Bulletin of the American Physical Society

56th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics

Volume 59, Number 15

Monday–Friday, October 27–31, 2014; New Orleans, Louisiana

Session Index

Session TO7: Magnetic Reconnection	Show Abstracts
Chair: Seth Dorfman, University of California, Los Angeles Room: Galerie 6

Thursday, October 30, 2014 9:30AM - 9:42AM		TO7.00001: Velocity-Shear Driving for Magnetic Reconnection in Kinetic Simulations Carrie Black, Spiro Antiochos, Kai Germaschewski, Naoki Bessho, C. Richard DeVore, Judith.T. Karpen Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 30, 2014 9:42AM - 9:54AM		TO7.00002: Strongly Driven Magnetic Reconnection in a Magnetized High-Energy-Density Plasma G. Fiksel, D.H. Barnak, P.-Y. Chang, D. Haberberger, S.X. Hu, S. Ivancic, P.M. Nilson, W. Fox, W. Deng, A. Bhattacharjee, K. Germaschewski Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 30, 2014 9:54AM - 10:06AM		TO7.00003: PIC Simulations of the Omega-EP Magnetic Reconnection Experiment Wenda Liu, Eric Blackman, Rui Yan, Chuang Ren Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 30, 2014 10:06AM - 10:18AM		TO7.00004: Radiative Magnetic Reconnection in Astrophysics Dmitri Uzdensky Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 30, 2014 10:18AM - 10:30AM		TO7.00005: Non-thermal particle acceleration in relativistic, collisionless, electron-positron magnetic reconnection Gregory Werner, Dmitri Uzdensky, Benoit Cerutti, Krzysztof Nalewajko, Mitchell Begelman Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 30, 2014 10:30AM - 10:42AM		TO7.00006: The scaling of reconnection rate in relativistic collisionless magnetic reconnection Yi-Hsin Liu, William Daughton, Fan Guo, Hui Li, Michael Hesse Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 30, 2014 10:42AM - 10:54AM		TO7.00007: How robust is the Fermi acceleration in magnetic reconnection? Fan Guo, Hui Li, William Daughton, Xiaocan Li, Yi-Hsin Liu Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 30, 2014 10:54AM - 11:06AM		TO7.00008: Dynamics of the current sheet during driven guide-field reconnection Olaf Grulke, Hannes Bohlin, Dusan Milojevic, Kian Rahbarnia, Ilya Shesterikov, Adrian von Stechow Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 30, 2014 11:06AM - 11:18AM		TO7.00009: Enhanced Magnetic Reconnection By Drift-Wave Instabilities M.J. Pueschel, P.W. Terry, D. Told Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 30, 2014 11:18AM - 11:30AM		TO7.00010: Re-assessing how much parallel and perpendicular electric fields accelerate electrons during magnetic reconnection Naoki Bessho, Li-Jen Chen, Kai Germaschewski, Amitava Bhattacharjee Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 30, 2014 11:30AM - 11:42AM		TO7.00011: Fundamental limitation of a two-dimensional description of magnetic reconnection Marie-Christine Firpo Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 30, 2014 11:42AM - 11:54AM		TO7.00012: Non-linear Tearing of 3D Null Point Current Sheets Peter Wyper, David Pontin Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 30, 2014 11:54AM - 12:06PM		TO7.00013: Global stability versus diffusion region micro-physics in flare reconnection during CME formation Vyacheslav S. Lukin, Ed Lee, Mark G. Linton Preview Abstract
Thursday, October 30, 2014 12:06PM - 12:18PM		TO7.00014: The Onset of Ion Heating During Magnetic Reconnection with a Strong Guide Field James Drake, Michael Swisdak Preview Abstract

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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

56th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics

Volume 59, Number 15

Monday–Friday, October 27–31, 2014; New Orleans, Louisiana

Session Index

Session TO7: Magnetic Reconnection

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