1. Jan. 9, 2007 Comparative Aspects of Magnetic Reconnection

2. Welcome Purpose: –To facilitate interaction among colleagues in space science in the New England Area (UNH, SAO/CfA, BU, MIT, Hanscom/AFRL, Haystack, Dartmouth ) –To leverage these interactions for initiating new, cross-disciplinary and far-reaching projects Meetings: –Monthly meetings (first wed each month) Introductions (Affiliation/Interest)

3. 3 Today’s Topic A new perspective on magnetic reconnection and universal processes by comparing aspects of the magnetosphere with the Sun and Corona Examples: Plasmoids - CMEs (later today: Penny Wu) Substorms - Flares (later today: Spence) A paper (Siscoe) or series of papers on the topic If a series of topics, we should start to compile an author and topic list suggestions for where we might try to publish? Come back to these issues at the end

4. 4 Agenda 9:04 AMAmtrak DownEaster leaves Boston North Station (headed north) 10:29 AMAmtrak DownEaster arrives at Durham Station 11:00 AMWelcome (coffee, tea, juice) 11:10 AMGeorge Siscoe – Overview of the paper 11:25 AMAmitava Bhattacharjee – Open questions in reconnection 12:00 NoonLunch 12:45 PMHarlan Spence – Particle Acceleration Sun and Magnetosphere 1:15 PMLi-Jen Chen – Cluster Observations of the Diffusion Region 1:35 PMEd Chupp – Solar Energetic Particles 2:00 PMBreak for coffee and cookies 2:15 PMPenny Wu – Magnetic Buoyancy 2:35 PMEd Deluca / Kelly Korreck – Hinode (Solar-B) 3:00 PMGeorge Siscoe – discussion 3:45 PMMeeting adjourns 4:09 PMAmtrak DownEaster leaves Durham Station (headed south) 5:35 PMAmtrak DownEaster arrives at Boston North Station 4