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Oscar Buneman Awards

A tradition, which began at the 16th ICNSP, will continue. This is the presentation of the fourth Oscar Buneman Award for the most insightful visualization. The award has two categories: one for the Best Still Image and another for the Best Animation. Nomination form must be submitted by June 24. An animation must be copied to CD-ROM and a still must be printed out in both A3 and A4 sized sheets. Visual materials (CD-ROM or A3 and A4 sized sheets) must be sent to the Conference Secretariat along with a brief description by July 7, alternatively, brought along on the registration desk by July 12.

(The length of animation must be up to five minutes. In the first part of the movie, the information of title, name and affliation for 2 sec. must be included. Mpeg1, mpeg2, and quicktime movie format is available.)



The previous award winners are listed below:


1st Buneman Award Winners at the 16th ICNSP.

Best Still Image:

Takaya Hayashi

NIFS, Japan

Runner-Up:

Hideaki Miura

NIFS, Japan

Best Animation:

Akira Kageyama

NIFS, Japan

Runner-Up:

Katsunoba Nishihara

Osaka Univ., Japan



2nd Buneman Award Winners at the 17th ICNSP.

Best Still Image:

Ricardo Fonseca

UCLA, USA

Runner-Up:

Christopher Garasi

SNL, USA

Best Animation:

Christopher Garasi

SNL, USA

Runner-Up:

Dean Dauger

UCLA, USA



3rd Buneman Award Winners at the 18th ICNSP.

Best Still Image:

V.I.Sotnikov, B.S.Bauer, J.N.Leboeuf, P.Hellinger, P.Travnicek, V.Fiala

Best Animation:

P.J.Mardahl, K.L.Cartwright, A.D.Greenwood, T.Murphy, M.D.Haworth, M.Lopez



4th Buneman Award Winners at the 19th ICNSP.

Best Still Image:

Hideaki Miura

NIFS, Japan

Best Animation:

Jun Aoki

Kyoto U. , Japan

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John Dawson Prize

To commemorate the late John Dawson a specialized award for pioneering advances to plasma physics obtained through simulations will be presented. This is a historical award for past (pre-ICNSP'05) achievements. Official nomination letters for the Dawson Prize (individual or group award) must be sent to the Conference Chairman by July 7, 2005. The letters have to clearly describe the scope of work and its impact.




1st John Dawson Prize Winners at the 18th ICNSP.

C.K.Birdsall

UCB,USA

and

A.B.Langdon

LLNL,USA



2nd John Dawson Prize Winners at the 19th ICNSP.

Tetsuya Sato

Earth Simulator Center, Japan



Best Graduate Student Presentations

Nomination form must be submitted by June 24.
The winners at the last conference are listed below:


1st Best Student Presentations at 18th ICNSP.

Best Student Talk:

Jorge Carretero

MIT

Best Student Poster:

Justin Koo

U. Michigan



2nd Best Student Presentations at 19th ICNSP.

Best presentation:

Hideto Takekida

Tohoku U., Japan

Best presentation:

Toseo Moritaka

Nagoya U., Japan

Honorable mention:

Atsushi Itoh

Nagoya U., Japan