• On 5th, January 2023, Prof. Hiroaki Nakamura was awarded as ASIASIM Fellowship for his great contribution to development of modeling and simulation by ASIASIM Federation, which was established by JSST (Japan Society for Simulation Technology), KSS (Korea Society for Simulation), CSF (China Simulation Federation), SSAGsg(Society for Simulation and Gaming of Singapore) and MSS(Malaysian Simulation Society) in 2011.[2023.01.16]
  • Graduate student Kento Ishiguro won the JSST 2022 Student Presentation Award in the 41th JSST Annual International Conference on Simulation Technology for his study on "Evaluation tolerance of DNA damaged by tritium beta decay using MD simulation". [2022.12.14]
  • A paper by Assoc. Prof. M. Nunami, S. Toda, M. Nakata, and H. Sugama [Phys. Plasmas29, 102505 (2022)] has been chosen as the Editor's Picks in "Physics of Plasmas" [M. Nunami, S. Toda, M. Nakata, and H. Sugama, Phys. Plasmas 29, 102505 (2022).][2022.10.12].
  • Three figures in a paper by Associate Professor Motoki Nakata et al. appear in the front cover of Journal of Plasma and Fusion Research Vol. 98, No. 9. ["Gyrokinetic Turbulent Transport Simulations on Steady Burning Condition in D-T-He Plasmas", M. Nakata and M. Honda, Plasma and Fusion Research 17, 1403083 (2022).][2022.10.3]
  • One of figures in a paper by Ph.D student Tomonari Nakayama appears in the front cover of Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion Vol. 64, No. 7. ["Nonlinear functional relation covering near- and far-marginal stability in ion temperature gradient driven turbulence", T. Nakayama, M. Nakata, M. Honda, M. Nunami, and S. Matsuoka, Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion 64, 075007 (2022).][2022.7.29]
  • Two figures in a paper by Associate Professor Ryutaro Kanno et al. appear in the front cover of Journal of Plasma and Fusion Research Vol. 98, No. 7. ["Monte Carlo Solver for Partly Calculating a Solution to the Poisson Equation in Three-Dimensional Curvilinear Coordinates", R. Kanno, G. Kawamura, M.Nunami, S. Matsuoka, and S. Satake, Plasma and Fusion Research 17, 1403029 (2022).][2022.7.29]
  • Results of an interdisciplinary collaboration research by Dr. R. T. Ishikawa(SOKENDAI), Assoc. Prof. Nakata(NIFS), and Assoc. Prof. Katsukawa(NAOJ) et al., have been published in Astronomy & Astrophysics. [Paper information: Ryohtaroh T. Ishikawa, Motoki Nakata, Yukio Katsukawa,Youhei Masada, and Tino L. Riethmuller, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 658, A142 (2022)] (Press Release)[2022.3.16]
  • Graduate student Hanzheng Li won the Best Presentation Award at the 38th Annual Meeting of the Japan Society of Plasma Science and Nuclear Fusion Research for the presentation "Simulation study of energetic-particle driven off-axis fishbone instabilities in tokamak plasmas". [2021.11.25]
  • Graduate student Shu Habu won the JSST 2021 Outstanding Presentation Award in the 40th JSST Annual International Conference on Simulation Technology for his study on "Structure formation of chiral needles by modeled force fields with helical phase using molecular dynamics simulation". [2021.11.25]
  • The research team of Associate Prof. Masanori Nunami, Associate Prof.Shinsuke Satake, Assistant Prof. Seikichi Matsuoka, Associate Prof. Motoki Nakata, Mr. Keiji Fujita, and Mr. Tomonari Nakayama won the award for excellence in large-scale computational research in QST, IFERC-CSC (URL). [2021.10.21]
