Scientific committees

Local organizing committee

Local Organizing Committee (LOC) office is situated in the main building, on the second level.

Members of LOC

List of topics

• 1) Dynamic processes in the solar wind including the following subtopics:

  • - Properties of the near-Earth solar wind and their variations
  
  
  • - Bow shock formations
  
  
  • - Foreshock processes
  
  
  • - Magnetosheath dynamics
  
  
  • - Propagation of discontinuities through the solar wind and bow shock into the magnetosheath
  
  
  • - Lessons from other planets
  
  




• 2) Magnetopause reconnection as a source of magnetospheric plasma:

  • - Reconnection in theory and observations
  
  
  • - Dynamics of boundary layers, difference between subsolar and tail regions
  
  
  • - High and low-latitude boundary layers for various IMF orientations
  
  
  • - Cusp and its relevance to mass, energy, and momentum transfer
  
  
  • - Role of high-energy particles in formation and tracing of the cusp region
  
  
  • - Alternative sources of the magnetospheric plasma
  
  




• 3) Waves and non-linear processes determining the magnetospheric behaviour:

  • - Using ULF, ELF, and VLF waves as diagnostic probes of the solar wind - magnetosphere - ionosphere system
  
  
  • - Generation and propagation of plasma waves and irregularities in the low-, mid-, and high-latitude magnetosphere
  
  
  • - Role of waves in acceleration and transport of magnetospheric particles through boundaries
  
  




• 4) Structures in the magnetotail and their influence on magnetotail dynamics:

  • - Initialization of storms and substorms
  
  
  • - Transient changes of the tail structure during storms and substorms
  
  
  • - Formation and motion of reconnection sites and associated phenomena (plasmoids, travelling compression regions, bursty bulk flows, etc.)
  
  
  • - Demonstration of "steady" tail structure as well as dynamic phenomena in the auroral ionosphere
  
  
  • - Plasma sheet dynamics and turbulence
  
  
  • - Comparison of planetary magnetospheres
  
  




• 5) Space experiments

Schedule

Invited lectures

• L. Zelenyi: Laminar and Turbulent Regimes of Magnetotail Dynamics


• A. Szabo: Interplanetary Discontinuities and Shocks in the Earth's Magnetosheath


• D. Sibeck: Pressure Pulses and Cavity Mode Resonances


• Y. Lin: Simulations of Foreshock Structures of the Bow Shock and its Interaction With Interplanetary Discontinuities


• C. T. Russell: Solar Wind Interaction With Planetary Magnetospheres


• S. Fuselier: Magnetosheath Properties and Dayside Magnetic Reconnection


• J. Borovsky: A Model for the Turbulence in the Plasma Sheet


• J. Pickett: Multipoint Observations of Nonlinear Waves and Isolated Electrostatic Structures in the Earth's Magnetosphere: The Cluster Perspective


• J. Chen: Cusp as a Source of Upstream Energetic Ions


• P. Escoubet: CLUSTER: New Measurements of Plasma Structures in 3d


• P. Louarn et al.: Propagation of Low Frequency Fluctuations in the Plasmasheet - A CLUSTER Analysis


• J. Richardson: Propagation and Evolution of CMEs in the Solar Wind


• V. A. Sergeev: Bursty Bulk Flows and Their Ionospheric Footprints


• G. N. Zastenker: An Overview of New Concepts Deduced From INTERBALL Solar Wind Investigations


• S. Wing: Double Cusp


• O. Vaisberg: Counter-streaming Ion Components as Indicator of Multiple Reconnection


• A. Fedorov: Direct and Indirect Observations of a Patchy-sporadic Reconnection on the Dayside Magnetopause

Call for contributions

The conference presentation will be a mixture of invited and solicited lectures, oral contributions, and posters: - Invited lectures (25 minutes) bringing broad and deep surveys of recent results in the fields listed above. - Solicited contributions (20 minutes including discussion) - Oral contributions (15 minutes including discussion). - Majority of contributions will be scheduled into two afternoon poster sessions. The presenters are asked to prepare one transparency summarizing major results for a poster survey. The dimensions of poster boards are 150 cm (height) and 100 cm (width).

Social program

Icebreaker at the hall of student dormitory (2nd level)
	Monday, September 8, 1800 - 2000 Free for all participants and accomp. persons
Excursion to Konopiste Castle and Smíchov Brewery
	Wednesday, September 10, 1330 - 2000 • Sandwich lunch - main hall, 1300 • Bus departure from the main Faculty building, 1330 • End at Smíchov Brewery, 2000 • Free for registered participants, 300 CZK (10 EUR) for accomp. persons
Conference party at Zofin
	Thursday, September 11, 1930 - 2200 Zofin is located on a small island ("Slovansky ostrov") in the Vltava river. Award ceremony, 2000 • Medals of Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University will be awarded to several distinguished scientists for their contributions to the development of space research at the faculty. • Prizes for the best poster presentation will be awarded to several young scientists on the decision of the scientific committee. • Free for all registered participants, 300 CZK (10 EUR) for accomp. persons.
Coffee, tea, and beverages during breaks and poster sessions are free for all participants and accompanying persons.

The information booth with a possibility to book individually theater tickets, excursions to Prague or near surroundings, etc. will be open from Monday to Wednesday for participants and accompanying persons at the registration desk during registration hours.

Deadlines and milestones

Publications

We plan to publish the resulting papers in two locations:

• - Invited and solicited lectures of ARW participants in a NATO Science Series volume.


• - Oral contributions and poster presentation in a special issue of Planetary and Space Science.

For these, we suppose a tight schedule:

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