First announcement of the 14th International School/Symposium for Space Simulations (ISSS-14), 10-18 September 2020, KOBE, JAPAN

Dear Colleagues,



 We are pleased to announce the 14th International School/Symposium for Space Simulations (ISSS-14) to be held next year :

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 The14th International School/Symposium for Space Simulations (ISSS-14)

 Website: https://isss14.org/

 Date: 10-18 September 2020

 Venue: The Integrated Research Center of Kobe University, Japan

 (http://www.kobe-u.ac.jp/en/faculties_graduate_schools/research/kuirc.html)

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 Please, mark now your calendar for ISSS-14 and forward this information to those who are interested in ISSS-14 in Kobe. We will update the conference information on the ISSS-14 website. We will announce the call for papers in February 2020.



 We designed the International School/Symposium for Space Simulations (ISSS) for the teaching of space plasma simulation techniques and the sharing of state-of-the-art simulation advances and results with researchers in plasma physics. The first ISSS was held in Kyoto, Japan, in 1982. Since then, ISSS has regularly been held approximately every two to three years rotating between North America, Asia, and Europe. The most recent one, ISSS-13, was held at UCLA in September 2018 (https://conferences.pa.ucla.edu/ISSS13/).



 ISSS-14 consists of two sections, the school, and the symposium. The followings are the topics to be covered in each section.



 School section: lectures and tutorials (Some include “hands-on” exercises)

  Particle-in-cell (PIC) simulation

  Hybrid particle simulation

  Test particle simulation

  Vlasov simulation

  Guiding center gyro-kinetic simulation

  Code parallelization

  Visualization

  Advanced simulation



 Symposium section: Oral and poster sessions

  Solar Physics

  Heliospheric Physics

  Inner Magnetosphere

  Magnetic Reconnection

  M-I Coupling

  Planets & Moon Environment

  Nonlinear Wave-Particle Interactions

  Turbulence

  Shocks & Boundaries

  Agencies/Groups/Missions



 As established since ISSS-9 (in 2009, Guyancourt, France), "ISSS Prizes" will be defined by a jury to award the best students and young fellows posters. All participants are kindly encouraged to participate in the competition. Selection criteria will be provided on the Website.



 Moreover,  partial financial support will be provided for a limited number of students and young scientists, and its application procedure is to be announced.



 Sincerely,



 Hideyuki Usui (The LOC chair, Kobe University)

 e-mail: h-usui@port.kobe-u.ac.jp



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 Steering Committee

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   Yoshiharu Omura (Chair, Kyoto University, Japan)

   Bertrand Lembege (Laboratoire atmosphères, milieux, observations spatiales (LATMOS), France)

   David Schriver (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA)



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 International Program Committee

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  David Schriver (Chair, USA)

  Bertrand Lembege (Co-Chair, France)

  Miro Barta (Czech),  Jörg Büchner (Germany)

  David Burgess (UK),  Jan Deca (USA)

  Suiyan Fu (China),  Tamas Gombosi (USA)

  Linni Hau (Taiwan),  Masahiro Hoshino(Japan)

  Maria Innocenti (Belgium),  Frank Jenko (Germany)

  Kanya Kusano (Japan),  Giovanni Lapenta (Belgium)

  Alexandre Marcowith (France),  Richard Sydora (Canada)

  Lev Zelenyi (Russia),  Meng Zhou(China)



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 Local Organizing Committee

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    Hideyuki Usui (Chair, Kobe U ),    Yohei Miyake (Kobe U )

    Akira Kageyama (Kobe U),    Seiji Zenitani (Kobe U)

    Tohru Hada (Kyushu U),    Shuichi Matsukiyo (Kyushu U)

    Yoshiharu Omura (Kyoto U),    Yusuke Ebihara (Kyoto U)

    Keiichiro Fukazawa (Kyoto U),    Satoko Nakamura (Kyoto U)

    Kanya Kusano (Nagoya U),    Takayuki Umeda (Nagoya U)

    Masafumi Shoji (Nagoya U),    Yasuhiro Nariyuki (U of Toyama)

    Masahiro Hoshino (U of Tokyo),    Takanobu Amano (U of Tokyo)

    Iku Shinohara (JAXA/ISAS),    Yosuke Matsumoto (Chiba U)

    Yuto Katoh (Tohoku U),    Naoki Terada (Tohoku U)