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2011 Workshop Agenda

CEDAR 2011

26 June - 01 July, 2011
Sante Fe, New Mexico

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Sunday 

Eldorado Anasazi Ballroom CEDAR/GEM Joint Student Workshop (Students ONLY!)

Theme - Magnetosphere-Ionosphere (MI) Coupling

Co-Chairs: CEDAR: Roger Varney (Cornell) and Elizabeth Bass (BU); GEM: Brian Walsh (BU) and Jenni Kissinger (UCLA)
08:00-09:00 Breakfast and Registration in hall, Sign Travel Vouchers Eldorado Pavilion and hallway
09:00-09:15 What is CEDAR? (pdf) R Varney (Cornell)
09:15-09:30 What is GEM?  (pdf) J Kissinger (UCLA)
09:30-9:50 Introduction to the Magnetosphere (pdf) W Tu (U CO)
09:50-10:10 Introduction to the Ionosphere (pdf) J Feldt (U Mich)
10:10-10:30 Geomagnetism and Geomagnetic Indices M Gkioulidou (UCLA)
10:30-10:50 --- Break ---  
10:50-11:10 High Latitude Electrodynamics (pdf) N Frissell (VT)
11:10-11:30 Convection in the Ionosphere and Magnetosphere F Jiang (UCLA)
11:30-11:50 Aurora: Magnetospheric View C Gabrielse (UCLA)
11:50-12:10 Aurora: Ionospheric View (pdf) C Andersen (UAF)
12:10-13:30 Pizza Lunch in the Pavilion for the students  
13:30-13:50 Geomagnetic Storms L Blum (U CO)
13:50-14:10 Ion Outflow R Redmon (U CO)
14:10-14:30 Incoherent Scattering (pdf) H Akbari (BU)
14:30-14:50 Introduction to Sounding Rockets (pdf) S Kaeppler (U Iowa)
14:50-15:10 --- Break ---  
15:10-15:30 CubeSats (pdf) A Crew (UNH)
15:30-15:40 Ionospheric Models (pdf) L Lomidze (USU)
15:40-15:50 GEM Models M Gilson (UNH)
15:50-16:10 Student Welcome from GEM and CEDAR Chairs M Liemohn, J Foster, D Sibeck
16:10-16:25 SSP Decadal Survey Demographic Survey of Students M Moldwin, C Morrow
16:25 Adjourn  
16:25-19:00 Free time for student recreation (Annual CEDAR Soccer Game, Ultimate Frisbee; etc) Park at Fort Marcy/Complex Magers Field (490 Washington Ave.)
  OR  
09:00-18:00 ES Response of the Magnetosphere to High-Speed Streams Sign up via GEM registration or if CEDAR, contact Mike Liemohn if attending this LWS meeting
18:30-22:00 dinner on your own at area restaurants OR CEDAR Science Steering Committee dinner/meeting at Osteria D'Assisi  

Monday 

0715-0800 Breakfast and Registration Eldorado Pavilion and CC hallway
0800-0815 Welcome from NSF/CSSC-GEM Behnke (NSF)/Foster (CSSC)/Liemohn (GEM)
0815-0825 Introduction of CEDAR and GEM students by institution E Bass (CSSC)/J Kissinger? (GEM)
0825-0830 Introduction of CEDAR and GEM Postdocs ?Rich Behnke (NSF)
0830-0900 NSF Geospace Section Updates Behnke/Kamalabadi (NSF)
0900-0930 Break  
0930-1005 Accomplishments of the Past Decade and Science Imperatives for Atmosphere-Ionosphere-Magnetosphere Interactions (AIMI) Research (pdf) Jeff Forbes (U CO)
1005-1040 Scientific Progress over the Past Decade in Solar-Wind-Magnetosphere Interactions (SWMI) (pdf) Michelle Thomsen (LANL)
1040-1120 Outflow and Mass Flow (IT and MAG perspectives) Bob Schunk (USU) and Bill Lotko (Dartmouth)
1120-1200 Inner Magnetosphere-Ionosphere (IMI) Coupling (with MAG and IT perspectives) (pdf) Pontus Brandt (APL/JHU) and Mark Moldwin (UCLA)
1200-1330 lunch on own  
1330-1530 #1 JOINTa EA Student Tutorial/Workshop on Data Assimilation See the 2011 Workshops
1530-1600 Break  
1600-1800 #2 JOINTb CDV Modeling Ionospheric Outflow See the 2011 Workshops
1830 Cash bar and HooDoos band SF Convention Center and patio
1915-1930 Start of plated banquet SF Convention Center
2015-2035 A Remembrance of Sendai, Japan, March 2011 Michael Mendillo (BU)
2200 End of joint banquet SF Convention Center and patio

