Date & Place
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
- Fundamental physics of magnetic reconnection
- Reconnection in planetary magnetosphere
- Reconnection in solar atmosphere and solar wind
- Reconnection in astrophysics and laboratory plasma
- Turbulence and Reconnection
- 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