- 26-Mar (Saturday)
- Registration (The registration desk is also open on March 25 from 18:00-20:00)
- Opening Remarks (Hiroshi Matsumoto (Japan))
- Keynote Lecture
- Space plasma simulations - their role, achievement and future trend - (Maha Ashour-Abdalla (USA))
- Tutorial-1: (Chairperson: B. Lembege (France))
- One-dimensional electromagnetic particle code (Y. Omura (Japan))
- Vlasov-code simulation (J. Buechner (Germany))
Chairperson: D. Schriver (USA)
- Delta-f particle-in-cell plasma simulation model and applications (R. Sydora (Canada))
- From theoretical foundation to invaluable research tool: Modern hybrid
simulations (D. Krauss-Varban (USA))
- Numerical methods: Ideal and Hall MHD (J. Huba (USA))
- Welcome party
- 27-Mar (Sunday)
- Tutorial-2: (Chairperson: J. Buechner (Germany))
- Automatic adaptation in mono- and multi-dimensional PIC codes (G. Lapenta (USA))
- Implementation of generalized curvilinear coordinates in hybrid and electromagnetic codes (D. Swift (USA))
- Unstructured grids and finite elements in space plasma modeling: principles
and applications (R. Marchand (Canada))
- A new methodology for multi-scale simulation of plasmas (H. Karimabadi (USA))
- Scientific Symposium-1: (Chairperson: T. Gombosi (USA))
- MHD simulation of magnetic reconnection and magnetic substorms (Z.W. Ma (China))
- Magnetospheric sounding by IMAGE (J. Green (USA))
- Particles and fields at collisionless shocks: Simulation results versus recent Cluster bow shock observations
(M. Scholer (Germany))
- Hybrid simulations of Kelvin-Helmholtz instability : particle dynamics (R. Smets (France))
- On-going simulation studies and planning of a future mission towards quantitative
clarification of the cross-scale coupling processes in collisionless space
plasmas (M. Fujimoto (Japan))
- Modern spectral analysis and quantitative comparison of simulation with instability theory (C.T. Dum (Germany))
- Poster session-1 & PIC simulation exercise
- 28-Mar (Monday)
- Tutorial-3: (Chairperson: H. Usui (Japan))
- Numerical methods used in the Lyon-Fedder-Mobarry Global code to model the magnetosphere (J.G. Lyon (USA))
- Advanced PIC techniques: Parallelization and object-oriented programming (V. Decyk (USA))
- Visualization and data analysis of computer simulations (R. Fonseca (Portugal))
- Development of Geospace Environment Simulator with Earth Simulator (M.
Okada (Japan)) (Symposium talk)
- Scientific Symposium-2: (Chairperson: M. Ashour-Abdalla (USA))
- Vlasov code applications (P. Bertrand (France))
- Using global simulations to model the large-scale topology and dynamics of the magnetospheric boundary (J. Berchem (USA))
- Gyroresonant interactions between coherent whistler-mode waves and radiation belt electrons: wave-growth, pitch angle scattering and potential applications (U. Inan (USA))
- Full particle simulations of collisionless magnetic reconnection (P. Pritchett (USA))
- Hybrid simulation of 2D and 3D solar wind interactions with moons and planets
(P. Travnicek (Czech))
- Nonlinear wave-particle interactions: Hybrid expanding box simulations
(P. Hellinger (Czech))
- Poster session-2 & PIC simulation exercise
- 29-Mar (Tuesday)
- Special symposium for "Sustainable Humanosphere" -- Perspectives of space plasma simulations (Chairperson: Y. Omura (Japan))
- Sustainable humanosphere and space simulations (H. Matsumoto (Japan))
- Simulation Culture (T. Sato (Japan))
- Hierarchy of numerical models to study atmospheric variation and climate change (S. Yoden (Japan))
- Reports of Space Agencies (Chairperson: H. Matsumoto (Japan))
- Space Plasma Research Within NASA's Vision for Space Exploration (B. Giles (USA))
- Space Plasma Missions in the Science Programme of the European Space Agency - ESA (H. Opgenoorth (Netherlands))
- Russian Solar Terrestrial Missions (O. Korablev (Russia))
- Space wind and Storms Exploration Program (Z. Liu (China))
- Japanese space science program: current status and future perspectives
(T. Mukai (Japan))
- Free disucussion (discussion room is available)
- Evening session for discussion
- 30-Mar (Wednesday)
- Tutorial-4: Visualization and the current status of supercomputer (Chairperson: T. Ogino (Japan))
- Visualizing magnetospheric vector field topology (D. Cai (Japan))
- Tutorial introduction to Virtural Reality : What possibilities are offered
to our field ? (A. Kageyama (Japan))
- Scalar SMP architecture and programming-Fujitsu (S.Ichikawa (Japan))
- Technical Challenges for High Performance Computers in NEC (T. Watanabe (Japan))
- Scientific Symposium-3: (Chairperson: T. Hada (Japan))
- Dynamically shielded dust simulation of phase transition in dusty plasmas (G. Ganguli (USA))
- Anomalous observations generated by chemical releases in space (P. Bernhardt
(USA))
- Spacecraft plasma interactions and plasma simulation (A. Hilgers (Netherlands))
- Modeling electric propulsion induced plasma interactions (J. Wang (USA))
- Network laboratory system for space simulations (R. Matsumoto (Japan))
- Structure and dynamic evolution of current sheets (J. Birn (USA), M. Hesse (USA) and K. Schindler (Germany))
- Poster session-3
- 31-Mar (Thursday)
- Scientific Symposium-4: (Chairperson: M. Scholer (Germany))
- BepiColombo Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter [MMO]: Scientific Objectives (H. Hayakawa (Japan))
- Field-aligned and gyrating ion beams at the edge of the Earth's ion foreshock: Recent CLUSTER data (C. Mazelle (France)))
- Multipoint observations of plasma emissions in key magnetospheric regions by the WHISPER instrument onboard CLUSTER (P. Canu (France))
- Analysis techniques for weak plasma wave turbulence data (J. Soucek (Czech))
- Generation and consequences of phase coherence in MHD turbulence: data analysis and numerical modeling (T. Hada (Japan))
- Global modeling of geotail and ring current dynamics under disturbed conditions (V. Kalegaev (Russia))
- Scientific Symposium-5: (Chairperson: T. Terasawa (Japan))
- Alfven-cyclotron fluctuations scattering of solar wind ions: hybrid simulations
(P. Gary (USA))
- The space weather modeling framework (T. Gombosi (USA))
- MHD simulations of solar wind and CME dynamics (C. Wang (China))
- MHD astrophysics simulations (K. Shibata (Japan))
- Closing Remarks
- Poster sessions are active on the evenings of March 27, 28 and 30. Authors
can put up their displays from the morning of March 27 and leave them up
until the afternoon of March 31 for maximum viewing opportunity.
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