1. Acceleration - Spontaneous Reconnection in the Tail, BBF, Bursty Convection:

a) Acceleration versus heating. Fine scale aspects.

• "turbulent" field - real random phase turbulence or multiple coherent structures;
  
  
• detailed analysis of spatial-temporal properties of low-frequency perturbations;
  
  
• correlation of the features of magnetic "turbulence" with energetic particle dynamics.
  
  
  

b) How particles gain energy in the magnetosphere?

• single (or double) act of energization at global scale
  
  or
  
  
• multiple small scale localized events.

Panel discussion organizers:

V.Lutsenko, L.Zelenyi, T.Pulkkinen, A.Petrukovich...

c) Ring Current and Near-Earth Plasma sheet. Stationary and Non-Stationary Features:

• observed variations in the Ring Current vs substorms and storms;
  
  
• plasma pressure gradient of ring current particles and of plasma sheet particles;
  
  
• stationary plasma pressure gradient directions in respect to magnetic field isolines and generation of field-aligned currents;
  
  
• gradients dependencies on solar wind parameters and IMF;
  
  
• transverse currents in the inner magnetosphere;
  
  
• substorm onset theories and models.

Panel discussion organizers:

N.Pissarenko, E.Antonova...

   2. Thermal and Superthermal Plasma:

a) High altitudes Plasma Characteristics in the Outer Plasmasphere, above the Auroral Oval and in the Polar Cap:

• total plasma density distribution, plasmapause position and characteristics, ion composition;
  
  
• ion distribution function and its moments: temperature, anisotropy, convection, field-aligned flows;
  
  
• electron temperatures throughout the magnetosphere up to 2-3 R_e;
  
  
• refilling of the outer plasmasphere after a storm: observations vs polar wind theory;
  
  
• fate of thermal plasma at the dayside magnetopause.
  
  
  

b) New Features in the Superthermal Ions and Electrons:

• velocity-dispersed injections of the thermal and superthermal ions from LLBL at cusp and cleft (lowest energy VDIS-2 events);
  
  
• cusp ion fountain: heating of ions and electrons;
  
  
• near-satellite perpendicular ion heating events at high altitudes during energetic particle bursts;
  
  
• subauroral electron temperature peak at different altitudes.
  
  
  

c) S/c Positive Potential and Langmuir Sheath in Rarefied High Altitude Plasma:

• positive s/c potential of the INTERBALL satellites and estimates of ambient plasma density;
  
  
• modelling of the Langmuir sheath around s/c in rarefied plasma and of its influence on thermal plasma measurements.

Panel discussion organizers:

Yu.Galperin, N.Dubouloz, S.Perraut, J.Smilauer (TBC - to be confirmed)...

   3. Plasma Boundaries in the Near-Earth Space:

a) Magnetospheric Boundary Layers and Cusp:

• plasma flow structures inside and outside magnetopause and its shape;
  
  
• outer cusp processes, role of outer cusp indentation, plasma entry (laminar reconnection, turbulent diffusion, others), role of turbulent boundary layer;
  
  
• how is the magnetosheath plasma heated near magnetopause and cusp?
  
  
• morphology of plasmas, waves, currents in different parts of the cusp;
  
  
• northward IMF cusps, role of By component of IMF;
  
  
• high latitude vs low latitude magnetosheath plasma entry in the outer magnetosphere;
  
  
• cusp/cleft positions: comparison with different magnetospheric models;
  
  
• cleft as a magnetosheath plasma entry region;
  
  
• magnetospheric plasma escape through the magnetopause, modified magnetosheath;
  
  
• cusp/cleft wave emissions.

Panel discussion organizers:

S.Savin, I.Sandahl, J.-L.Rauch (TBC)...

b) Low Latitude Boundary Layer (LLBL):

• LLBL formation (characteristics, ions of solar wind/ionosphere origin);
  
  
• role of surface instabilities;
  
  
• dynamics (internally or solar wind driven);
  
  
• links of the LLBL with plasma sheet (hot/cold PS and LLBL);
  
  
• role of ionospheric ions in LLBL plasma processes;
  
  
• physically motivated definition of the LLBL.

Panel discussion organizers:

J-.A.Sauvaud, A.Fedorov, R.Lundin (TBC)...

c) Magnetopause Motion and Structure:

• drivers of magnetopause motion;
  
  
• plasma flow near magnetopause.

Panel discussion organizers:

J.Safrankova, Z.Nemecek, G.Zastenker...

   4. Auroral Acceleration Region - Particles and Fields:

• specific conditions of interaction and propagation of waves in the auroral region;
  
  
• solitary structures in the acceleration region;
  
  
• interpretation of wave measurements in terms of large scale magnetospheric structures.

Panel discussion organizers:

F.Lefeuvre, M.Mogilevsky, H.Koskinen (TBC), J.Hanasz (TBC)...

   5. Solar Wind and IMF Features and Their Interaction with Outer Magnetosphere.

• correlations of solar wind plasma and IMF structures by multispacecraft measurements;
  
  
• magnetic clouds” and their magnetospheric responses;
  
  
• modification of solar wind discontinuities at the bow shock and in the magnetosheath;
  
  
• plasma and IMF variations it the foreshock.

Panel discussion organizers:

J.Safrankova, Z.Nemecek, G.Zastenker, M.Nozdrachev...

   6. Substorms and Other Modes of Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling.

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