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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The KiTS Focus Group will be soliciting talks for 3 joint sessions at the joint CEDAR/GEM Workshop this summer. Please send an email to Jason Derr (<a href="mailto:jason.derr@westpoint.edu" id="LPlnk665684" class="OWAAutoLink" title="jason.derr@westpoint.edu" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">jason.derr@westpoint.edu</a>) by
June 19 if you are interested in presenting at one of the following sessions:</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">6/23/2025 (Mon) 4:00pm-6:00pm: Joint session between KiTS, RX, MESO, and CEDAR on substorm onset. This is a broad topic and we hope to have ~10 minute long presentations on
varied subjects including, but not limited to, magnetic reconnection, current sheet instabilities, in situ observations, ionospheric observations, and preconditioning of the magnetosphere.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">6/27/2025 (Fri) 10am-12pm: Joint session between KiTS, MESO, and CEDAR on Magnetotail and Ionosphere Structure and Dynamics Inferred from Low-Altitude and Ground-Based Observations.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">6/27/2025 (Fri) 1:30pm-3:30pm Joint session between KiTS and COMP on thin current sheets throughout the solar system.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">There will also be a session on 6/23/2025 (Mon) 1:30pm-3:30pm consisting of four panelists (Mikhail Sitnov, Kazuo Shiokawa, Jesper Gjerloev, and Tuija Pulkkinen). The topic
of this conversation will also be on substorm onset and we hope to continue the discussion in the session immediately following this one as listed above.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">If you need more details on any of the mentioned sessions they can be found on the GEM Workshop schedule here:
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Sincerely,</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Jason Derr on behalf of the KiTS Focus Group</span></p>
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