1. Akira Hasegawa memorial symposium

Our distinguished professor Akira Hasegawa passed away on 22th June.
Zensho Yoshida (The University of Tokyo) is organizing memorial symposium to celebrate his scientific achievements such as Kinetic Alfven wave, Hasegawa-Mima equation, Dipole plasma confinement, Self-organization and formation of thermal barrier (Hasegawa-Wakatani equation), Optical Soliton.

Organizer Zensho Yoshida(chair), Liu Chen(co-chair)
Date and time:9:30-16:35, September 21.2025
Place: 410

Program:
Sep 21(Sun), 9:30-11:35, Room410

AK-1-I1: Liu Chen University of California: Irvine Physics of kinetic Alfvén waves : History and Progress

AK-1-I2 Fulvio Zonca ENEA: The role of kinetic Alfvén waves in burning plasma self-organization

AK-1-I3 Troy Carter ORNL: Overview of Alfven wave research using the Large Plasma Device

AK-1-I4 Zensho Yoshida, University of Tokyo: Thermal equilibrium in a dipole magnetic field --entropy on a leaf of phase space

AK-1-I5 Alex Simpson, OpenStar Technologies Tahi: Dipole confinement of fusion-relevant plasmas

Sep 21(Sun), 14:30-16:35, Room410

AK-2-I1 Zhihong Lin, University of California: Irvine Zonal flows: from Hasegawa-Mima equation to gyrokinetic simulation

AK-2-I2 Michio Yamada, Kyoto University: Hasegawa-Mima equations and Rossby waves in Geophysical Fluids

AK-2-I3 Jan Weiland, Lehigh University: Nonlinearities in magnetic confinement, ionospheric physics and population explosion leading to profile resiliense

AK-2-I4 Katsunobu Nishihara, The University of Osaka: The dawn of plasma computer simulation and 60 years of memories with Professor Hasegawa

AK-2-I5 Akihiro Maruta, The University of Osaka: Optical Solitons and Eigenvalue Communications

2 Special Session in honor of 2024 S. Chandrasekhar Prize Laureate Pisin Chen

In L2 session, special session(s) on Prof. Pisin Chen’s scientific achievements on Plasma Wakefield Acceleration and Laboratory Astro Plasma Physics will be organized.
Organizer: Pisin Chen

Speaker	Title
Pisin Chen (National Taiwan University)	Black hole Hawking evaporation and the AnaBHEL experiment
Gianluca Gregori (Oxford University)	Laboratory astroparticle physics: from the stability of laboratory blazar's jets to heavy axion searches
Lance Labun (University of Texas)	Particle production and vacuum structure in QED
Jiayong Zhong (Beijing Normal University)	Recent Advances in Laboratory Astrophysics at Shenguang-II Laser Facilities
Yasuhiro Kuramitsu (Osaka University)	Model experiments of cosmic ray acceleration using intense lasers
Jamie Rosenzweg (UCLA)	Plasma Wakefield Accelerators in Application: the Road to Discovery Science
Bernhard Hidding (Heinrich-Heine-University Dusseldorf)	Hybrid Laser-Plasma Wakefield Acceleration: Harnessing the Best of Both Worlds
Min Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong university)	Laser Wakefield based axion-like particle generation and detection
Brendan O'Shea (SLAC)	Plasma Wakefield Acceleration, FACET-II and a Wakefield Collider
John Farmer (CERN)	AWAKE: from proof-of-concept towards first particle-physics applications
Zhenming Sheng (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)	Brilliant gamma-ray emission driven by laser and electron beams in plasma
Lance Labun (University of Texas)	Laser wakefield accelerators for industry

3. Professor Kunioki Mima Memorial Session

This memorial session will honor the scientific achievements and legacy of Prof. Kunioki Mima, who was a great academic in the field of
theoretical and computational plasma physics. Professor Mima made important contributions to the understanding of the physics associated
with the nonlinearity of plasmas, which is an essential basis of a variety of instabilities, wave excitation, and structure formation.
The talks in this session will present the broad impact of his scientific legacy and will lead to future prospects including innovative applications.
This session is partly supported by JSPS KAKENHI International Leading Research Grant Number JP23K20038.
Organizer: Yasuaki Kishimoto (Kyoto Univ.), Natsumi Iwata (ILE, UOsaka)
Tentative Program: The session will consist of six talks from fields related to Prof. Mima’s works, including magnetized plasma,
high energy density plasma, and laser fusion.

