CEDAR email: GEM 2024 Focus Group Sessions on “The Impact of the Cold Plasma in Magnetospheric Physics”

[Delzanno, Gian Luca]

Dear colleagues,

please mark your calendar for the sessions of the ‘Impact of the cold plasma in magnetospheric physics’ Focus Group at the GEM workshop in Fort Collins, Colorado, June 23rd-28th 2024.

The first session, on Monday 6/24 1:30-3:00 pm Mountain time, is devoted to recent progress in cold plasma research. Note that we will use the beginning of the session to introduce the cold plasma posters at GEM, and for students, postdocs and early-career researchers who want to introduce themselves to the community.

The second session, on Monday 6/24 3:30-5:00 pm Mountain time, will be mainly a discussion of future research needs and collaborations.

The third session, on Thursday 6/27 1:30-3:00 pm Mountain time, will focus on cold plasma processes that are either not well understood or missing and that will need to be included in the modeling of the magnetospheric environment (including inner and outer magnetosphere). This session is in collaboration with the ‘Self-consistent inner magnetospheric modeling’ and ‘System Understanding of Radiation Belt Particle Dynamics through Multi-spacecraft and Ground-based Observations and Modeling’ Focus Groups.

The fourth session, led by the ‘Machine Learning as it pertains in the Geospace Environment’ Resource Group, will focus on how we can use machine learning techniques to make progress in inner magnetospheric research. The session is on Thursday 6/27 3:30-5:00 pm Mountain time.

The last session, on Friday 6/28 10:30 AM- 12:00 PM Mountain time, will discuss the connections between the cold plasma and the aurora. Eric Donovan and Shasha Zou will kick-off the session with two scene setting talks. The session is joint with the ‘Mesoscale drivers of the nightside transition region: ionospheric and magnetotail evaluations’ and ‘Magnetospheric Sources of Particle Precipitation and Their Role on Electrodynamic Coupling of MagnetosphereIonosphere-Thermosphere Systems’ Focus Groups.

Researchers interested in contributing to these sessions and being formally on the agenda can contact Gian Luca Delzanno (delzanno at lanl.gov). The format of each session is different and details can be found at
https://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawiki/index.php/FG:_The_Impact_of_the_Cold_Plasma_in_Magnetospheric_Physics

We hope to see you at GEM!

Sincerely,
Gian Luca Delzanno
On behalf of the CP Focus Group Leaders
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