Winckler Symposium Program Schedule
   
   
Wednesday, April 21, 2004
Physics Colloquium, Room 131, Tate Lab of Physics
   
4:00 Paul Kellogg, University of Minnesota and George Parks, University of California, Berkeley
The Legacy of John Winckler to Space Physics
   
   
Thursday, April 22, 2004
Room 3-180, EE/CSci Building
 
  Overviews - Chair, George Parks
   
8:00 Registration
   
8:25 Robert Lysak, University of Minnesota
Welcome
   
8:30 Roger Arnoldy, University of New Hampshire
Jack Winckler's Echo Rocket Flights --- Do They Contain Clues For Us About The Natural Aurora?
   
9:00 Gerald Davidson, Professor Emeritus
A Brief Review: Where the Theory of Pulsating Aurora Stood Ten Years Ago
   
9:30 Charles Carlson, University of California, Berkeley
Examples of Auroral Electron Acceleration on Extreme Temporal and Spatial Scales
   
10:00 Coffee Break
   
  Theoretical Approaches
   
10:30 Robert Ergun, University of Colorado
Auroral Particle Acceleration by Strong Double Layers
   
11:00 Yan Song, University of Minnesota
Mechanism of the Generation and Maintenance of Parallel Electric Fields
   
11:30 Robert Rankin, University of Alberta
Dispersive Field Line Resonances: Theory and Observations
   
12:00 Lunch
   
  Energetic Particles - Chair, Gerald Davidson
   
1:30 Natsuo Sato, National Institute Of Polar Research
Generation Region of Pulsating Aurora Obtained Simultaneously by the FAST Satellite and a Syowa-Iceland Conjugate Pair of Observatories
   
2:00 Robyn Millan, Dartmouth College
X-ray Observations of Electron Microburst Precipitation
   
2:30 Andrei Demekhov, Russian Academy of Sciences
On the Fine Structure of Cyclotron Wave-particle Interactions and Resulting Energetic-particle Precipitation
   
3:00 David Evans, Space Environment Center
Long-lived Enhancements of 30 keV Electron Fluxes at Very Low L-values
   
3:30 Adjourn to Poster Session
   
4:00 Poster Session (Campus Club, Coffman Memorial Union)
   
   
Friday, April 23, 2004
Room 3-180, EE/CSci Building
   
  Wave-particle Interactions I: Waves - Chair, David Evans
   
8:30 Paul Kintner, Cornell University
Multi-Point Observations of AlfvŽn Waves from the SIERRA Rocket
   
9:00 Eric Klatt, Cornell University
High-Resolution, Low-Frequency Electric Field Measurements on an Auroral Sounding Rocket Experiment
   
9:30 Robert Pfaff, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Intense Langmuir Waves and Associated Field-Aligned Electrons Observed at Altitudes Above 600 km Within a Series of Nightside Aurora Arcs and in the Cusp
   
10:00 Coffee Break
   
  Wave-particle Interactions II: Particles
   
10:30 James McFadden, University of California, Berkeley
The Role of Time Varying Acceleration In Auroral and Magnetospheric Dynamics
   
11:00 Elizabeth MacDonald, University of New Hampshire
Sounding Rocket Particle Measurements of Active Nightside Aurora
   
11:30 Kristina Lynch, Dartmouth College
Auroral Ion Outflow as Seen by Sounding Rockets and FAST
   
12:00 Lunch
   
  Alfvén Wave Experiment - Chair, Robert Lysak
   
1:30 Craig Kletzing, University of Iowa
Dispersive Alfvén Waves: Lab Verification of the Dependence on Finite Perpendicular Wave Number
   
2:00 George Morales, University of California, Los Angeles
Recent Studies Of Wave-Particle Interactions Associated With Shear Alfvén Waves
   
2:30 Coffee Break
   
  Alfvén Theory and Modeling
   
3:00 James Clemmons, The Aerospace Corporation
Application of the Alfvén-Assisted Precipitation Model to Auroral Zone Observations
   
3:30 Christopher Chaston, University of California, Berkeley
Observations of Particle Acceleration by Alfvén Waves and Alfvén Wave Sources
   
4:00 Robert Lysak, University of Minnesota
Acceleration of Auroral Electrons by Alfvén Waves
   
4:30 Conference Wrapup and Discussion
   
   
  Posters (Campus Club, Coffman Memorial Union)
   
  Johnathan Burchill, University of Calgary
  Core Ion interactions with Alfvén Waves in the AuroralTtopside Ionosphere
   
  Li-Jen Chen, University of Iowa
  Auroral Electron Dispersion Below Inverted-V Energies: Resonant Deceleration and Acceleration by Alfvén Waves
   
  Kristen Frederick-Frost, Dartmouth College
  Preliminary Results of the SERSIO Sounding Rocket Mission
   
  Walter Heikkila, University of Texas, Dallas
  Westward Traveling Surge
   
  Kyoung-joo Hwang, Darmouth College
  Perpendicular Electric Field and Flickering Aurora Study in the Auroral Zone
   
  Hyomin Kim, Dartmouth College
  Initial Results of a New ELF Induction Coil Magnetometer at South Pole Station
   
  Robert Michell, Dartmouth College
  CASCADES: (The Changing Aurora: in Situ and Camera Analyses of Dynamic Electron Precipitation Structures.)
   
  Manju Prakash, SUNY at Stony Brook
  Particle Precipitation and Nonlinear Effects in Geomagnetic Field Resonances: Auroral Arc Structure
   
  John Sample, University of California, Berkeley
  Multiple Balloon Campaign (MINIS) to Study MeV Electron Precipitation with Microburst Time Resolution
   
  Vytenis Vasyliunas, Max-Planck Institut fuer Aeronomie
  Parallel Electric Fields and the Generalized Ohm's Law