The joint conference of 19th International Conference on Numerical Simulation of Plasmas and Asia Pacific Plasma Theory Conference will take place July 12-15, 2005, at the Nara-Ken New Public Hall in Nara, Japan.

The conference hall is located at the center of Nara National Park, in which many historical shrines and temples containing national treasures exist. Famous tourist spots such as Kofukuji Temple, Todaiji Temple, Kasuga Shrine are within walking distance from the hall.

The conference site, Nara city, is almost in the central region of the main island "Honshu" and is convenient for access from Kansai International Airport.  The headquarters hotel for this conference, Hotel Nikko Nara (formerly Mitsui Garden Hotel), is next to the JR Nara station at which there is a bus terminal for Kansai International Airport. The weather is a little hot and wet, the temperature is at about 30 degrees (in Celsius) because the transition from rainy season to summer season takes place usually in the middle July.

The working language of the conference is English.

Plasma simulations

• Space and astrophysical plasmas
• Magnetic and inertial fusion plasmas
• Intense laser interaction with plasma
• Beam and accelerator physics
• Low temperature, dusty and nano-plasma
• Various plasma-based devices

Numerical methods for plasma simulations

• MHD, other fluid methods for plasma
• Kinetic plasma methods - PIC and Vlasov
• Hybrid methods, including PIC-DSMC
• Gyro-kinetic and gyro-fluid methods
• Grid-free methods and molecular dynamics
• High-order, adaptive and multi-scale methods
• Scientific visualization for numerical simulation

Plasma Theory

• kinetic theory and transport
• modeling statistical mechanics
• atomic and molecular processes
• macroscopic equilibrium and stability
• waves and nonlinear dynamics
• particle acceleration and transport

This conference has also been an important forum for communication of new ideas in algorithm development, vector parallel processing, massively parallel processing, High Performance Fortran (HPF) and programming techniques.

The purpose of the conference is to highlight major advances in computational plasma physics, plasma theory and related areas that happened since the last conferences in this series:

18th ICNSP,	Falmouth, Massachusetts (September 2003)
17th ICNSP,	Banff, Alberta, Canada (May 2000)
16th ICNSP,	Santa Barbara, California (February 1998)
15th ICNSP,	Valley Forge, Penn (September 1994)
14th ICNSP,	Annapolis, Maryland (September, 1991)
13th ICNSP,	Santa Fe, New Mexico (September, 1989)
12th ICNSP,	San Francisco, California (September, 1987)
11th ICNSP,	Montreal, Canada (June 1985)
10th ICNSP,	San Diego, California (1983)
9th ICNSP,	Evanston, Illinois (1980)
8th ICNSP,	Monterey, California (1978)
7th ICNSP,	Courant Institute, New York (June 1975)
6th ICNSP,	Lawrence Berkeley Lab, California (1973)
5th ICNSP,	University of Iowa, Iowa (1971)
4th ICNSP,	Naval Research Lab, WDC (1970)
3rd ICNSP,	Stanford U, California (1969)
2nd ICNSP,	Los Alamos, NM (1968)
1st ICNSP,	College of Williams and Mary, VA (1967)
and
6th APPTC,	Sydney, Australia (July 2002)
5th APPTC,	Hangzhou, China (August, 2000)
4th APPTC,	Seoul, Korea (July, 1999)
3rd APPTC,	Beijing, China (September, 1998)
2nd APPTC,	Toki, Japan (September, 1997)
1st APPTC,	Taejeon, Korea (August, 1996)