16th -International Toki Conference on“Advanced Imaging and Plasma Diagnostics”‘Ceratopia Toki’, Toki, Japan.
December 5 - 8, 2006

The 3rd Announcement
INTRODUCTION
The National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS) and the National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS)
will hold the

Sixteenth International Toki Conference (ITC-16)
The ITC-16 will take place in Toki, Japan from Tuesday, December 5th, 2006 to Friday, December 8th, 2006.
The ITC-16 is the continuation of an annual series that originated in 1989, when the National Institute forFusion Science was established. The ITCs are international conferences for discussion and presentation ofresearch activities related to nuclear fusion and plasmas.

CONFERENCE SCOPE
The ITC-16 will address widely varying topics in the fields of advanced plasma diagnostics and imaging
sciences such as solar imaging, medical imaging, biological imaging, etc. by bringing together experts fromresearch institutes and from industries. The official language is English. The conference program format
will consist of plenary sessions, invited talks and oral & poster presentations. Papers accepted after theusual review processes will be published in a scientific journal.

LIST OF TOPICS
The meeting will cover the following topics:(A) Advanced Imaging
1. Medical Imaging
2. Imaging for Biology
3. Imaging for Astronomy
4. Imaging for Atoms, Molecules and Materials(B) Plasma Diagnostics
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5. IR to Microwave
6. Visible to X-ray
7. Particle (Neutron, Fusion Products, Ions and Neutrals)
8. Beam Diagnostics (Laser, Particle) and Probes(C) Imaging Technologies
9. Data Acquisition
10. Image Reconstruction and Tomography
11. Imaging Devices (CCD) and Optics(D) Others
12. Other Imaging
13. Other Plasma Diagnostics

PLACE
Ceratopia Toki Conference Hall
Toki-City 509-5121, Gifu-ken, JAPANDATE
December 5th (Tue) to 8th (Fri), 2006LANGUAGE
English is the official language of the conference.

ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONAuthors were requested to submit on-line one-page abstract by August 31, 2006. The abstract submission
is now closed, and your abstract could be modified before October 31, 2006.

The paper should containoriginal and previously unreported work on the conference topics. The abstract should be sufficiently
detailed in describing the aim of the work and the obtained results. The Program Committee will select thepapers on the basis of the submitted abstracts. Authors were notified on acceptance of abstracts andassignment of their papers into sessions by September 30, 2006. The accepted abstracts will be bound as abooklet and distributed to participants at the Conference. They will be posted on the Conference web site aswell.

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGSThe acceptance of the abstract does not guarantee publication in the proceedings. Referees will review thepapers submitted to the conference proceedings.

Papers accepted after the usual review process will be

published in Plasma and Fusion Research (http://www.jspf.or.jp/PFR/), which is an electronic journal
published monthly by the Japan Society of Plasma Science and Nuclear Fusion Research.

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proceedings will be distributed to all participants.

Detailed instructions for preparation of the papers will

be posted on the web site. The electronic version of the proceedings can contain full color pages andmovies, but the proceedings will be printed in black and white.

MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION
Authors are requested to upload a PDF file of their manuscripts through our web site (http://itc.nifs.ac.jp/)
by December 4, 2006.

The home page for the manuscript submission will be open after November 15,2006.

forInstructions

manuscript(http://www.jspf.or.jp/PFR/info.html).

preparation

areavailable

fromthePFR

websiteThe paper should contain original and previously unreported workon the conference topics. A review paper will be also accepted if a plenary speaker or an invited speakerprefers.

Manuscripts will not be received at the conference site.

The page limits of the proceeding

papers are as follows: (1) 8 pages for the invited talks and the plenary talks; (2) 4 pages for the contributed
papers (oral and poster presentations).

INSTRUCTIONS FOR PRESENTERS(1) Oral/Invited Presentation
Oral session will be equipped with a LCD projector, a Windows-based PC laptop, a screen, a hand-held
microphone and a laser pointer.

You have the option to bring your personal laptop or you may download

your presentation to a memory stick or a CD and use the Windows-based PC laptop provided in the room
where your session will take place.

No overhead projector will be available.

(2) Poster Presentation
The space available for each poster will be 0.9 m (height) x 1.8 m (width); thumbtacks will be provided.

REGISTRATION AND REGISTRATION FEEAllattendees

arerequested

toregister

throughourwebsite

at:http://itc.nifs.ac.jp/contents/registration/index.html.

