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NOTE:
Asterisks(*) indicate contributed talks (15+5min).
Other talks are invited (25+5min).

T. Forbes, Y. Su, J. Raeder, and K. Reeves were not be able to attend the workshop because their flights were cancelled due to a snow storm along the east coast of the US.
However, their presentation files are available on this page.

3/18 AM 1. Introductory Talks
Chair: Takashi Kikuchi
Time Speaker Title and Abstract Presentation Video & Transcription
09:00-09:30 Syun Akasofu Longstanding Unsolved Problems in Solar Physics and Magnetospheric Physics ppt(19MB)
mpg(618MB)
doc(89KB)
09:30-10:00 Kazunari Shibata Introduction to Solar Flares: Questions from Solar Physicist zip(30MB)
mpg(710MB) doc(103KB)
10:00-10:30 Bruce Tsurutani Interplanetary Disturbances and General Space Weather Problems ppt(9.6MB)
mpg(271MB) doc(48KB)
10:30-11:00 Hirohisa Hara Hinode Initial Results ---
11:00-11:30 Natchimuthuk Gopalswamy Halo coronal mass ejections and their geoeffectiveness zip(4.7MB)


3/18 PM 2. Comparison of Flares and Substorms, Common Processes?
Chair: Bruce Tsurutani
Time Speaker Title and Abstract Presentation Video & Transcription
13:30-14:00 Gordon Rostoker The Role of Substorms in Influencing Types of Space Weather That Have Damaging Consequences ppt(12MB)
mpg(497MB) doc(102KB)
14:00-14:30 Haimin Wang Evolution of Photospheric Magnetic Fields associated with Solar Flares zip(26MB)
mpg(461MB)
doc(118KB)
14:30-15:00 Kiyofumi Yumoto Substorm onsets obtained from satellite and ground-based observations ppt(6MB)
mpg(451MB) doc(64KB)
 
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15:30-16:00 Stefaan Poedts Numerical simulations of the initiation and the IP evolution of coronal mass ejections zip(32MB)
mpg(559MB) doc(77KB)
16:00-16:30 Joe Kan Storm and Substorm Driven by Magnetic Reconnection in the Plasma Sheet ppt(17MB)
mpg(416MB)
mpg(66MB) doc(59KB) doc(37KB)
16:30-16:50 Takenori Okamoto* Discovery of cool cloud-like structures in the corona with Hinode Solar Optical Telescope ---
16:50-17:10 Ryuho Kataoka* Acceleration mechanisms of radiation belt electrons during magnetic storms driven by CMEs and CIRs ppt(7.4MB)
mpg(268MB) doc(55KB)
~17:30 Syun Akasofu Global Warming ppt(27MB)
mpg(570MB) doc(93KB)


3/19 AM 3. What is the role of reconnection in flares/CMEs and substorms?
Chair: ST Wu
Time Speaker Title and Abstract Presentation Video & Transcription
9:00-09:30 Masayuki Ugai Modeling of substorms and flares by the fast reconnection mechanism ppt(1.4MB)
mpg(565MB) doc(126KB)
09:30-10:00 Amitava Bhattacharjee Role of Collisionless Reconnection in Flares and Substorms: a Comparative Study ppt(2.5MB)
mpg(565MB) doc(126KB)
10:00-10:30 Masaaki Yamada Study of Physics of Magnetic Reconnection in Laboratory and Space Plasmas ppt(13MB)
mpg(685MB) doc(85KB)
11:00-11:30 Mark Linton Post-CME Reconnection and the Generation of Descending Coronal Voids zip(17MB)
mpg(749MB) doc(94KB)


3/19 PM
Chair: Katsuhide Marubashi
Time Speaker Title and Abstract Presentation Video & Transcription
13:00-13:30 Brigitte Schmieder Coronal loop and chromospheric ribbon motions during slip-running reconnection zip(3.6MB)
13:30-14:00 Masaki Fujimoto Towards more realistic full particle simulations of magnetic reconnection: Effects of density jump across a current sheet ppt(1.9MB)
mpg(485MB) doc(81KB)
14:00-14:30 Jack Gosling Magnetic Reconnection in the Solar Wind and Within ICMEs ppt(5.0MB)
mpg(478MB) doc(80KB)
14:30-15:00 Kanya Kusano The role of magnetic reconnection in the onset of solar flares and CMEs ppt(18MB)
mpg(592MB) doc(99KB)
 
