Curriculum Vitae (PDF version)

Education

04/1995 - 03/1999	Faculty of Science, Kyoto University, Japan
04/1999 - 03/2001	Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, Japan (M. S.)
04/2001 - 03/2006	Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, Japan
07/2006	Ph. D. in Space Physics (Title: "High-energy particle acceleration and magnetic field dissipation in the plasma sheets of celestial magnetospheres", Adviser: Prof. M. Hoshino)

Employment

04/2003 - 03/2005	Research Fellowships for Young Scientists, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
04/2005 - 03/2006	Software Engineer, Technology Division, Internet Initiative Japan Inc.
04/2006 - 03/2007	Researcher, Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
11/2006 - 04/2007	Visiting Research Associate, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (University of Maryland Baltimore County, Goddard Earth Sciences & Technology Center)
04/2007 - 04/2010	Postdoctoral Fellow, NASA Postdoctoral Program at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
04/2010 - 09/2011	Postdoctoral Fellow, JSPS Fellowship for Research Abroad at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (University of Maryland Baltimore County, Goddard Earth Sciences & Technology Center)
09/2011 - 03/2012	Research Assistant Professor, Division of Theoretical Astronomy, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
04/2012 - 03/2017	Research Assistant Professor (NAOJ fellow), Division of Theoretical Astronomy, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
04/2017 - 03/2019	Researcher, Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere, Kyoto University
06/2018 - 03/2019	Designated Lecturer, Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere, Kyoto University
04/2019 - 03/2023	Associate Professor, Research Center for Urban Safety and Security, Kobe University
05/2019 - 03/2023	Associate Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Kobe University
04/2023 - 03/2029	Academy Scientist, Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences

Research interests

I am interested in magnetic reconnection and its role in space and astrophysical plasmas. The numbers refer to relevant papers in the publication list. I have served as a reviewer for the boldfaced topics.

• Relativistic magnetic reconnection (Papers 1-9, 11, 22, c1, c13, c15, c30, c32)
• Magnetic reconnection (1-9, 11-18, 20-22, 25, c1-c22, c25, c28, c30-c34)
• Current sheet instabilities (2-5)
• Weibel instability (6, c27)
• Collisionless shock
• Kelvin-Helmholtz instability
• Astrophysical jets (10)
• Kinetic plasma turbulence
• Earth's magnetosphere (15, 21, c11, c14, c16-c18, c20, c24-c26)
• Heliosphere

• Theory (10, 13, 17, c4, c6-c8)
• Deep Learning
• Particle-in-cell (PIC) simulation (1-7, 13-16, 20-22, c1-c3, c5, c9, c10, c12, c18, c20, c28, c30-c32)
• Vlasov and Lattice Boltzmann simulations (17)
• Relativistic hydrodynamic (RHD) and magnetohydrodynamic (RMHD) simulations (8-11, c13, c15, c32)
• Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulation (10-12, 18, 25, c21-c25)
• Spacecraft observation: Geotail, Cluster, THEMIS, Magnetspheric Multiscale (MMS) (15, c11, c14, c16, c17, c19, c24, c25, c29, c33, c34)
• Spacecraft observation: New Horizons, Parker Solar Probe
• Numerical schemes and analytical frameworks (19, 23, 24, 26-30, c27)
• Laboratory experiments

Publications

Refereed Journals (First Author)

