Abstract
Workers in the pulsation field entered the period of the International Magnetospheric Study (IMS) with a lot of theories that needed testing. Because of this and the wealth of new data available from the IMS observational campaigns, many new observational results have emerged from the IMS. The experience of the IMS shows us that the most fruitful method of working has been small‐scale collaborations, between either a few individuals or a few groups with complementary data sets. The larger, more formally organized workshops do not seem to have been as successful in producing results, though they may have fostered useful contacts. In the years to come I hope and expect to see more of this sort of small‐scale collaboration; especially as the initial results obtainable from a single data set are now published, experimenters should turn to seeing how their data can be used in conjunction with other data sets. I also feel that the time is ripe for more theoretical work. The IMS has left us with a lot of new observations that need explanation.
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