Financial Support has been provided by the following agencies:
National Science Foundation (NSF)
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Office of Naval Research (ONR)
The following is a preliminary program for the meeting. Ample time
has been allowed within each session for appropriate discussion periods.
Times for each individual oral talk will appear in the meeting program
which will be provided at the meeting. Presenters of poster previews will
be identified and published in the final program.
Poster boards are 4 ft. high x 6 ft. wide. Poster I presenters can put their posters up on Monday morning and must remove these by Tuesday night. Poster II presenters can put their displays up on Wednesday morning and must remove these by Friday morning.
See you in Hawaii!!!
| Jan 10 - Sun | Jan 11 - Mon | Jan 12 - Tues | Jan 13 - Wed | Jan 14 - Thurs | Poster Sessions I | Poster Sessions 2 |
| 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. | Reception |
| 1. E.N. Parker
(Tutorial; 45 min.) |
Newton, Maxwell and Magnetospheric Physics |
| 2. George Siscoe et al.
(30 min.) |
Global Configuration of Magnetospheric Current Systems |
0940 - 1045 Poster Session 1 (& Break)
(see poster presenters at the end of this document)
1045-1230 (including 15 min)
| 3. J.G. Lyon et al.
(30 min) |
Geometry and Topology of Magnetospheric Current Systems as Revealed by Global Simulations |
| 4. T. Tanaka
(30 min) |
Current Systems in the Numerically Simulated Magnetosphere |
| 5. P. Janhunen and A. Olsson
(30 min) |
Geometry and Topology of Magnetospheric Current Systems and Role in System Dynamics |
Evening: (Chair: Sibeck)
1900 - 2120 Geometry and Topology of Magnetospheric Current Systems (II)/Dayside Current Systems
| 1. N.A. Tsyganenko
(30 min) |
Global Modeling of Magnetospheric Current Systems |
| 2. F. Toffoletto and T.W. Hill
(30 min) |
Field Line Mapping and Birkeland Currents |
| 3. M. Lockwood
(30 min) |
Dayside Current Systems and Cusp Dynamics |
| M. Yamauchi
(30 min) |
What do the Dayside Current System Tell Us on the Cusp Models? |
| 1. A.D. Richmond
(Tutorial)(45 min) |
Ionospheric Currents |
Poster Preview (2x20 min)
(speakers to be determined)
0935-1045 Poster Session (& Break)
(See list of poster presenters at the end of this document).
1045 - 1230
| 1. W.J. Hughes
(30 min) |
What We Can Learn about Magnetospheric Currents Using Ground-Based Magnetometers |
| 2. Raymond A. Greenwald
(30 min) |
Radar Observations of High-latitude Current Systems |
| 3. J.P. Thayer
(30 min) |
MIT Energy Transfer: The Electrodynamic Role of the Ionosphere/Thermosphere System |
Evening: (Chair: Reeves)
1900 - 2120: Ionospheric Dynamics (II)/Ring Current
| 1. G. Lu and A. Richmond
(30 min) |
A Synthetic View of the Magnetospheric-Ionospheric Current Systems |
| 2. H.J. Opgenoorth
(30 min) |
The Ionospheric Currents and Their Active Role in the Magnetospheric Substorm Current Systems |
| 3. T. Iyemori
(30 min) |
Formation of Storm-Time Ring Current |
| 4. R.A. Wolf et al.
(30 min) |
Recent Results from the Rice Convection Model |
08:00 - 0915 am Current Systems in Planetary Magnetospheres
| 1. Kivelson & Walker
(Tutorial, 45 min) |
What We Can Learn about (Earth?s) Magnetospheric Current Systems from Planetary Studies |
Poster Preview (20 min):
(presenters to be determined)
0915 - 1010 Poster Session 2 (& Break)
(see list of poster presenters at the end of this document)
1010 - 1230
| 1. Duane H. Pontius, Jr.
(30 min) |
Rotational Current Systems and the Offset Io Plasma Torus | |
| 2. K.K. Khurana
(30 min) |
Global Currents in Jupiter?s Magnetosphere | |
| 3. T.I. Gombosi et al.
