Meeting

First meeting (February 2026):

Schedule:

Monday schedule
9:00 Introduction & self-introduction
9:30 Sergio Toledo-Redondo Statistics of the Warm Plasma Cloak and detached plasmaspheric plasma
10:30 Inmaculada Albert Gaussian Mixture Model applied to cold plasma
11:00 Coffee break
11:10 Chris Cully Cold plasma structure relation to wave growth and high energy particle precipitation
11:30 Jing Liao Identification of the source of the warm plasma cloak
12:00 Lunch
13:30 Lynn Kistler – Contribution of the solar wind plasma to the plasma sheet
– Contributions of ionospheric ions accelerated at the near-earth reconnection region.
14:15 Adam Michael – Global multi-fluid MHD simulations of the plasmaspheric evolution during and following storms
– Global test particle simulations of oxygen ion transport and heating
15:15 Coffee break
15:30 Guillaume Peyrichon Simulations of Kelvin-Helmholtz instability
16:00 Jean-François Ripoll Simulations of wave-particle interactions in the radiation belts
16:00 Alexandre Winant Ionization of the atmosphere, radiation belts and plasmasphere
17:00 Welcome drink
Tuesday schedule
9:00 Jean-François Ripoll Simulations of wave-particle interactions in the radiation belts
9:15 Jérémy Dargent Energy budgets of magnetic reconnection with cold ions
9:45 Dan Welling – 3-fluid simulations of outflow & multifluid coupling with a plasmasphere code
– New way to measure the total reconnection potential on the dayside
10:30 Coffee break
10:45 Alexandre Winant Ionization of the atmosphere, radiation belts and plasmasphere
11:30 Cecilia Norgren Gaussian Mixture Model applied to cold plasma
12:00 Lunch
13:30 Alex Glocer – Overview of the ion outflow model in global MHD simulation
– Case studies tracking different plasma sources though the magnetosphere
– Other code and method improvements
14:30 End of presentation & start of team work
– Identification of the energization processes of interest
– Collaboration works
19:00 Social dinner
Wednesday schedule
– Select dataset and/or events with energization processes in presence of ionospheric plasma
– Collaboration works
Thursday schedule
– Defining simulation setup associated with previously selected dataset/events
– Collaboration works
Friday schedule
– Collaboration works