Workshop on Advances and Perspectives
in Auroral Plasma Physics
(APPW)



Top Location Committees Abstract/Registration Program Accomodation Links



Monday 26 April  
   
8:30-9:15 Registration
9:15-9:25 Welcome
9:25-10:05 Gerhard Haerendel
  Auroral arcs and their source regions.
10:05-10:45 Patrick Newell et al.
  Substorm cycle dependance of various types 
of aurora.
10:45-11:00  Coffee break
11:00-11:40  Laila Anderson 
  First reconnected flux tubes in the near-Earth tail :  
  magnetospheric reconfiguration.
11:40-12:20 Göran Marklund
  Characteristics and dynamics of the aurora at different  
  altitudes of the auroral flux tube.
12:30-14:00  Lunch
14:00-14:40  Robert Lysak and Yan Song
  Theory and modeling of the Alfvénic aurora.
14:40-15:20  Raymond Pottelette
  Nonlinear structures associated with tail reconnection 
processes in the near-Earth auroral region.  
15:20-15:50  Coffee break
15:50-16:30 Takeshi Sakanoi
16:30-17:10 Fine-scale characteristics of discrete and diffuse auroras 
using simultaneous Reimei image-particle data.
Octav Marghitu
  Auroral electrodynamics in the Harang region and 
  M-I coupling implications.
18:15 Reception  
   
   
Tuesday 27 April  
   
9:00-9:40  Andreas Keiling and Vassilis Angelopoulos
  Auroral signatures of the dynamic plasma sheet. 
9:40-10:20  Larry Lyons
  Auroral Radar and THEMIS observations of substorm triggering by intrusion of new low-entropy
  plasma to the near-Earth plasma sheet following enhanced reconnection.
10:20-10:50  Coffee break
10:50-11:30  Robert Ergun
  Double layers on auroral field lines.
11:30-12:10  Martin Goldmann 
  Bipolar field structures associated with auroral acceleration
  and with magnetospheric reconnection.
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-14:40  Rickard Lundin
  Auroral plasma acceleration processes at Mars
14:40-15:20  Fabrice Mottez et al.
  Strong double layers and Alfvenic acceleration in the Io-Jupiter
  flux tube inferred from decametric radio emissions.
15:20-16:00  Coffee break
   
16:00-16:30 Laurent Muschietti
  Unstable O+ and H+ ion flow in the auroral cavity.
16:30-17:10 Matthieu Berthomier and Laurent Muschietti
  3D BGK waves in the auroral region.
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Wednesday 28 April  
   
9:00-9:40  Chris Chaston et al.
  The multi-scale motion of the aurora.
9:40-10:20  Maria Hamrin
  Concentrated load and generator regions as
  observed by Cluster in the Plasma sheet.
10:20-10:50 Coffee break
10:50-11:30 Krystina Lynch
  The Cascades-2 auroral sounding rocket : a nigthside multipoint
  investigation of auroral structure and evolution.
11:30-12:10 Anita Kullen
  The active polar cap boundary response to northward
  directed IMF and high solar wind speed.
12:10 Lunch
   
  Free afternoon (Excursion)
   
Thursday 29 April  
   
9:00-9:40  Giovanni Lapenta 
  Unsteady reconnection : a simulation study.
9:40-10:20  Vincent Genot et al.
  Wave-particle interaction in inhomogeneous auroral plasmas,
  numerical simulations and observations.
10:20-10:50  Coffee break
10:50-11:30  Robert Mutel et al.
  Updated CMI Growt rate models based on recent
  CLUSTER and CASSINI AAR measurements.
11:30-12:10 Akira Morioka and Yoshizumi Miyoshi
  Two-step evolution of auroral acceleration at substorm onset.
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-14:40 Robert Strangeway
  Auroral field-aligned current morphology and its relationship
  to magnetospheric processes. 
14:40-15:20 Hans Nilsson
  Multi-species ion populations and auroral dynamics, 
  their influence and use as a diagnostic tool. 
               Coffee break
15:20-15:50
15:50-16:30 Yan Song and Robert Lysak
  Alfvenic generation of parallel electric fields : Kinetic Alfvén waves 
  and quasi-static auroral acceleration. 
16:30-17:10 Antonius Otto and Dirk Lummerzheim
  On the relation of localized parallel electric fields, Alfvén waves
  and the dynamics of discrete auroral arcs.
19:00 Conference dinner
   
Friday 30 April  
   
9:00-9:40  Jolene Pickett
  Cluster multi-spacecraft perspective on waves observed in
  and near the auroral acceleration region of the Earth. 
9:40-10:20  Thierry Passot
  Alfvén wave filamentation and dispersive phase 
  mixing in a density channel.
10:20-10:50 Coffee break
10:50-11:30  Betty Lanchester
  How do high resolution ground-based measurements constrain
  theoretical models for auroral electron acceleration.
11:30-12:15 Open discussion on future collaboration projects in auroral physics.
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:45 Open discussion on future collaboration projects (following).
15:45-16:00 Closing remarks
   
 






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