Name: Magnetic Reconnection in Plasmas
Start: 2015-07-27T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2015-08-21T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Nordita, Stockholm

Monday, August 10, 2015

8:30 AM

8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Room: FD5
9:30 AM
9:30 AM - 10:40 AM
Room: FD5
Contributions

9:55 AM Electron-scale Dissipation near the X-line During Magnetic Reconnection and the Upcoming FLARE (Facility for Laboratory Reconnection Experiments) Device - Hantao Ji (Princeton University)
10:40 AM Coffe break
Coffe break
10:40 AM - 11:10 AM
Room: FD5
11:10 AM
11:10 AM - 12:25 PM
Room: FD5
Contributions

11:10 AM Advancing the understanding of the plasma dynamics through a rigorous Verification and Validation procedure: a practical example - Paolo Ricci (CRPP, EPFL)

11:35 AM Properties of electron pressure anisotropy in the extended electron diffusion region - Andrey Divin (St. Petersburg State University)

12:00 PM Non-diffusive transport of suprathermal ions in turbulent plasmas - Ivo Furno (EPFL-CRPP)
12:25 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:25 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: -
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Room: FD5
Contributions

2:00 PM Magnetic Reconnection in Plasma Turbulence: from MHD to Vlasov Models - Sergio Servidio (University of Calabria)

2:25 PM Lower hybrid waves in magnetic reconnection regions - Cecilia Norgren (Swedish Institute of Space Physics)

2:50 PM Whistler-wave hypothesis for magnetic reconnection - Narita Yasuhito (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
3:15 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
3:15 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: FD5
3:45 PM
3:45 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: FD5
Contributions

3:45 PM How to find magnetic nulls and reconstruct field topology with MMS data? - Huishan Fu (Beihang University)

4:10 PM Statistics and accuracy of magnetic null identification - Elin Eriksson (Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala, Sweden and Uppsala University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala, Sweden)

4:35 PM Magnetic null points in the three-dimensional kinetic simulations of space plasma - Vyacheslav Olshevsky (KU Leuven)
5:00 PM

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: FD5
Tuesday, August 11, 2015
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:40 AM
Room: FD5
Contributions

9:00 AM Magnetic reconnection as the driver of eruptions in an emerging magnetic flux tube - Klaus Galsgaard (Niels Bohr Institute - University of Copenhagen)

9:30 AM Multi-point observations of reconnection signatures in the Earth's magnetotail - Rumi Nakamura (IWF/OEAW)

10:15 AM Instabilities and wave-particle interactions associated with magnetic reconnection - Daniel Graham (Swedish Institute of Space Physics)
10:40 AM Coffe break
Coffe break
10:40 AM - 11:10 AM
Room: FD5
11:10 AM
11:10 AM - 12:25 PM
Room: FD5
Contributions

11:10 AM Localized strong energy conversion regions and their use for identifying reconnection sites - Maria Hamrin (Umeå University)

11:35 AM Ion temperature anisotropies in magnetotail reconnection jets - Heli Hietala (Imperial College London, UK)

12:00 PM Wave activities and their roles in collisionless magnetic reconnection - Keizo Fujimoto (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan)
12:25 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:25 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: -
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Room: FD5
Contributions

2:00 PM Tracing the flow of energy through magnetotail reconnection - Jonathan Eastwood (Imperial College London)

2:25 PM Observations of cold ion heating in the exhaust region at the Earth's subsolar magnetopause - Sergio Toledo Redondo (Swedish Institute of Space Physics)

2:50 PM Electron betatron acceleration in the dipolarization front driven by magnetic reconnection - Quanming Lu (University of Science and Technology of China)
3:15 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
3:15 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: FD5
3:45 PM
3:45 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: FD5
Contributions

3:45 PM Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetotail: Onset Mechanisms and Structure of Exhaust Jets in 3D - Philip Pritchett (University of California, Los Angeles)

4:10 PM Conversion of electromagnetic energy at plasma jet fronts - Yuri Khotyaintsev (Swedish Institute of Space Physics)

4:25 PM Three-dimensional kinetic picture of magnetic reconnection, buoyancy and flapping in the magnetotail - Mikhail Sitnov (JHU/APL)
Wednesday, August 12, 2015
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:40 AM
Room: FD5
Contributions

9:00 AM Reconnection Effects in the Heliosheath and Heliopause - Merav Opher (Boston University)

9:30 AM Radiation from accelerated particles in relativistic jets with shocks, shear-flow, and possible reconnection - Kenichi Nishikawa (Univerisyt of Alabama in Huntsville)

9:55 AM Instabilities and Magnetic Reconnection Near the Heliopause - Nikolai Pogorelov (Department of Space Science, University of Alabama in Huntsville)
10:40 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:40 AM - 11:10 AM
Room: FD5
11:10 AM
11:10 AM - 12:25 PM
Room: FD5
Contributions

11:10 AM Recent progresses on laser driven magnetic reconnection - Jiayong Zhong (Department of Astronomy, Beijing Normal University)