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15:30-16:00 Lyndsay Fletcher The solar flare electron number problem - time for a new acceleration scenario? ppt(0.9MB)
mpg(70MB) doc(41KB)
16:00-16:30 Tatsuki Ogino Response of the Earth's Magnetosphere to the Strength and Rotation of IMF ppt(8.4MB)
16:30-16:50 Hiroaki Isobe* Magnetic reconnection in solar atmosphere: three-dimensional evolution and fine structures ppt(2.9MB)
mpg(372MB) doc(63KB)
16:50-17:10 Tohru Shimizu* MHD study of three-dimensional instability and plasmoid ejections of the spontaneous fast magnetic reconnection ppt(1.2MB)
mpg(265MB) doc(52KB)
~17:30 Syun Akasofu Video of Aurora mpg(191MB) doc(40KB)
~17:30 Kazunari Shibata Discussion on Proceedings mpg(107MB) doc(52KB)


3/20 AM 4. Fundamental processes in solar flares/interplanetary
     disturbances/magnetospheric substorms
Chair: Hugh Hudson
Time Speaker Title and Abstract Presentation and Video
09:00-09:30 Koji Kondoh* Three dimensional configuration of earthward fast plasma flow in near-Earth plasma sheet ppt(1.8MB)
mpg(462MB) doc(75KB)
09:30-10:00 Katsuhide Marubashi Impacts of a torus model on the geometry of magnetic clouds ppt(11MB)
mpg(570MB) doc(85KB)
10:00-10:30 Mitsuo Oka Particle Acceleration by Shocks ppt(4.2MB)
mpg(382MB) doc(45KB)
10:30-11:00 Sam Krucker Coronal Hard X-ray Sources in Solar Flares: new RHESSI results ppt(16MB)
mpg(681MB) doc(124KB)
11:00-11:30 Danny Summers Wave-particle interactions in the Van Allen radiation belts with implications for space weather science


3/20 PM
Chair: Gordon Rostoker
Time Speaker Title and Abstract Presentation Video & Transcription
13:00-13:30 Hugh Hudson White-light flares and why the chromosphere is different from the ionosphere zip(8.2MB)
mpg(408MB) doc(98KB)
13:30-14:00 James Chen Driving Force of CMEs:Acceleration and Propagation zip(3.2MB)
mpg(415MB) doc(38KB)
14:00-14:30 Yoshiharu Omura Relativistic Turning Acceleration of Resonant Electrons by Coherent Whistler-Mode Waves in a Dipole Magnetic Field ppt(7.5MB) mpg(503MB) doc(66KB)
14:30-15:00 ST Wu Coupling the photosphere and corona using a data -driven 3D MHD model mpg(508MB) doc(103KB)
 
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15:30-15:50 Satomi Kamei* Development of global simulation model of the Heliosphere zip(12MB)
mpg(243MB) doc(47KB)


3/20 PM 5. Summary and Discussion
 
Speaker Title and Abstract Presentation Video & Transcription
Syun Akasofu Comment and Summary ppt(19MB)
mpg(372MB) doc(59KB)
Yingna Su*
(presented by K. Shibata)
Shear Motion of the Footpoints in Two-Ribbon Flares ppt(1.3MB)
mpg(132MB) doc(35KB)
Kathy Reeves
(presented by K. Shibata)
Observations of Solar Flares and Eruptive Events With the X-Ray Telescope on Hinode zip(153MB)
mpg(273MB) doc(61KB)
Kazunari Shibata Comment on Jet mpg(245MB)
mpg(153MB) doc(63KB) doc(51KB)
Bruce Tsurutani
(presented by K. Shibata)
Summary mpg(26MB) doc(29KB)
Kazunari Shibata Summary mpg(172MB) doc(52KB)
Brigitte Schmieder Comment on CAWSES mpg(46MB) doc(31KB)
Syun Akasofu Summary mpg(154MB) doc(55KB)
Kazunari Shibata Remark mpg(37MB) doc(30KB)
Terry Forbes
(Files sent after meeting)
Energy Transfer in Solar Flares zip(14MB)
Joachim Raeder
(Files sent after meeting)
On measuring the reconnection rate in magnetosphere simulations pdf(1.8MB)