CEDAR email: GEM Cold Plasma Focus Group: sessions schedule at GEM

[Delzanno, Gian Luca]

Dear colleagues,

the schedule for the sessions of the Focus Group ‘The Impact of the Cold Plasma in Magnetospheric Physics’ at the GEM workshop in San Diego (June 11th-16th 2023) can be found below and is also posted here:

https://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawiki/index.php/FG:_The_Impact_of_the_Cold_Plasma_in_Magnetospheric_Physics#Sessions_at_GEM_Workshop_2023

We hope to see you at the sessions!

Gian Luca Delzanno, on behalf of the CP Focus Leaders

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1) Recent progress in cold plasma research
Time: Monday June 12th, 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Pacific Time
Location: Coast ballroom
Structure of the session:
•	Each speaker has 15 minutes TOTAL, including questions. Please allocate at least 5 minutes for Q&A.

List of speakers:
1.	10:30-10:45 AM. Naritoshi Kitamura (virtual), Energy input to the ionosphere and ELF waves during geomagnetic storm events in the cusp
2.	10:45-11:00 AM. Myeong Joon Kim, MMS Observations of Warm-Ion (E < 100 eV) Heating inside Plasmaspheric Plumes
3.	11:00-11:15 AM. David Hartley, Exploring Plasma Density Variations at low L
4.	11:15-11:30 AM. Hyunju Connor, Storm-time exospheric hydrogen density variation in plasmasphere and ring current
5.	11:30-11:45 AM. Jeewoo Park (virtual), The possibility of the IBEX ENA Observations providing the in-situ measurements of the outward H fluxes in the outer exosphere

2) The impact of the cold plasma on pulsating and diffuse aurora
Time: Monday June 12th, 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM Pacific Time
Location: Coast ballroom

Structure of the session:
•	1:30-2:00 PM. Scene setting talk: The role of cold plasma in auroral precipitation and M-I coupling, Allison Jaynes
•	2:00-3:00 PM. Audience discussion.

People interested in the connection between cold plasma and auroral forms (and more generally magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling) are strongly encouraged to participate in the discussion!

3) Session on progress in cold plasma science relevant to inner magnetospheric modeling
with the FG Self-Consistent Inner Magnetospheric Modeling
Time: Tuesday June 13th, 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM Pacific Time
Location: Pacific A ballroom

List of speakers:
1.	Miroslav Hanzelka, Full-wave modeling of ducted and reflected EMIC waves in the plasmatrough and plasmaspheric plumes
2.	Michael Hartinger, Early results from the HARP citizen science project: Implications for ULF wave and cold plasma research
3.	Matthew Cooper, An Update on the MEIM empirical inner mag model
4.	Justin Holmes, Exploring the impacts of cold electrons on magnetospheric wave-particle interactions
5.	Oleksiy Agapitov, New Approach to Wave Models: How Cold Plasma Determines Efficiency of Wave-Particle Interactions in the Radiation Belts
6.	Greg Cunningham, A significant correction to the 50-year-old theory for calculation of quasilinear diffusion coefficients used in heliophysics

4) The future of cold plasma research
Time: Wednesday June 14th, 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Pacific Time
Location: Coast ballroom
Structure of the session:
•	Contributed talks + audience discussion.
•	Each speaker has 15 minutes TOTAL, including questions and comments. Please have a final slide emphasizing the ‘what’, ‘why’, ‘why now’ and ‘how’ of a given idea.

List of speakers:
1.	Justin Lee, MMS measurements to motivate upcoming data/modeling studies and future innovation on cold plasma
2.	Mei-Yun Lin, The Critical Role of N+ ions in the Transport of Global Ionospheric Outflow
3.	Pedro Resendiz, Cold electron measurements in the Magnetosphere
4.	Naritoshi Kitamura, 1) Cold plasma at the near-Earth lobe and PSBL during geomagnetic storms; 2) Upper limit of local ion outflow flux; 3) Driving mechanisms of heavy ion outflow