General Incorporate Association: Division of Plasma Physics, Association of Asia-Pacific Physical Societies

To Regular Members (FY2021)
AAPPS-DPP Assoc. Inc.
CEO (Representative director) Mitsuru Kikuchi

Announcement of Third Regular General Assembly (Business year FY2021)
The third general assembly of AAPPS-DPP Assoc. Inc. (FY2021 General Assembly (GA)) will be held on 31th,
October, 2020 at e-conference Zoom conference room.
General Assembly (GA) is highest decision body of AAPPS-DPP Assoc. Inc. as set by “Articles of Incorporation
General incorporated Association, Division of Plasma Physics, Association of Asia-Pacific Physical Societies(http://aappsdpp.org/DPPhoujin/teikan.html). Regular member who do not participate in the general assembly can
exercise voting right through electronic means (Article 17).
Third Regular General Assembly
Date and time : October 31, 2020 (Saturday) 17:00-18:00
Place : AAPPS-DPP2020 e-conference room ZoomP
Agenda:1. Resolution
1.1 Proposal 1: Adoption of balance sheets and profit and loss statements and their detailed documents
1.2 Proposal 2: Appointment of directors and auditor
2. Report
2.1 FY2020 Business Report
2.2 FY2021 Business Plan and Budget Plan

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1. Resolution
1.1 Proposal 1: Adoption of balance sheets and profit and loss statements and their detailed documents

Balance SheetAAPPS-DPP Association Inc.

As of August 31, 2020 (Unit: JPY)
Current year

Subject
I Assets section
1. current assets
Cash deposit

6,736,696 (+USD1,302)

Accounts receivable

0

Total current assets

6,736,696 (+USD1,302)

2. Fixed assets(1) Permanent Property
Total Permanent Property

0(2) Specific assets
Total Specific assets

0(3) Other Fixed Assets

Ⅱ

Total other fixed assets

0

Total Fixed assets

0

Total Assets
Liabilities section
1.

2.

6,736,696 (+USD1,302)

Current Liabilities
Unfaid cooperate taxes

0

Total Current Liabilities

0

Fixed Liabilities
Total Fixed Liabilities

Ⅲ

0

Total Liabilities
Net assets

0

1.

Designated net assets

02.

General net assets

6,736,696 (+USD1,302)

Total Net assets

6,736,696 (+USD1,302)

Total liabilities and net assets

6,736,696 (+USD1,302)

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Income Statement
AAPPS-DPP Association Inc.

From September 1, 2019 to August 31,2020
FY2020Subject
1. General net asset[Ordinary asset][Ordinary revenue]
Journal RMPP
Conference Subsidy(APCTP)
Sponsorship : Chandra(ENN, Top Glove)

FY2019(Unit JPY)

Increment

286,912
913,074
537,450
USD 2,500
350,000
USD 2,300
77
2,097,513
USD 4,800

282,351
0
0
0
0
0
53
282,404

4,561
913,074
537,450
USD 2,500
350,000
USD 2,300
24
1,815,109

3,209,520
54,800682,980
713,482
37,608100,000
818,630
USD 5,000
994,236
USD -730

1,466,300
20,220
0
0
6,088
0
0

1,743,220

109,465

53,75055,7150
95,63027,09010,0006,853,441△4,765,928
USD 530

673,498
44,981
5,508
10,6002,282,079△1,999,675△673,498
50,64921,582△600
4,570,792△2,755,683[Non-recurring asset][Non-recurring revenue][Other non-recurring revenue]
Business succession (from Voluntary AAPPS-DPP)

0

Total non-recurring revenue

013,502,299
USD772
13,502,299
USD772△13,502,299△USD772△13,502,299△USD772

013,502,299
USD772
13,502,299
USD772
7,300
11,495,324
USD7720

0△13,502,299△USD772△13,502,299△USD772△14,600△16,253,952△USD242
11,495,324
USD772
11,495,324
USD772
11,495,324
USD772: U30 (IFE Forum)
Web Income (MIP)
Miscellaneous (Interest)
Total ordinary revenue[Ordinary expenses][Operating expenses]
Officer Remuneration
Gov. Tax
Pension and Insurance
Conference HP(AAPPS-DPP2019, APPC-14)
Traffic expenses
Publication expenses
Award expense
Subsidy for conference[Administrative expenses]
Communication and Transportation expenses(phone use, Biz station, Step server)
Equipment expenses (phone, PC, HD, cable)
Consumable expenses (printer toner, paper)
Handling charge
Other expenses(legal document)
Total ordinary expenses
Current year ordinary income(USD part)[Non-recurring expenses]
Total non-recurring expenses
Current year non-recurring income00Current year general net asset before tax△4,765,928
USD 530-7,300△4,758,628
USD 530
11,495,324
USD772
6,736,696
USD1,302
6,736,696
USD1,302

Corporate resident tax (State tax, city tax)
Current year general net asset
General net assets start of period balance
General net assets end of period balance
2. Net assets end of period balance

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11,495,324
USD772
11,495,324
USD772682,980
713,482
31,520100,000
818,630
USD5,000
994,236
USD -730

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Income Statement (Breakdown)
AAPPS-DPP Association Inc.