(30 min) |
3D AMR MHD Simulations of Current Systems in Planetary Magnetospheres | |
| 4. Karl-Heinz Glassmeier
(30 min) |
Current Systems in the Hermean Magnetosphere |
Evening: (Chair: Lyons)
1900 - 2155: Magnetotail Current Systems
| 1. R.L. Kaufmann et al.
(30 min) |
Tail Current Systems |
| 2. T.I. Pulkkinen
(30 min) |
Modeling of Magnetotail Currents |
| 3. M. Hesse and J. Birn
(30 min) |
Near- and Mid-Tail Current Flow During Substorms Small- and Large-Scale Aspects of Current Disruption |
| 4. Christian Jacquey
(30 min) |
Changes of the near-Earth/mid Tail Current System Related to Interplanetary Conditions and Substorm Expansions: Lobe Magnetic Field Observations |
| 5. J.A. Slavin
(30 min) |
The Downtail Evolution of Magnetospheric Current Systems |
| 1. S.W.H. Cowley
(Tutorial: 45 min) |
Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling: A Tutorial Review |
Poster Preview (20 min):
(presenters to be determined)
09:45 - 1050 Poster Session 2 (& Break)
1050 - 1200
| 1. R.L. Lysak
(30 min) |
The Role of Alfvén Waves in the Formation of the Auroral Parallel Electric Fields |
| 2. J.C. Samson et al.
(30 min) |
Field Aligned Currents and Ultralow Frequency Shear Alfvén Waves in the Earth?s Magnetosphere |
Afternoon: Chair: Friis-Christensen & Strangeway)
1330 - 1515: Magnetosphere - Ionosphere Coupling (II)
1330 - 1550
| C. W. Carlson et al. | FAST Observations of Plasma Populations and Parallel Potential Drops in the Auroral Field-Aligned Current System |
| G. T. Marklund | Return Current Characteristics of the Auroral Current Circuit |
| R. C. Elphic | FAST Observations of Small-Scale Downward Field-Aligned Currents and Upward Accelerated Electrons |
| M. Temerin | Voltage-Current Relationship in the Downward Auroral Current Region and the Acceleration of Ion Conics |
1620 - 1725
| Takesi Iijima
(Tutorial) |
Global Structure of Magnetospheric Currents (Speaker to be announced)
Memory of Tom Potemra |
Evening:
| 7:00 to 9:30 p.m | Conference Banquet |
0830 - 1035 Innovative/Future Studies (I)
| 1. C.Z. Cheng
(15 min) |
Currents Associated with Quasi-static Magnetospheric Equilibria and Low-Frequency Phenomena |
| 2. Yan Song
(15 min) |
New Concepts in the Theory of Field-Aligned Current Generation |
| 3. D.R. Weimer
(15 min) |
A New Technique for the Mapping of Ionospheric Field-Aligned Currents from Satellite Magnetometer Data |
| 4. Takahashi and Anderson
(15 min) |
Observation of Field-Aligned Currents Using the Iridium Satellites |
| 5. T. Mukai et al.
(15 min) |
Measurements of the Tail Current with the Geotail LEP Instrument |
| 6. A.T.Y. Lui
(15 min) |
Is Current Disruption in the Magnetotail a Self Organized Criticality Phenomenon? |
| 7. Masaaki Yamada
(15 min) |
Comparative Study of Magnetic Reconnection Data from Space and Laboratory Plasmas |
1100 - 1230 Innovative/Future Studies (II)
Future directions of studies of magnetospheric current systems
All Session Chairs
| D.E. Jones et al. | A Study of Currents Associated with Magnetic Fields Derived from the Use of Euler Potential (& Other Field Modeling) Methods |
| D.E. Jones et al. | On the Use of Euler Potentials in Modeling Planetary Magnetosphere and the Introduction of Specious Current Systems |
| T. Huang and Y. Petrov | Calculation of Electric Current with Guiding Field Line Approximation |
| S. Curtis et al. | Effect of Tilt and Rotation on Magnetospheric Current Systems: The Views from an Adaptive Mesh Refinement Code |
| D.S. Spicer et al. | Magnetospheric Current Systems at High Resolution Using a Global MHD AMR Code |
| K. Nishikawa and S. Ohtani | Evolution of Current System with a Time-varying IMF |
| J. Raeder | The Development of Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Current Systems During A Substorm |
