FAST AURORALWORKSHOP SCHEDULE

 

Sunday, August 30, 1998

Continental breakfast in Split Rock Room- 8am

Workshop begins in Gooseberry Room - 9am

9am - Welcome - Chuck Carlson

9:10 - Organizational details - Cindy Cattell

9:20 - Session I - Auroral acceleration microphysics

Session IA -Upward current region - moderator Craig Kletzing

9:20- F. Mozer - Parallel electric fields in the auroral acceleration region

10:10- J. McFadden - FAST observations of ion beams, auroral acceleration and density cavities

11:00- Coffee break

11:15- M. Temerin- Theory of parallel electric fields

Lunch in dining room - 12:00

1pm - Session IB - Downward current region -

1pm - C. Carlson -FAST Observations of Upward Electron Beams

1:50 - R. Ergun - Electric Fields and Waves in the Downward Current Region

2:40 - G. Marklund - Viking and Freja Observations of black aurora and ionospheric closure

3:30- Coffee break

3:45 - Session I Moderated discussion

Banquet - Dining Room - 7pm

Monday, August 31, 1998

Continental breakfast in Split Rock Room- 8 am

Workshop begins in Gooseberry Room - 9 am

9am- Session II - Auroral mesoscale physics - J. McFadden -moderator

9am - W. Lotko - FAST observations and theory of field line resonances

9:50 - R. Lysak - Alfven waves and the auroral density cavity

10:40 - Coffee break

11:05 - H. Nielson - Auroral forms and inferred physical processes

11:55 - Session II Moderated discussion

1 pm- break for lunch, hiking, sightseeing

7pm - Session IIIA - AKR and density cavities - R. Ergun - moderator

7:00 - R. Strangeway - Auroral Kilometric Radiation and the Cyclotron Maser Instability:Observational Evidence

7:30 - P. Pritchett - Theory and simulation of AKR

8:00 - T. Karlsson - Simulations of cavity formation and electric field growth in the return current region

8:30 - Session IIIA Moderated discussion

 

 

Tuesday, September 1, 1998

Continental breakfast in Split Rock Room- 8 am

Workshop begins in Gooseberry Room - 9 am

9am -Session IIIB - Ion waves and heating - R. Bergmann - moderator

9am- D. Klumpar - Historical perspectives on ion heating and new FAST views

9:50 - C. Chaston - FAST observations of ion waves

10:40 - coffee break

10:55 - M. Andre - Ion energization and outflow-Some mechanisms.

11:45 - Session IIIB Moderated discussion

12:30 - Lunch in dining room

1:30 - Session IV - Cusp - W. Peterson - moderator

1:30 - R. Pfaff -

2:00- J. Clemmons

2:30 - Moderated discussion

2:50 - Poster session

4pm - Sum up panel - Marklund, Carlson, Mozer

 

 

 

Wednesday, September 2, 1998 - FAST SCIENCE WORKING TEAM MEETING

7:30 - Continental Breakfast

8:30 - SWT meeting begins

 

2pm - Formal SWT meeting adjourns. Breakout science discussions, etc can continue