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Bob Lysak
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
Particle Acceleration and Wave Phenomena in the Auroral Region
Energetics of the Ionospheric Feedback Interaction
Kinetic Theory of Alfven Wave Acceleration of Auroral Electrons
Non-local Kinetic Theory of Alfven Waves on Auroral Field Lines
Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling by Alfven Waves at Mid-Latitudes
Propagation of Alfven Waves at the Plasma Sheet Boundary Layer
Nonlocal Interactions between electrons and Alfven Waves on Auroral Field Lines
Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling by Alfven Waves: Beyond Current Continuity
Resonant Cavities and Waveguides in the Ionosphere and Atmosphere
On the Dispersion Relation for the kinetic Alfven Wave in an Inhomogeneous Plasma
Propagation of Alfven Waves in the Magnetotail During Substorms
Complete Publications List
2009 Space Physics Tutorial
GEM 2003 (tutorial and movies)
IUGG 2003 Reporter Review
Power Point slides for Reporter Review
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.