| C.C. Goodrich et al. | Examination of current systems in magnetospheric storms and substorms through MHD simulation |
| Maha Ashour-Abdalla et al. | The Role of Electrons in Magnetospheric Current Systems |
| Vahe Peroomian et al. | Internal and External Causes of Magnetotail Variability |
| David Schriver et al. | Simulations of Field Aligned Currents in the Auroral Zone |
| M.A. Heinemann and | Field-Aligned Currents and Parallel Electric Fields in the Plasma |
| G.M. Erickson | Sheet Boundary Layer E.S. Belenkaya Currents at the Dayside Magnetopause |
| J. De Keyser and M. Roth | Limits on the Magnetopause Current in the Tangential Discontinuity Case |
| Hisato Shirai et al. | Topology of Field Lines Around the Magnetopause Current Layer |
| Thomas Sotirelis et al. | Magnetopause Shape as a Function of Dipole Tilt Angle |
| J. Safránková et al. | Reconnection Layer at the Magnetopause |
| K.A. Keller et al. | Three-Dimensional Simulation of the Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability |
| A.M. Jorgensen et al. | The Global Structure of the Ring Current |
| M.G. Henderson et al. | Average Inner Magnetospheric Ion Distributions Derived from POLAR CEPPAD/IPS ENA Imagery |
| G.D. Reeves et al. | Investigating the Ring Current Through Neutral Atom Imaging |
| Niescja Turner et al. | Relationship of the Ring Current to Dst |
| S.Wing and P. Newell | Birkeland Currents Determined from 2-D Magnetotail Pressure Profiles |
| C.A. Cattell et al. | FAST and Polar Observations of Field-Aligned Currents and Convection Electric Fields During ISTP CME Events Eftyhia Zesta et al. Comparison of Techniques for Determining Ionospheric Current Systems |
| S.Y. Sazykin et al | Modeling and Experimental Studies o the Penetration of High-Latitude Electric Fields to Middle and Low Latitudes |
| M. Watanabe and T. Iijima | Modulation of Nightside Region 2 Field-Aligned Currents During Magnetic Storms |
| F.K. Chun and C.T. Russell | The Statistical Characteristics of Field-Aligned Current in the arth?s Inner Magnetosphere |
| R.J. Strangeway et al. | FAST Observations of the Electromagnetic Stresses Applied to the Polar Ionosphere |
| Therese Moretto et al. | New Results on the High Latitude Ionospheric Response to Sudden Impulse Events |
| David G. Sibeck et al. | Pressure Pulse, Substorm, and DP2 Signatures in Dayside Equatorial Ground Magnetograms |
| G.I. Korotova et al. | Multipoint Observations of Global Compressional Oscillations of the Magnetosphere |
| A. Kullen and L. Blomberg | The Influence of IMF By on the Current System in the Magnetotail |
| N. Nishitani et al. | Dynamics of Convection and Ionospheric Current System Following a Sudden Southward Turning of the IMF |
| F. Pitout et al. | The Active High Latitude Cusp--Coordinated Multi-Instrument Studies of Solar Wind Forcing of the High Latitude Dayside Ionosphere |
| Nemecek et al. | Location of the High-altitude Cusp as a Function of the IMF Direction |
| O. Amm et al. | Direct Determination of Cusp Current Systems Using SuperDARN Radar and Ground Magnetometer Data -- a Link to Theory on Cusp Current Origin |
| T. Higuchi and S. Ohtani | Four-Sheet Structure of Dayside Large-Scale Field-Aligned Currents: Statistical Study |
| S. Ohtani and T. Higuchi | Disappearance of Large-Scale Field-Aligned Current Systems |
| Eigil Friis-Christensen and Therese Moretto | Initiatives to Observe the Dynamics of the Earth?s Magnetic Field |
| N. Olsen and T. Moretto | Determination of High-Latitude Field-Aligned Currents from Magnetic Satellite Measurements--A Comparison of Different Techniques |
| H. Holmegaard and N. Olsen | A Statistical Study of High Latitude Field Aligned Currents as Estimated from Magnetic Satellite Data |
| T. Higuchi and S. Ohtani | Demonstration of an Automatic Procedure to Identify Large-scale Field-Aligned Current Structures |