  • Associate Professor Motoki Nakata, Associate Professor Masanori Nunami, and Assistant Professor Seikichi Matsuoka won the JT-60 Joint Research Prize for their gStudy of turbulent transport and profile formations in multi-ion-species mixed plasmash in collaborations with National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST). [2021.10.06]
  • One of figures in a paper by Specially Appointed Researcher Malik Idouakass appears in the front cover of Physics of Plasmas Vol. 28, No. 8. [ "Precession drift reversal and rapid transport of trapped energetic particles due to an energetic particle driven instability in the Large Helical Device", M. Idouakass, Y. Todo, H. Wang, J. Wang, R. Seki, and M. Sato, Physics of Plasmas 28, 080701 (2021). ][2021.09.02]
  • Assistant professor Gakushi Kawamura won the 10th NINS Young Scientists Award.[2021.02.26]
  • One of the figures in the paper by Dr. M. S. Islam is selected as a cover picture in J. Plasma Fusion Res. Vol. 96 Num. 11, and the Plasma and Fusion Research website.[2020.11.26]
  • The Plasma Simulator 'Raijin' ranked 3rd in Japan and 10th in the world in the HPCG (High Performance Conjugate Gradients) benchmark showing the performance of supercomputers for practical applications. (information).[2020.11.18]
  • Project Review "Numerical Simulation Reactor Research Project" was published in The Journal of the Japan Society of Plasma Science and Nuclear Fusion Research, Vol.96, No.10, October 2020.[2020.11.4]
  • Associate Professor Atsushi M. Ito won "2020 AAPPS-DPP Young Researcher Award (U40)". (information).[2020.11.4]
  • Prof. Hiroaki Nakamura and Assit. Prof. Gakushi Kawamura won "The Outstanding Performance Award of Super Computation" among projects of IFERC-CSC's JSRS-1 for their study "Molecular dynamics simulation of hydrogen recycling in plasma facing materials for neutral transport code (PI: Assoc. Prof. Seiki Saito, Yamagata Univ.)" (information). [2020.10.07]
  • A simulation research topic of Associate Professor Motoki Nakata was published in "ę’[l (People at the forefront)" of the Asahi Shimbun on Jun. 21, 2020.[2020.06.21]
  • A simulation research topic of Assoc. Prof. Shinsuke Satake was published in evening edition of The Asahi Simbun on Jun.3, 2020.[2020.06.03]
  • The nickname of the new Plasma Simulator, which starts operating in 2020, became 'Raijin (—‹_)' as a result of the open call.[2020.06.01]
  • Prof. H. Nakamura won the 38th JSST Annual International Conference on Simulation Technology (JSST2019) Outstanding Presentation Award.[2020.05.14]
  • Associate Professor Motoki Nakata won "The Young Scientistsf Award in The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)h for his study on gTurbulence suppression mechanisms and improved confinement in magnetically confined high-temperature plasmash. [2020.04.20]
  • Assit. Prof. G. Kawamura won the Yoshikawa Masaji Fusion Energy Award of Fusion Energy Forum of Japan 2019 (Title : Three dimensional transport model of fusion edge plasmas based on EMC3-EIRENE code). [2019.12.9]
  • Assit. Prof. M. Nakata won the 14th Research award for young scientists of the Physical Society of Japan (Title : Turbulent transport and isotope effects in magnetic confinement plasmas). [2019.11.8]
