Organized Sessions

Session Title	OS1: Simulation Techniques of Electromagnetic Fields Analysis
Organiser(s)	Hikaru Samukawa and Hajime Igarashi
Intended for	Researchers, Engineers, Students, and Teachers
Objective	Recently Electro-Magnetic field analysis has boosted its importance due to requirements of accurate simulation to design especially rotating machineries and high-frequency electronic devices. In this session, we are looking forward the state of the arts presentations on EM field analysis based on broad range algorithms such as FDTD, MoM, BEM, FEM, and etc. covering from fundamental theory to the forefront applications.

Session Title	OS2: Numerical Simulation and Visualization of Nonlinear Problems
Organiser(s)	Atsushi Kamitani and Satoshi Tanaka
Intended for	Researchers and engineers that have a special interest in numerical simulation and visualization of nonlinear problems
Objective	Both the numerical simulation and the visualization have played an important role in the analysis of nonlinear problems arising in a wide variety of fields in science and engineering. For example, in solid-state physics and fusion engineering, a number of high-performance numerical techniques have been proposed for solving nonlinear partial differential equations and they have contributed to the remarkable development of these fields. Moreover, visualization of complicated/large-sized data is indispensable for the analysis of the results obtained in numerical simulations. In this sense, the numerical simulation and the visualization should work closely together in the analysis of nonlinear problems. The aim of this organized session is to provide a forum for exchanging ideas and discussing recent developments in the numerical simulation and the visualization of nonlinear problems.

Session Title	OS3: A variety of communication and mutual communication
Organiser(s)	Takuro Sato and Hiroshi Tamura
Intended for	Academician, Business person, national and local administrative persons
Objective	Recently it has been provided by a variety of mobile phone communications, Internet, satellite communications, inter-vehicle communication and submarine cable. In addition, the emergence of social networks represented by Facebook or Twitter has come to provide a wide use in terms of application from the standpoint of users as well as the diversity of infrastructure. In this session, we will discuss the communication about the infrastructure or the application, the communication methods and the high reliability from diversity of communications.

Session Title	OS4: Numerical Computation
Organiser(s)	Shin'ichi Oishi and Takeshi Ogita
Intended for	Researchers and engineers in numerical computation, numerical analysis and numerical simulation
Objective	Numerical simulation serves an important role in science and engineering. Numerical computation underlies several methods for numerical simulation. The main objective of the session is to discuss several recent topics on numerical computation including efficient numerical algorithms, verified numerical computations, high performance computing and so forth.

Session Title	OS5: HPC Joint Session: Computational Fluid Dynamics
Organiser(s)	Susumu Goto and Takashi Ishihara
Intended for	Since fluid dynamics is related to a wide variety of fields in science (including plasma physics, geophysics and astrophysics) and engineering, a broad audience may be expected.
Objective	This is a part of Joint Session on HPC (High Performance Computing). The purpose of this Joint Session is to provide an opportunity to exchange new ideas of simulation methods and techniques, such as a new numerical scheme, algorithm, programming method, code tuning, and so on. The main objective of this own session is to develop arguments on the rapidly growing subjects in the computational fluid dynamics, such as numerical simulations of turbulent flows at high Reynolds numbers, multiphase flows with nontrivial treatments of interfaces between different phases, flows of complex fluids (e.g. non-Newtonian fluids), etc. We shall focus not only on scientific aspects of each topic, but also on its simulation and post-processing (e.g. visualization) methods and techniques.

Session Title	OS6: HPC Joint Session: Plasma and Fusion
Organiser(s)	Tomo-Hiko Watanabe and Yasuhiro Idomura
Intended for	Scientists and engineers from various fields of science are anticipated as target audience, as plasma physics shares mutual interests with fluid dynamics, geophysics and astrophysics.
Objective	This is a part of Joint Session on HPC (High Performance Computing). The purpose of this Joint Session is to provide an opportunity to exchange new ideas of simulation methods and techniques, such as a new numerical scheme, algorithm, programming method, code tuning, and so on. In plasma simulations for fusion and space physics, a variety of numerical models are employed, such as the magnetohydrodynamics, particle-in-cell, and Vlasov simulations, and are applied for studying turbulent transport, magnetic reconnection, and collisionless shock etc. The main objective of this own session is to develop discussions on mutual topics among different models and schemes in plasma physics as well as related scientific areas, e.g. geophysics, astrophysics, and fluid dynamics.