From September 1, 2019 to August 31,2020(Unit JPY)
Current year

Subject
1. General net asset[Ordinary asset][Ordinary revenue]
RMPP revenue
Conference Subsidy(APCTP)
Sponsorship Chandrasekhar (ENN)
Sponsorship Chandrasekhar (Top Glove)
Sponsorship U30 (IFE Forum)
Web Income (Malaysian Institute of Physics)
Miscellaneous revenue(Interest)
Total ordinary revenue

286,912
913,074
537,450
USD 2,500
350,000
USD 2,300
77
2,097,513
USD 4,800[Ordinary expenses][Operating expenses]
Officer Remuneration (Sept. – Aug)
Gov. Income Tax
Pension & Insurance
Conference HP (AAPPS-DPP2019, APPC-14)
Traffic expenses (To Narita for DPP&APPC, Printer to Fukuoka)
Publication expenses (Honorarium to Y. Feng, Y. Ebihara)Award expenses
Chandrasekhar -1
Chandrasekhar -2
Plasma Innovation medal
U30 cash
U30 plateSubsidy for international conference (APPC-14: USD7,455 +84,310)[Administrative expenses]
Communication and Transportation expenses
Cell phone communication fee (Aug-Aug)
Biz station light usage fee (Sept-Aug)
Step-server usage fee (1 year)
Equipment expenses (phone, PC, etc.)
Consumable expenses
PC soft (Office, Adobe)
Printer tonerPrinter paper (Kent, A4), envelope
Stamp, VISA member, et al.
Handling charge
Other expenses(Change registration to add 3 directors)
Total ordinary expenses
Current year ordinary income

3,209,520
54,800682,980
713,482
37,608100,000
818,630+USD 5,000
537,450
USD 5,000
20,240200,880
60,060994,236
USD -730
109,465
74,24921,056
14,160095,63070,893
19,2282,434
3,075
27,09010,0006,853,441△4,765,928
USD 530[Non-recurring asset][Non-recurring revenue][Other non-recurring revenue]
Business succession
Total non-recurring revenue[Non-recurring expenses]
Total non-recurring expenses
Current year non-recurring income
Current year general net asset before tax

0000△4,765,928
USD530-7,300△4,758,628
USD 530
11,495,324
USD772
6,736,696
USD1,302
6,736,696
USD1,302

Corporate resident tax (State tax, collection hold for city tax)
Current year general net asset
General net assets start of period balance
General net assets end of period balance
2. Net assets end of period balance

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2020 plan and result summary*: Unit : JPY if not specified.
Item
Income (JPY)
1. Carry over
2. Annual conf.
3. RMPP
4. APCTP sup.
5. Chandra (ENN)
6. U30(IFE)
7. Interest
Income (USD)
1.Carry over
2. APPC-14

2019 Result
13,784,703
0
13,502,299
282,351NA

2020 Plan
11,775,324
11,495,324
0
280,000(KRW10,000,000)

53
USD 772
USD 7720
USD 10,572
USD 7722020 Result
Note for 2020 expenditure
13,582,837
11,495,324 DPP account and cash
0 *: DPP2019 budget is Table 1
286,912 *: DPP2019 budget handled by LOC is Table 3
913,074
537,450
350,000
77
USD 5,572
USD772
USD2,300 *: APPC-14 budget balance is given at Table 2
USD2,500
13,582,837
USD 5,572-

USD2,300(MIP)

3. Chandra sponsor

USD2,500(Top)USD5,000(ENN)

4. Sponsor (NFRI)
Expenditure
1. Admin. Cost
M. of JusticeState Tax
City Tax
PC& MAC(Air/Pro)

HD& cable
MAC/PC soft
Printer Toner
Printer Paper
DPP Phone
Phone use
Biz Station
Step server
Handling charge
Traffic cost

13,784,703
USD 772

11,775,324
USD 10,572

10,6007,300
599,340
32,47010,1087,300
20,00050,0002,000
120,000
20,736
15,43012,960802,859

630,000
888,534

10,000-7,30000070,893
19,2282,434
74,24921,056
14,16027,09037,6082,505
713,482
985,975

1,466,300
20,2201,486,520

3,181,440
80,880683,520
3,945,840

3,209,520
54,800682,980
3,947,300

001,600,000
KRW10,000,000

100,000
909,9267455 USD-8185USD
84,31043,297
1,684
41,68831,678
6,912
15,1606,642
6,088

Other cost
TOYO company

Sub-total
2. Staff cost
Remuneration
Gov. Tax
Pension & Insurance

Sub-total[FY2019: 2018.11.28-2019.08.31, FY2020: (2019.9.1-2019.08.31)]

Register 3 BoD members
Ibaraki-prefectural tax returned (Non-profit organization)

City tax waived (Non-profit organization)

Office, Adobe
Brother MFC-L3770
Kent paper 50(1,650),A4x2+envelope(784)Sep.1-JAug31

Mitsubishi UFJ Bank (Furikomi, etc.)
DPP&APPC (12,850+20,706), Printer4,052
Postal stamp 84yen x 20, VISA membership (825)Nomination & Abstract sites & e-conf site

56,960/M x 12 ((28,140 +680) x12 by Inc.)

