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Kozo SAITO, Ph.D. Director, Institute of Research for Technology Development (IR4TD) & Tennessee Valley Authority Professor in Mechanical Engineering University of Kentucky Lexington, KY 40508-0503 USA http://www.engr.uky.edu/me/cfpl/ |
Scale modeling covers almost all fields of engineering and is often applied to medicine, meteorology, biology etc. Because of its interdisciplinary nature, Professor Emori (the founder of scale modeling theory) knew there was a need for international communication among a wide range of scale modeling researchers. He initiated the first international symposium on scale modeling in 1988 in Tokyo under the sponsorship of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers. Following this first successful ISSM, so far six symposia were held (ISSM-2 at Lexington, KY in 1998, ISSM-3 at Nagoya, Japan in 2000, ISSM-4 at Cleveland, OH in 2003, ISSM-5 at Choshi, Japan in 2005, and ISSM-6 at Kauai, HI in 2009). In 2000, the International Scale Modeling Committee consisted of professionals on scale modeling from a variety of fields, and they decided ISSM should be held every three (or four) years. After ISSM-5, a special workshop was proposed to select papers from the past ISSM and collect them in a special ISSM volume: Progress in Scale Modeling, which was published by Springer in August 2008.
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Akihiko ITO, Prof. Dr. International Scale Modeling Committee Member Professor in Graduate School of Science and Technology Hirosaki University 1-bunkyocho Hirosaki-shi Aomori-ken 036-8560, JAPAN http://www.st.hirosaki-u.ac.jp/gs/contents/e_structure.html |
This symposium could provide everyone a variety chances/accesses to learn new things related on scale model. How to use the concept of scale model in your field is also one of scopes in this symposium so that you are not necessary to be a professional in scale model. We are certainly sure that all attendees can enjoy and learn a power of scale model through the symposium. I look forward to seeing you at Hirosaki, Japan, in 2013.
chair (honorary): Kozo Saito, Tennessee Valley Authority Prof. Dr., University of Kentucky, USA
chair: Akihirko Ito, Prof. Dr., Hirosaki University, Japan
Secretary-General: Hiroyuki Torikai, Prof. Dr., Hirosaki University, Japan;
Yuji Nakamura, Prof. Dr., Hokkaido University, Japan
Executive Committee:
Tadashi Konishi, Prof. Dr., Oita National College of Technology, Japan
Genichiro Kushida, Prof. Dr., Aichi Instituite of Technology, Japan
Tianxiang Li, Dr., University of Kentucky, USA
Naian Liu, Prof. Dr., University of Science and Technology of China, China
Junichi Nakagawa, Dr., Nippon Steel Co. Ltd., Japan
Vedha Nayagam, Dr., NASA Glenn Research Center, USA
Abraham Salazar, Dr., University of Kentucky, USA
Kozo Sekimoto, Pres., Sekimoto SE Engineering, Japan
Publication Committee:
Kazunori Kuwana, Prof. Dr., Yamagata University, Japan (chair)
Mitsutomo Hirota, Prof. Dr., Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan
Tamio Ida, Prof. Dr., Kinki University, Japan
Hiroyuki Ito, Prof. Dr., Hokkaido University, Japan
Hiroyasu Saito, Prof. Dr., Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan
Takashi Tsuruda, Prof., Akita Prefectural University, Japan
Richard KK Yuen, Prof. Dr., City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Advisory Board: (alphabetic order)
Toshisuke Hirano, Pres. Dr., Chiba Institute of Science, Japan
James Quintiere, J.L. Bryan Prof(Emeritus). Dr., University of Maryland, USA
Tadao Takeno, Prof.(Emeritus) Dr., Nagoya University, Japan
Forman A Williams, Prof. Dr., University of California, San Diego, USA