Magnetic Reconnection

Walter Gonzalez received his PhD in Physics from the University of California-Berkeley in 1973 and has worked at Stanford university, Caltech- JPL/NASA, Michigan university and at several other universities abroad, alternating with his research position in Brazil. He is head of the Heliospheric and Magnetospheric Division of the National Institute for Space Research of Brazil, INPE . Together with Prof F S Mozer from UC Berkeley Prof Gonzalez published in 1974 the first quantitative model for Magnetic Reconnection at the Earth's magnetopause, thus introducing the concepts of "component reconnection", "tilted reconnection line", "reconnection potential" and "power transfer from the solar wind to the Earth's magnetosphere due to reconnection". He also published in 1994 the paper "What is a Geomagnetic Storm?", which has been extensively cited. He is author of more than 200 articles, 15 book chapters and 4 books in space plasma physics. He is the first president-elect of the Latin-American Space Geophysics association, a Distinguished Visiting scientist of NASA and is Member of the Brazilian and Peruvian Academy of Sciences.

1 Fundamental concepts associated with Magnetic Reconnection; W.D.Gonzalez, et al.- 2 Collisionless Reconnection and Electron Demagnetization; J. Scudder, et al.- 3 MHD structures in 3D Reconnection; E. Priest.- 4 Energy Conversion during Reconnection; M. Yamada, et al.- 5 Rapid Reconnection and Magnetic Field Topology; E. N. Parker, A. F. Rappazzo.- 6 Magnetospheric Dayside Reconnection; P. Cassak, S. Fuselier.- 7 Magnetospheric Tail Reconnection; A. Petrukovich, et al.- 8 Magnetospheric Separatrices: Theory and Observations; G. Lapenta, et al.- 9 Comparative Reconnection in Planetary Systems; R. J. Walker, X. Jia.- 10 Fractal Reconnection in Solar and Stellar Environments; K. Shibata, S.Takasao.- 11 Turbulent Reconnection in Astrophysical Systems; A. Lazarian, et al.- 12 Radiative Reconnection in Astrophysics; D. Uzdensky.- 13 Annihilation of Quantum Magnetic Fluxes; W. D. Gonzalez.