SH54A
Magnetic Reconnection: A Fundamental Process Operating throughout the Universe II

Friday, 18 December 2015: 16:00-18:00
2011 (Moscone West)
Primary Conveners:  William H Matthaeus, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States
Conveners:  Marc Swisdak, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, Michael A Shay, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States and John Dorelli, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Chairs:  William H Matthaeus, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States and Marc Swisdak, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Michael A Shay, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States
16:00
SH54A-01
Definitions of Reconnection Revisited: Distinction Between Magnetic Reconnection and Plasma Reconnection (63877)
Vytenis M Vasyliunas, Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung, Göttingen, Germany; University of Massachusetts Lowell, Space Science Laboratory, Lowell, MA, United States
16:15
SH54A-02
Magnetic Reconnection in Relativistic Astrophysical Jets (Invited) (84175)
Lorenzo Sironi, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States
16:30
SH54A-03
Prospects for Fermi Particle Acceleration at Coronal Magnetic Reconnection Sites (85747)
Elena Provornikova1, John Martin Laming1 and Vyacheslav Lukin2, (1)US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, (2)National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA, United States
16:45
SH54A-04
Heating of the Magnetically Confined Corona Driven by Footpoint Shuffling: Theory and Observational Signatures (Invited) (67671)
Antonio F Rappazzo, Advanced Heliophysics, Pasadena, CA, United States
17:00
SH54A-05
Exploring reconnection, current sheets, and dissipation in a laboratory MHD turbulence experiment (Invited) (80307)
David Andrew Schaffner, Bryn Mawr College, Physics, Bryn Mawr, PA, United States
17:15
SH54A-06
Where should MMS look for the electron and ion diffusion regions? (67240)
Giovanni Lapenta1, Martin V Goldman2, David L Newman2, Vyacheslav Olshevsky3 and iPic3D Development Task Force, (1)Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)KU Leuven, Dover, NH, United States
17:30
SH54A-07
The Coupling of Ion and Electron Heating During Magnetic Reconnection and the Role of Parallel Electric Fields (Invited) (81135)
Colby C Haggerty, University of Delaware, Physics and Astronomy, Newark, DE, United States, Michael A Shay, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, James Frederick Drake, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States and Tai Phan, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
17:45
SH54A-08
Pulsating Reconnection in the interaction of Two Magnetic Fux Ropes. (66256)
Walter N Gekelman1, Timothy DeHaas1, William S Daughton2 and Bart Van Compernolle3, (1)UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Plasma Theory and App, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (3)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
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