3. Publication cost
32 papers (2018)

4. Financial supp.

Y. Feng, Y. Ebihara,
909,926JYP->8,185USD (World currency shop)

Change: 730USD
CEO Air fare to Kuching

5. Prize&Award

USD5,000
USD5,000

Chandra cash1
Chandra cash2

537,450
USD5, 000
20,240Innovation CashInnovation Medal
U40 cash
U40 plates
U30 cash
U30 plates

6. Carry Over11,495,324
USD772

10,00000004,422,343
USD572200,880
60,0606,736,696
USD1,302

Chandra-1 (Bank transfer to Kyoto)
Chandra-2 (Bank transfer to US)

500USD x 7
U40 plates x 7300USD x 7
U30 plates x 7

Note on Remuneration: Remuneration for CEO and Executive Director is defined by the March 1, 2019 general assembly and approved the
BoD on March 9, 2019 based on the Article 27 of Articles of Incorporation.
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Note on FY2019 balance sheet: Due to loss of financial authority for AAPPS-DPP2019, we have deficits from ourannual conference AAPPS-DPP2019 and contribution to APPC-14. But DPP could support large number ofcolleagues (22 for AAPPS-DPP2019 and 26 for APPC-14). Total amount of financial support for DPP participants
was 44,169 USD. DPP could also provide cashes for two 2019 S. Chandrasekhar Prize laureates (10,000 USD) by
sponsorship of ENN and MIP. IFE-forum continued to sponsor U30 (6 x 300USD). Expenses for the plasma
innovation prize (3,000USD), U40 (6 x 500USD), and book gifts for 20 poster prize winners were provided by
AAPPS-DPP2019 LOC. All efforts provided balance sheet better than expected.
1. AAPPS-DPP2019(Table 1)
1.1 Income (credit)
Item
date
U30 support
10.28
Total
1.2 Expenditure (debit)
Item
Poster prize certificate
U30 plates, envelope
U30 cash
RMPP honorarium
Innovation medal
In Japan Traffic & USB
TOYO company
Total

date
10.18
10.28
10.28
10.28
10.31
11.1-9
11.28

Value (JPY)
350,000
350,000

Value (JPY)
1,650
60,830200,880
50,00020,79019,400714,552
1,068,102

1.3 Balance
Balance (credit-debit)
2 APPC-14 (Table 2)
2.1 Income (credit)
Item
APPC-14 Web
Chandrasekhar sponsor
APCTP support to DPP
Chandrasekhar sponsor
Total
2.2 Expenditure (debit)
Item
Chandra envelope
Chandra cash
Chandra cash
Financial support
COE expense
Total

2.3 Balance
Balance (credit-debit)

Note
IFE Forum

Note
Printed in NakaTo Mima
300USD x 6
To Yang Feng
For Rod Boswell
Ex.Dir(13,400)&CEO(6000) to Narita
Web system△718,102

date
11.01
11.05
11.14
11.15

Value (JPY)

Value (USD)
2,300

537,450
913,074
2,500
4,800

1,450,524

date
11.14
11.28
11.29
11.17-21
11.22

Value (JPY)200
538,2209,400
913,074
14,366
1,475,260

Value (USD)

Note
MIP
ENN
APCTP
MIP

Note
To Chandra winner 1 inc. handling charge

5,000

To Chandra winner 2 inc. handling charge

7,455USD+84,310JPY
Japan Traffic, Kuching stay
5,000

△23,736△200

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1.2 Proposal 2: Appointment of directors and auditor
We (current BoD) propose 2020-2022(BoD) below. Also we propose Prof. Y. Uesugi to continue Auditor. Among
current BoD members, Dr. Jung-Sik Yoon and Prof. Shih-Hung Chen wished to leave from BoD. In addition toProf. A. Sen nominated for Chair-Elect, Prof. Wonho Choe agreed to join BoD if approved by General Assembly.

Name
1.

Mitsuru Kikuchi(AAPPS-DPP)

Continued / New

Role (to be decided in BoD)

[Continued]

CEO (Representative Director)

2. Baonian Wan (ASIPP)[Continued]

Chair

3.
4.

Zensho Yoshida (Univ Tokyo)
M. Krishnamurthy(TIFR)[Continued][Continued]

Fundamental Plasma Physics
Laser Plasma Physics

5.

Xiao-Hua Deng (Nanchang U.)[Continued]

Space & Geomag Plasma Physics

6.

