UCL DEPT. OF SPACE & CLIMATE PHYSICS
MULLARD SPACE SCIENCE LABORATORY

MSSL: Workshop/Forum on Magnetospheric Physics

Archived Presentations

In links below, we provide archival versions of the presentations given at MSSL's workshop / forum on “ An Inter-disciplinary Forum on Magnetospheric Activities in Moons, Planets, Stars and Black Holes. ” (18 – 20 September 2007).

Tuesday 18 Sep
Extreme Magnetic Field Generation — large-scale fields in the universe	Kinwah Wu
Superstrong magnetic fields in neutron stars [movie]	Silvia Zane
Currents	Tom Hill
Magnetic Reconnection (with emphasis on the manifestations of this fundamental plasma process in the Earth's magnetosphere).	Chris Owen
Shocks	David Burgess
Wednesday 19 Sep
Collisional vs Collisionless Processes (an astrophysical perspective)	Zdenka Kuncic
Wave-Particle Interactions in the Radiation Belts of Earth and Jupiter	Richard Horne
Particle acceleration	Julian Pittard
Particle Acceleration in Cosmic Plasmas	Gary Zank
Thursday 20 Sep
Neutral / Plasma Interactions (in a magnetosphere)	Bob Johnson
Mass loading	Andrew Coates
GR MHD and GR PIC simulations [movie1] [2]	Ken Nishikawa
Extreme magnetospheres: planets, magnetars, GRB, black holes, jets	Wolfgang Kundt
Short Talks
Jovian and kronian ring currents	Chris Arridge
X-ray aurorae on Jupiter as probes of particle acceleration in the magnetosphere	Graziella Branduardi-Raymont
The Tetraneutron	Vladimir Yershov

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