1. S. Zenitani and M. Hoshino (2001),
   "The Generation of Nonthermal Particles in Relativistic Magnetic Reconnection of Pair Plasmas",
   Astrophysical Journal Letters, 562, L63-L66 (ADS, arXiv, errata)
   • p.2, l.13 : "7.7 x 10² pairs per grid" → "7.4 x 10² pairs per grid" (Courtesy of Dr. C. Jaroschek)
   • p.4, l.3 : "synchrotron loss is not negligible" → "inverse Compton loss is not negligible"
2. S. Zenitani and M. Hoshino (2005a),
   "Relativistic Particle Acceleration in a Folded Current Sheet",
   Astrophysical Journal Letters, 618, L111-L114 (ADS, arXiv, errata)
   • p.2, l.28 : "the antiparallel currents (±J_z) pull each other" → "... collide each other"
   • p.3, l.29 : "the half-wavelength of the RDKI (π/k_y)" → "the quarter wavelength of the RDKI (π/2k_y)" (corrected in the newer paper [2007 ApJ, 670, 702])
   • p.4, TABLE I : please ignore "L_x=1.0" and "L_y=1.0", because they are 2D simulation runs.
3. S. Zenitani and M. Hoshino (2005b),
   "Three-Dimensional Evolution of a Relativistic Current Sheet: Triggering of Magnetic Reconnection by the Guide Field",
   Physical Review Letters, 95, 095001 (ADS, arXiv, errata)
   • p.1, 3rd paragraph, l.13 : "... + n_bg exp(-ε/0.1T)" → "... exp(-ε/T)" (Courtesy of Dr. H. Takahashi)
   • p.4, 4th paragraph : "The most dominant RDKI has ..." → "... The most dominant RDKTI has ..."
   • fig.1, caption, l.2 : "... with color from blue (empty) to red ..." → "... with color from black (empty) to red ..."
   • We renamed the oblique mode (RDKTI) to the "relativistic drift-sausage-tearing instability" (RDSTI) in our newer paper (2008, ApJ, 677, 530) considering its properties.
4. S. Zenitani and M. Hoshino (2007),
   "Particle Acceleration and Magnetic Dissipation in Relativistic Current Sheet of Pair Plasmas",
   Astrophysical Journal, 670, 702-726 (ADS, arXiv, errata)
   • The online version and the arXiv preprint contain color figures.
   • p.702, l.1 : "an important large-scale processes" → "an important large-scale process"
   • p.710, 3.3, l.4 : "T_bg is always set to 0.1T" → "... is always set to T" (Courtesy of Dr. H. Takahashi)
   • p.711, Table 1 : inflow Alfven speeds (V_A^inflow) are wrong
   • p.722, eq.37 : "E = -v_e x B + ..." → "E = -(v_e/c) x B + ..."
   • p.722, Appendix. A, l.3 : "Jütter-Synge distribution" → "Jüttner-Synge distribution"
   • p.722, Appendix. A, l.4 : "Jütter-Synge gas" → "Jüttner-Synge gas"
5. S. Zenitani and M. Hoshino (2008),
   "The Role of the Guide Field in Relativistic Pair Plasma Reconnection",
   Astrophysical Journal, 677, 530-544 (ADS, arXiv, errata)
   • p.530, 3rd paragraph, l.11 : "a powerful acceleration engine (... Jaroschek et al. 2004a)" → "... Jaroschek et al. 2004b)" (Phys. Plasmas)
   • p.530, 3rd paragraph, l.l7 : "an index of -1 ~ -3 (... Jaroschek et al. 2004a)" → "... Jaroschek et al. 2004b)" (Phys. Plasmas)
   • p.530, 3rd paragraph, l.20 : "synchrotron radiation (Jaroschek et al. 2004b)" → "... Jaroschek et al. 2004a)" (Astrophys. J.)
   • p.531, section 2, l.15 : "T_bg/T = 0.1" → "T_bg/T = 1" (Courtesy of Dr. H. Takahashi)
   • p.541, Fig.12 : The sixth panel (2nd row; a=-0.5) is slightly broken. Please refer to the panel in the arXiv preprint.
6. S. Zenitani and M. Hesse (2008a),
   "The role of the Weibel instability at the reconnection jet front in relativistic pair plasma reconnection",
   Physics of Plasmas, 15, 022101 (ADS, arXiv, errata)
   • Erratum: Physics of Plasmas, 15, 089901
   • p.2, section 2, l.6 : "[-γ_β(ε-β_su_y)/T]" → "[-γ_β(ε-β_smcu_y)/T]"
   • p.2, section 2, l.19 : "T_bg/mc² = 0.1" → "T_bg/mc² = 1" (Courtesy of Dr. H. Takahashi)
7. S. Zenitani and M. Hesse (2008b),
   "Self-regulation of the Reconnecting Current Layer in Relativistic Pair Plasma Reconnection",
   Astrophysical Journal, 684, 1477-1485 (ADS, arXiv, errata)
   • p.1478, section 2, l.6 : "exp[-γ_β(ε-β_su_y)/T]" → "exp[-γ_β(ε-β_smcu_y)/T]"
   • p.1478, section 2, l.17 : "T_bg/mc² = 0.1" → "T_bg/mc² = 1" (Courtesy of Dr. H. Takahashi)
   • p.1478, TABLE 1 : σ_in would be corrected to 9, 2.4, 30, and 7.4, respectively
   • p.1479, 2nd paragraph, l.2 : "J_y=2d_cs<v_y>" → "J_y=2d_csq<v_y>"
   • p.1479, 2nd paragraph, l.10 : "|J|=2d_csc;" → "|J|=2d_csqc"
8. S. Zenitani, M. Hesse, and A. Klimas (2009a),
   "Two-fluid Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations of Relativistic Magnetic Reconnection",
   Astrophysical Journal, 696, 1385-1401 (ADS, arXiv, errata)
   • Erratum: Astrophysical Journal, 722, 968-969
   • p.1387, 3rd para., l.10 : "interspecies energy transfer in Equation (2)" → "interspecies energy transfer in Equation (3)"
   • p.1387, eq.14 : "δA_y = 2LB₁ exp[-(x²+z²)/(2L)²]" → "δA_y = -2LB₁ exp[-(x²+z²)/(2L)²]"
   • p.1398, Fig.13(d), label : "Outflow position (z/L)" → "Outflow position (x/L)"
   • p.1399, left, 4th para. : "nonthermal particles acceleration" → "nonthermal particle acceleration"
9. S. Zenitani, M. Hesse, and A. Klimas (2009b),
   "Relativistic Two-fluid Simulations of Guide Field Magnetic Reconnection",
   Astrophysical Journal, 705, 907-913 (ADS, arXiv, errata)
   • p.907, left, l.4 : "Owning to ..." → "Owing to ..."
   • p.910, right, l.13-14 : "the outgoing energy flux (-F·x)" → "the outgoing energy flux (F·x)"
10. S. Zenitani, M. Hesse, and A. Klimas (2010a),
    "Scaling of the Anomalous Boost in Relativistic Jet Boundary Layer",
    Astrophysical Journal, 712, 951-956 (ADS, arXiv, supplementary items & errata)
    • Fortran 90 code (2010/04/26)
    • Fortran 77/90 code is also attached to arXiv:1002.2754 as ancillary files
    • p.952, right, l.4 : "the Alfvèn speeds" → "the Alfvén speeds"
11. S. Zenitani, M. Hesse, and A. Klimas (2010b),
    "Resistive Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations of Relativistic Magnetic Reconnection",
    Astrophysical Journal Letters, 716, L214-L218 (ADS, arXiv, Movies & errata)
    • Run 1 (Fig. 1b) - outflow evolution (MP4 movie; 1.5MB)
    • Run 1 (Fig. 1d) - plasmoid edge structure (MP4 movie; 0.9MB)
    • Run 1b (Fig. 3a) - slow Sweet-Parker reconnection (MP4 movie; 1.8MB)
    • Run 1c (Fig. 3b) - repeated formation of plasmoids (MP4 movie; 1.1MB)
    • p.215, Table 1, run 2, c_A,in : "0.813" → "0.756"
    • p.215, l.15 : "δA_y = 0.06 B₀ exp[-(x²+z²)/4]" → "δA_y = -0.06 B₀ exp[-(x²+z²)/4]"
    • p.215, the right column, l.1 : "Komissarov 2007; Section 3" → "Komissarov 2007, section 3" (This means section 3 in Komissarov 2007)
12. S. Zenitani and T. Miyoshi (2011),
    "Magnetohydrodynamic structure of a plasmoid in fast reconnection in low-beta plasmas",
    Physics of Plasmas, 18, 022105 (ADS, arXiv, supplementary items) -- Phys. Plasmas: The 3 most read articles in Oct. 2014