Ryoji Matsumoto (Chiba Univ.)[Continued]

Solar & Astro Plasma Physics

7.

Min Xu (SWIP)[Continued]

Magnetic Fusion Plasma Physics

8.

Ge Zhuang (USTC)[Continued]

Magnetic Fusion Plasma Physics

9.

Masaharu Shiratani (Kyushu Univ.)[Continued]

Next DPP conf.& Budget

10. Rajdeep S. Rawat (NTU)
11. Matthew J. Hole (ANU)[Continued][Continued]

Applied Plasma Physics & APPC-15
OSEANIA & ASEAN

12. Haruo Nagai (AAPPS-DPP)[Continued]

Executive Director

13. Abhijit Sen (IPR)[New]

Chair-elect

14. Wonho Choe (KAIST)[New]

Applied Plasma Physics & APPC-15

15. R. Ganesh (IPR)[New]

Basic plasma physics

Name
1.

Yoshihiko Uesugi

Continued / New[Continued]

Role
Auditor

Background information:
1. CEO is Chief Operating Officer and single “representing director” of AAPPS-DPP set in revised Articles ofIncorporation based on proposal by B. Wan, Liu Chen and A. Sen. CEO is responsible for DPP operation andregally representing AAPPS-DPP Assoc. Inc.
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2. B. Wan is selected as Chair-Elect in 2017 with agreement among founding members and expected to succeedrole of DPP chair. But, it is not possible to take authority including the budget like “representing director” of
Assoc. Inc. located in other country. DPP chair will chair BoD and General Assembly and will take scientificleadership of our society.
3. Only A. Sen is nominated as Chair-elect and BoD decided not to execute election by Elector.
4. In order to handle money and share financial responsibility among BoD members, AAPPS-DPP moved fromvoluntary organization to legally registered Assoc. Inc. as of Nov. 29, 2018.
5. General Incorporated Association law defines term of BoD as two years and we have to renew membership.
6. Following table gives evolution of ExCo (voluntary organization) to BoD and Auditor (Legal entity) after
start of AAPPS-DPP2014.

CEO(Representative Director)
Chair

2014-2017(ExCo)

2017-2018(ExCo)

Mitsuru Kikuchi(JAEA)

Mitsuru Kikuchi(QST)
Baonian Wan(ASIPP)
Zensho Yoshida(Univ. Tokyo)
Shih-Hung Chen
(NCU)
Jung-Sik Yoon
(NFRI)
Amita Das
(IPR)
Xiao-Hua Deng
(Nanchang U.)
Ryoji Matsumoto(Chiba Univ.)
Xuru Duan(SWIP)
Yoshihiko Uesugi(Kanazawa Univ.)
Rajdeep S. Rawat(NTU)
Matthew J. Hole(ANU)
Masaharu Shiratani(Kyushu Univ.)

Chair-electVice-chair (Fundamental)
Vice-chair(Basic)Vice-chair(applied)Vice-chair(Laser)Vice-chair(Space&Geomag)
Vice-chair(Solar&Astro)
Vice-chair(Magnetic Fusion)
Vice-chair(Next DPP conf.)
Vice-chair(APPC)
Vice-chair(ASEAN, Oceania)
Vice-chair(Budget)Executive Director
Chief Secretary

Liu Chen(Zhejiang Univ.)
Abhijit Sen(IPR)
Masaharu Shiratani(Kyushu Univ.)
Zheng-Ming Sheng(SJTU)
Lin-Ni Hau(NCU)
Dongsu Ryu(UNIST)

Matthew J. Hole(ANU)

DPP secretary2020-2022(BoD)
Mitsuru Kikuchi(AAPPS-DPP)
Baonian Wan(ASIPP)
Abhijit Sen(IPR)Zensho Yoshida(Univ. Tokyo)
R. Ganesh(IPR)
Wonho Choe & R. S. Rawat(KAIST& NTU)
M. Krishnamurthy(TIFR)
Xiao-Hua Deng
(Nanchang U.)
Ryoji Matsumoto(Chiba Univ.)
Min Xu, Ge Zhuang(SWIP, USTC)
Masaharu Shiratani(Kyushu Univ.)
Wonho Choe & R. S. Rawat(KAIST& NTU)
M. Hole(ANU)
Masaharu Shiratani(Kyushu Univ.)
Haruo Nagai(AAPPS-DPP)-

Tawatchai Onjun(Thammasat Univ.)-

2014-2017(ExCo)

2017-2018(ExCo)

2018-2020(BoD)
Yoshihiko Uesugi(Kanazawa Univ.)

2020-2022(BoD)
Yoshihiko Uesugi(Kanazawa Univ.)

Haruo Nagai

Haruo Nagai

Kenji Imadera(Kyoto Univ.)

