Date & Place

Date and time

The "International Summer School on Magnetic Reconnection in Space and Laboratory Plasmas" that will be held in Kunming, China, from July 4 to July 10, 2016. We hope that you would be able to participate in the conference. Notice that the deadlines for abstract submission and registration are, respectively, May 1 and May 31, 2016. Please send directly your abstracts, with a statement of your favorite presentation style (oral or poster), to Dr. Mingyu Wu (wumy@mail.ustc.edu.cn), who will post your abstracts manually on the web.

Tips: The Registration Fee of the regular participant is CNY1800 (approximately USD $280), while the Registration Fee of the student is CNY900. More details can be found in the Hotel reservation form.

Scope

Magnetic reconnection is a fundamental plasma process in space, astrophysical, and laboratory plasmas. In the process of magnetic reconnection, magnetic energy is released and converted into plasma kinetic energy and heating, and plasmas as well as magnetic fluxes are transferred between different plasma regimes. Over the last decades, significant progresses have been achieved. However, there are still many issues, especially the microphysics in electron scale. Motivated by the new MMS mission concentrating on physics in the electron diffusion region and reconnection onset, a large number of original results on reconnection have been obtained. This workshop will focus on the new findings on magnetic reconnection from recent ESA Cluster, NASA Themis and MMS, and JAXA Geotail etc, and numerical simulations, and laboratory experiments.

Session Topics

  1. Fundamental physics of magnetic reconnection
  2. Reconnection in planetary magnetosphere
  3. Reconnection in solar atmosphere and solar wind
  4. Reconnection in astrophysics and laboratory plasma
  5. Turbulence and Reconnection
  6. Energetic particles in plasmas

Scientific Organizing Committee

Pengfei Chen, Nanjing University, China

Huishan Fu, Beihang University, China

Hantao Ji, Princeton University, USA

Hui Li, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA

Quanming Lu, University of Science and Technology of China, China

Chi Wang, National Space Science Center, China

Xiaogang Wang, Harbin Institute of Technology, China

Jun Lin, Yunnan Observatories, China

Andris Vaivads, Sweden Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala, Sweden

Malcolm Dunlop, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK

Local Organizing Committee

    Mingyu Wu, University of Science and Technology of China

    Huishan Fu, Beihang University, China

    Yufei Hao, University of Science and Technology of China

    Jun Lin, Yunnan Observatories, China

    Quanming Lu, University of Science and Technology of China

    Lin Zhang, University of Science and Technology of China

CONTACT

SPONSORS