Thursday, April 18th, 2024, 12:30pm: Joint MagNetUS / Workshop Luncheon will begin in the BaPSF Offices at UCLA when the bus transporting MagNetUS attendees arrives from Lake Arrowhead
Thursday, April 18th, 2024, 1:45pm-5:15pm, BaPSF Auditorium
Joint MagNetUS/Solar Wind Machine Workshop Session
- 1:45pm Workshop Welcome: Workshop goals, Code of conduct
- 1:55pm Overview: Solar Wind Machine Goals, Physics Targets, and Requirements
- 2:10pm Outstanding Problems: Magnetized Plasma Turbulence (30 min talk by invited speaker Chris Chen + 30 mins questions & discussion)
- 3:15pm Coffee Break
- 3:30pm Outstanding Problems: Instabilities & Dissipation (30 min talk by invited speaker Greg Howes + 30 mins questions & discussion)
- 4:35pm Overview: Solar Wind Machine Requirements & Example Parameters
- 4:45pm Discussion
Lab tours will be available at 1pm and at 5:30pm on Thursday, April 18th, and last approximately 45 minutes each.
Friday, April 19th, 2024, 8:00am: Bagel and Muffin Breakfast at the BaPSF Offices
Friday, April 19th, 2024, 8:30am-12:30pm, BaPSF Auditorium
- 8:30am: Friday Welcome: Code of conduct reminder
- 8:35am: Magnetized Plasma Turbulence: presentation of top-level science objective by focus group leader Carlos Cartagena-Sanchez
- 8:55am: Magnetized Plasma Turbulence: future machine configurations brainstorm
- 9:35am: Instabilities & Dissipation: presentation of top-level science objective by focus group leader Jimmy Juno
- 9:55am: Instabilities & Dissipation: future machine configurations brainstorm
- 10:35am: Coffee Break
- 10:50am: Hardware brainstorm: What hardware and diagnostics do we need for the machine configurations discussed?
- 11:30am: Discussions with funding agency representatives
Friday, April 19th, 2024, 12:30pm-2:00pm: Lunch break, sandwiches in the BaPSF Offices
Friday, April 19th, 2024, 2:00pm-3:30pm, BaPSF Auditorium
Individual pitches: meeting participants are invited to give a brief (No more than 5 minutes, 1-3 slide) pitch on a science problem, machine design, or diagnostic idea for the future Solar Wind Machine. Each pitch will be followed by 10 minutes of group discussion.Friday, April 19th, 2024, 3:30pm: Coffee break
Friday, April 19th, 2024, 4pm-6pm, BaPSF Auditorium
- 4:00pm: Brief overview presentation to remind everyone of the different machine concepts discussed in the morning.
- 4:15pm: Focused group discussions: Meeting breaks up into focus groups organized around machine configuration ideas. Each group will come up with a rough plan for their proposed configuration including i) advantages/disadvantages of the configuration for tackling top level science objectives, ii) key plasma parameters and diagnostics for the proposed configuration, iii) outstanding questions that need to be resolved before initiating construction.
Friday, April 19th, 2024, 6:15pm: Workshop Dinner (pay on your own) at Rocco's Tavern in Westwood
Saturday, April 20th, 2024, 8:00am: Bagel and Muffin Breakfast at the BaPSF Offices
Saturday, April 20th, 2024, 8:30am-1:45pm, BaPSF Auditorium
- 8:30am: Saturday Welcome: Code of conduct reminder
- 8:35am: Focused group discussion check-in: Machine configuration focus groups from the previous afternoon briefly discuss their ideas with the entire group.
- 9:00am: Focused group discussion wrap-up: Machine configuration focus groups reconvene and prepare a final presentation of their respective machine configurations.
- 11:00am: Coffee Break
- 11:15am: Final presentations from each machine configuration focus group followed by discussion
- 1:15pm: Workshop wrap-up
Saturday, April 20th, 2024, 1:45pm-3:30pm: Lunch break (pay on your own)
Saturday, April 20th, 2024, 3:30pm: Optional group hike, meet at LeConte and Galey to board public bus