Yong Liu(ASIPP)

Haruo Nagai(AAPPS-DPP)
Yong Liu(ASIPP)

Haruo Nagai(AAPPS-DPP)
Rui Ding(ASIPP)

AuditorNon-ExCo, Non-BoD members
DPP secretary (HP)

2018-2020(BoD)
Mitsuru Kikuchi(AAPPS-DPP)
Mitsuru Kikuchi(AAPPS-DPP)
Baonian Wan(ASIPP)
Zensho Yoshida(Univ. Tokyo)
Shih-Hung Chen
(NCU)
Jung-Sik Yoon
(NFRI)
M. Krishnamurthy(TIFR)
Xiao-Hua Deng
(Nanchang U.)
Ryoji Matsumoto(Chiba Univ.)
Min Xu(SWIP)Ge Zhuang(USTC)
Rajdeep S. Rawat(NTU)
Matthew J. Hole(ANU)
Masaharu Shiratani(Kyushu Univ.)
Haruo Nagai(AAPPS-DPP)-

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2. Report
2.1 FY2020 Business Report
2.1.1 Membership
DPP secretary Dr. Yong Liu reported country/regional distributions as of 2020.09.22 as follows.
Country/Region
1. India
2. Beijing
3. Japan
4. Korea
5. US
6. Australia
7. Taipei
8. Nepal9. France
10. Thailand
11. Pakistan
12. Germany‘19.6.4
782
371
278
106
51
45
30
26
17
18
13
10

’20.9.22
791
440
308
123
70
48
35
26
25
18
13
13

Country/Region
13. Malaysia
14. UK15. Italy
16. Philippines
17. Indonesia
18. Iran
19. Vietnam
20. Singapore
21. Russia
22. Bangladesh
23. Belgium
24. Netherland‘19.6.4
12
9
9
8
8
5
4
4
2
3
2
3

’20.7.29
12
12
11
9
8
5
4
4
6
3
9
3

Country/Region
25. Lao PDR
26. Austria
27. Canada
28. Czech
29. Egypt
30. Ireland
31. Israel
32. Myanmar
33. Norway
34. Spain
35. Switzerland
Total‘19.6.4
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1,825

‘20.7.29
2
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
2,009

To join AAPPS-DPP, one can submit form at http://aappsdpp.org/AAPPSDPPF/join.html.
2.1.2 DPP Homepage
DPP executive director Dr. H. Nagai continuously developing DPP homepages including annual conference
pages. [ http://aappsdpp.org/AAPPSDPPF/index.html ]DPP Homepage

AAPPS-DPP2019 conference Web.

Legal homepage of AAPPS-DPP Assoc. Inc. is http://aappsdpp.org/DPPhoujin/index.html.
Article of incorporation : http://aappsdpp.org/DPPhoujin/teikan.html

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2.1.3 Mailing services
We use commercial mailing service system “Step Server” with annual fee of 14,160 JPY. DPP news such asconference information, job opportunities, Journal status, Announcements of DPP prizes are sent by CEO.
2.1.4 Reviews of Modern Plasma Physics
RMPP is review journal specialized to plasma physics published from Springer-Nature. The first volume (2017)
published 10 articles. The second volume (2018) published 9 articles and third volume (2019) published 15 articles.
All DPP members has free access to RMPP articles. To provide more easy access, sharable links are provided. New
sub-discipline D6 Magnetic Fusion Plasma Physics is started. Chief editor for MF is Prof. Jiaqi Dong, Associate
Editors are Prof. Guo Yong Fu and Prof. Katsumi Ida.

List of sharable links of Reviews of Modern Plasma Physics

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Latest articles of Reviews of Modern Plasma Physics.

2.1.5 APPC-14 (APPC2019)
APPC-14 was held at Kuching, Malaysia during Nov. 17-21, 2019. DPP shares 3 session rooms (Basic andApplied Plasma, Astro Plasma, Magnetic Fusion Plasma) during the conference with total participants of 89, which
has been taken care by DPP vice chair Prof. R.S. Rawat (Nanyang Technological Univ.). 2019 S. Chandrasekhar
Prize laureates Prof. Kazunari Shibata (Kyoto Univ.) and Prof. Liu Chen (Zhejiang Univ.) gave plenary talks at
APPC-14. As in the APPC-13 in Brisbane, AAPPS-DPP Chandrasekhar Prize ceremony is held during theconference banquet. As in the APPC-13 in Brisbane, AAPPS-DPP Chandrasekhar Prize ceremony is held
during the conference banquet. Certificates are handed over to two laureates by the President of AAPPS Prof.
Gui-Lu Long (Tsinghua Univ.).

AAPPS president GL Long hands over certificates to 2019 S. Chandrasekhar Prize of Plasma Physics.