11:35 AM Dependence of magnetic dissipation on magnetic Prandtl number - Axel Brandenburg (Nordita)

12:00 PM Magnetic reconnection during formation of bipolar structures from stratified helical dynamos - Igor Rogachevskii (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Nordita)
12:25 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:25 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: -
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Room: FD5
Contributions

2:00 PM The electron diffusion region in asymmetric and symmetric magnetic reconnection - Li-Jen Chen (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)

2:25 PM Electron acceleration in the separatrix region during magnetic reconnection - Rongsheng Wang (Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

2:50 PM Evidence of magnetic field switch-off in PIC simulations of collisionless magnetic reconnection with guide field - Maria Elena Innocenti (University of Leuven, Belgium)
3:15 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
3:15 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: FD5
3:45 PM
3:45 PM - 4:35 PM
Room: FD5
Contributions

3:45 PM Theory and Simulations of Magnetic Reconnection at the Dayside Magnetopause - Paul Cassak (West Virginia University)

4:10 PM Measures of diffusion regions applied to 2D PIC reconnection simulations - Martin Goldman (University of Colorado at Boulder)
7:00 PM The City of Stockholm invites you to the Stockholm City Hall
The City of Stockholm invites you to the Stockholm City Hall
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Room: -
Thursday, August 13, 2015
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:40 AM
Room: FD5
Contributions

9:00 AM Numerical simulation of collsionless magnetic reconnection and its coupling to turbulent and kinetic processes - Joerg Buechner (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Sonnensystemforschung)

9:30 AM Particle acceleration in turbulent magnetic reconnection - Masahiro Hoshino (The University of Tokyo)

10:15 AM Characterization of Magnetic discontinuities from MHD to sub-proton scales - Antonella Greco (Physics Department, University of Calabria, Italy)
10:40 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:40 AM - 11:10 AM
Room: FD5
11:10 AM
11:10 AM - 12:25 PM
Room: FD5
Contributions

11:10 AM Turbulence modeling approach to fast reconnection - Nobumitsu Yokoi (Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo)

11:35 AM Turbulent reconnection - Alexander Lazarian (University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA)

12:00 PM In situ study of reconnection and associated electron heating in thin current sheets - Alexandros Chasapis (Laboratoire des Physiques des Plasmas)
12:25 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:25 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: -
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Room: FD5
Contributions

2:00 PM Oxygen motion in the Magnetotail of Earth - Laila Andersson (LASP)

2:25 PM 3D MHD Stellar Atmosphere Models - Magic Zazralt (Niels Bohr Institute)

2:50 PM Modeling reconnection with particle-assisted magnetohydrodynamics - Ilja Honkonen (NASA/GSFC)
3:15 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
3:15 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: FD5
3:45 PM
3:45 PM - 4:35 PM
Room: FD5
Contributions

3:45 PM Reconnection in Vlasiator: 1 The global system - Minna Palmroth (Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland)

4:10 PM First global 3D two-way coupled MHD-EPIC simulation of a magnetosphere: Ganymede - Stefano Markidis (KTH)
6:00 PM Conference dinner on a boat trip
Conference dinner on a boat trip
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Room: -
Friday, August 14, 2015
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:40 AM
Room: FD5
Contributions

9:00 AM Polar observation of a tripolar guide-field perturbation during a dayside magnetopause reconnection exhaust - Stefan Eriksson (University of Colorado)

9:30 AM How far are we from complete understanding of the reconnection process? - Vadim Roytershteyn

10:15 AM `Realistic' 3D simulations of a small flare resulting from flux emergence - Viggo Hansteen (Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Oslo)
10:40 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:40 AM - 11:10 AM
Room: FD5
11:10 AM
11:10 AM - 12:25 PM
Room: FD5
Contributions

11:10 AM Beaming of particles and synchrotron radiation in relativistic magnetic reconnection at high magnetizations - Daniel Kagan (Tel Aviv University)

11:35 AM Sub-grid Models of Turbulence for fast MHD Magnetic Reconnection - fabien widmer (Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung, Göttingen, Germany)

12:00 PM Reconnection in Vlasiator: 2. Influence of the magnetosheath waves - Sanni Hoilijoki (Finnish Meteorological Institute)
12:25 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:25 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: -
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Room: FD5
Contributions

2:00 PM Spectral method for the solution of the Vlasov-Maxwell equations - Gian Luca Delzanno (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

2:25 PM Reconnection in Vlasiator: 3. Magnetopause-foreshock interactions - Yann Pfau-Kempf (Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland)

2:50 PM Multi-point studies of reconnection exhausts in the solar wind - Rishi Mistry (Imperial College London)
3:15 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
3:15 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: FD5
3:45 PM
3:45 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: FD5
Contributions

3:45 PM Current evolution within magnetic islands that are forced to shrink with electron cyclotron current drive - Jane Pratt (University of Exeter Astrophysics)

4:10 PM electron physics and signatures in asymmetric magnetic reconnection - nicolas aunai (CNRS/LPP)

4:35 PM Further discussion and conclusions
6:00 PM

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: FD5
Saturday, August 15, 2015
Sunday, August 16, 2015