    • Fortran 90 code is attached to arXiv:1101.2255 as ancillary files
    • Fig. 1 movie - overall evolution (MP4 movie; 2.4MB)
    • Fig. 1 movie in different colors - Overall evolution (MP4 movie; 1.2MB)
    • Fig. 5b movie - KH jet inside the plasmoid (MP4 movie; 1MB)
    • Time evolution of shocks (MP4 movie; 4.6MB)
    • Schematic diagram of plasmoid structure (2011 edition)
13. S. Zenitani, M. Hesse, A. Klimas, and M. Kuznetsova (2011a),
    "New Measure of the Dissipation Region in Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection",
    Physical Review Letters, 106, 195003 (ADS, arXiv, errata)
    • p.4, left column : The time derivative term was overemphasized due to our normalization error. It is negligible in this case.
    • p.4, right, 2nd last paragraph : "Owning to ..." → "Owing to ..."
14. S. Zenitani, M. Hesse, A. Klimas, C. Black, and M. Kuznetsova (2011b),
    "The inner structure of collisionless magnetic reconnection: The electron-frame dissipation measure and Hall fields",
    Physics of Plasmas, 18, 122108 (ADS, arXiv, errata) -- Phys. Plasmas: Featured Article in Dec. 2011
15. S. Zenitani, I. Shinohara, and T. Nagai (2012),
    "Evidence for the dissipation region in magnetotail reconnection",
    Geophysical Research Letters, 39, L11102 (ADS, arXiv)
16. S. Zenitani, I. Shinohara, T. Nagai, and T. Wada (2013),
    "Kinetic aspects of the ion current layer in a reconnection outflow exhaust",
    Physics of Plasmas, 20, 092120 (ADS, arXiv, errata & supplementary items)
    • p.5, left column, l.10 : "[E+V_i x B]_x' ≈ (1/en) ∂_x' P_ix'z ≈ (1/en) ∂_x' T_ix'z" → "... ≈ (1/en) ∂_z P_ix'z ≈ (1/en) ∂_z T_ix'z"
    • p.9, left column, last paragraph : "Let R to be" → "Let R be"
    • p.10, left column, l. 15 : "Fig. 3(d) in Ref. 56" → "Fig. 3(b) in Ref. 56"
    • Test-particle code is attached to arXiv:1306.2705 as ancillary files
    • NAOJ Scientific Highlights - Magnetic Diffusion and Ion Nonlinear Dynamics in Magnetic Reconnection
    • Fig. 3 - magnetic field lines at t=35
    • Distribution Function Explorer (for Safari/Chrome/Firefox)
    • Poincaré map of charged particles (QuickTime movie; 13.9MB)
    • Poincaré map in the 3D velocity space (QuickTime movie; 12.6MB)
    • Regular orbits (CG) (MP4 movie; 27.7MB)
    • Regular orbit - stable orbit (QuickTime movie; 0.5MB)
    • Regular orbit - weakly perturbed orbit (QuickTime movie; 3.2MB)
    • Stochastic orbit (QuickTime movie; 1.8MB)
    • Transient (Speiser) orbit (QuickTime movie; 0.4MB)
17. S. Zenitani and T. Umeda (2014),
    "Some remarks on the diffusion regions in magnetic reconnection",
    Physics of Plasmas, 21, 034503 (ADS, arXiv)
18. S. Zenitani (2015a),
    "Magnetohydrodynamic structure of a plasmoid in fast reconnection in low-beta plasmas: Shock-shock interactions",
    Physics of Plasmas, 22, 032114 (ADS, arXiv, supplementary items)
    • Fortran 90 code is attached to arXiv:1503.01920 as ancillary files
    • Schematic diagram of plasmoid structure (2015 edition)
    • NAOJ Scientific Highlights - High-Speed Fluid Dynamics in Magnetic Reconnection in a Low-β Plasma
19. S. Zenitani (2015b),
    "Loading relativistic Maxwell distributions in particle simulations",
    Physics of Plasmas, 22, 042116 (ADS, arXiv) -- Phys. Plasmas: Most Read Articles from April-June in 2015
20. S. Zenitani and T. Nagai (2016),
    "Particle dynamics in the electron current layer in collisionless magnetic reconnection",
    Physics of Plasmas, 23, 102102 (ADS, arXiv, errata & supplementary items) -- News Release by American Institute of Physics
• Phys. Plasmas: Top 20 articles in 2017
• Phys. Plasmas: Editor's Picks in Feb. 2017
• Phys. Plasmas: 2016's Most Read Articles
• p.2, right, l. 9: "In order to better interpret the electron VDFs and to deeper discuss the kinetic reconnection physics,"
• p.2, eq. 3: "|B_n/B₀| sqrt{ L/ρ_L,max}" → "|B_n/B₀| sqrt{ L/ρ_L0}"
• p.7, right, l.-5: "We obtain 2.3 x 10⁷ electron trajectories"
• Schematic diagram of electron orbits (Fig. 13)
• Distribution Function Explorer (for Safari/Chrome/Firefox)
• Electron VDF map (6.9MB)
• Electron VDF map (particle view) (5.7MB)
21. S. Zenitani, H. Hasegawa, and T. Nagai (2017),
    "Electron dynamics surrounding the X-line in asymmetric magnetic reconnection",
    Journal of Geophysical Research, 122, 7396 (ADS, arXiv, supplementary items)
    • 3D magnetic geometry (Fig. 4; MP4 movie)
    • Crescent-shaped VDF (Fig. 3b; MP4 movie; 7.3MB)
    • Crescent-shaped VDF (another view; MP4 movie; 7.5MB)
    • Google Colab notebook on the Poincaré maps
22. S. Zenitani (2018),
    "Dissipation in relativistic pair-plasma reconnection: revisited",
    Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 60, 014028 (ADS, arXiv) -- Invited paper at 44th EPS Conference on Plasma Physics
23. S. Zenitani and T. Umeda (2018),
    "On the Boris solver in particle-in-cell simulation",
    Physics of Plasmas, 25, 112110 (ADS, arXiv)
24. S. Zenitani and T. N. Kato (2020),
    "Multiple Boris integrators for particle-in-cell simulation",
    Computer Physics Communications, 247, 106954 (ADS, arXiv)
25. S. Zenitani and T. Miyoshi (2020),
    "Plasmoid-dominated Turbulent Reconnection in a Low-β Plasma",
    Astrophysical Journal Letters, 894, L7 (ADS, arXiv, supplementary items)
    • F90 codes are attached to arXiv:2004.11247 as ancillary files
    • Time evolution of plasma outflow (MP4 movie; 2.7MB)
    • Time evolution of plasma density (MP4 movie; 3.5MB)
    • Time evolution of div V (MP4 movie; 3.1MB)
    • Time evolution of shocks (MP4 movie; 3.5MB)
26. S. Zenitani and S. Nakano (2022),
    "Loading a relativistic Kappa distribution in particle simulations",
    Physics of Plasmas, 29, 113904 (ADS, arXiv, errata)
    • p.7, right column, l.9 : "integral p**(3-k) dp" → "integral p**(2-k) dp"
27. S. Zenitani and S. Nakano (2023),
    "Loading Loss-Cone Distributions in Particle Simulations",
    Journal of Geophysical Research, 128, e2023JA031983 (ADS, arXiv, zenodo)
28. S. Zenitani (2024a),
    "Modifications to Swisdak (2013)'s rejection sampling algorithm for a Maxwell-Jüttner distribution in particle simulations",
    Physics of Plasmas, 31, 094501 (ADS, arXiv, zenodo)
29. S. Zenitani (2024b),
    "A gamma variate generator with shape parameter less than unity",
    Economics Bulletin, 44, 1113 (ADS, arXiv)
30. S. Zenitani and T. N. Kato (2025),
    "Hyper Boris integrators for kinetic plasma simulations",
    Computer Physics Communications, 315, 109695 (ADS, arXiv)
31. S. Zenitani, S. Usami, and S Matsukiyo (2025),
    "Loading non-Maxwellian velocity distributions in particle simulations",
    submitted to Journal of Geophysical Research (ADS, arXiv)

