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Magnetosphere Online Seminar Series

The Magnetosphere Online Seminar Series is held every Monday at noon.

The website has information on schedule, contacting us, and joining the meeting.

The website is a "blog" type website: Jekyll-theme-prologue Demo.

Blog posts are held for individual speakers and can be added by creating a Marddown file (.md) in the _posts folder following the naming format YYYY-MM-DD-Title-of-post.md. These posts will be automatically added to the website.

More complicated posts (adding images, headings, etc.) can be made using html, examples can be seen on the demo site or in examples/2018-01-12-elements.html.

The schedule and tentative shcedule is below.

ToDo Before Next seminar

  1. Blog post for presenter
  2. Link schedule to post
  3. Change links on front page and title for next talk
  4. Post YouTube video
  5. Setup next stream
  6. Send email to confirm next speaker
  7. Send emails to GEM/SPA newsletter (typically on Wed.)

Future Speakers and Topics

Magnetopause Month

  • Jonathan Eastwood – reconnection, already volunteered
  • Tai Phan - reconnection in sheath and at magnetopause
  • Andrey Samsonov – global interactions from simulations (not reconnection)
  • Sarah Vines - ion acceleration
  • Steve Milan - global interaction based on expanding contracting polar cap

ULF Wave Month (or maybe just waves)

  • Review Talk hour long, week 1
  • Weeks 2-4, science talks, 2 half hour talks per week?

Instrument Month

  • Magnetometers (week 1)
  • Electric fields (week 1)
  • Imagers (break down into various imagers? 2 talks week 2, 2 talks week 3)
  • Particle instruments (break down into various types 2 talks week 4)
  • Riometers, VLF recieviers, Balloons.

Modeling Month

  • MHD
  • Kenetic Simulations
  • PIC
  • Forecasting
  • Data Assimilation

Space Weather Month

  • NOAA
  • CCMC
  • Metric and Validation
  • Forecasting and Future work

Generic

  • Northward IMF interactions Robert Fear

  • Data Modeling Nikolai Tsyganenko (or Misha Sitnov)

  • Microscale phenoman Jim Burch

  • Imaging Pontus Brandt

  • Ground ASI Steven Mende

  • Ground radar Ian McCrea (or someone from US superdarn)

  • Challenges for modellers Gabor Toth

  • Unsolved Problems Michael Denton

  • The future. Michael Wiltberger

Potential Speakers

  • Anna DeJong

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