Session BI1: Space and Astrophysical Plasmas I

Chair: William Matthaeus, University of Delaware
Adam's Mark Hotel - Plaza Ballroom ABC


Monday, October 24, 2005
9:30AM - 10:00AM

BI1.00001: How Does Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection Work in the Presence of a Guide Magnetic Field?
Invited Speaker: Michael Hesse

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Monday, October 24, 2005
10:00AM - 10:30AM

BI1.00002: A Fermi mechanism for the production of energetic electrons during magnetic reconnection
Invited Speaker: James Drake

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Monday, October 24, 2005
10:30AM - 11:00AM

BI1.00003: Two-fluid effects on 3D reconnection in the SSX experiment with comparisons to space data
Invited Speaker: Michael Brown

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Monday, October 24, 2005
11:00AM - 11:30AM

BI1.00004: MHD Eddy Viscosity: Testing the Concept with the Solar-Wind/Magnetosphere Coupling Data Base
Invited Speaker: Joseph E. Borovsky

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Monday, October 24, 2005
11:30AM - 12:00PM

BI1.00005: The Plasma Physics of Cosmic Ray Acceleration: Where We Stand After 30 Years
Invited Speaker: Mikhail Malkov

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Session BI2: Basic Plasma Physics I

Chair: Scott Hsu, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Adam's Mark Hotel - Plaza Ballroom EF


Monday, October 24, 2005
9:30AM - 10:00AM

BI2.00001: Initial results from the Madison Dynamo Experiment
Invited Speaker: Cary Forest

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Monday, October 24, 2005
10:00AM - 10:30AM

BI2.00002: Novel vorticity probe and its use for the study of strong cross-field sheared flow in the Large Plasma Device
Invited Speaker: Jean C. Perez

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Monday, October 24, 2005
10:30AM - 11:00AM

BI2.00003: Stereoscopic particle image velocimetry studies of transport in dusty plasmas
Invited Speaker: Edward Thomas

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Monday, October 24, 2005
11:00AM - 11:30AM

BI2.00004: Measurements of Ion Density Fluctuations in Phase-Space
Invited Speaker: Ahmed Diallo

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Monday, October 24, 2005
11:30AM - 12:00PM

BI2.00005: Study of Two-Fluid MHD Physics and the Effects of Boundary Conditions on Magnetic Reconnection in MRX
Invited Speaker: Alexey Kuritsyn

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Monday, October 24, 2005
12:00PM - 12:30PM

BI2.00006: Electrostatic turbulence and transport in a simple magnetized plasma
Invited Speaker: Ambrogio Fasoli

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