Group photo of APPC-14 at Borneo Convention Center

Three CN Yang Award winners (2nd ,4th ,6th )Vice chair R. Rawat and DPP participants from India
APPC-14 opening ceremony
In this conference, both DPP (APCTP support for DPP:913,074 JPY) and LOC (Malaysian Institute of Physics:
MIP) provided financial supports to 26 participants. MIP also paid 2,300 USD for APPC-14 Web at DPP Homepage.
Chinese gas company ENN provided sponsorship for cash prize for one S. Chandrasekhar Laureate. Top Glove in
Malaysia also sponsored half cash prize for one S. Chandrasekhar Laureate. For detailed report, you can find
APPC14 Report by Vice-chair R. Rawat at http://aappsdpp.org/DPPhoujin/record.html.

2.1.6 AAPPS-DPP2019
The third annual conference (AAPPS-DPP2019) was held at Hefei hosted by Prof. Ge Zhuang in USTC during
November 4-8, 2019. Total number of participants of the third annual conference was 392. Table 1 shows
distribution of 431 presentations among plenary, invited, oral, and poster for various sub-disciplines. Since DPP
participated to APPC-14 at Kuching as well (DPP participants to APPC-14 is 89), number of participants to Hefei
annual conference (392) were less than Kanazawa conference (682). Hefei conference was hosted by USTC (LOC
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chair: DPP vice chair Prof. Ge Zhuang). Since Gov. law do not allow DPP to take financial responsibility nor transfer
money to DPP, conference budget (Total income mainly registration fee: 1,074,068 Yuen~16,649,450JPY~ 155,539
USD) is handled locally by the LOC team headed by Prof. Ge Zhang (DPP vice chair for AAPPS-DPP2019). DPP
owed deficit due to payment to conference support company in Japan. For detailed report, you can find AAPPSDPP Report by Vice-chair Ge Zhuang at http://aappsdpp.org/DPPhoujin/record.html.

Group photo of AAPPS-DPP2019 in Hefei

Distribution of presentations

Prof. JinLin Han Plenary Talk on Galactic magnetic field

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Floor view of participants in AAPPS-DPP2019 in Crown Plaza Hotel
2.1.7 AAPPS-DPP Plasma Innovation Prize
A new annual prize called the “AAPPS-DPP Plasma Innovation Prize” to recognize outstanding contributions
to experimental and/or theoretical research in all fields of plasma applications, focusing on impacts on industry. The
first laureate of this prize is Prof. Roderick W. Boswell (Australian National University) in 2019 especially for his
invention of “Helicon plasma source”. Award ceremony was held at the opening session. Plasma Innovation cash
prize (3000USD/person) was given within the AAPPS-DPP2019 local budget. Laureate also received medal andcertificate from DPP.

2019Plasma Innovation Prize Laureate Prof. R. Boswell with selection committee representative Prof. Y.K. Pu

2.1.8 AAPPS-DPP Young Researcher (U40) Award
DPP is recognizing annually young talented plasma researchers not more than 40 years old since 2016 as AAPPSDPP Young Research Award (U40). DPP celebrated 6 young talents (Min Chen (Laser plasma, SJTU), Wei Chen
(Magnetic Fusion plasma, SWIP), Hui Tian (Solar plasma, PKU), Rongsheng Wang (Space plasma, USTC),
Zhiyong Qiu (Fundamental plasma), Keigo Takeda (Applied plasma, Meijo Univ.) as U40 winners at DPP2019.
Winners received cash prize 500USD, plates and certificate.
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Six 2019 AAPPS-DPP Young Research Awardees.

Min Chen receive certificate from Chair (Liu Chen)

2.1.9 U30 Scientist and Student Award
DPP is recognizing young talented doctoral scientists/ students not more than 30 years old since 2018 as AAPPSDPP U30 Doctoral Scientist / Student Award. This award is sponsored by IFE-Forum. 2019 Winners are Sidip
Mandal (Solar plasma, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research), Xiaofei Shen (Laser plasma, PKU),
Zhisong Qu (Magnetic Fusion Plasma, ANU), Masahiro Yano (Laser Plasma, Osaka Univ.), Rupak Mukherjee(Fundamental plasma, IPR), Weixin Guo (Magnetic Fusion Plasma, HUST). Winners received cash prize 300USD,
plate, and certificate.

Six 2019 U30 Doctoral Scientist / Student Awardee and Weixin Guo receive certificate from Chair (K. Mima)2.1.10 AAPPS-DPP2019 Poster Prize
DPP is recognizing significant poster presentation at the annual conference as AAPPS-DPP Poster Prize
since 2019 for both students and young/senior researchers. Among 85 poster presentations, 20 posters wereselected. Winners received certificate and a gift (Springer book on plasma physics)
http://aappsdpp.org/AAPPSDPPF/posteraward.html.