Refereed Journals (Co-author)

1. M. Hesse and S. Zenitani (2007),
   "Dissipation in relativistic pair-plasma reconnection",
   Physics of Plasmas, 14, 112102 (ADS)
2. A. Klimas, M. Hesse, and S. Zenitani (2008),
   "Particle-in-cell simulation of collisionless reconnection with open outflow boundaries",
   Physics of Plasmas, 15, 082102 (ADS)
3. M. Hesse, S. Zenitani, and A. Klimas (2008),
   "The structure of the electron outflow jet in collisionless magnetic reconnection",
   Physics of Plasmas, 15, 112102 (ADS)
4. M. Hesse, S. Zenitani, M. Kuznetsova, and A. Klimas (2009),
   "A simple, analytical model of collisionless magnetic reconnection in a pair plasma",
   Physics of Plasmas, 16, 102106 (ADS, errata)
   • Erratum 1: Physics of Plasmas, 16, 129906
   • Erratum 2: Physics of Plasmas, 17, 079902
5. A. Klimas, M. Hesse, S. Zenitani, and M. Kuznetsova (2010),
   "Particle-in-cell simulation of collisionless driven reconnection with open boundaries",
   Physics of Plasmas, 17, 112904 (ADS)
6. M. Hesse, T. Neukirch, K. Schindler, M. Kuznetsova, and S. Zenitani (2011),
   "The Diffusion Region in Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection",
   Space Science Reviews, 106, 3 (ADS, errata)
   • p.13 : "Taking (28) and (35) together ..." → "Taking (24) and (32) together ..."
   • p.17 : "Equation (39) was recently derived by Dorfman et al. (2008)" → "Equation (38) was recently derived by Dorfman et al. (2008)"
7. M. Hesse, J. Birn, and S. Zenitani (2011),
   "Magnetic reconnection in a compressible MHD plasma",
   Physics of Plasmas, 18, 042104 (ADS)
8. J. Birn, M. Hesse, and S. Zenitani (2011),
   "Reconnection in compressible plasmas: Extended conversion region",
   Physics of Plasmas, 18, 111202 (ADS)
9. A. Klimas, M. Hesse, and S. Zenitani (2012),
   "Particle-in-cell simulation of collisionless undriven reconnection with open boundaries",
   Physics of Plasmas, 19, 042901 (ADS)
10. N. Aunai, M. Hesse, S. Zenitani, M. Kuznetsova, C. Black, R. Evans, and R. Smets (2013),
    "Comparison between hybrid and fully kinetic models of asymmetric magnetic reconnection: coplanar and guide field configurations",
    Physics of Plasmas, 20, 022902 (ADS, arXiv)
11. T. Nagai, I. Shinohara, S. Zenitani, R. Nakamura, T. Nakamura, M. Fujimoto, Y. Saito, and T. Mukai (2013a),
    "Three-dimensional structure of magnetic reconnection in the magnetotail from Geotail observations",
    Journal of Geophysical Research, 118, 1667 (ADS)
12. M. Hesse, N. Aunai, S. Zenitani, M. Kuznetsova, and J. Birn (2013),
    "Aspects of collisionless magnetic reconnection in asymmetric systems",
    Physics of Plasmas, 20, 061210 (ADS)
13. H. Baty, J. Pétri, and S. Zenitani (2013),
    "Explosive reconnection of double tearing modes in relativistic plasmas: application to the Crab flares",
    MNRAS Letters, 436, L20 (ADS, arXiv)
14. T. Nagai, S. Zenitani, I. Shinohara, R. Nakamura, M. Fujimoto, Y. Saito, and T. Mukai (2013b),
    "Ion and electron dynamics in the ion-electron decoupling region of magnetic reconnection with Geotail observations",
    Journal of Geophysical Research, 118, 7703 (ADS)
15. J. Pétri, M. Takamoto, H. Baty, and S. Zenitani (2015),
    "Explosive reconnection of double tearing modes in relativistic plasmas with application to the Crab nebula",
    Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 57, 014034 (ADS)
16. T. Nagai, I. Shinohara, and S. Zenitani (2015a),
    "Ion acceleration processes in magnetic reconnection: Geotail observations in the magnetotail",
    Journal of Geophysical Research, 120, 1766 (ADS)
17. T. Nagai, I. Shinohara, and S. Zenitani (2015b),
    "The dawn-dusk length of the X line in the near-Earth magnetotail: Geotail survey in 1994-2014",
    Journal of Geophysical Research, 120, 8762 (ADS)
18. M. Hesse, N. Aunai, J. Birn, P. Cassak, R. E. Denton, J. F. Drake, T. Gombosi, M. Hoshino, W. Matthaeus, D. Sibeck, and S. Zenitani (2016),
    "Theory and Modeling for the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission",
    Space Science Reviews, 199, 577 (ADS)
19. H. Hasegawa, N. Kitamura, Y. Saito, ... S. Zenitani et al. (25th/26 author) (2016),
    "Decay of mesoscale flux transfer events during quasi-continuous spatially-extended reconnection at the magnetopause",
    Geophysical Research Letters, 43, 4755 (ADS)
20. T. K. M. Nakamura, S. Eriksson, H. Hasegawa, S. Zenitani, W. Li, K. Genestreti, R. Nakamura, and W. Daughton (2017),
    "Mass and energy transfer across the Earth's magnetopause caused by the vortex-induced reconnection",
    Journal of Geophysical Research, 122, 11505 (ADS)
21. T. Shimizu, K. Kondoh, and S. Zenitani (2017),
    "Numerical MHD study for plasmoid instability in uniform resistivity",
    Physics of Plasmas, 24, 112117 (ADS)
22. M. Hosseinpour, Y. Chen, and S. Zenitani (2018),
    "On the effect of parallel shear flow on the plasmoid instability",
    Physics of Plasmas, 25, 102117 (ADS)
23. Y. Matsumoto, Y. Asahina, Y. Kudoh, T. Kawashima, J. Matsumoto, H. R. Takahashi, T. Minoshima, S. Zenitani, T. Miyoshi, and R. Matsumoto (2019),
    "Magnetohydrodynamic Simulation Code CANS+: Assessments and Applications",
    Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, 71, 83 (ADS)
24. W.-L. Teh and S. Zenitani (2019),
    "Thermodynamic Properties of Mirror Structures in the Magnetosheath: MMS Observations and Double-Polytropic MHD Simulations",
    Astrophysical Journal, 885, 22 (ADS)
25. W.-L. Teh and S. Zenitani (2020),
    "Thermodynamics of Dipolarization Fronts of Magnetic Reconnection in Anisotropic Plasma: MMS Observations and Resistive Double-polytropic MHD Simulations",
    Astrophysical Journal, 890, 114 (ADS)
26. W.-L. Teh and S. Zenitani (2021),
    "Two-Dimensional Reconstruction of a Time-Dependent Mirror Structure from Double-Polytropic MHD simulation",
    Earth and Space Science, 8, e2020EA001449 (ADS)
27. G. Ueno and S. Zenitani (2021),
    "Relativistic Maxwellian mixture model",
    Physics of Plasmas, 28, 122106 (ADS)
28. T. K. M. Nakamura, W.-L. Teh, S. Zenitani, T. Umeda, M. Oka, H. Hasegawa, A. Veronig, and R. Nakamura (2023),
    "Spatial and time scaling of coalescing multiple magnetic islands",
    Physics of Plasmas, 30, 022902 (ADS)
29. W.-L. Teh, T. K. M. Nakamura, S. Zenitani, T. Umeda, and R. Nakamura (2023),
    "New aspects of energy conversion in magnetic island dynamics: particle-in-cell simulation of multiple island coalescence and MMS observations",
    Astrophysical Journal, 947, 4 (ADS)
30. S. Totorica, S. Zenitani, M. Machida, S. Matsukiyo, K. Sekiguchi, and A. Bhattacharjee (2023),
    "Exact Calculation of Nonideal Fields Demonstrates Dominance of Injection in Relativistic Reconnection",
    Astrophysical Journal Letters, 952, L1 (ADS)
31. S. Usami and S. Zenitani (2024),
    "Three-dimensional crescent-shaped ion velocity distributions created by magnetic reconnection in the presence of a guide field",
    Physics of Plasmas, 31, 022102 (ADS)
32. F. Guo, Y.-H. Liu, S. Zenitani, and M. Hoshino (2024),
    "Magnetic Reconnection and Associated Particle Acceleration in High-energy Astrophysics",
    Space Science Reviews, 220, 43 (ADS, arXiv)
33. H. Hasegawa, M. R. Argall, ..., and S. Zenitani (36th/36 author) (2024),
    "Advanced Methods for Analyzing In-Situ Observations of Magnetic Reconnection",
    Space Science Reviews, 220, 68 (ADS, arXiv)
34. R. Nakamura, J. L. Burch, ..., S. Zenitani, et al. (15th/25 author) (2025),
    "Outstanding questions and future research of magnetic reconnection",
    Space Science Reviews, 221, 17 (ADS, arXiv)
35. T. Amano, K. G. Klein, ..., and S. Zenitani (12nd/12 author) (2025),
    "Electron Energy Partition in Shocks, Magnetic Reconnection, and Turbulence",
    submitted to Space Science Reviews

