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Professor Christopher T. Russell: A Celebration of a Life in Science

Professor Christopher T. Russell: A Celebration of a Life in Science

May 8th and 9th, 2013, UCLA

This gathering is an opportunity for friends, colleagues, students, and former students to celebrate and recognize the life and career of Professor Christopher T. Russell, on the occasion of his 70th birthday. Invited presentations will include retrospectives of personal collaborations with Prof. Russell, scientific topics of interest to Prof. Russell, discussions of ongoing and future research areas facilitated by Prof. Russell, and personal remembrances of Prof. Russell’s mentorship.

The program will consist of 1.5 days of presentations on Wednesday, May 8th, all day, in Royce 314 (it is best to use the Royce entrance to the left of the large main doors, i.e. west entrance.The elevator and stairs just beyond that door go straight up to our room) and Thursday, May 9th, in the morning, in Young 2033. View the symposium schedule.

The celebration is supported by the Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences Department and several of Prof. Russell’s colleagues.

 

Accommodations:

UCLA Guest House - 310-825-2923

Near campus - Hilgard House - 310-208-2395 (ask for the UCLA rate)

Westwood - Hotel Palomar -  310-475-8711

Westwood-Hotel Angeleno-310-476-6411-a block of rooms has been reserved for the Chris Russell symposium

 

Contacts:  

For logistical information, please contact Emmanuel Masongsong.

For information regarding the symposium schedule, please contact Robert Strangeway.


Wednesday, May 8, Royce 314

It is best to use the Royce entrance to the left of the large main doors, i.e. west entrance. The elevator and stairs just beyond that door go straight up to 314.

Start Time Length End Time     Title
8:30 AM 00:15:00 8:45 AM Welcome   Robert Strangeway, EpSS Chair Kevin McKeegan, Dean Rudnick
8:45 AM 00:20:00 9:05 AM Robert McPherron The semiannual variation of geomagnetic activity and its relation to magnetic reconnection
9:05 AM 00:20:00 9:25 AM Paul Song Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Interaction for Northward Interplanetary Magnetic Field
9:25 AM 00:20:00 9:45 AM Jih-Hong Shue Untold stories about the Shue et al. magnetopause models
9:45 AM 00:20:00 10:05 AM Ching-Chang Cheng A review of multiple-onset substorm studies enlightened by Prof. Russell
10:05 AM 00:25:00 10:30 AM Coffee Break    
10:30 AM 00:05:00 10:35 AM Yasong Ge Personal recollection
10:35 AM 00:20:00 10:55 AM Tamitha Mulligan Magnetic Cloud Illusions, I Recall: Shifting Paradigms with Chris Russell
10:55 AM 00:20:00 11:15 AM Misa Cowee Hybrid simulations of planetary pickup ions and ion cyclotron wave generation
11:15 00:20:00 11:35 AM Lan Jian Ion Cyclotron Waves in the Solar Wind of the Inner Heliosphere
11:35 AM 00:20:00 11:55 AM Janet Luhmann STEREO and Mars Space Weather
11:55 AM 01:05:00 1:00 PM Lunch    
1:00 PM 00:20:00 1:20 PM Howard Singer Space, Science and Society
1:20 PM 00:20:00 1:40 PM Jerry Chao Search for Pure Alfven Waves in Interplanetary Space
1:40 PM 00:20:00 2:00 PM Hao Cao The Origin of Planetary Magnetic Fields
2:00 PM 00:20:00 2:20 PM Dave J. McComas Chris' training and how I learned to love a goat
2:20 PM 00:20:00 2:40 PM Margaret Kivelson Lessons from the smallest magnetosphere for the largest magnetosphere.
2:40 PM 00:20:00 3:00 PM Nick Omidi Impacts of dense dust plumes at Enceladus
3:00 PM 00:05:00 3:05 PM Xochitl Blanco-Cano Personal recollection
3:05 PM 00:25:00 3:30 PM Coffee Break    
3:30 PM 00:05:00 3:35 PM Jerry Schubert Personal recollection
3:35 PM 00:05:00 3:40 PM Tom Meseroll Personal recollection
3:40 PM 00:05:00 3:45 PM Christian Ho Personal recollection
3:45 PM 00:10:00 3:55 PM Maha Ashour-Abdalla A Tribute to Chris and his Co-authors
3:55 PM 00:20:00 4:15 PM Claudia Alexander The Comets are Coming!' ISON, Rosetta, Sandbanks of Debris & what all of this has to do with Anything
4:15 PM 00:20:00 4:35 PM Marc Rayman Rocketing Through the Asteroid Belt with Chris Russell: Dawn's Innovative Ion Propulsion System
4:35 PM 00:20:00 4:55 PM Carol Raymond Dawn at Vesta: the Strange Places You'll go when You Travel with Chris Russell
4:55 PM 00:15:00 5:10 PM Jennifer Scully Gullies on Vesta
5:10 PM 00:20:00 5:30 PM Gregg   Chris Russell and JPL - a Two-decade (and Counting!) Successful Partnership
5:30 PM     End of Wed. Session  

Thursday, May 9, Young 2033

 

 

Start Time Length End Time     Title
8:30 AM 00:20:00 8:50 AM Tielong Zhang Venus Express magnetic field observation of the solar wind interaction with Venus
8:50 AM 00:20:00 9:10 AM Peter Chi How did UCLA develop the world's largest ground-based magnetometer network
9:10 AM 00:20:00 9:30 AM Steve Petrinec The RESOLVE Mission Concept and Neutron Spectrometer Subsystem
9:30 AM 00:20:00 9:50 AM Jack Gosling Recognizing quasi-steady reconnection in the solar wind: The magnetopause connection
9:50 AM 00:10:00 10:00 AM Martin Connors Personal Recollection
10:00 AM 00:30:00 10:30 AM Coffee Break    
10:30 AM 00:20:00 10:50 AM Tom Higuchi Big data and big science with Bayesian modeling
10:50 AM 00:20:00 11:10 AM Britney Schmidt Chasing Ice in the Asteroid Belt  
11:10 AM 00:10:00 11:20 AM Elizabeth   Palmer Modeling Vesta's Radar Properties
11:20 AM 00:20:00 11:40 AM Krishan Khurana   Inferring internal structures of solar system bodies from electromagnetic induction
11:40 AM     End of Thu. Session  

Posted on May 1, 2013