The registration fee of 15,000 yen per participant covers the attendance, conference materials andproceedings, coffee breaks and the banquet. The fee for students is 10,000 yen. An additional banquet
ticket for an accompanied person is 5,000 yen.

After registration, participants can select how to make thepayment as follows:(1) Credit cards
Theparticipants

canmakepre-payment

byusingacredit

cardonourwebsite

at:https://apollon.nta.co.jp/itc16 until Oct. 31, 2006.

(2) Conference registration desk
The participants need to make the payment at the Conference registration desk on the first day of the3conference. Only payments in Japanese yen (cash only; no credit card or check) will be accepted.

ACCOMODATION
We have reserved rooms at special conference rates at several hotels near Toki City for participants of theConference.
hotel

Hotel information is available on our web site at: http://itc.nifs.ac.jp/contents/hotel/. Online

reservation

isavailable

fromthehttp://itc.nifs.ac.jp/contents/registration/index.html.

homepagefortheITC16

registration

at:The deadline for hotel reservation is October 31.

Room assignments will be made on a first-come first-served basis. The cancellation policy is explained in
the home page for the hotel reservation.

ACCESS AND TRANSPORTATIONThe conference site 'Ceratopia Toki' is located about 0.4 km far from Toki-shi station on the Japan Railway(JR) Chuo-line (see http://itc.nifs.ac.jp/contents/access.htm).

Shuttle bus service is available from thehotels to the Conference Hall during the conference. A detailed map and timetable is available on our website at: http://itc.nifs.ac.jp/contents/shuttle_bus.htm.

VISAS
In case you need a visa to enter Japan, the conference secretaries will provide an official invitation letter toobtain the entry visa. Please note that it takes more than two weeks to get a Japanese visa after applying at
the Japanese Consulate.

Fill in and return the Visa Application Form (PDF / word) to the Conference

Secretary by e-mail or airmail or fax no later than October 1, 2006.

Documents required for visa

application will be sent to you by airmail.

Note•

A printed form is strongly suggested for your submissions of any document since a handwritten form
often causes mistakes in the processing of the paper work.

•Your name and date of birth have to be the same as those written in your passport.

•

If your companion needs a Japanese visa, you have to also send her/his visa application form to us. In
this case, the relationship between her/him and you must be written in the "Memorandum" section of
the visa application form.

•You can read an official guide to Japanese visas.

•If you have any question about the procedure for obtaining a Japanese visa, contact us.

4CONFERENCE PROGRAM
9:00

9:40

12/5 (Tue)12/6 (Wed)12/7 (Thu)

12/8 (Fri)Registration

Plasma (Particles & Fusion

Plasma (Laser & Particle

Plasma Imagingproducts)

Beams)

Opening

10:10

CoffeePlenary

9:00

M. Tanpo

9:00

Y. Hamada

9:00

S. Ohdachi

9:30

R. Barnsley

9:30

G. R. McKee

9:30

Y. Aglitsky

10:00

H. Bindslev

10:00

Y. Hatae

9:50

M. Tanabe

10:20

K. Kawahata

10:10

B. J. Peterson

10:40

Coffee10:30

Coffee10:30

CoffeeElectron Microscopy

Medical Imaging

Biological Imaging

10:30

H. Fukuyama

10:50

K. Nagayama

11:00

Y. Sasaki

10:50

E. Stelzer

11:10

H. Park

11:00

R. Schroeder

11:30

N. Sadato

11:20

K. Ohmiya

11:50

K. Itoh

11:25

N. Mizuno

12:00

M. Sugiura

11:40

T. Nemoto

12:10

Group Photo

11:50

K. Namba

12:20

T. Iidaka

12:00

S. Nonaka

12:15

Y. Kaneko

12:40

Lunch

12:40

Lunch

12:20

Lunch

13:50

Poster

13:50

Poster

12:30

Lunch

Image Reconstruction

Mix

13:50

H. Kudo(Plasma)(Imaging)

13:30

S. Kimura

14:20

J. Hsieh(Categories: 5, 7, 8,(Categories: 1-4, 6,13:50

T. Hasegawa

14:50

J. Howard13)

9-12)

14:10

K. Morita

15:10

T. Takeda

14:30

K. Shibasaki

15:50

Coffee

14:50

L. Pranevicius

15:10

S. Sudo

15:30

Closing

Plasma

15:50(Imaging

CoffeeAstronomy

16:00

Satellite)

16:10

N. Luhmann

16:10

H. Hara

16:40

M. Hangyo

16:40

K. Ichimoto

17:10

G. Etoh

17:10

R. Kano17:30

H. Hojo

17:40

T. Watanabe

18:30

Mayor’s Reception

18:30

BanquetTechnicalTour(‘Hinode’Technology)

NIFS

18:30

Open Lecture forCitizens

18:40

H. Karoji

19:30

R. Kakigi

The program is subject to change.

