====== Bob Lysak ======

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Office:  379, Tate Laboratory of Physics

Professor of Physics

University of Minnesota

Phone: 612-625-1323

Fax: 612-626-2029

E-mail: bob@aurora.space.umn.edu

Physics Web Page:  http://www.spa.umn.edu/directory/lysak.html


===== Research Interests: =====


Particle acceleration and the dynamics of current flow in the earth’s auroral zone.  Related areas include generation of electric and magnetic fields in the magnetosphere, plasma instabilities and turbulence, wave heating of ions, magnetic reconnection, and magnetohydrodynamic waves and turbulence.  Both analytic and numeric techniques are used, with present emphasis on development of large scale computer models of auroral phenomena.

 

==== Some Recent Reprints ====


[[http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1464191700000842|Particle Acceleration and Wave Phenomena in the Auroral Region]]

[[http://ham.space.umn.edu/~bob/feedbackJGRfinal.pdf|Energetics of the Ionospheric Feedback Interaction]]

[[http://ham.space.umn.edu/~bob/aurora-paper.pdf|Kinetic Theory of Alfven Wave Acceleration of Auroral Electrons]]

[[http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2003JA009859/abstract|Non-local Kinetic Theory of Alfven Waves on Auroral Field Lines]]

[[http://ham.space.umn.edu/~bob/dipoletilt.pdf|Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling by Alfven Waves at Mid-Latitudes]]

[[http://ham.space.umn.edu/~bob/ICS7paper.pdf|Propagation of Alfven Waves at the Plasma Sheet Boundary Layer]]

[[http://ham.space.umn.edu/~bob/diptraj.pdf|Nonlocal Interactions between electrons and Alfven Waves on Auroral Field Lines]]

[[http://www.researchgate.net/publication/252836978_Magnetosphere-ionosphere_coupling_by_Alfven_wave_beyond_current_continuity|Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling by Alfven Waves: Beyond Current Continuity]]

[[http://ham.space.umn.edu/~bob/Lysak_waveguide_paper_final.pdf|Resonant Cavities and Waveguides in the Ionosphere and Atmosphere]]

[[http://ham.space.umn.edu/~bob/lysakpop2008.pdf|On the Dispersion Relation for the kinetic Alfven Wave in an Inhomogeneous Plasma]]

[[http://ham.space.umn.edu/~bob/grl_density_cavity.pdf|Propagation of Kinetic Alfven waves in the Ionospheric Alfven Resonator in the Presence of Density Cavities]]

[[http://www.ann-geophys.net/27/2237/2009/angeo-27-2237-2009.pdf|Propagation of Alfven Waves in the Magnetotail During Substorms]]

=== Complete Publications List ===


[[http://ham.space.umn.edu/~bob/Lysakrefs.pdf|References]]
 

=== 2009 Space Physics Tutorial ===


[[http://ham.space.umn.edu/~bob/space2009tutorial.ppt|Tutorial: 2009 Space Physics Seminar]]

[[http://ham.space.umn.edu/~bob/exby.avi|Movie of Phase Mixing in the Ionospheric Alfven Resonator]]

[[http://ham.space.umn.edu/~bob/image_uvi_7_15_00_storm.mpg|IMAGE movie of Auroral Dynamics]]

 

=== GEM 2003 (tutorial and movies) ===


[[http://ham.space.umn.edu/~bob/gem2003tutorial.ppt|GEM Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling Tutorial]]

[[http://ham.space.umn.edu/~bob/alfrealtime.avi|Movie of an Alfven Wave Front]]

[[http://ham.space.umn.edu/~bob/alfpulse.avi|Movie of an Alfven Wave Pulse]]

[[http://ham.space.umn.edu/~bob/psbl.avi|Movie of Mode Conversion at Plasma Sheet Boundary Layer]]

 

=== IUGG 2003 Reporter Review ===


[[http://ham.space.umn.edu/~bob/iuggreporterreview03.ppt|Power Point slides for Reporter Review]]

[[http://ham.space.umn.edu/~bob/aurorarefs03.pdf|Reference List for Reporter Review]]

 

This work is supported in part by NSF Grants ATM-0602464 and ATM-0613473 and NASA Grant NNX08AM31G. Computing resources are provided by the Minnesota Supercomputer Institute.