ipels 2001

Niseko, Hokkaido, Japan, July 2-6, 2001



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Important Dates

On-site registration : July 1 - 5
Reception : July 1
Workshop : July 2 - 6

Objective

The Sixth IPELS Workshop, which will strive to launch exciting 21st century scientific dialogue and creative interactions between diversified research areas in the plasma physics community, will be held in Hokkaido, Japan. Since 1991, researchers from both the laboratory and space research communities have held 5 workshops enabling stimulating cross-cutting discussions spanning diverse research topics in the space and laboratory arenas.

While we have seen a shift of public interest to a variety of disciplines, it is hoped that the intellectual dialogue and interaction at the workshop can help us to open pathways to exciting new areas of research. We would like to solicit your active participation in this first workshop in the 21st century with the general aim that a road to an exciting new field might indeed be discovered.

The workshop site we have chosen with this hope is the northernmost island of Japan, Hokkaido. The Niseko area near Sapporo-city in Hokkaido is full of fresh air, green grass and offers an unspoiled vista. The climate of early July in Hokkaido is mild and low-humid. This circumstance would provide us a good opportunity to realize our hope.


Specific Topics

  1. Solar-, Geo-, Astro-Dynamos
  2. Flux tube dynamics
  3. Current-filamentation
  4. Interaction between micro and macro scales
  5. Interaction between internal system and environment
  6. Magnetic reconnection
  7. New satellite measurements
  8. New laboratory experiments
  9. New concepts and methodologies
  10. Other nonequilibrium systems

Innovative ideas and proposals that open up new directions and fields from plasma researches are most welcome.

One-hour open discussion session will be planned everyday to search for an entrance to emergent wonderland.


Organizing Committee

International Program Committee:
Sato, Tetsuya (Chair) National Institute for Fusion Science, Japan
Gekelman, Walter University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Haerendel, Gerhard Max Planck Institute, Germany
Kintner, Paul Cornell University, USA
Matsumoto, Hiroshi Kyoto University, Japan
Mima, Kunioki Osaka University, Japan
Rynn, Nathan University of California, Irvine, USA
Sato, Noriyoshi Tohoku University, Japan
Tsuneta, Saku National Astronomical Observatory, Japan
Yamada, Masaaki Princeton University, PPPL, USA

Local Organizing Committee (National Institute for Fusion Science):
Sato, T. (Chair), Goto, S., Hayashi, T., Horiuchi, R., Ishiguro, S. (Conference Secretary), Kageyama, A., Mizuguchi, N., Ohtani, H., Takamaru, H., Takayama, A., Todo, Y., Watanabe, K., Watanabe, T. -H.

Related Sites

  • Theory and Computer Simulation Center
  • National Institute for Fusion Science
  • IPELS '99

    • Conference Poster

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    Pictures taken in the conference

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