Agenda

Electronic copies are available of this Agenda and the Poster Sessions

Monday, February 12
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Arrival and Registration

Tuesday, February 13
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8:30 AM Description of the mission, instruments
8:30 AM Angelopoulos - The THEMIS mission, scientific objectives and allied observations (15 min)
8:45 AM Bonnell - The THEMIS Electric Field Instrument (15 min)
9:00 AM Carlson - The THEMIS ESA Plasma Instrument (15 min)
9:15 AM Auster - The THEMIS Fluxgate Magnetometer Experiment (15 min)
9:30 AM Robert - THEMIS Search Coil Magnetometer (SCM) (15 min)
9:45 AM Larson - THEMIS SST: Solid State Telescope Design, Operation and Science Objectives (15 min)
10:00 AM Mende - Correlated in situ Observation of Particles and Fields and the Optical Aurora with the THEMIS Ground Based Observatory Network (15 min)

10:15 AM Break

10:30 AM Description of the data and software tools
10:30 AM Bromund - THEMIS Data Analysis Software Tools (20 min)
10:50 AM McGuire/Bilitza - Justice is being served - THEMIS Orbits and Data at SPDF (10 min)
11:00 AM Bromund et al. - Demonstration of tools (1 hr)

12:00 PM Boxed Lunch
12:15 PM Launch Site Tour for those registered before tour deadline and confirmed/approved by KSC and AirForce. Please bring email confirmation to the bus.

1:15 PM Early Bird Poster Session
Cully The Digital Fields Board (DFB)
Jacquey AMDA (Automated Multi-Data Set Anslysis): application to data simultaneously obtained onboard THEMIS, CLUSTER and other missions
Keiling Multipoint observations of the magnetosphere and its coupling to the ionosphere and the solar wind
King Virtual Magnetospheric Observatory
Lessard Relating the NENL region to the CD region: ULF Pi1B magnetic pulsations, fast flows and Alfvenic aurora at substorm onset
Prosolin Effects of pressure gradients and convection on the inner plasma sheet stability
Penou Cl software : data display package
Rae Pi2 pulsations: field line resonances or a driven response?
Rajaram On the identification of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability at the magnetopause boundary
Shiokawa Ground-based observations of aurora, airglow, and geomagnetic pulsations at subauroral latitudes to contribute to the THEMIS inner magnetosphere research
Uozumi Ground-based observations of aurora, airglow, and geomagnetic pulsations at subauroral latitudes to contribute to the THEMIS inner magnetosphere research

3:00 PM Break

3:15 PM Tail Dynamics and Ionospheric Coupling Session 1
3:15 PM Slavin - The Reconnection Model of Geomagnetic Substorms
3:35 PM Samson - The Substorm Intensification: High Beta Plasma disruptions in the Near Earth Plasma Sheet
3:55 PM Lui - The current disruption model for substorms
4:15 PM Nakamura - Reconnection model of geomagnetic substorm
4:35 PM Liu - Use of Riometer Observations to Characterize Substorm Dynamics
4:50 PM Voronkov - Features of magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling during breakups and substorm onset inferred from multi-instrument alignment
5:05 PM Lyons - Coordinated Radar-THEMIS Measurements of Region 2/Harang Reversal Physics

5:30 – 7:30 PM Main Poster Session
Craig THEMIS Education and Outreach Program’s Involvement in Authentic Science in the Classroom
Fillingim Observations of the Magnetosphere and its Coupling to the Ionosphere: Relating Plasma Sheet Observations to Global Auroral Images
Frey Correlation of the REIMEI Multi-Spectral Auroral Camera (MAC) With All-Sky Observations by the THEMIS GBOs
Merka Current Status of the Virtual Magnetospheric Observatory
Milling Substorm timing and location using the combined CARISMA and THEMIS GBO magnetometer arrays
Russell Potential correlative Studies between the Polar and THEMIS Mission
Wanliss How thin does the magnetotail really get during substorm growth phase?

Wednesday, February 14
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8:30 AM Inner Magnetosphere Science
8:30 AM Li - THEMIS’ Contribution to the Outer Radiation Belt Science
8:50 AM Mann - Radiation Belt Science with THEMIS
9:10 AM Zhang - Theory of diffusive compression acceleration of energetic particles caused by magnetospheric convection: Ideal tests from THEMIS
9:25 AM Zesta - Remote monitoring of tail fast flows and inner magnetosphere dynamics: the contribution of THEMIS
9:40 AM Stasiewicz - Bursty Bulk Flows as Sources of Auroral Electric Potential Structures

10:15 AM BREAK

10:30 AM Dayside Science
10:30 AM Fuselier - Some Dayside Reconnection Science Studies Using THEMIS
10:50 AM Omidi/Sibeck - Utilization of Global Hybrid Simulations and THEMIS Data for Dayside Science
11:10 AM Russell - The International Ground Magnetometer Campaign in Support of the THEMIS Mission
11:30 AM Rae - Global ULF Wave Energy Transport in the Magnetosphere