Session PO4: Magnetic Reconnection and Basic Plasma Properties

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Chair: Troy Carter, University of California, Los Angeles
- Reunion B


Wednesday, November 19, 2008
2:00PM - 2:12PM

PO4.00001: The scaling of the two-fluid resistive and collisionless tearing instability
Mahboub Hosseinpour , Nickolas Bian , Grigory Vekstein

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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
2:12PM - 2:24PM

PO4.00002: Hall Magnetohydrodynamics near a Hyperbolic Magnetic Neutral Line
Bhimsen Shivamoggi

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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
2:24PM - 2:36PM

PO4.00003: Magnetic Reconnection of Super-Strong Magnetic Fields in Magnetar Magnetospheres
Dmitri Uzdensky

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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
2:36PM - 2:48PM

PO4.00004: Plasmoid Generation in Driven Compressible Magnetic Reconnection
R. Samtaney , N. Loureiro , A. Schekochihin , D. Uzdensky , S. Cowley

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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
2:48PM - 3:00PM

PO4.00005: Current sheets and filaments in relativistic collisionless plasmas: Exact solutions for a broad class of particle distributions
Vladimir Kocharovsky , Vitaly Kocharovsky , Vladimir Martyanov

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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
3:00PM - 3:12PM

PO4.00006: Fast magnetic reconnection in collisionless plasmas with velocity shear
Francesco Pegoraro , Matteo Faganello , Francesco Califano

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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
3:12PM - 3:24PM

PO4.00007: Towards all-optical plasma physics
Jason Fleischer , Dmitry Dylov

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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
3:24PM - 3:36PM

PO4.00008: Low velocity Ion Stopping in Strongly Magnetized Plasmas
Claude Deutsch , Romain Popoff

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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
3:36PM - 3:48PM

PO4.00009: Enhancing Laser Induced Plasma Emissions using Various Excitation Modalities
Lewis Johnson , Charlemagne Akpovo , Samson Gebreegziabher , Jorge Martinez Jr.

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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
3:48PM - 4:00PM

PO4.00010: Helium Spectroscopy Studies on Anomalous Turbulent Lines using a Mach 50 Arc-Driven Shock Tube
James Titus , Chavis Raynor , Kyron Williams , Richard Appartaim , Joseph Johnson, III

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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
4:00PM - 4:12PM

PO4.00011: Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations of electron-ion temperature relaxation in a classical Coulomb plasma
Guy Dimonte , Jerome Daligault

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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
4:12PM - 4:24PM

PO4.00012: Numerical Calculations of Diffusion Coefficients for Plasmas Confined by Magnetic Fields
Alhashmi Alabyad Bilal , Mohamed Mansor , Maulud Elaharsh , Najeeb Khalifa

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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
4:24PM - 4:36PM

PO4.00013: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN


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