Report of the AOSWA-3 workshop
Mamoru Ishii
The Director of Space Weather and Environment Informatics laboratory,
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan
The AOSWA-3 workshop was successfully held on March 2 to 5, 2015 at the Hotel LUIGANS Spa &resort in Fukuoka, Japan, sponsored by National Institute of Information and Communications
Technology (NICT). This meeting was simultaneously opened with UN-Japan workshop on space
weather and it helped us to meet more people related to space weather.
The workshop began with the opening address byDr. Fumihiko Tomita, the chief research andstrategy officer and vice director of NICT, and Mr.
Seung-Man Choi, the director of KSWC, Republic ofKorea. After this opening address, Dr. Iguchi, thedirector general of applied electromagnetic research
institute, NICT, had a keynote speech about thehistory of AOSWA.
The main theme of this workshop is to promote theinternational cooperation among AOSWA community.
For this purpose we had a new trial whose concept
comes from Japanese traditional method to findmarriage

partner

named“Omiai”.

Forthepreparation in advance, the SOC asked 29 number ofinvited speakers who represent their institutes in
AOSWA associates to describe the needs, seeds andwants toward their future partners in their resource
list. In the special session the invited speakers
present their present current status based on the prepared documents by SOC as mensioned above.
Following the presentation we had a discussion time on the morning of the second day. In thissession the SOC coordinated three stages of pair-combinations for Omiai. Each pair discussed theirneeds, seeds and wants with the potential partner in
20 min of each session and after one session finishedthe attendee changed their partners and started a
new discussions according to the pair-combination list
by SOC. This new trial made the discussion much
more active and gave us precious opportunities to talkwith new people who may not talk each other inordinal way.

The number of Participants 75
Vietnam 2

Australia 1

Taiwan 2
Russia 2
Malaysia 2

USA 2

Thailand 3
India 3

Azerbaijan 1
Indonesia 1
Pakistan 1

Japan 24
China 11
Korea 19

Country: 14
Japan 24
Korea 19
China 11
India 3Thailand 3
Malaysia 2
Russia 2
Taiwan 2
USA 2
Vietnam 2
Australia 1Azerbaijan 1
Indonesia 1
Pakistan 1

Other than the special session, wehad 46 speakers in the regular andposter session.
Also another new trial was held on
the third day named “space weather
event report”. In this session, thearranger set the particular period anddiscussed the phenomena occurred
during this period.
In addition, we had three social
events, the ice breaker, the banquet

and the excursion in the workshop. The icebreaker and the banquet were held as a joint session with
“UN-Japan workshop”. The icebreaker was held on the first evening at the “Marine world
Umino-Nakamichi” aquarium located on the next building of the LUIGANS. It started with dolphin
performance, and moved to the main lounge in front of a large glass tank of the aquarium.
The banquet was held on the third evening at the main banquet hall. In this time all SOC of both
AOSWA and UN-Japan workshop were introduced with applause. All attendee enjoyed Japanese
local food.
We had the excursion on the fourth day afternoon. About 45 people attended to visit the Japanese
old shrine, “Dazaifu-Tenmangu” and the high TV tower named “Fukuoka-tower”.
In the last session at the business meeting on the fourth day, we had some discussion for futurebusiness of AOSWA, and it was approved that Korea will host the next AOSWA-4 workshop. The dateis to be determined.
We NICT appreciate cooperation and contribution from all attendee. Thank you very much and see
you in Korea on the next meeting!