Bob Lysak
Office: 379, Tate Laboratory of
Physics
Professor of Physics
Phone: 612-625-1323
Fax: 612-626-2029
E-mail: bob@aurora.space.umn.edu
Physics Web Page: http://www.spa.umn.edu/directory/lysak.html
Research Interests:
Particle acceleration and the
dynamics of current flow in the earth’s auroral zone. Related areas include generation of electric
and magnetic fields in the magnetosphere, plasma instabilities and turbulence,
wave heating of ions, magnetic reconnection, and magnetohydrodynamic waves and
turbulence. Both analytic and numeric
techniques are used, with present emphasis on development of large scale
computer models of auroral phenomena.
Some Recent Reprints
Particle Acceleration
and Wave Phenomena in the Auroral Region
Energetics of the
Ionospheric Feedback Interaction
Kinetic Theory of Alfven
Wave Acceleration of Auroral Electrons
Non-local Kinetic
Theory of Alfven Waves on Auroral Field Lines
Magnetosphere-Ionosphere
Coupling by Alfven Waves at Mid-Latitudes
Propagation of Alfven Waves
at the Plasma Sheet Boundary Layer
Nonlocal Interactions between electrons and
Alfven Waves on auroral field lines
Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling by Alfven Waves: Beyond Current Continuity
Resonant Cavities and Waveguides in the Ionosphere and Atmosphere
On the Dispersion Relation for the kinetic Alfven Wave in an Inhomogeneous Plasma
Propagation of Alfven Waves in the Magnetotail During Substorms
Complete Reference List
2009 Space Physics Tutorial
Tutorial: 2009 Space Physics Seminar
Movie of Phase Mixing in the Ionospheric Alfven Resonator
IMAGE movie of Auroral Dynamics
GEM 2003 (tutorial and movies)
GEM
Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling Tutorial
Movie of Mode Conversion at Plasma
Sheet Boundary Layer
IUGG 2003 Reporter Review
Power Point slides
for Reporter Review
Reference List for Reporter
Review
This work is supported in part by NSF Grants ATM-0602464 and ATM-0613473 and NASA Grant NNX08AM31G. Computing resources are provided by the Minnesota Supercomputer Institute.