  • A paper by Assoc. Prof. S. Toda et al., Phys. Plasmas 26, 012510 (2019) is ranked 12th in the top 15 articles that were most downloaded in the past year from Physics of Plasmas. [2019.08.16]
  • Plasma Simulator Symposium 2019 (2019.9.19-20)
  • A paper by Assoc. Prof. S. Toda et al., Phys. Plasmas 26, 012510 (2019) is chosen as one of Most Read articles (Jan. 28, 2019). [2019.2.13]
  • Assoc. Prof. M. Nunami won the Akira Hasegawa Poster Prize in "2nd Asia-Pacific Conference on Plasma Physics (AAPPS-DPP 2018)" [2018.11.16]
  • Reuslts of a collaboration research by Dr. Bierwage and Prof. Todo have been published in Nature Communications [Andreas Bierwage, Kouji Shinohara, Yasushi Todo, Nobuyuki Aiba, Masao Ishikawa, Go Matsunaga, Manabu Takechi, and Masatoshi Yagi, Nature Communications 9 , 3282 (2018)] [2018.9.6]
  • Plasma Simulator Symposium 2018 -PSS2018- (2018.9.13-14) [2018.8.22]
  • A paper by Assit. Prof. Hao Wang et al entitled "Chirping and Sudden Excitation of Energetic-Particle-Driven Geodesic Acoustic Modes in a Large Helical Device Experiment" has been published in Physical Review Letters [Hao Wang et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 175001 (2018)] [2018.5.2]
  • Assit. Prof. M. Nakata won the Research award for young scientists of National Institutes of Natural Sciences [2018.3.2]
  • A paper by Assoc. Prof. S. Satake, "S. Matsuoka, Y. Idomura, and S. Satake, Phys. Plasmas 25, 022510 (2018)" is chosen as the Editor's Picks of Physics of Plasmas. Editor's Picks http://aip.scitation.org/journal/php/ [2018.2.22]
  • Prof. H. Nakamura won the 36th JSST Annual International Conference on Simulation Technology (JSST2017) Outstanding Presentation Award. [2018.1.23]
  • Assoc. Prof. H. Ohtani won the 36th JSST Annual International Conference on Simulation Technology (JSST2017) Outstanding Presentation Award. [2018.1.23]
  • One of figures in a paper by Assist. Prof. H. Hasegawa appears in the front cover of J. Plasma Fusion Res. Vol. 93 Num. 12 [2017.12.27].
  • Assit. Prof. M. Nakata won the Research award for young scientists of the Japan Society of Plasma Science and Nuclear Fusion Research (Title : Gyrokinetic simulation studies of isotope effects on turbulent transport in plasmas) [2017.10.31] .
  • Research activities on deuterium plasmas by Assit. Prof. M. Nakata et al. are highlighted in several newspaper articles, THE NIKKAN KOGYO SHIMBUN, etc [2017.4.24].
  • A paper on the plasma turbulence study by Assit. Prof. M. Nakata et al. is published on Physical Review Letters [M. Nakata et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 165002 (2017)] [2017.4.21].
  • Prof. Y. Todo's paper is selected in Nuclear Fusion highlights of 2016 as one of the articles that have generated a particular interest in the community [Y. Todo et al. Nucl. Fusion 56 112008 (2016)] [2017.2.13].
  • Edge plasma simulation by Assit. Prof. H. Hasegawa et al. is highlighted in ITER Newsline (2017.1.9).
  • In HPCG (High Performance Conjugate Gradients), Plasma Simulator is ranked 2nd in Japan and 12th in the world as of June 2015.
  • In TOP500 Supercomputing Sites, Plasma Simulator is ranked 3rd in Japan and 27th in the world as of June 2015.