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2.2 FY2021 Business Plan
2.2.1 Introduction
DPP activities in fiscal year 2021 (Sept. 1, 2020 – Aug 31, 2021) will be quite influenced by the COVID-19
pandemic as well as latter half of fiscal year 2020. Major activities shall be 1) Execution of AAPPS-DPP2020
remote e-conference, 2) Preparation of AAPPS-DPP2021 in Fukuoka, Japan, 3) Continued publication of RMPP
articles, 4) Selection of DPP prizes and awards, 5) Information dissemination to DPP members via DPP Web andmailing service, 6) Other activities as appropriate.
2.2.2 Fourth Asia-Pacific Conference on Plasma Physics (AAPPS-DPP2020 e-conference)
AAPPS-DPP2020 (http://aappsdpp.org/DPP2020/index.html) will be held as remote on-line e-conference
during Oct. 26-31, 2020. Preparation of 4th annual conference was started in 2019 after Hefei conference with NFRI
as host institute. Due to COVID-19 pandemic, we decided to have fourth annual conference as on-line e-conference
while NFRI becomes “sponsor” instead of “host”. As of August 31, we have 506 oral/invited/topical plenary/plenary
speakers and 48 poster presentations. The Zoom system (Webinar and Meeting) is provided by APCTP. Since online conference is for the first time for our annual conference, we have to have careful preparation before actual
conference.
2.2.3 Fifth Asia-Pacific Conference on Plasma Physics (AAPPS-DPP20201)
AAPPS-DPP2021 will be held in Japan. Planned date and place are September 26-October 1, 2021 andFukuoka, respectively. IOC chair will be new DPP chair Prof. Baonian Wan and LOC chair will be Prof. M. Shiratani.
DPP will have financial authority. During fiscal year 2021 (Sept. 1, 2020 – Aug. 31, 2021), most of conference
preparation will be made. Beyond AAPPS-DPP2021 is still not decided yet. But conference place where DPP canhave financial authority is crucially important to strength DPP capability.
2.2.4 Reviews of Modern Plasma Physics (RMPP)a) ISI indexed journal: Number of RMPP publication is still not large enough for Springer-Nature to submit
proposal for ESCI evaluation.
b) Arxiv.org: In the past, Springer-Nature do not want manuscript to be submitted elsewhere as a preprint. But thisyear, Springer-Nature accepted posting draft manuscript to arxiv.org as a preprint since papers are more cited if
preprint can be seen in arxiv.org. We will encourage such submission.
c) Special Topics: RMPP creates new paper category “Special Topics” especially for young researcher. A Special
Topics article is a brief review article that focuses on a specific topic. Its purpose is to highlight emerging researchsubjects, recent advances in a specific area and/or new research techniques. It can also focus on the authors’ own
work or experimental instruments. As such, we especially encourage early career physicists (such as AAPPS-DPP
U40 winners) to submit Special Topics articles.
d) Honorarium for Kanazawa conference papers: Bank transfer of honorarium for Kanazawa conference papers
are still problematic since Bank handling charges of both sides are quite high. TransferWise do not accept moneytransfer from DPP while DPP is legal entity (only company is allowed). Money transfer for some authors issuspended to find more effective way.
2.2.5 Prize and Awarda) S. Chandrasekhar Prize of Plasma Physics
Call for 2021 S. Chandrasekhar prize is planned early 2021 and selection committee will be set based on
distribution of candidates among region/country and sub-disciplines. Chair shall be selected from region of nocandidate. Some improvement on procedure is proposed and improved procedure guideline will be set.
b) AAPPS-DPP Plasma Innovation Prize
Call for 2021 AAPPS-DPP Plasma Innovation Prize is planned early 2021 and selection committee will be set
based on distribution of candidates among region/country and sub-disciplines. Chair shall be selected from regionof no-candidate.
c) APS-DPP & AAPPS-DPP joint award
Board of Directors discussed possibility of APS-DPP & AAPPS-DPP joint award. But this planning is delayed
due to COVID-19 pandemic. DPP will restart discussion with APS-DPP.
d) AAPPS-DPP Young Research Award
Since 2018, winners of U40 award are receiving cash prize 500USD, plates and certificate. All cost will becovered within annual conference budget. Call for U40 Award is planned early 2021.
e) AAPPS-DPP U30 Doctoral Scientist / Student Award
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AAPPS-DPP U30 Doctoral Scientist / Student Award is sponsored by IFE-Forum. Winners will receive cash
prize 300USD, plate, and certificate. All cost will be covered by IFE-Forum. Call for U30 Award is planned early
2021.
f) AAPPS-DPP Poster Award
DPP is recognizing significant poster presentation at the annual conference as AAPPS-DPP Poster Prize since
2018 for both students and young/senior researchers. Winner will receive certificate and a gift (Springer Book).
2020 selection will be made during AAPPS-DPP2020 on-line e-conference.
2.2.6 Financial support program
DPP continues to have financial support program for researchers from developing countries and retired
researchers supported by Asia-Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics (APCTP). Annual budget from APCTP has
been 10,000,000 KRW. AAPPS president informed us that support budget from APCTP to DPP may be reduced if
the new divisions on condensed matter are formed.
2.2.7 AAPPS-DPP Membership
More encouragement to become DPP member has to be done in all country/regions stressing merits to become
member such as, 1) AAPPS-DPP membership does not need any membership fee. But DPP member receives many
merits as DPP member, 2) DPP member can participate DPP conference with reduced registration fee, 3) DPP
member has free access to our official journal RMPP using the token service, 4) DPP member can receive DPPNews including conference information, job opportunity, DPP’s event information, new book information, etc, 5)
Eligibility to be nominated to various DPP prizes and awards. DPP will try to provide more scientific merit to DPPmembers as member wishes.
2.2.8 AAPPS-DPP Homepage
DPP Executive officer Dr. H. Nagai provided long-standing service from its initiation in 2014. From 2014 to2018, he worked voluntarily without payment. Now DPP pays very small salary from April 2019 for his outstanding
contribution.
2.2.9 Committeesa) General Assembly
In the third fiscal year (Sept. 1 2020-Aug 31 2021), we will have general assembly using Zoom on Oct 31(Saturday). This is inevitable due to COVID-19 pandemic. Agenda items are 1) Approval of list of Board of
Directors including next Chair-elect, 2) Approval of Business report for FY2020, 3) Approval of FY2020 Balance
sheet, FY2020 Net property change statement, Breakdown table of net property change statement for FY2020.
While DPP called for elector of Chair-Elect, only three applied and BoD must assign ~150 electors. Call for
nomination of Chair-Elect must be done soon.
b) Board of Directors
At the general assembly on Oct. 31, membership of BoD will be updated and BoD shall decide role of eachdirectors. Matter other than items to be decided at the general assembly will be set at the BoD.
c) I-HAC (International Honorary Advisory Committee)
DPP continues I-HAC as advisory body for BoD. In new fiscal year, there should be some re-assignment ofmembers. We will ask I-HAC chairs to propose renewed I-HAC membership.