Conference Proceedings and Book Chapters (peer-reviewed)

1. S. Zenitani, M. Hesse, and A. Klimas (2011),
   "Fluid and Magnetofluid Modeling of Relativistic Magnetic Reconnection",
   AIP Conference Proceeding, 1366, 138 (ADS, arXiv)   (error corrected in the arXiv preprint)
2. M. Hesse, N. Aunai, M. Kuznetsova, S. Zenitani, and J. Birn (2015),
   "Magnetic Reconnection in Different Environments: Similarities and Differences",
   AGU Geophysical Monograph, 207, 259 (ADS)
3. I. Shinohara, M. Fujimoto, T. Nagai, S. Zenitani, and H. Kojima (2016),
   "Low-frequency Waves in the Tail Reconnection Region",
   AGU Geophysical Monograph, 216, 181 (ADS)
4. M. Yamada, J. Yoo, and S. Zenitani (2016),
   "Energy conversion and inventory of a prototypical magnetic reconnection layer",
   Astrophysics and Space Science Library, 427, 143 (ADS)

Other articles

• S. Zenitani and M. Hoshino (2003),
  "A Plasma Sheet as a Source of Non-Thermal Particles Relativistic Magnetic Reconnection and Relativistic Drift Kink Instability in e-{+\-} Plasmas",
  Proceedings of the 28th International Cosmic Ray Conference, p.2043 (ADS)
• S. Zenitani (2024),
  "A note on the flattop velocity distribution in space plasmas",
  Res. Notes AAS 8, 30 (ADS)
• S. Zenitani (2025),
  "A simple procedure for generating a Kappa distribution in PIC simulation",
  Res. Notes AAS 9, 299
• M. Hoshino, S. Zenitani, K. Nagata, and Y. Takagi (2006),
  "Particle Acceleration in Kinetic Plasma Processes",
  Proceedings of Energy Budget in the High Energy Universe, p.108 (ADS)
• T. N. Kato and S. Zenitani (2021),
  "Volume-preserving particle integrator based on exact flow of velocity for nonrelativistic particle-in-cell simulations",
  arXiv:2108.02426 (ADS)
• Hantao Ji, J. Karpen, ... S. Zenitani, J. Zhang, E. Zweibel (71st/73 author)(2024),
  "Major Scientific Challenges and Opportunities in Understanding Magnetic Reconnection and Related Explosive Phenomena in Heliophysics and Beyond",
  Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 55, 192 (2023) (ADS)

