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Theory of the Magnetosphere:
Discussion of Unsolved Problems

October 4-8, 2010
Hotel Santa Fe
Santa Fe, New Mexico (USA)

Format: Talks and Audience-Participation Discussion

Among the questions to be considered:
  1. What drives auroral arcs?
2. How physically does solar-wind/magnetosphere coupling work?
3. Why does the polar-cap saturate?
4. What is the origin of the 3-hr period of the magnetosphere?
5. Where do ionospheric features map in the magnetosphere?
6. What is the pattern of global energy flow?
7. How does hot plasma enter the magnetosphere?
8. What is the source population for the electron radiation belts?

Organizing Committee:
 Joachim Birn (jbirn@lanl.gov)
     Los Alamos National Laboratory
Joe Borovsky (jborovsky@lanl.gov)
     Los Alamos National Laboratory
Marina Stepanova (marina.stepanova@usach.cl)
     University of Santiago
Juan Alejandro Valdivia (alejo@macul.ciencias.uchile.cl)
     University of Chile

Meeting Secretary:
Mary Dugan (mdugan@lanl.gov)

Sponsors:   Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics (Los Alamos) LANL IGPP

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