| I.I. Alexeev | Field-Aligned Currents and Substorms |
| L.R. Lyons et al. | Auroral Poleward Boundary Intensifications: A Fundamental Magnetospheric Disturbance Coupling Bursty Plasma Sheet Flows to the Auroral Ionosphere |
| E. Friedrich and G. Rostoker | Reconfiguration of the Directly Driven Current System During Expansive Phase Onset: Implications for the Substorm Current Wedge |
| J. Birn and M. Hesse | The Current Disruption Myth |
| C. Shen and Z.X. Liu | The Triggering Mechanism of Random Substorms |
| G. Consolini and A. Liu | Intermittent Nonlinear Wave-Wave Coupling in Current Disruption |
| Manuel Grande et al. | Highly Complex Current Systems Associated with a Double Substorm Injection, as Seen by CRRES and Ground Based Observations |
| T. Arun et al. | Study of Disturbed Time Coupling Between High and Low Latitudes |
| J. De Keyser et al. | The Driving Mechanism of the Magnetospheric-Ionospheric Current System Associated with Subauroral Ion Drift Layers |
| E.E. Dors et al. | Statistical Study of the Current-Voltage Relationship in Inverted V Events Using FAST |
| P. Janhunen and A. Olsson | Current voltage Relationship in O-shaped Potentials |
| P. Janhunen and A. Olsson | Support for O-shaped Potentials in Satellite Data |
| M. Morooka et al. | The Current-Voltage Relationship in the Auroral Particle Acceleration Region |
| W.J. Peria et al. | A Statistical Study of Field-Aligned Currents Below and Within the Auroral Acceleration Region Using FAST Measurements |
| N. Ivchenko et al. | Three Point Observations of Auroral Arc Fine Structure on the Auroral Turbulence 2 Sounding Rocket |
| S.A. Cummer et al. | Mesoscale Auroral Currents and Electrodynamics with FAST and VIS |
| K. Stasiewicz and G. Gustafsson | Small-scale and Time Varying Currents in the Magnetosphere |
| Paul Eglities et al. | Coordinated EISCAT and MIRACLE Observations with Equator-S: Morning Sector Omega Bands |
| T. Nagatsuma et al. | Quasi-Periodic Flow Shear at the Dawnside High Latitude Region Observed by the EISCAT VHF Radar |
| Ryoichi Fujii et al. | Field-Aligned Currents and Their Ionospheric Closure Currents |
| P.T. Newell et al. | Interhemispherical Current Implied by Seasonal Auroral Variation: An Explanation for the Local Time Shift in Substorm Onset |
| G. Rostoker | Limit to the Size of Cross Polar Cap Current Under Summer Conditions |
| John Bonnell et al. | Currents and Precipitation Associated with Polar Cap Arcs: Constraints on Source/Generator Regions |
| C.A. Kletzing et al. | Auroral-Plasma Sheet Electron Anisotropy: A Comparison of Particle Signature and Currents in the High Latitude Plasma Sheet |
| Hisato Shirai et al. | Mapping of Structures of Auroral Ion Precipitations to the Magnetosphere |
| O.W. Lennartsson | On the Spatial Relationship between Auroral Electrojets and AE Recordings |
| H. Laakso et al. | Locations of Auroral Electrojets Compared to the Auroral Emission Region |
| J.J. Takalo et al. | Properties of Auroral Electrojet Current Systems |
| O. Amm et al. | Ionospheric Shear Flow Situations Observed by the MIRACLE Network, and the Concept of Harang Discontinuity |
| J.W. Gjerloev and R.A. Hoffman | The Convection Reversal During Auroral Substorms |
| K. Sigsbee et al. | Coordinated Analysis of Simultaneous FAST, Geotail, and Polar Data |
| R. Rankin et al. | Field Aligned Currents from Dispersive Shear Alfvén Waves |
| S.C. Buchert et al. | Current Modulation by conductivity Variations in Pc5 Pulsations |
| Manju Prakash | Role of Space-Time Dependent Ionospheric Conductivity on the Evolution of Field Line Resonances |
| M.M. Huddleston et al. | Transversely Accelerated Auroral Ions Observed at High Altitudes by Instruments on the Polar Spacecraft. |