Other articles in Japanese language

• S. Zenitani and H. R. Takahashi (2013), "Relativistic Magnetic Reconnection", J. Plasma Fusion Res., 89, 845
• S. Usami and S. Zenitani (2013), "Problems and Future of Simulation Studies", J. Plasma Fusion Res., 89, 861
• S. Zenitani (2017),"Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of magnetic reconnection with a high-resolution shock-capturing code", Sustainable humanosphere, 13, 27
• S. Zenitani and T. N. Kato (2018),"Numerical methods for charged particles in relativistic particle-in-cell simulation", Sustainable humanosphere, 14, 62
• S. Zenitani (2021), "Recent progress in particle orbit theory of magnetic reconnection", J. Plasma Fusion Res., 97, 47 -- J. Plasma Fusion Res.: The 3rd most popular article in 2021, 1st half
• S. Zenitani (2025), "Numerical methods for kappa distributions in particle-in-cell simulations", J. Plasma Fusion Res., 101, 380
• R. Chen, T. Takeyama, S. Zenitani, S. Tachibana, and A. Iizuka (2021), "Depth distribution estimation of over consolidation ratio by machine learning", Report of Research Center for Urban Safety and Security, 25, 33
• T. Dogahara, T. Takeyama, S. Zenitani, S. Tachibana, and A. Iizuka (2022), "GPU parallelization of geotechnical response analysis code", Report of Research Center for Urban Safety and Security, 26, 10
• N. Deguchi, S. Zenitani, Y. Nashita, and H. Masutani (2022), "Table detection in highway completion drawings using an object-detection algorithm YOLOv5", Report of Research Center for Urban Safety and Security, 26, 20
• Y. Nashita and S. Zenitani (2022), "The study of element extraction in drawing using image recognition technology by SSD algorithm", Kansai Geo-Symposium 2022, 91-96

