Dubrovnik, Croatia, May 22 27, 2016
Abstract submission opens: 16 November 2015
Abstract submission closes: 18 January 2016
Conference website: chapman.agu.org/spacecurrents/
Electric currents are fundamental to the structure and dynamics of space plasmas. In the last decade, significant advances have been made in our understanding of fundamental processes related to such currents. To build up a comprehensive picture, this international Chapman Conference will address electric currents in various space plasmas, including:
* Earth’s magnetosphere & ionosphere
* Planetary magnetospheres & ionospheres (other than Earth)
* Solar atmosphere and solar wind
The conference will provide a forum in which different space science communities can come together to discuss recent achievements of observational, theoretical, and modelling studies. The emphasis will be on cross-disciplinary science sessions, covering topics such as:
* Current sheets (e.g., coronal current sheets, heliospheric current sheet, magnetotail current sheets).
* Ring currents (e.g., at Earth and at the giant planets, influence of planet-moon interaction, etc.).
* Field-aligned currents (incl. corona-photosphere coupling, M-I coupling at Earth and other planets).
* Small-scale / filamentary currents (e.g., on auroral field lines, in turbulent regions, etc.).
* Energetics of currents (incl. current-driven models, magnetic energy release).
* Current measurement and data analysis techniques.
* Current modeling and simulation techniques.
The science program committee includes: Andreas Keiling (UC Berkeley, USA), Octav Marghitu (Institute for Space Sciences, Romania), Michael Wheatland (University of Sydney, Australia), Chris Arridge (Lancaster University, UK), Fran Bagenal (University of Colorado, USA), Brigitte Schmieder (Observatoire de Paris/Meudon, France), Iannis Dandouras (IRAP, France), Eduard Dubinin (Max-Planck-Institute, Germany), Malcolm Dunlop (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK), Catherine Johnson (University of British Columbia, Canada), Kanya Kusano (STELab, Nagoya University, Japan), Michael Liemohn (University of Michigan, USA), Hermann Lühr (Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ, Germany), Igor Veselovsky (Moscow State University, Russia), Masatoshi Yamauchi (Swedish Institute of Space Physics/Kiruna, Sweden), Akimasa Yoshikawa (Kyushu University, Japan).… continue to the full article