Tuesday 

0715-0800 Breakfast and Registration Eldorado Pavilion and CC hallway
0800-0845 CEDAR FE Plenary Prize Lecture: Modeling Global Ionospheric Phenomena (pdf) J Huba (NRL)
0845-0905 CEDAR FE Plenary Science Highlight: Exploring Local-Scale Flow Structures in Thermospheric Winds using a Bistatic Array of All-sky Imaging Fabry-Perot Spectrometers (pdf) C Anderson (U AK)
0905-0920 CEDAR FE Plenary Final Post-Doc Report: A Study of Polar Mesospheric Cloud Structures and the Environment in Which They Form (pdf) B Thurairajah (VT)
0920-0930 CSSC Announcements J Foster/NSF
  OR  
0800-0930 GEM EA Plenary (Magnetosheath: A wonderful laboratory for the investigation of fundamental plasma processes by Tai Pahn (UCB) and Magnetospheric Response Modes: Methods of Identification by Robert Weigel (GMU))  
0930-1000 Break (put up posters for #1 session 4-7PM)  
1000-1200 #3 JOINTa EA Dayside FACs and Energy Deposition See the 2011 Workshops
1200-1330 lunch on own  
1330-1530 #4 JOINTb EA Dayside FACs and Energy Deposition See the 2011 Workshops
1530-1600 Break  
1600-1900 CEDAR MLT and GEM Poster Sessions SF Convention Center (light snacks)

Wednesday 

0715-0800 Breakfast and Registration (take down #1 session posters) Eldorado Pavilion and CC hallway
0800-0930 JOINT FE Plenary on System Science Semeter and Lotko moderators
  • Jeff Thayer (U CO)
  • Dave Hysell (Cornell)
  • Tom Immel (UC Berkeley)
  • Mike Liemohn (U MI)
  • Semeter (BU) and Lotko (Dartmouth)
0930-1000 Break (take down posters for #1 and put up posters for #2 session 4-7PM)  
1000-1200 #5 JOINTa CDV Thermosphere-Ionosphere-Electrodynamics General Circulation Model Working Group See the 2011 Workshops
1200-1330 lunch on own  
1330-1530 #6 JOINTb CDV Coupled Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere Model Working Group See the 2011 Workshops
1530-1600 Break  
1600-1900 Joint CEDAR IT/GEM Poster Session SF Convention Center (light snacks)

Thursday 

0715-0800 Breakfast and Registration (take down posters) Eldorado Pavilion and CC hallway
0800-0845 JOINT FE Plenary student chosen tutorial: Using GPS to study Magnetospheric-Ionospheric Coupling (pdf) Anthea Coster (MIT)
0845-0905 Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP) and the I-T Community (pdf) Dave Sibeck (NASA)
0905-0925 The Future of Space Weather Modeling (TBD) (pdf) Stan Solomon (NCAR)
0925-0935 Announcement of CEDAR student poster prize winners (pdf) Mark Conde (U AK) and Gary Bust (ASTRA)
0935-1000 Break (all posters come down and student winning posters put up in E+F Sweeney)  
1000-1200 #7 JOINTa EA Modeling Challenge Comparisons See the 2011 Workshops
1200-1330 lunch on own or CEDAR SSC lunch at Georgia O'Keefe Cafe  
1330-1530 #8 JOINTb EA Modeling Challenge Metrics and Planning See the 2011 Workshops
1530-1600 Break  
1600-1800 #9 JOINTb PL High-Speed Stream Driving of Geospace See the 2011 Workshops

Friday 

0715-0800 Breakfast and Registration Eldorado Pavilion and CC hallway
0815-1000 GEM FE Plenary (no CEDAR scheduled) (How to Model Micro-Macro Coupling: Magnetic Reconnection by Michael Hesse (CCMC/GSFC) and The Plasmasphere: Diagnostics and modeling and why we should care -- Richard Denton (Dartmouth) ) SF Convention Center
1000-1015 Break  
1015-1215 #10 CEDARa PL Ionospheric Data Assimilation: Current Status and Future Plans See the 2011 Workshops
1215 Adjourn CEDAR  
1215-1330 GEM Focus group reports (wrap-up, no CEDAR scheduled) Eldorado Anasazi
1330 Adjourn GEM  
1345-1600 GEM Steering Committee Meeting Eldorado Sunset