SUNDAY, 9 NOVEMBER 2008

Registration and Welcome Reception

MONDAY, 10 NOVEMBER 2008

Introduction

Opening Remarks, Nancy Crooker and Marina Galand

Universal Heliophysical Processes, George Siscoe

Universal Processes Involving Neutral Media, Roger Smith

Creation and Annihilation of Magnetic Fields

Creation and Annihilation of Magnetic Fields, Aad van Ballegooijen

Comparative Aspects of Magnetic Reconnection in the Solar Wind and in Earth’s Magnetosphere, Jack Gosling

Addressing Magnetic Reconnection on Multiple Scales: What Controls the Rate of Magnetic Reconnection in Astrophysical Plasmas?, John Dorelli

TUESDAY, 11 NOVEMBER 2008

Formation of Structures and Transients

Universal Processes in Turbulence and Turbulent Transport, David Newman

Commonalities between Turbulence, Flux-Tube Structure, and Current Sheets, Joe Borovsky

Comparative Shock Studies: From the Lower Corona to the Termination Shock, Merav Opher

Comparative Studies of Turbulent Relaxation and the Generation of Structure in Simulation and the Solar Wind, Bill Matthaeus

Plasma Interactions

Physical Processes Associated With Neutral Plasma Interactions in Planetary Atmospheres with a Significant Magnetic Field, Tim Fuller-Rowell

Comparative Planetary Auroras, Marina Galand

Solar Wind or Planetary Magnetosphere Interactions with the Atmospheres of Unmagnetized Bodies, Janet Luhmann

THURSDAY, 13 NOVEMBER 2008

Explosive Energy Conversion

Comparison of CME and Magnetospheric Substorm Initiation Mechanisms I, Terry Forbes

On the Acceleration of Plasmoids in the Magnetotail and its Relation to CME Acceleration, Michael Hesse

Comparative Planetary Substorms, Emma Bunce

Discussion, Joachim Birn

Energetic Particle Acceleration and Plasma Heating

Comparisons of Inner Radiation-Belt Formation in Planetary Magnetospheres, Richard Horne

The Universal Nature of Suprathermal Power Law Tails with Spectral Index of -5 on the Velocity Distributions Solar Wind and Pickup Ions, George Gloeckler

Universal Aspects of Diffusive Shock Acceleration, Randy Jokipii

FRIDAY, 14 NOVEMBER 2008

Energetic Particle Acceleration and Plasma Heating (Continued)

Discussion on Future Avenues of Research, George Siscoe