Cross-Scale

multi-scale coupling in space plasmas
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Latest Cross-Scale news; Workshop on Cross-Scale Coupling in Plasmas

9-11 March 2009

Università della Calabria, Rende (Cosenza), Italy

Second Announcement and Call for Abstracts

Deadline 31 January 2009

The Cross-Scale community

The Cross-Scale mission promises to provide significant advances in our understanding of key plasma phenomena which are of relevance to a wide range of scientists working in fundamental plasma physics, solar system physics, astrophysics and terrestrial plasma physics.

To become a member of the community please Register HERE.

Cross-Scale core members

A small number of scientists have been been studying the Cross-Scale concept and have written the Science Priorities Document. These are, in alphabetical order:

  • S. Barabash (Swedish Institute for Space Physics, Kiruna, Sweden)
  • W. Baumjohann (Space Research Institute, Graz, Austria)
  • L. Blomberg (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden)
  • P. Canu (CETP/CNRS/UVSQ, Velizy, France)
  • M. Fujimoto (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan)
  • K.-H. Glassmeier (Institut fur Geophysik und estraterrestrische Physik, Braunschweig, Germany)
  • T. Horbury (Imperial College London, UK)
  • H. Koskinen (Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland)
  • P. Louarn (CNRS/CESR, Toulouse, France)
  • M. Marcucci (Istituto di Fisica dello Spazio Interplanetario, Rome, Italy)
  • R. Nakamura (Space Research Institute, Graz, Austria)
  • C. Owen (University College London, UK)
  • T. Pulkkinen (Finnish Meterological Institute, Finland)
  • A. Roux (CEPT/CNRS/UVSQ, Velizy, France)
  • J.-A. Sauvaud (CESR/CNRS, Toulouse, France)
  • S. Schwartz (Imperial College London, UK)
  • K. Svenes (Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, Kjeller, Norway)
  • A. Vaivads (Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala, Sweden)

World-wide community

We expect the Cross-Scale mission concept to be attractive to scientists from around the world. To date, over 300 scientists, from the following countries, have registered their interest in the mission:

  • Austria
  • Belgium
  • Bulgaria
  • Canada
  • China
  • Czech Republic
  • Finland
  • France
  • Germany
  • Greece
  • Hungary
  • Ireland
  • Italy
  • Japan
  • Mexico
  • Netherlands
  • Norway
  • Poland
  • Romania
  • Russia
  • Slovakia
  • Sweden
  • Taiwan
  • United Kingdom
  • United States

If you are interested in Cross-Scale please register with us and let us know what you think.

Last revised 19 November 2008 by Steve Schwartz
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