CEDAR email: Sessions of the ‘Impact of the Cold Plasma in Magnetospheric Physics’ Focus Group at the 2021 VGEM

[Delzanno, Gian Luca]

Dear colleagues,

please mark your calendar for the three sessions of the ‘Impact of the Cold Plasma in Magnetospheric Physics’ Focus Group at the Virtual GEM meeting occurring on 7/25-30/2021.

1. The first session, scheduled for Monday July 26th 1:00-2:30 PM Eastern Time, will focus on long-term planning for advancing cold-plasma magnetospheric physics. It will be an open discussion of strategies for the upcoming Decadal Survey. People with plans or ideas to submit white papers please make sure to participate in the discussion.

2. The second session, scheduled for Monday July 26th 3:00-4:30 PM Eastern Time, focuses on near-term planning for cold-plasma opportunities. We would like to discuss unsolved problems in cold-plasma physics and funding opportunities [such as LWS (FST #2) and GEM] that could be pursued to build teams and tackle those problems.
Examples of possible topics are cold-plasma recirculation, the cloak, cold-plasma impacts, wave-particle interactions, … 
The session will have some introductory remarks by Joe Borovsky, followed by open discussion.

3. The third session, scheduled for Friday July 30th 1:00-2:30 PM Eastern Time, is joint with the ULF Wave Modeling, Effects, and Applications (UMEA) focus group. After a scene-setting talk given by Richard Denton, we will discuss current research and open problems relating ULF and cold-plasma research.

Please attend the sessions and share your thoughts!

Thanks,
Gian Luca Delzanno on behalf of the FG leaders