Presentations at International Meetings

• "Generation of Non-thermal Particles through Magnetic Reconnection in case of Relativistic Magnetic Reconnection", The Eighth GEOTAIL SWG/Workshop, ISAS, Sagamihara, Japan, March 2001
• "Particle acceleration processes in an e⁺-e^- plasma sheet", Fourth US-Japan Workshop on Magnetic Reconnection, Plasma Merging, Magnetic Jets (MR2002), Hakone, Japan, November 2002
• "Particle acceleration processes in an e⁺-e^- plasma sheet", Fifth International Workshop on Nonlinear Waves and Chaos in Space Plasmas (NWW2003), Mumbai, India, March 2003
• "New Possible Mechanisms of High Energy Particle Acceleration in a Plasma Sheet", International Union of Geophysics and Geodesy (IUGG), Sapporo, Japan, July 2003
• "A Plasma Sheet as a Source of Non-Thermal Particles Relativistic Magnetic Reconnection and Relativistic Drift Kink Instability in e-{+\-} Plasmas", International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC), Tsukuba, Japan, August 2003
• "Magnetic reconnection in relativistic current sheets of pair plasmas", US-Japan Workshop on Magnetic Reconnection, Plasma Merging, and Magnetic Jets (MR2005), Awajishima Island, Japan, March 2005
• "The role of guide field in magnetic reconnection: the case of relativistic magnetic reconnection in pair plasmas", AGU Fall Meeting 2006, San Francisco, USA, December 2006 (ADS)
• "Relativistic magnetic reconnection with a guide magnetic field", 8th International School/Symposium for Space Simulations, Kauai, Hawaii, USA, February 2007
• "Particle acceleration and magnetic dissipation processes in the plasma sheets of relativistic pair plasmas" 2007 US-Japan Workshop on Magnetic Reconnection (MR2007), Maryland, USA, March 2007 (invited)
• "On the current sheet thickness in relativistic pair plasma reconnection", Cambridge Workshop on Magnetic Reconnection, Maryland, USA, September 2007 (invited)
• "On the outflow region of relativistic pair plasma reconnection", Cambridge Workshop on Magnetic Reconnection, Maryland, USA, September 2007 (invited)
• "Self-regulation of the reconnecting current sheet in relativistic pair plasmas", AGU Fall Meeting 2007, San Francisco, USA, December 2007 (ADS)
• "The role of the Weibel instability at the reconnection jet front in relativistic pair plasma reconnection", US-Japan Workshop on Magnetic Reconnection 2008 (MR2008), Okinawa, Japan, March 2008 (invited)
• "On the dissipation region in relativistic pair plasma reconnection", Japan Geophysical Union Meeting 2008, Chiba, Japan, May 2008
• "The role of the Weibel instability at the reconnection jet front in relativistic pair plasma reconnection", Japan Geophysical Union Meeting 2008, Chiba, Japan, May 2008
• "Current sheet expanding processes in relativistic pair plasma reconnection" International Cambridge Workshop on Magnetic Reconnection 2008, Bohn, Germany, August 2008 (invited)
• "Relativistic current sheets in electron-positron plasmas" Cracow conference 2008, Krakow, Poland, October 2008 (invited review; PDF file)
• "The role of the Weibel instability at the reconnection jet front in relativistic pair plasma reconnection", Reconnection in Turbulent Fluid and its Implications Workshop, Krakow, Poland, October 2008
• "Two-fluid MHD simulation of relativistic magnetic reconnection", AGU Fall Meeting 2008, San Francisco, USA, December 2008 (ADS)
• "Relativistic two-fluid simulations of pair plasma reconnection", International Cambridge Workshop on Magnetic Reconnection 2009, Fairbanks, AL, USA, August 2009 (invited)
• "Two-fluid simulations of relativistic magnetic reconnection in pair plasmas", US-Japan Workshop on Reconnection 2009 (MR2009), Madison, Wisconsin, USA, October 2009 (invited)
• "Relativistic two-fluid simulations of guide field magnetic reconnection", AGU Fall Meeting 2009, San Francisco, USA, December 2009 (ADS)
• "Two-fluid Simulations of Relativistic Magnetic Reconnection in Pair Plasmas", 215th AAS meeting, Washington DC, USA, January 2010 (ADS)
• "Two-Fluid Simulations of Relativistic Magnetic Reconnection in Electron-Positron Plasmas", Yosemite Workshop on Magnetic Reconnection, Yosemite, February 2010 (invited; PDF file)
• "Resistive Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations of Relativistic Magnetic Reconnection", International Cambridge Workshop on Magnetic Reconnection 2010, St. Andrews, Scotland, August 2010 (invited; PDF file)
• "Fluid and Magnetofluid Modeling of Relativistic Magnetic Reconnection", UAH Huntsville Workshop 2010, Nashville, TN, USA, October 2010 (invited)
• "Numerical Modeling of Relativistic Magnetic Reconnection", Gamma Ray Burst 2010 Conference, Annapolis, MD, USA, November 2010
• "Resistive Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations of Relativistic Magnetic Reconnection", US-Japan Workshop on Magnetic Reconnection (MR2010), Nara, Japan, December 2010 (invited)
• "Kinetic modeling of asymmetric magnetic reconnection", AGU Fall Meeting 2010, San Francisco, USA, December 2010 (ADS)
• "Numerical Simulations of Relativistic Magnetic Reconnection", Magnetic Reconnection to Relativistic Wind Workshop, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, CA, USA, April 2011 (invited)
• "Fluid and Magnetofluid Modeling of Relativistic Magnetic Reconnection", High Energy Phenomena in Relativistic Outflows (HEPRO) III meeting, Barcelona, Spain, June 2011
• "The electron-frame dissipation measure in collisionless magnetic reconnection", International Cambridge Workshop on Magnetic Reconnection 2011, Durham, New Hampshire, USA, August 2011 (invited; PDF file)
• "The electron-frame dissipation measure in collisionless magnetic reconnection", AGU Fall Meeting 2011, San Francisco, USA, December 2011 (ADS; PDF file)
• "A new measure of the dissipation region in collisionless magnetic reconnection", Computational Methods in High Energy Density Plasmas - Workshop II: Computational Challenges in Magnetized Plasma, Los Angeles, USA, April 2012 (invited)
• "A new measure of the dissipation region in collisionless magnetic reconnection: Theory, simulation, and observation", 2012 US-Japan Workshop on Magnetic Reconnection (MR2012), Princeton, USA, May 2012 (invited)
• "Magnetohydrodynamic structure of a plasmoid in fast reconnection in low-beta plasmas", 2012 US-Japan Workshop on Magnetic Reconnection (MR2012), Princeton, USA, May 2012
• "Geotail observation of the dissipation region in collisionless magnetic reconnection", AOGS - AGU (WPGM) Joint Assembly, Singapore, August 2012 (invited; PDF file)
• "Evidence for the dissipation region in magnetotail reconnection", International Cambridge Workshop on Magnetic Reconnection 2012, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 2012 (invited; PDF file)
• "The structure of the dissipation region in collisionless magnetic reconnection: Theory, simulation, and observation", GEOTAIL 20th Anniversary Workshop, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, November 2012 (invited)
• "Geotail observation of the dissipation region in magnetotail reconnection", AGU Fall Meeting 2012, San Francisco, USA, December 2012 (ADS)
• "Identification of the dissipation region in collisionless magnetic reconnection: Theory and Simulations", AGU Fall Meeting 2012, San Francisco, USA, December 2012 (invited; ADS, PDF file)
• "GEOTAIL observation of the dissipation region and Particle dynamics in ion current layer", MMS Science Working Team Meeting, Boulder, USA, March 2013
• "Ion nonlinear dynamics in magnetic reconnection", 12th International Workshop on the Interrelationship between Plasma Experiments in Laboratory and Space (IPELS), Hakuba, Nagano, July 2013
• "Evidence for the dissipation region in magnetotail reconnection", 12th International Workshop on the Interrelationship between Plasma Experiments in Laboratory and Space (IPELS), Hakuba, Nagano, July 2013
• "Kinetic aspects of the ion current layer in an outflow exhaust in magnetic reconnection", The 12th Asia Pacific Physics Conference, Makuhari, Chiba, July 2013
• "Magnetic diffusion and ion nonlinear dynamics in magnetic reconnection", The 11th International School/Symposium for Space Simulations (ISSS-11), National Central University, Taiwan, July 2013 (invited)
• "Kinetic aspects of the ion current layer in an outflow exhaust in magnetic reconnection", Reconnexion Physics Forum, NASA/GSFC/online, October 2013 (PDF file)
• "Magnetic diffusion and ion nonlinear dynamics in magnetic reconnection", ISAS Workshop: Magnetospheric Plasmas 2013, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, November 2013 (invited; PDF file)
• "Magnetic diffusion and ion nonlinear dynamics in magnetic reconnection", AGU Fall Meeting 2013, San Francisco, USA, December 2013 (ADS; PDF file)
• "The structure of the diffusion region in collisionless reconnection: Theory, simulation, and observation", Parker Reconnection Workshop, INPE, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, March 2014 (invited; PDF file)
