
Room 1 |
Wednesday 18th August 2004 | |||
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10:00 to 10:45 |
Viatcheslav Titov |
Room 1 | |
10:45 to 11:30 |
Lyndsay Fletcher |
Room 1 |
Thursday 19th August 2004 | |||
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10:00 to 10:45 | Room 1 | ||
10:45 to 11:30 |
Michael Shay University of Maryland, College Park |
Room 1 |
Friday 20th August 2004 | |||
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10:00 to 10:45 |
Jörg Buchner |
Room 1 | |
11:30 to 12:30 |
Klaus Galsgaard |
Room 1 |
Thursday 26th August 2004 | |||
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10:00 to 12:00 | Room 2 |
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