4. Mini Symposium : Advancements in hydrogen boron fusion

This symposium covers the landscape of hydrogen-boron research with both magnetic confinement and laser-driven approaches.
Organizer : Dimitri Batani(University of Bordeaux), Martin Yuankai Peng(ENN Energy Technology Institute)

Speaker	Title
Takashi Mutoh (Chubu University)	Supra-thermal ion tail experiment on LHD
Mireille Schneider (CEA)	3rd-harmonic ICRF acceleration of NBI ions on JET
Martin Y-K Peng (ENN)	EXL-50U p-boron plasma confinement and stability
Kunihiro Ogawa (NIFS)	Alpha particle emission rate on LHD
Bing Liu (ENN)	EXL-50U p-boron supra-thermal heating and reaction rate
Nikolai Bakharev (Ioffe Institute)	Globus-M2 p-boron experiments
Yangchun Liu (Zhejiang University)	Supra-thermal ion heating modeling
Yongtau Zhao (Xi'an Jiaotong University)	Proton-boron nuclear reaction in plasma initiated by laser-accelerated protons
Dimitri Batani (Universite de Bordeaux)	Status of laser-driven proton boron experiments
Tieshuan Fan (Peking University)	Status of research on cross-section measurements
Sergey Pikuz (HB11 Energy)	Techno-economical model and laser requirements for laser fusion with advanced fuels
Dong Wu (Shanghai Jiaotong University)	Advanced simulation of p-boron plasmas
Jieru Ren (Xi'an Jiaotong University)	Electron generation through laser interaction with NCD plasma

5. Mini Symposium: Physics of matter and hydro processes in high energy density plasmas

Far from equilibrium dynamics are omnipresent in plasma processes in nature and technology at astrophysical and at atomic scales.
Examples include plasma instabilities in the inertial confinement fusion, thermonuclear flashes in supernovae, coronal mass ejections
in the Solar flares, and efficiency of plasma thrusters.
Organizer : Snezhana Abarzhi The University of Western Australia

Speaker	Title
Bruce A. Remington (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)	New regimes of frontier science on the National Ignition Facility (NIF) laser
Ryunosuke Takizawa (Institute for Laser Engineering, Osaka University)	Experimental Investigation of Fast Ignition Toward High-Efficiency Ignition
Hiroshi Azechi (Institute for Laser Engineering, Osaka University)	On kinematic viscosity, scaling laws and spectral shapes in Rayleigh-Taylor mixing plasma experiments
Takayoshi Sano (Institute for Laser Engineering, Osaka University)	Richtmyer-Meshkov instability in magnetized laser plasmas
Sergei Zybin (California Institute of Technology)	Combined Richtmyer-Meshkov and Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities under converging shock in cylindrical geometry
Katepalli R. Sreenivasan (New York University)	Unusual dynamics of convection in the Sun
Bruno Coppi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)	In situ magnetic field generation and plasma structures as constituents of astrophysical jets
Snezhana Abarzhi (The University of Western Australia)	Instabilities in fusion plasmas: Interface dynamics and flow fields structure
Chihiro Matsuoka (Osaka Metropolitan University)	A vacuum-core vortex and rotation-free torus in relativistic perfect fluids
Yasuhide Fukumoto (Kyushu University)	Nambu Bracket, isomagnetovortical perturbations and wave energy for compressible baroclinic magneto-hydrodynamics

6. Mini Workshop for Women in Plasma Physics (WIPP)