Autumn MIST is being held on Gather and Zoom, 19–20 November 2020, is now available!
The full schedule is available below, or you can click here to download and view a PDF. The links to the Zoom webinar, and the Gather rooms, are available through the MIST mailing list, along with a Google Drive folder containing all the posters in PDF format. If you are an attendee and do not subscribe to the MIST mailing list, you can subscribe.
The full list of abstracts can be downloaded here.
Thursday 19 November 2020
10:00 – Session 1 – Chair: Jasmine Sandhu
- 10:00 – Sandra Chapman – A regular clock for the Schwabe and Hale variations in solar and geomagnetic activity
- 10:15 – Megan Maunder – Multi-spacecraft observations of a new type of high-latitude ICME
- 10:30 – Joel Baby Abraham – Statistical analysis of solar wind electron populations using Parker Solar Probe
- 10:45 – Thomas Woolley – The proton core behaviour inside magnetic field switchbacks
11:16 – Session 2 – Chair: John Coxon)
- 11:16 – Seong-Yeop Jeong – The evolution of the electron-strahl velocity distribution in the inner heliosphere
- 11:31 – Sadie Robertson – A statistical study of magnetopause flux ropes near the Electron Diffusion Region (EDR) using Magnetospheric Multiscale mission (MMS)
- 11:46 – Lauren Orr – Wavelet and network analysis of magnetic field variation and geomagnetically induced currents during large storms
13:02 – Poster Session 1
14:14 – Session 3 – Chair: Oliver Allanson
- 14:14 – Ned Staniland – First evidence of a cushion region at Saturn and a reconsideration of why it forms
- 14:29 – Dale Weigt – Characteristics of Jupiter's X-ray auroral hot spot emissions using Chandra
- 14:44 – John Coxon – MIST Council update
Friday 20 November 2020
10:00 – Session 4 – Chair: Greg Hunt
- 10:00 – Emma Woodfield – The effect of hiss waves on electrons in Saturn’s radiation belts
- 10:15 – Josh Wiggs – Modelling plasma transport at the outer planets using a kinetic-ion, fluid-electron approach – validation
- 10:30 – Adrian LaMoury – Solar wind control of jets impacting the magnetopause
- 10:45 – Beatriz Sanchez-Cano – Mars' ionopause: A matter of pressures
11:16 – Session 5 – Chair: Maria-Theresia Walach
- 11:16 – Laura Fryer – Observations of closed magnetic flux embedded in the lobe during periods of northward IMF
- 11:31 – Mayur Bakrania – Using dimensionality reduction and clustering techniques to classify space plasma regimes
- 11:46 – Jasmine Kaur Sandhu – Identifying storm-time variations in ULF wave power and implications for radiation belt dynamics
13:02 – Poster Session 2
14:14 – Session 6 – Chair: Mathew Owens
- 14:14 – Samuel Walton – The relative contribution of enhancement and loss to global variations in relativistic outer radiation belt electrons
- 14:29 – Téo Bloch – Constraining the location of the outer boundary of the radiation belts
- 14:44 – Alexander Lozinski – Optimisation of a steady state radial diffusion model to derive diffusion coefficients for the proton radiation belt