Award Winner


Date  Jan 5, 2023
Winner's name Hiroaki Nakamura
Position Professor
Society/Confernce ASIASIM Federation
Award name ASIASIM Fellowship
Title Contribution to development of modeling and simulation

Date  Dec 14, 2022
Winner's name Kento Ishiguro
Position Graduate student
Society/Confernce Japan Society for Simulation Technology
Award name the JSST 2022 Student Presentation Award
Title Evaluation tolerance of DNA damaged by tritium beta decay using MD simulation

Date  Nov 25, 2021
Winner's name Hanzheng Li
Position Graduate student
Society/Confernce Japan Society of Plasma Science and Nuclear Fusion
Award name the Best Presentation Award at the 38th Annual Meeting of the Japan Society of Plasma Science and Nuclear Fusion Research
Title Simulation study of energetic-particle driven off-axis fishbone instabilities in tokamak plasmas

Date  Nov 25, 2021
Winner's name Shu Habu
Position Graduate student
Society/Confernce Japan Society for Simulation and Technology (JSST)
Award name Outstanding Presentation Award in the 40th JSST Annual International Conference on Simulation Technology
Title Structure formation of chiral needles by modeled force fields with helical phase using molecular dynamics simulation

Date  Oct 6, 2021
Winner's name Motoki Nakata, Masanori Nunami and Seikichi Matsuoka
Position Associate Professor / Assistant Professor
Society/Confernce National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST)
Award name JT-60 Joint Research Prize
Title Study of turbulent transport and profile formations in multi-ion-species mixed plasmas

Date  Feb. 26, 2021
Winner's name Gakushi Kawamura
Position Associate Professor
Society/Confernce National Institutes of Natural Sciences
Award name the 10th NINS Young Scientists Award
Title

Date  Oct 26, 2020
Winner's name Atsushi M. Ito
Position Associate Professor
Society/Confernce Division of Plasma Physics, Association of Asia Pacific Physical Societies
Award name 2020 AAPPS-DPP Young Researcher Award (U40)
Title Incident Energy Dependence of Tungsten Fuzzy Nanostructure Growth with BCA-MD-KMC Multi-Hybrid Simulation

Date  May 14, 2020
Winner's name Hiroaki Nakamura
Position Professor
Society/Confernce Japan Society for Simulation Technology
Award name Outstanding Presentation Award
Title Molecular dynamics simulation on structural formation of chiral nanoneedle by optical votex

Date  Apr 20, 2020
Winner's name Motoki Nakata
Position Associate Professor
Society/Confernce Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)
Award name The Young Scientistsf Award
Title Turbulence suppression mechanisms and improved confinement in magnetically confined high-temperature plasmas

Date  Dec 9, 2019
Winner's name Gakushi Kawamura
Position Assistant Professor
Society/Confernce Fusion Energy Forum of Japan
Award name Yoshikawa Masaji Fusion Energy Award
Title Three dimensional transport model of fusion edge plasmas based on EMC3-EIRENE code

Date  Nov 8, 2019
Winner's name Motoki Nakata
Position Assistant Professor
Society/Confernce The Physical Society of Japan
Award name The 14th Research award for young scientists
Title Turbulent transport and isotope effects in magnetic confinement plasmas

Date  Nov 16, 2018
Winner's name Masanori Nunami
Position Associate Professor
Society/Confernce 2nd Asia-Pacific Conference on Plasma Physics (AAPPS-DPP 2018)
Award name Akira Hasegawa Poster Prize
Title Kinetic simulation studies on particle transport of multi-species plasma

Date  October, 2017
Winner's name Hiroaki Nakamura
Position Professor
Society/Confernce The 36th JSST Annual International Conference on Simulation Technology
Award name Outstanding Presentation Award
Title Population Distribution of Molecular Hydrogen at Plasma-Facing Material

Date  October, 2017
Winner's name Hiroaki Ohtani
Position Associate Professor
Society/Confernce The 36th JSST Annual International Conference on Simulation Technology
Award name Outstanding Presentation Award
Title Applications of virtual-reality technology to fusion science and engineering

Date  Sep 20, 2017
Winner's name Motoki Nakata
Position Assistant Professor
Society/Confernce The Japan Society of Plasma Science and Nuclear Fusion Research
Award name Research award for young scientists
Title Gyrokinetic simulation studies of isotope effects on turbulent transport in plasmas

Date  May 31, 2016
Winner's name Hitoshi Sakagami
Position Professor
Society/Confernce The Laser Society of Japan
Award name 40th Best Paper Award
Title Periodic Surface Structures Self-organized on Solid Materials Ablated by Femtosecond Laser Pulses

Date  Mar. 21, 2016
Winner's name Masanori Nunami
Position Assistant Professor
Society/Confernce The Physical Society of Japan
Award name 10th Young Scientist Award
Title Simulation studies and quantitative prediction for turbulent transport in three-dimensional plasmas

Date  Jan., 2016
Winner's name Yoshihisa Fujita
Position Graduate Student 
Society/Confernce The 34th JSST Annual Conference International Conference on Simulation Technology (JSST2015)
Award name Outstanding Presentation Award
Title Electromagnetic wave propagation simulation in corrugated waveguide - Influence of miter bend on transmission mode -

