<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear colleagues,</div><div><br></div><div>





<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">We invite you to participate in our mini-GEM focus group session, “Interhemispheric Approaches to Understand M-I Coupling (IHMIC)”. Two sessions will be held at 14:00-15:30 and 15:45-17:15 CT on Sunday, December 12 (a TBD hotel in New Orleans) to discuss observations and modeling work focusing on interhemispheric asymmetry and conjugacy in geomagnetic fields and its effect on M-I coupling. The second session (15:45-17:15 CT) will be held jointly with the focus group, 3D Ionospheric Electrodynamics and Its Impact on the Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere Coupled System (IEMIT, Hyunju Connor). </span></p>
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<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">We welcome any scientific investigations of asymmetric features in large-scale current systems, auroral forms, waves, ion upflow, outflow, particle precipitation, high-latitude convection and thermospheric winds, and their controlling drivers (e.g., solar wind, geomagnetic field configurations, ionospheric conductivity)</span></p>
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<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">The detailed session description can be found on the following website:</span></p>
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We encourage workshop-style presentations, limiting each talk to less than 5-7 slides (~10-15 min) so the remaining time can be used for open discussions. </span></p>
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<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">The session will be offered in a hybrid mode so speakers may be able to present their work either virtually or in person.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p>
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If you are interested in giving a talk, please send your presentation title and preferred time to Hyomin Kim (<a href="mailto:hmkim@njit.edu"><span class="gmail-s3" style="font-kerning:none;color:rgb(16,60,192)">hmkim@njit.edu</span></a>) and </span><span class="gmail-s4" style="font-kerning:none">Sungjun Noh (<a href="http://sjnoh@njit.edu"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">sjnoh@njit.edu</span></a>).</span></p>
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We are looking forward to your participation at mini-GEM and AGU 2021!</span></p>
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Sincerely,</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">Hyomin Kim, Robert Lysak, Tomoko Matsuo, Dogacan Ozturk, Sungjun Noh</span></p></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><table style="border-collapse:collapse;width:525px;border-spacing:0px;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(35,38,54);font-family:Poppins,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><tbody style="border:0px;padding:0px;font-size:0.9em"><tr><td style="padding:5px;font-size:0.9em;font-stretch:normal;line-height:1.5;color:rgb(255,0,0);border-width:0px 3px 0px 0px;border-bottom-style:initial;border-bottom-color:initial;border-top-style:initial;border-right-style:solid;border-left-style:initial;border-top-color:initial;border-right-color:rgb(204,0,0);border-left-color:initial;width:180px;vertical-align:middle"><a href="https://www.njit.edu/" style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(51,122,183)" target="_blank"><img src="https://assets.njit.edu/uicomponents/NJIT-email-logo.png" alt="NJIT logo" style="border:0px;display:block;vertical-align:middle;width:150px;height:auto;max-width:150px"></a></td><td style="padding:5px 5px 5px 10px;font-size:12px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:16px;border:0px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><strong style="color:rgb(111,111,111);font-size:13px">Hyomin Kim</strong><br><font color="#6f6f6f">Assistant Professor</font><br><font color="#6f6f6f">Physics<br></font><font color="#666666">Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research<br>Institute for Space Weather Sciences</font><br><font color="#666666"><a href="mailto:hmkim@njit.edu" target="_blank">hmkim@njit.edu</a> • <span style="white-space:nowrap">(973) 596-5704</span><br><a href="https://web.njit.edu/~hmkim/" target="_blank">https://web.njit.edu/~hmkim/</a><br>104 Tiernan Hall, 161 Warren Street, Newark, NJ 07102<br></font></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>