HR: 09:00h
AN: U11D-02 INVITED     [Abstracts]
TI: Tutorial session: Magnetic reconnection, concepts and applications
AU: * Birn, J
EM: jbirn@lanl.gov
AF: Los Alamos National Laboratory, PO Box 1663, Los Alamos, NM 87545 United States
AB: Magnetic reconnection is one of the most fundamental and exciting processes in plasma physics. It is responsible for fast energy release, particle acceleration, and plasma and energy transfer across magnetic boundaries. In this tutorial I will give a brief overview of classical concepts of magnetic reconnection and provide insights into newer developments, which concern particularly three-dimensional aspects and the physics of collisionless reconnection. I will further present applications, primarily to the magnetospheric environment, where spacecraft observations have provided the most detailed in-situ information on particle populations and the structure of fields in the vicinity of potential and actual reconnection sites and thereby have motivated (and vice versa, are being motivated by) the most detailed computer simulations of reconnection.
DE: 2723 Magnetic reconnection (7526, 7835)
DE: 2740 Magnetospheric configuration and dynamics
DE: 2744 Magnetotail
DE: 7526 Magnetic reconnection (2723, 7835)
DE: 7835 Magnetic reconnection (2723, 7526)
SC: Union [U]
MN: Fall Meeting 2005