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Session GM9: Mini-Conference on Unsteady Reconnection in Laboratory and Nature I: Reconnection Rate and Dynamics

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Chair: Giovanni Lapenta, Centre for Space Weather, Leuven, Belgium
Room: Regency V


Tuesday, November 3, 2009
9:30AM - 9:55AM

GM9.00001: Reconnection in the Solar Wind: An Update
John Gosling

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Tuesday, November 3, 2009
9:55AM - 10:15AM

GM9.00002: The Tectonics Model of Coronal Heating: Unsteady Dynamics and Scaling in Statistical Steady State
C.S. Ng , L. Lin , A. Bhattacharjee

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Tuesday, November 3, 2009
10:15AM - 10:40AM

GM9.00003: Energy conversion by magnetic reconnection
Joachim Birn , Michael Hesse

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Tuesday, November 3, 2009
10:40AM - 11:00AM

GM9.00004: Dipolarization fronts as a distinctive feature of transient reconnection in the magnetotail: Particle simulations with open boundaries and THEMIS observations
M. Sitnov , A. Runov , V. Angelopoulos , M. Swisdak , P. Guzdar , A. Divin , V. Sergeev , S. Ohtani , B. Mauk , J. Bonnell , J. McFadden , D. Larson , K.-H. Glassmeier , U. Auster

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Tuesday, November 3, 2009
11:00AM - 11:20AM

GM9.00005: A Hall-MHD model for dipolarization fronts
P.N. Guzdar , M.I. Sitnov , A.B. Hassam , M. Swisdak

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Tuesday, November 3, 2009
11:20AM - 11:40AM

GM9.00006: What Causes Electron Holes During Magnetic Reconnection and What Can We Learn From Them
Martin V. Goldman , David L. Newman , Giovanni Lapenta , Andre Divin , Francesco Califano , Haihong Che

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Tuesday, November 3, 2009
11:40AM - 12:00PM

GM9.00007: Dissipation of Thin Current Sheets Interacting with Nonlinear Alfven Waves in Relativistic Plasmas
Edison Liang , Guy Hilburn , Hui Li , Wei Liu

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Tuesday, November 3, 2009
12:00PM - 12:20PM

GM9.00008: Evolving Magnetic Reconnection in Well Confined Plasmas with Low Collisionalities$*$
B. Coppi

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