Bringing Space Down to Earth: Exploring the Physics of Space Plasmas in the Laboratory

UCLA Basic Plasma Science Facility, April 10-12, 2017

Monday April 10

• Welcome: Aims of this Workshop (Gregory Howes, University of Iowa)
• Welcome to the Basic Plasma Science Facility (BAPSF) (Troy Carter, UCLA)
• What's on the Horizon for Space Physics in the Laboratory? (Gregory Howes, University of Iowa)
• Particle Heating in Space and Laboratory Plasmas (Earl Scime, West Virginia University)
• Generating dynamic magnetic turbulence in a laboratory device using plasma guns and evolving spheromaks (David Schaffner, Bryn Mawr College)
• Alfven wave interactions and temperature-anisotropy-driven instabilities: review of LAPD experiments and future prospects (Troy Carter, UCLA)
• Exploring waves through their effects on particle velocity distributions for electrons and ions (Fred Skiff, University of Iowa)
• Understanding Space Plasmas Through Laboratory Experiments (Guru Ganguli, NRL)
• Plasma, Planetary Surfaces, and Cosmic Dust Experiments at the University of Colorado (Tobin Munsat, Colorado University Boulder)
• Magnetized Collision-less Shocks in the LAPD (Chris Niemann, UCLA)
• New Capabilities in Space and Laboratory Measurements (Amy Keesee, West Virginia University)
• Nonlinear MHD waves in weakly collisional high-beta plasmas (Jonathan Squire, Caltech)

Tuesday April 11

• Potential new opportunities utilizing laboratory facilities for elucidating the fundamental plasma physics mechanisms at play in space plasma (Mark Koepke, West Virginia University)
• Radiation Belt Wave Observations on the Van Allen Probes and Opportunities for Lab Experiments (Craig Kletzing, University of Iowa)
• Bayesian Techniques For Plasma Theory To Bridge the Gap Between Space and Lab Plasmas (Chris Crabtree, NRL)
• Particle Energization and the Tearing-Driven Turbulent Cascade (John Sarff, University of Wisconsin)
• Validation in Modeling Laboratory Plasma Phenomena of Relevance to Astrophysics (Paul Terry, University of Wisconsin)
• Application of Field-Particle Correlations to Space and Laboratory Plasmas (Kris Klein, University of Michigan)
• Disks, winds, atmospheres, and dynamos: An astro-plasma theorist’s laboratory wish list (Matt Kunz, Princeton University)
• Laboratory plasma experiments using merging supersonic plasma jets (Scott Hsu, Los Alamos)

Wednesday April 12

• The Laboratory Magnetosphere: Studying space physics in plasmas confined by a levitated dipole magnet (Darren Garnier, Columbia University)
• Solving the Coronal Heating Problem (Michael Hahn, Columbia University)
• Scaled Experiments in NRL SPSC for Satellite Observations (Erik Tejero, NRL)
• The Importance of Being Opportunistic (Paul Bellan, Caltech)