Session Title	OS7: HPC Joint Session: Geophysics & Astrophysics
Organiser(s)	Takehiro Miyagoshi and Youhei Masada
Intended for	Scientists and engineers who make use of numerical simulations in natural sciences, especially geophysics and astrophysics
Objective	This is a part of Joint Session on HPC (High Performance Computing). The purpose of this Joint Session is to provide an opportunity to exchange new ideas of simulation methods and techniques, such as a new numerical scheme, algorithm, programming method, code tuning, and so on. The main target of this own session is geophysics and astrophysics. In addition to the latest scientific results of each field, we expect that each talk includes a description on simulation methods and techniques, which will play a role as bridge between participants of the whole Joint Session.

Session Title	OS8: Advanced Computer Simulation for Biomolecules and Nano Materials
Organiser(s)	Yoshinobu Naoshima, Koji Sueoka, Fumitoshi Sato, and Toshiyuki Hirano
Intended for	Researchers engaged in bio and nano simulation and experimental chemists and biochemists dealing with proteins and nano materials
Objective	Computational simulations, coupled with the establishment of the next-generation supercomputer, K computer, will be an important research method for advancing Japanese bioscience and nanoscience in addition to theory and experiment. The purpose of this organized session is to present some papers concerning bio and nano computation with molecular dynamics methods and quantum chemical methods and to exchange ideas and information associated with the computations. This session also aims to share a common interest in the fields of bio and nano simulation with computational researchers from Japan and abroad. We sincerely hope that researchers in various related fields enjoy our simulation session through talks and presentations. We are on high speed internet. Please keep in touch.

Session Title	OS9: Visualization in Immersive Virtual Environment
Organiser(s)	Youhei Masada and Kazuhiko Hamamoto
Intended for	We target audience who is interested in visualization methods and virtual reality techniques, especially in immersive virtual environment.
Objective	3D environment is being so popular recent years. In the near future, immersive virtual environment (IVE) will gain even more in popularity. Actually, not only for the practical use, IVE has also grown in its importance as a tool for data visualization aimed at both the specialist and non-specialist, and has been used in various research and industrial fields. Objectives of this session are to introduce activities of Japanese institutes' IVE, and discuss novel visualization methods and techniques in IVE and its applications to research and industrial fields. This session includes demonstration with using π-CAVE (PI-CAVE), which is installed in Integrated Research Center of Kobe University, and one of the largest IVE all over the world.

Session Title	OS10: Simulation of Instrumentation and Control Application
Organiser(s)	Satean Tunyasrirut and Santi Wangnipparnto
Intended for	Researchers, engineers, students, lecturers, and interested participants
Objective	Simulation of Instrumentation and Control is important due to its vital role in the industry. In this session, we are looking forward to the simulation and implementation concerning sensors technology, calibration, measurement, digital signal processing, control, renewable energy, and etc., covering from fundamental theories to applications.

Session Title	OS11: Modeling and Simulation Technology for Social Systems
Organiser(s)	Sei Kato and Kazuo Furuta
Intended for	Researchers, engineers, and people in industries who take interests in the simulation technologies for social systems
Objective	Modeling and simulation technologies are essential to solve social problems and to design a better society. Recently both social science and information science field advanced great deal; vast amounts of knowledge have been accumulated on human behavior and recent information technologies have succeeded in implementing them on computer. The goal of this session is to share the latest research in both fields and to discuss how we can realize a social simulation that impacts on global market and industries The topics of relevance for this session include but not limited to the following:   - cognitive psychology   - social psychology   - behavioral economics   - agent-based modeling   - decision-making modeling under uncertainty   - machine learning   - resilient society

Session Title	OS12: Simulation under Uncertainty
Organiser(s)	Sei Kato and Yasuyoshi Horibata
Intended for	Researchers, engineers, and people in industries who take interests in the simulation under uncertainty
Objective	There are two types of limitation in the current computer simulation technologies. The first is the modeling error and the second is the observation error for initial conditions / boundary conditions. Recently, technologies to improve the simulation accuracy have been developed in several fields, which are data assimilation technologies, inverse analysis methods, model driven methods, and so forth. The goal of this session is to share the latest research on these approaches to combine statistical methods and computer simulation. The topics of relevance for this session include but not limited to the following:   - data assimilation   - inverse analysis   - model driven control   - optimization   - machine learning