Date  Nov. 27, 2015
Winner's name Gakushi Kawamura
Position Assistant Professor
Society/Confernce The 32nd annual meeting of the Japan Society of Plasma Science and Nuclear Fusion Research (JSPF)
Award name The Best Presentation Award for Young Scientists
Title Impurity transport analysis in LHD peripheral regions with impurity gas-puff

Date  Nov. 24, 2015
Winner's name Masahiko Sato (a), Yasuhiro Suzuki (b), Masayuki Yokoyama (c), et al.
Position (a)Assistant Professor, (b)Associate Professor, (c)Professor
Society/Confernce The Japan Society of Plasma Science and Nuclear Fusion Research (JSPF)
Award name 20th JSPF Award for Notable Contribution to Technology
Title Development of the integrated transport analysis system unifying experiment and simulation data and demonstration on the LHD experiments

Date  Nov. 24, 2015
Winner's name Yasushi Todo (a), Hao Wang (b), et al.
Position (a)Professor, (b)Assistant Professor
Society/Confernce The Japan Society of Plasma Science and Nuclear Fusion Research (JSPF)
Award name 20th JSPF Award for Notable Contribution to Technology
Title Development of MEGA, Hybrid Simulation Code for Energetic Particles and MHD

Date  Sep. 27, 2015
Winner's name Shuichi Kato
Position Graduate Student 
Society/Confernce Division 2, the 2015 Fall meeting of the Physical Society of Japan (JPS)
Award name Best Student Presentation Award
Title BCA-KMC Hybrid Simulation for Hydrogen and Helium Diffusion in Divertor Material under Plasma Irradiation

Date  Mar. 24, 2015
Winner's name Yoshihisa Fujita
Position Graduate Student 
Society/Confernce Division 2, the 70th Annual meeting of the Physical Society of Japan (JPS)
Award name Best Student Presentation Award
Title Investigation of infuence on the transmission efficiency using FDTD considering the induced current density

Date  Oct. 31, 2014
Winner's name Hitoshi Sakagami
Position Professor
Society/Confernce Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Award name Award for Judge of Grand-in-Aid for Scientific Research (KAKENHI)

Date  Jun. 15, 2014
Winner's name Atsushi M. Ito
Position Assistant Professor
Society/Confernce National In‚“titutes of Natural Science (NINS)
Award name NINS Prize for Young Scientists
Title Theoretical Simulation Researches on Plasma-Material Interaction Phenomena

Date  Sep. 28, 2013
Winner's name Seiki Saito
Position Graduate Student 
Society/Confernce Division 2, the 2013 Fall meeting of the Physical Society of Japan (JPS)
Award name Student Presentation Award
Title Investigation of Fuzz Formation on Tungsten Material under Noble-gas Irradiation by Binary-Collision-Approximation-based Simulation

Date  Ju‚Œ. 24, 2013
Winner's name Seiki Saito
Position Graduate Student 
Society/Confernce Japan Society for Simulation Technology
Award name Award for Early Career Research Contributions
Title Finite Temperature Effect on Structural Changes of Single Crystaline Graphite under Plasma Irradiation

Date  Nov. 30, 2012
Winner's name Atsushi M. Ito
Position Assistant Professor
Society/Confernce The 29th annual meeting of the Japan Society of Plasma Science and Nuclear Fusion Research (JSPF)
Award name The Best Presentation Award for Young Scientists
Title Multi-scale Simulation for Tungsten Nano-structure

Date  Sep. 28, 2012
Winner's name Seiki Saito
Position Graduate Student 
Society/Confernce 31th Japan Society for Simulation Technology Annual Conference (International Conference on Simulation Technology)
Award name Student Presentation Award
Title Finite Temperature Effect on Structural Changes of Single Crystaline Graphite

Date  Sep. 21, 2012
Winner's name Masayasu Hata
Position Graduate Student 
Society/Confernce Division 2, the 2012 Fall meeting of the Physical Society of Japan (JPS)
Award name Best Student Presentation Award
Title Effects of finite electron temperature on magnetic structure

