3–4 Mar 2016
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Europe/Stockholm timezone

Agenda

PRELIMINARY Program

Thursday March 3

Overview session, Room V34, Teknikringen 76 (See map: http://www.kth.se/places/room/A43:11/276A)

 9:30-10:00 Coffee
10:00-10:10 Organizational matters, T. Karlsson
10:10-10:30 IRF RPF overview, A. Eriksson
10:30-10:50 IRF STP overview, H. Nilsson/L. Eliasson
10:50-11:10 IRF SSPT overview, S. Barabash
11:10-11:30 KTH Overview, G. Marklund 
11:30-11:45 Umeå overview, M. Hamrin 
11:45-11:55 KTH CST overview, S. Markidis

Lunch

Science talks, Room V34, Teknikringen 76 (See map: 

13:15-13:30 Comet 67P from RPC-ICA, H. Nilsson
13:30-13:45 Comet 67P from RPC-LAP, A. Eriksson
13:45-14:00 Space Weather, H. Opgenoorth
14:00-14:10 The Moon is not boring, S. Barabash
14:10-14:20 Martian escape rate variability, R. Ramstad
14:20-14:30 Mass composition measurements at Mars, D. Rojas Castillo
14:30-14:40 Cold plasma environment of the inner Jupiter magnetosphere, X.-D- Wang
14:40-14:45 Mercury MESSENGER results, E. Liljeblad
14:45-14:50 Splinter Organization
14:50-15:20 Coffee
15:20-17:00 Splinter session. Rooms: Teknikringen 14 (523, 525, 304), Teknikringen 31 (Seminar room, Kosmos)

Suggested sessions:
  1.  Cubesats: a toy for students or a possible tool for space science? What is the position of the space plasma community? Chair: TBD
  2. Plans for outer planets research in Sweden. Chair: TBD
  3. MMS observations of high-speed magnetosheath jets, T. Karlsson
  4. Mercury MESSENGER science, Chair: E. Liljeblad


Friday, March 4

Science talks, Room E31, Lindstedtsvägen 3 (See map: 

09:00-09:20 MMS first results, Y. Khotyaintsev
09:20-09:30 Modification of the Hall physics in magnetic reconnection caused by low-energy ions. M. André 
09:30-09:40 Statistical investigation of ionospheric density depletions at the boundary of the auroral precipitation: EISCAT observations, T. Pitkänen
09:40-09:50 Plasma physics in the Earth's ionosphere with the SWARM Langmuir Probes, S. Buchert
09:50-10:00 Detection of meteoroid hypervelocity impacts on Cluster spacecraft: First results, J. Vaverka
10:00-10:05 The SPIDER mission, N. Ivchenko
10:05-10:10 Slow velocity flow signature in magnetotail, A. De Spiegeleer
10:10-10:15 MMS observations of fast flows in the magnetotail and magnetosheath, T. Karlsson
10:15-10:20 Shocks in MMS and global PIC simulations, A. Johlander (TBC)
10:20-10:25 Splinter organization
10:30-11:00 Coffee
11:00-12:30 Splinter session. Rooms: Teknikringen 14 (523, 525, 304), Teknikringen 31 (Seminar room, Kosmos)

Suggested sessions:
  1. MMS reconnection, Chair: Y. Khotyainstsev
  2. Slow velocity flow signature in magnetotail, Chair: A. De Spiegeleer
  3. Shocks in MMS and global PIC simulations. Chair: A. Johlander
  4. Should we cooperate or compete on the InnoSat call? Chair: S. Barabash (?)
12:30 End of meeting. 

12:40 Meet-up at entrance of Teknikringen 14 for those who want to go for lunch together.