5TECHNICAL TOUR
A technical tour to the Large Helical Device (LHD) facilities at NIFS will be held on December 7, 2006.
Participants of the NIFS technical tour are requested to register their name from the ITC-16 website(http://itc.nifs.ac.jp/).

SPONSORSHIPThe ITC-16 is sponsored by the National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS) and the National Institutefor Fusion Science (NIFS).

INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Osamu Motojima (Japan, Chair), Motoya Katsuki (Japan), Shoken Miyama (Japan), Noboru Mizuno(Japan), Hiroki Nakamura (Japan), Teruji Cho (Japan), Tomoaki Hino (Japan), John Howard (Australia),
Jiang Hsieh (USA), Osamu Kaneko (Japan), Kazuo Kawahata (Japan), Akio Komori (Japan), Gyung-Su
Lee (Korea), Neville C. Luhmann (USA), Shinzaburo Matsuda (Japan), George R. McKee (USA), KuniokiMima (Japan), Takashi Mutoh (Japan), Nobuaki Noda (Japan), Yuichi Ogawa (Japan), Nobuyoshi Ohyabu(Japan),

Shigeki Okajima (Japan),

Yukiharu Osawa (Japan), Hyeon K. Park (USA), Fumimichi Sano(Japan), Yuka Sasaki (USA), Mamiko Sasao (Japan), Motoyasu Sato(Japan), Rasmus R. Schroeder(Germany), Ernst Stelzer (Germany), Shigeru Sudo (Japan), Tatsuhiko Uda (Japan), Hiroshi Yamada(Japan), Kenji Yamauchi (Japan), Naoaki Yoshida (Japan)

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Atsushi Mase (Japan, Chair), Ryusuke Kakigi (Japan), Hiroshi Karoji (Japan), Ryuji Kodama (Japan),
Katsumi Ida (Japan), Naofumi Iwama (Japan), Kuniaki Nagayama (Japan), Satoshi Ohdachi (Japan),
Hiromi Okamoto (Japan), Kuninori Sato (Japan), Kazuo Toi (Japan), Hiroshi Yamada (Japan)

LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE (NIFS, Japan)
Kazuo Kawahata (Chair), Takeshi Akiyama, Mitsue Den, Masahiko Emoto, Hisayoshi Funaba, Katsumi Ida,Satoshi Ido, Akifumi Iwamoto, Chie Iwata, Hiroshi Kasahara, Akemi Kato, Daiji Kato, Toshikazu Kohmoto,Takashi Minami, Tomohiro Morisakai, Yasuo Morita, Sadatsugu Muto, Yoshio Nagayama, Hideya
Nakanishi, Kazumichi Narihara, Yoshiro Narushima, Shin Nishimura, Satoshi Ohdachi, Hiroaki Ohtani,
Byron J. Peterson, Toshihiro Sakaguchi, Satoru Sakakibara, Heiji Sanuki, Kazutaka Seo, Akihiro Shimizu,Masao Takeuchi, Naoki Tamura, Kenji Tanaka, Kazuo Toi, Tokihiko Tokuzawa, Kiyomasa Watanabe,
Ichihiro Yamada, Hiroshi Yamada

CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT
Yoshio Nagayama (Chair)
National Institute for Fusion Science322-6 Oroshi-cho, Toki, Gifu 509-5292, Japan6

IMPORTANT DATESz

August 31, 2006:

Abstract submission deadlinez

September 30, 2006:

Notification of abstract acceptancez

October 01, 2006:

Deadline for VISA applicationz

October 31, 2006:

Deadline for registration and hotel reservationz

November 15, 2006:

Start of full-paper uploadingz

December 04, 2006:

Deadline for registration and manuscript submission

WEB SITE AND CONTACT ADDRESS
E-mail can be sent using the web-form: http://itc.nifs.ac.jp/contents/helpdesk.htm.
The Conference web site and the contact address are as follows:z http://itc.nifs.ac.jp/7