Date  Aug. 27, 2012
Winner's name Seiki Saito
Position Graduate Student 
Society/Confernce Mid-term Presentation of Docter Dissertation, Depertment of Energy Engineering and Science, Nagoya University.
Award name Pre Poster Award
Title Extension of Binary-Collision-Approximation-Based Simulation Code AC∀T

Date  Ju‚Œ. 13, 2012
Winner's name Seiki Saito
Position Graduate Student 
Society/Confernce Japan Society for Simulation Conference
Award name Award for Early Career Research Contributions
Title Progress of Binary-Collision-Approximation-Based Simulation for Cumulative Structural Changes of Target Materials

Date  Ju‚Œ. 10, 2012
Winner's name Masanori Nunami
Position Assistant Professor
Society/Confernce Fusion Energy Forum of Japan
Award name Masaji Yoshikawa Prize for Fusion Energy
Title Study on verification and prediction of tubulent transport in three-dimensional field@configuration

Date  Mar. 27, 2012
Winner's name Hao Wang
Position Graduate Student 
Society/Confernce Division 2, the 67th annual meeting of the Physical Society of Japan (JPS)
Award name Best Student Presentation Award
Title Nonlinear Frequency Chirping of Energetic Particle Driven Geodesic Acoustic Mode

Date  Oct. 22, 2011
Winner's name Seiki Saito
Position Graduate Student 
Society/Confernce 30th Japan Society for Simulation Technology Annual Conference (International Conference on Modeling and Simulation Technology)
Award name Student Presentation Award
Title Progress of Binary-Collision-Approximation-Based Simulation for Cumulative Structural Changes of Target Materials

Date  Mar. 29, 2011
Winner's name Seiki Saito
Position Graduate Student 
Society/Confernce Computational Science and Engineering Division, Atomic Energy Society of Japan
Award name Best Student Presentation Award
Title Development of Hybrid Code of Binary-Collision-Approximation-Based Simulation and Molecular Dynamics Simulation

Date  Mar. 25, 2011
Winner's name Seiki Saito
Position Graduate Student 
Society/Confernce Presentation of Master Dissertation, Depertment of Energy Engineering and Science, Nagoya University.
Award name Best Presentation Award
Title Reaction between graphene and hydrogen under oblique injection

Date  Nov. 30, 2010
Winner's name Shunsuke Usami
Position Assistant Professor
Society/Confernce The Japan Society of Plasma Science and Nuclear Fusion Research (JSPF)
Award name The 15th JSPF Award for Early Career Research Contributions
Title Multi-Hierarchy Simulation of Magnetic Reconnection with MHD-PIC Interlocking Method

Date  Oct. 20, 2010
Winner's name Seiki Saito
Position Graduate Student 
Society/Confernce SNA+MC2010 (Joint International Conference on Supercomputing in Nuclear Applications + Monte Carlo 2010)
Award name Student Award
Title How To Combine Binary Collision Approximation and Multi-Body Potential for Molecular Dynamics

Date  Sep. 21, 2010
Winner's name Seiki Saito
Position Graduate Student 
Society/Confernce Intermediate Presentation, Depertment of Energy Engineering and Science, Nagoya University.
Award name Best Presentation Award and Best Poster Award
Title Reaction between Graphene and Hydrogen Atom by Molecular Dynamics Simulation

Date  Jun. 11, 2010
Winner's name Seikichi Matsuoka
Position Graduate Student
Society/Confernce The 8th Joint Conference for Fusion Energy
Award name Presentation Award for Young Scientist
Title Calculation of Electron Neoclassical Transport with Monte-Calro ƒĀf Method

Date  Apr. 8, 2010
Winner's name Motoki Nakata
Position Graduate Student
Society/Confernce The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (Sokendai)
Award name President Award
Title Gyrokinetic Analysis of Vortex Structures and Transport in ETG Driven Turbulence