Session topics:

Please put title/abstract in the "Comments" box of the registration site and indicate one or more session topics when you submit your title. Please feel free to email Hanying Wei or the session organizers for specific questions or requirements.

1. General reconnection: we can further break this big topic into multiple sessions, such as reconnection theories, electron only reconnection, heating and acceleration related to reconnection process, etc. 

   Organizers: Prayash Pyakurel <pspyakurel@berkeley.edu> (for theory and electron-only reconnection);

   Jason Beedle <Jason.Beedle@unh.edu> (for dayside, asymmetric reconnection);

   Kristina Pritchard <Kristina.Pritchard@unh.edu>; Dominic Steven Payne <dspayne@umd.edu> (for general reconnection);

   Weijie Sun <weijiesun@berkeley.edu>; Gang-Kai Poh<gangkai.poh@nasa.gov> (for Particle Heating and Acceleration Mechanisms in Magnetic Reconnection and Related Processes)

2. Shock Physics

   Organizers: Lynn Wilson <lynn.b.wilson@nasa.gov>; Zixu Terry Liu <terryliuzixu@ucla.edu>

3. Waves and turbulences: including the first results of string-of-pearl campaign 

   Organizers: Alexandros Chasapis <Alexandros.Chasapis@lasp.colorado.edu>; Riddhi Bandyopadhyay <riddhib@udel.edu>

4. Kelvin Helmholtz instability and boundary layers

   Organizer: Rachel Rice <rcrice@umd.edu>

5. MMS as a part of heliophysics system observatory (HSO): research using MMS and other HSO missions

   Organizers: Katariina Nykyri <katariina.nykyri@nasa.gov>; Michael Starkey <michael.starkey@swri.org>; Yingdong Jia <yingdong@igpp.ucla.edu>

6. Others: including multiple topics of or beyond the above list (email: Hanying Wei <hwei@igpp.ucla.edu>)