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Dear Colleagues,<br>
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The GEM Focus Group (FG) ‘<span style="margin: 0px; background-color: white">Self-Consistent Inner Magnetosphere Modeling</span>’ will have two discussion sessions at this year's Virtual GEM Workshop on Wednesday July 22nd, 2020, which will aim to assess current
inner magnetosphere modeling capabilities and to elaborate a work plan for the FG in subsequent years. The two sessions will focus on:<br>
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<u>Session 1</u>: Ring Current Dynamics (Wednesday July 22nd, 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm EDT)</div>
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<span style="margin: 0px">In this session we will assess the transport, energization, loss, and composition of the ring current ions and electrons, and the associated variations in electric and magnetic fields. We welcome research talks related to the ring
current dynamics through numerical modeling and satellite observations.<br>
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<div style="margin: 0px">-<span style="margin: 0px"> </span><u>Session 2</u>: Wave-Particle Interactions <span style="margin: 0px; background-color: white">(Wednesday July 22nd, 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm EDT)</span><br>
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<span style="margin: 0px">In this session we will asses wave-particle interactions in the ring current, which drive the excitation of plasma waves, and the scattering or heating of thermal, suprathermal and energetic ions and electrons. We solicit both modeling
and observational efforts.</span><br>
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Both sessions will consist of:</div>
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1. Two scene-setting talks (15 min each), given by Vania Jordanova and Matina Gkioulidou (Session 1), and Richard Denton and Lunjin Chen (Session 2)</div>
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2. Panel discussion with participation from the community (20 min)<br>
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3. Contributed talks (5-8 min each)</div>
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We invite the community to participate in one or both sessions in the following ways:</div>
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1. Presenting research results relevant to the topics of the sessions. </div>
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2. Participating in the panel discussions by providing input on the research directions and the kind of activities that the FG should carry out. </div>
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<span style="margin: 0px">We will also have a joint session with the FGs ‘The Impact of the Cold Plasma in Magnetospheric Physics’ and 'System Understanding of Radiation Belt Particle Dynamics through Multi-spacecraft and Ground-based Observations and Modeling'</span> on
Thursday, July 23rd, 3:00 - 4:30 pm EDT. <span style="margin: 0px">In this joint session, the SCIMM FG solicits short (5 min) presentations which assess the impacts of cold plasma on the transport and loss of ring current particles, and on wave-particle interactions
of the higher-energy particles in the magnetosphere.</span><br>
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Please contact Cristian Ferradas (cristian.ferradasalva@nasa.gov) and Chao Yue (yuechao@pku.edu.cn) to submit contributed talks. <span style="margin: 0px; background-color: white">We will list the contributed talks and details of the sessions on the FG website
at<span style="margin: 0px"> </span><a href="https://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawiki/index.php/FG:_Self-Consistent_Inner_Magnetospheric_Modeling" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin: 0px">https://gem.epss.ucla.edu/mediawiki/index.php/FG:_Self-Consistent_Inner_Magnetospheric_Modeling</a>.<span style="margin: 0px"> </span></span><br>
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Best regards,</div>
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Cristian Ferradas on behalf of the SCIMM FG conveners (Sam Bingham, Jacob Bortnik, Qianli Ma and Chao Yue)</div>
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