INSTITUTET FÖR RYMDFYSIK	UPPSALA
Swedish Institute of Space Physics	(59°50.272′N, 17°38.786′E)

Nordic Cluster Meeting 2011

The Nordic Cluster Meeting will take place August 24 - 25 in Uppsala.

The meeting is planned with particular focus on EFW results, however is open to all Cluster contributions. We plan for both presentations and work in splinters on different topics. There is also space for posters in the room where we will have the workshop. We particularly encourage participation of master students, PhD students and postdocs. For those who participate in the much bigger Cluster 21th workshop in Brugge, this can be a good opportunity to discuss the science that you plan to present there.

Location

Uppsala map Information for visitors

The workshop takes place in the Beurling room (Arne Beurling was mathematician) located on the ground floor of the Ångströmlaboratoriet of the Uppsala University.

Programme

Posters are located in the Beurling room where we have presentations and the afternoon coffee.

• Stein Haaland (University of Bergen). A survey of the polar cap density based on Cluster EFW probe measurements.
• Timo Pitkänen (University of Oulu), EISCAT-Cluster observations of quiet-time near-Earth magnetotail fast flows and their signatures in the ionosphere.

• 09:00-10.00: Coffee at the IRF Uppsala, house 8, floor 3.
• 10.00-10.10: (Beurling room) Introduction
• 10.10-10.30: Anders Eriksson (IRF, Uppsala) EFW instrument operations
• 10.30-10.50: Stein Haaland (University of Bergen). Circulation and loss of cold plasma of ionospheric origin
• 10.50-11.10: Hans Nilsson (IRF, Kiruna). Ion heating and outflow observed with Cluster
• 11.15-12.30: Splinters
  • Soheil Sadeghi (KTH), Characteristic Features of the Auroral Acceleration Region as Observed by Cluster
  • Henrik Wiberg (IRF, Uppsala), Radio wave emissions from reconnection sites
  • Rikard Slapak (IRF, Kiruna), O+ in the magnetosheath associated with southward IMF_z: a case study
• 12.30-13.30: Lunch
• 13.30-13.50: Bjørn Lybekk (University of Oslo). Electron densities from Cluster spacecraft potentials (method and data base)
• 13.50-14.10: Anders Eriksson (IRF, Uppsala). Cluster photoemission
• 14.10-14.30: Maria Hamrin (Umeå, Institutionen för Fysik). Cluster observations of energy conversion regions in the Plasma sheet.
• 14.30-15.30: Coffee and posters
• 15.30-17.00: Splinters
  • Cecilia Norgren (IRF, Uppsala), Lower hybrid drift wave properties in space plasma
  • Timo Pitkänen (University of Oulu), EISCAT-Cluster observations of quiet-time near-Earth magnetotail fast flows and their signatures in the ionosphere
• 17.00-17.30: The day summary. Discussion.
• 18.30 : Workshop dinner (town).

• 09:00-10.00: Coffee at the IRF Uppsala, house 8, floor 3.
• 10:00-10:20: Göran Marklund (KTH). Multi-probing of the auroral acceleration region by Cluster
• 10:20-10:40: Tomas Karlsson (KTH). Temporal stability of field-aligned currents in the auroral oval
• 10.45-12.00: Splinters
  • Andris Vaivads (IRF, Uppsala). irfu-matlab - hands on Cluster data analysis.
  • Maria Hamrin (Umeå, Institutionen för Fysik). Cluster observations of energy conversion regions in the Plasma sheet.
• 12.30-13.30: Lunch
• 13.30-13.50: Yuri Khotyaintsev (IRF, Uppsala). Waves and Reconnection in the Magnetotail
• 13.50-14.10: Huishan Fu (IRF, Uppsala). Fermi and Betatron Acceleration of Suprathermal Electrons behind Dipolarization Fronts
• 14.10-14.30: TBD
• 14.30-15.30: Coffee and posters
• 15.30-15.50: Arne Pedersen (University of Oslo). Outward parallel bulk electron veocities in cusp/polar cap plasma density holes
• 15.50-16.10: Mats André (IRF, Uppsala). Cold plasma: a previously hidden solar system particle population.

Uppsala

List of registered participants