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2.2.10 Budget Plan
2021 Budget Plan *: Unit : JPY if not specified. [FY2021: (2020.9.1-2021.08.31)]
Item
Income (JPY)
1. Carry over
2. Annual conf.
3. RMPP
4. APCTP sup.
5. Chandra (ENN)
6. U30(IFE)
7. Interest
Income (USD)
1.Carry over
2. APPC-14

2019 Result
13,784,703
0
13,502,299
282,351NA

2020 Result
13,582,837
11,495,324
0
286,912
913,074
537,450
350,000
77
USD 5,572
USD772
USD2,300
USD2,500
13,582,837
USD 5,572

2021 Plan
15,776,696
6,736,696
7,500,000
280,000
910,000
350,000
0
USD 16,302
USD1,302
USD5,000
USD10,000
15,776,696
USD 16,302

43,297
1,684
41,68831,678
6,912
15,160
6,642
6,088

10,000-7,30000070,893
19,2282,434
74,24921,056
14,16027,09037,608802,859

2,505
713,482
985,975

12,0000000100,000
50,0004,000
120,000
21,12014,16027,000100,000
400,000
100,000
2,000,000
2,948,280

1,466,300
20,2201,486,520

3,209,520
54,800682,980
3,947,300

3,200,000
65,000685,000
3,950,000

32 papers (2018)0

100,000

500,000

4. Financial supp.

0909,926

910,000

53
USD 772
USD 772

3. Chandra sponsor

4. Conf. Sponsor

Expenditure
1. Admin. Cost
M. of JusticeState Tax
City Tax
PC& MAC(Air/Pro)

HD& cable
MAC/PC soft
Printer Toner
Printer Paper
DPP Phone
Phone use
Biz Station
Step server
Handling charge

Traffic cost

13,784,703
USD 772
10,6007,300
599,340
32,470Student part-time

Other cost
TOYO company

Sub-total
2. Staff cost
Remuneration
Gov. Tax
Pension & Insurance

Sub-total
3. Publication cost

Note for 2021 income & expenditure

Dawonsys
NFRI

Register new BoD members
Ibaraki-prefectural tax may be waived

City tax may be waived (Non-profit organization)

Office, Adobe
Brother MFC-L3770

Sep.1-JAug31

Mitsubishi UFJ Bank (Furikomi, etc.)

Nomination & Abstract sites & e-conf site

56,960/M x 12 ((28,140 +680) x12 by Inc.)

2021: R. Keppens, K.Ostrikov,V.Yadav, H.Saleem, F.Sahraoui,
A. Das, T.Blackburn, (Y. Ezoe, G. Ganguli, Cong Yu, W. Zhong)7455 USD - 8185USD

84,3105. Prize&Award

537,450
USD5, 000
20,240Chandra cash1
Chandra cash2
Innovation CashInnovation Medal
U40 cash
U40 plates

200,880
60,060U30 cash
U30 plates
Poster Prize

6. Carry Over11,495,324
USD772

6,736,696
USD1,302

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USD5,000

Chandra (Bank transfer to US)

USD3,000
20,240USD3,000
60,000USD2,100
61,600100,000
7,156,576
USD3,202

500USD x 6
U40 plates x 6
300USD x 7
U30 plates x 7
Springer book