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Parker One Conference -- Poster Session Two 3/4/20 12:09 PM Poster Information Posters sizes should not exceed 1 meter wide by 1.2 meters high (3.2 ft x 4ft). There are two poster sessions: Session One on Monday and Tuesday and Session Two on Wednesday and Thursday. Pushpins will be provided. We have a reliable local printshop that can print your poster and deliver it to the Kossiakoff Center. Please make arrangements directly with the vendor: Northpoint Studios. An FTP upload is available on their main website. If you wish to use Northpoint and take advantage of Sunday night poster drop off, then your poster should be sent to Northpoint no later than Thursday, March 19. Parker One Conference -- Poster Session Two: 25 & 26 March 2020 (Wed & Thu) Number Name Title PS2-1 Robert Leamon When *WAS* Solar Minimum...!? PS2-2 Vadim Uritsky Jetlet - Associated Structure of Solar Plume Outflow PS2-3 J. Grant Mitchell Characteristics of Electron Events Observed in EPI-Lo PS2-4 Elena Provornikova Magnetic topology of the geoeffective April 5, 2010 CME: Gamera-Helio model with a data- constrained magnetic flux rope PS2-5 Yuan-Kuen Ko Case studies of solar wind suprathermal ion variation PS2-6 Benjamin Alterman Comparing near-Sun proton beams observed by PSP/SWEAP with near-Earth beams observed by the Wind Faraday cups PS2-7 Sarah Gibson WHPI: A big picture view on PSP fourth perihelion PS2-8 Kyung-Eun Choi Global structure of magnetic field lines for the small solar wind transient events inferred from suprathermal electrons PS2-9 Kristina Rackovic Babic In situ dust measurements in the solar wind from S/WAVES TDS instrument on STEREO mission PS2-10 Nishu Karna Observation and Modeling of an Equatorial Coronal hole Observed at the First Parker Solar Probe (PSP) Perihelion PS2-11 Sarah Kovac Using WSA-GAMERA and PSP to Study the Venusian Atmosphere PS2-12 Judy Karpen From Jets to CMEs: Observations of the Breakout Continuum PS2-13 Phillip Hess Calibration Status of the WISPR Detectors PS2-14 Guillermo Stenborg Uncloaking white-light structures on WISPR images: Conception and implementation of the Level 3 data product 1 3/4/20 12:09 PM PS2-15 Juan Carlos Martinez A Correlation Study of Coronal EUV Brightenings and Radio Emission Observed by Parker Oliveros Solar Probe PS2-16 Qiang Hu On the Toroidal Configuration of Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections near the Sun PS2-17 Brendan Gallagher Software Tools for the Exploration and Analysis of WISPR Images PS2-18 Toshifumi Shimizu JAXA Solar-C_EUVST mission: Toward PSP coordinated observations after 2025 PS2-19 Paulett Liewer Analysis of Solar Wind Ejecta Observed by the Wide-field Imager (WISPR) on Parker Solar Probe PS2-20 Laura Rodriguez-Garcia Flareless Widespread Solar Energetic Particle Event on 19th August 2013 PS2-21 Carlos Braga Coronal mass ejections observed on April 2019 by the heliospheric imagers onboard Parker Solar Probe (WISPR) and STEREO (SECCHI) PS2-22 Allan Labrador Geant4 Simulations for the Electron Responses of the EPI-Hi Instruments PS2-23 Adam Hutchinson Modelling back-precipitation of > 300 MeV protons onto the solar atmosphere PS2-24 Qian Xia Particle acceleration in reconnection current sheets and their diagnostics from observations PS2-25 Silvia Dalla Modelling solar relativistic proton propagation through interplanetary space PS2-26 Alessandro Bruno Solar Energetic Particle Spectra Based on Multi-Spacecraft Measurements PS2-27 Ian Richardson Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections at Earth During the Parker Solar Probe Era PS2-28 Roger B. Scott Interchange Reconnection and the Formation of Detached Coronal Holes PS2-29 Aleida Higginson Relating the Structure and Dynamics of the Corona to the Variability of the Slow Solar Wind PS2-30 Georgia de Nolfo Understanding the Origin of the Long Duration Gamma-ray Flares and the Connection to SEPs PS2-31 Meriem Alaoui Electron runaway acceleration by the co-spatial return current in solar flares PS2-32 Daniel McGinnis Impact of the Spacecraft on Electron Measurements in the First Orbits of PSP PS2-33 Alexander Hegedus Progress Towards an Automatic Detection and Cataloguing Algorithm for Type II and III Solar Radio Bursts in PSP RFS Data PS2-34 Luiz Fernando Guedes Using Deep Neural Networks to Identify Flux Ropes signatures in Magnetic Clouds dos Santos PS2-35 Amaal Mohamed The Coronal Hole Influence Parameter (CHIP) as an Important Parameter for Developing the Geomagnetic Storm Prediction Models PS2-36 Yeimy Rivera Simulating charge exchange between solar wind alphas and circumsolar dust PS2-37 Jae-Ok Lee Formation of post-CME blobs observed by LASCO-C2 and K-Cor on 2017 September 10 PS2-38 Lan Jian Thermodynamic Evolution of CMEs in the Inner Heliosphere PS2-39 Adam Szabo The Heliospheric Current Sheet during the First Three Solar Encounters 2 3/4/20 12:09 PM PS2-40 Dusan Odstrcil Operational Simulation of Heliospheric Space Weather During Parker Solar Probe Perihelions PS2-41 Nick Arge WSA modeling and forecast support for the Parker Solar Probe and Solar Orbiter Missions PS2-42 Emily Mason Rings of Fire: Observations of Erupting Null-Point Topologies PS2-43 Nathalia Alzate Propagating Disturbances as Tracers of the Near-Sun Slow Solar Wind PS2-44 Robert F. Wimmer- Energetic Particles in the Inner Heliosphere: Solar Orbiter Schweingruber PS2-45 Du Toit Strauss Solar energetic particle transport: Lessons from electron simulations PS2-46 Nicolas Poirier Detailed imaging of coronal rays with Parker Solar Probe PS2-47 Pankaj Kumar New Insights into the Dynamic Relationship between Jetlets and Plumes PS2-48 Mark Wiedenbeck Solar Energetic Particle Events during the Early Orbits of Parker Solar Probe PS2-49 Mitsuo Oka Particle Acceleration at Interplanetary Shocks: Dependence on Upstream Conditions PS2-50 Lan Jian Archiving and Serving the In Situ Data of Parker Solar Probe at SPDF PS2-51 Gregory Howes On-Board Wave-Particle Correlator and Field-Particle Correlations with Parker Solar PS2-52 Qian Xia Particle acceleration during CME eruptions PS2-53 Edmond Roelof A Remarkable Separatrix in Magnetic Connection to the Corona Observed During an SEP Event by Parker Solar Probe at 0.2AU (0750 UT, April 2-3, 2019) PS2-54 Giuseppe Nisticò Geometric triangulation of density features with PSP/WISPR PS2-55 Angelos Vourlidas The Solar Corona from Within: Overview of WISPR Science Results & Future Outlook PS2-56 Scott McIntosh Solar Cruiser: A Sailcraft platform for Heliophysics and Space Weather Observations PS2-57 Craig DeForest The Best of Both Worlds: Joint Science with PSP and PUNCH PS2-58 Pontus Brandt Interstellar Probe: Understanding Our Habitable Astrosphere and its Home in the Galaxy PS2-59 Richard Mewaldt First Observation of SEP Electrons at MeV Energies by the Parker Solar Probe PS2-60 Eleni Nikou Uncertainty Estimation of Geometric Parameters of Coronal Mass Ejections PS2-61 Olga Khabarova Interaction of the Heliospheric Plasma Sheet with High-speed Streams. Effects in Energetic Particles as Observed by PSP 3 .
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