SPECIAL NOTICE

10 Major Questions and Opportunities have been identified mostly based on 33 opportunities generated from 10 working groups during the workshop. Currently, a workshop report is being written and edited as in the following structure: 

    Executive Summary

    Introduction

    Chapter 1. Magnetic Reconnection
("final" draft)
    Chapter 2. Collisionless Shock and Particle Acceleration ("final" draft)
    Chapter 3. Waves and Turbulence ("final" draft)
    Chapter 4. Magnetic Dynamo ("final" draft)
    Chapter 5. Interfacial and Shear Instabilities ("final" draft)
    Chapter 6. Momentum Transport ("final" draft)
    Chapter 7. Dusty Plasmas ("final" draft)
    Chapter 8. Radiative Hydrodynamics
("final" draft)
    Chapter 9. Relativistic, Ultra-strongly Magentized, and Pair Plasmas ("final" draft)
    Chapter 10. Jets and Outflow Including Structure Formation
("final" draft)

    Appendix A. Membership of Working Groups
    Appendix B. The Processes Leading To and After the Workshop
    Appendix C. The Workshop Agenda (with links to all talk slides)


Draft Reports:
  1. Magnetic reconnection (lead: Jim Drake): Draft Report as of Jan 15.
  2. Collisionless shock and particle acceleration (lead: Marty Lee, co-lead: Randy Jokipii): Draft Report as of Jan 6.
  3. Radiative hydrodynamics (lead: Bruce Remington): Draft Report as of Jan 15.
  4. Momentum transport (lead: Eliot Quataert): Draft Report as of Dec 24.
  5. Magnetic dynamo (lead: Ellen Zweibel, co-lead: Fausto Cattaneo): Draft Report as of Dec 26.
  6. Interface and shear instabilities (lead: Dmitri Ryutov, co-lead: Marc Pound): Draft Report as of Dec 22.
  7. Magnetized dusty plasmas (lead: Ed Thomas): Draft Report as of Dec 23.
  8. Waves and turbulence (lead: Amitava Bhattacharjee, co-lead: Stuart Bale): Draft Report as of Jan 6.
  9. Jets and outflows including structure formation (lead: Hui Li): Draft Report as of Dec 24.
  10. Relativistic, ultra-strongly magnetized, and pair plasmas (lead: Edison Liang): Draft Report as of Dec 27.
  11. Cross-cutting issues, tool development, and uncovered topics (TBD)


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Last update: July 8, 2010