Mini-Workshop
on Magnetic Reconnection
Space Science Laboratory, UC-Berkeley
October 3-4, 2011
Octover 3, 2011
(Monday)
9:00am Welcome and Goal (T. Phan and H. Ji)
9:10am Experimental Study of Current Layer
Disruption in MRX
(S. Dorfman)
9:50am Generation of flux ropes and turbulence in symmetric
reconnection layers (W. Daughton)
10:50am Generation of flux ropes in asymmetric current sheets (H.
Karimabadi)
12:00pm lunch
2:00pm Waves in reconnection (F. Mozer)
2:40pm Waves in reconnection, Geotail (M.
Fujimoto)
3:00pm Influence of the LHDI on asymmetric
reconnection (V. Roytershteyn)
3:40pm Waves in flux ropes (M. Oieroset)
4:00pm Observations of kinetic Alfven waves in and around reconnection
sites (C. Chaston)
October 4,
2011 (Tuesday)
9:0am Plasma jogging experiments on MRX and new
measurements on the characteristics of the reconenction later (M.
Yamada)
9:40am Particle energization seen in simulations (M. Oka)
10:00am Density depletion in flux ropes (T. Phan)
10:30am Summary discussions (H. Ji)