• "The secrets of the ion diffusion region in collisionless magnetic reconnection", EGU General Assembly 2014, Vienna, Austria, May 2014 (ADS; PDF file)
• "Magnetic diffusion and ion nonlinear dynamics in magnetic reconnection", US-Japan Workshop on Magnetic Reconnection (MR2014), University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, May 2014 (invited; PDF file)
• "The structure of the diffusion region in magnetic reconnection", AOGS 11th Annual Meeting, Sapporo, July 2014 (invited)
• "Kinetic aspects of the ion current layer in an outflow exhaust in magnetic reconnection", AOGS 11th Annual Meeting, Sapporo, July 2014 (PDF file)
• "A new picture of the central engine of kinetic magnetic reconnection", 6th East-Asian Numerical Astrophysics Meeting (EANAM6), Kyung Hee University, Suwon, Korea, September 2014 (invited; PDF file)
• "Magnetic reconnection as a showcase of compressible fluid dynamics", 6th East-Asian Numerical Astrophysics Meeting (EANAM6), Kyung Hee University, Suwon, Korea, September 2014
• "Low-beta MHD reconnection as a showcase of compressible fluid dynamics", AGU Fall Meeting 2014, San Francisco, USA, December 2014 (ADS; PDF file)
• "Numerical Modeling of Relativistic Reconnection: Kinetic, Two-fluid, and MHD Simulations", Relativistic Jets: Creation, Dynamics, and Internal Physics, Krakow, Poland, April 2015 (invited; PDF file)
• "Particle acceleration in relativistic magnetic reconnection", AOGS 12th Annual Meeting, Singapore, August 2015 (invited)
• "High-speed fluid dynamics in magnetic reconnection in a low-beta plasma", AOGS 12th Annual Meeting, Singapore, August 2015 (PDF file)
• "Defining dissipation/diffusion regions in collisionless magnetic reconnection and High-speed fluid dynamics in magnetic reconnection in a low-beta plasma", Chapman Conference on Magnetospheric Dynamics, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA, September 2015 (invited; PDF file)
• "High-speed fluid dynamics in magnetic reconnection in a low-beta plasma", ISAS Workshop: Magnetospheric Plasmas 2015, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, December 2015 (PDF file)
• "Loading Relativistic Maxwell Distributions in Particle Simulations", AGU Fall Meeting 2015, San Francisco, USA, December 2015 (ADS; PDF file)
• "Particle dynamics in the electron current layer in collisionless magnetic reconnection", 2016 US-Japan Workshop on Magnetic Reconnection (MR2016), Napa, CA, USA, March 2016 (PDF file)
• "High-speed fluid dynamics in magnetic reconnection in a low-beta plasma", 2016 US-Japan Workshop on Magnetic Reconnection (MR2016), Napa, CA, USA, March 2016
• "Particle dynamics and nongyrotropic distribution functions in collisionless magnetic reconnection", International GEMSIS and ASINACTR-G2602 Workshop, Nagoya University, Nagoya, March 2016 (invited)
• "The structure of the diffusion region in collisionless magnetic reconnection: Theory, simulation, and observation", Dynamical Processes in Space Plasmas (Isradynamics 2016), Dead sea, Israel, April 2016 (invited)
• "Dissipation in relativistic pair-plasma reconnection: revisited", Purdue Workshop on Relativistic Plasma Astrophysics, Purdue, USA, May 2016 (invited)
• "Nongyrotropic electron orbits in collisionless magnetic reconnection", AGU Fall Meeting 2016, San Francisco, USA, December 2016 (ADS)
• "Electron particle dynamics in collisionless magnetic reconnection", US-Japan Workshop and School on Magnetic Reconnection (MR2017), Matsuyama, Japan, Mar 2017 (invited)
• "Electron dynamics surrounding the X-line in magnetopause-type asymmetric reconnection", JpGU-AGU Joint Meeting 2017, Chiba, Japan, May 2017
• "Advances in numerical modeling of relativistic magnetic reconnection", 2017 European Physical Society - Plasma Physics Conference, Belfast, UK, June 2017 (invited)
• "Electron particle dynamics in collisionless magnetic reconnection", 7th East-Asia School and Workshop on Laboratory, Space, and Astrophysical Plasmas (EASW-7), Weihai, China, July 2017 (invited)
• "Electron particle dynamics in collisionless magnetic reconnection", IAPSO-IAMAS-IAGA scientific assembly, Cape Town, South Africa, Aug 2017 (invited; PDF file)
• "Electron particle dynamics in collisionless magnetic reconnection", 1st Asia-Pacific Conference on Plasma Physics (AAPPS-DPP2017), Chengdu, China, Sep 2017 (invited)
• "Electron dynamics surrounding the X line in asymmetric magnetic reconnection", AGU Fall Meeting 2017, New Orleans, USA, December 2017 (ADS; PDF file)
• "Electron dynamics surrounding the X line in asymmetric magnetic reconnection", Fundamental Physical Processes in Solar-Terrestrial Research and Their Relevance to Planetary Physics, Kona, HA, USA, January 2018 (invited)
• "Electron Particle Dynamics in Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection", The 13th International School/Symposium for Space Simulations (ISSS-13), UCLA, Los Angeles, September 2018 (invited)
• "Magnetic explosion in the Sun-Earth system: Magnetic reconnection", The 3rd Asia Research Node Symposium on Humanosphere Science, Present and Future of Humanosphere Science, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, September 2018
• "Electron physics near the X-line in asymmetric magnetic reconnection", 2nd Asia-Pacific Conference on Plasma Physics (AAPPS-DPP2018), Kanazawa, Japan, November 2018 (invited)
• "A scaling model for plasmoid-dominated turbulent reconnection", 2nd Asia-Pacific Conference on Plasma Physics (AAPPS-DPP2018), Kanazawa, Japan, November 2018
• "Nonlinear particle dynamics in magnetic reconnection", Kyoto Workshop on Nonlinear Wave-Particle Interactions in Plasmas, Kyoto, Japan, November 2018
• "A new particle integrator for particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations", AGU Fall Meeting 2018, Washington DC, USA, December 2018 (ADS)
• "Reconnecting the dots: Particle dynamics in magnetic reconnection", Max-Planck Princeton Center for Plasma Physics (MPPC) Workshop 2019, Tokyo, Japan, February 2019 (invited)
• "Boris-type particle integrators in particle-in-cell simulation", Max-Planck Princeton Center for Plasma Physics (MPPC) Workshop 2019, Tokyo, Japan, February 2019
• "Asymmetric magnetic reconnection at the dayside magnetopause", 9th East-Asia School and Workshop on Laboratory, Space, and Astrophysical Plasmas, Nagoya, Japan, July 2019 (invited)
• "Boris-type particle solvers in particle-in-cell (PIC) simulation", 26th International Conference on Numerical Simulation of Plasmas (ICNSP 2019), Santa Fe, New Mexico, September 2019 (PDF file)
• "Boris-type particle solvers in particle-in-cell (PIC) simulation", 3rd Asia-Pacific Conference on Plasma Physics (AAPPS-DPP2019), Hefei, China, November 2019 (invited)
• "Multiple Boris integrators for particle-in-cell simulation", AGU Fall Meeting 2019, San Francisco, USA, December 2019 (ADS)
• "A comparison of relativistic particle integrators in a fast magnetized flow 2", JpGU - AGU Joint Meeting 2020, Online, Japan, June 2020
• "Identification of the Electron Diffusion Region in Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection", AOGS 17th Annual Meeting, Hongcheon, Korea, June 2020 (invited; but meeting was canceled due to COVID-19)
• "Issues in kinetic modeling of relativistic magnetic reconnection", 4th Asia-Pacific Conference on Plasma Physics (AAPPS-DPP2020), Online, October 2020 (invited)
• "Plasmoid-dominated Turbulent Reconnection in a Low-beta Plasma", UJI Reconnection Workshop (URW) 2020, Online, November 2020
• "Electron physics near the X line in asymmetric magnetic reconnection", 9th VERSIM Workshop, Online, November 2020 (PDF file)
• "Boris-type particle solvers in particle-in-cell (PIC) simulation", 9th VERSIM Workshop, Online, November 2020
• "Plasmoid-dominated Turbulent Reconnection in a Low-beta Plasma", AGU Fall Meeting 2020, Online, USA, December 2020 (ADS; PDF file)
• "Plasmoid-dominated Turbulent Reconnection in a Low-β Plasma", 2021 MPPC Annual Meeting, Online, USA, January 2021 (PDF file)
• "Multiple Boris integrators for particle-in-cell simulation", PWING-ERG conference and school on the inner magnetosphere, Online, Nagoya, March 2021
• "Particle dynamics in collisionless magnetic reconnection", International Conference on High Energy Density Sciences 2021 (HEDS2021), Online, Japan, April 2021 (invited; PDF file)
• "Multiple Boris solvers for particle-in-cell (PIC) simulation", EGU General Assembly 2021, Online, Europe, April 2021 (ADS)
• "Plasmoid-dominated Turbulent Reconnection in a Low-β Plasma", SolFER Spring 2021 Meeting, Online, USA, May 2021
• "Particle dynamics and nongyrotropic velocity distribution functions in magnetic reconnection", International Workshop on Magnetic Reconnection 2021 (2021年磁场重联国际研讨会), Weihai+Online, China, July 2021 (invited)
• "Plasmoid-dominated Turbulent Reconnection in a Low-β Plasma", AOGS 18th Annual Meeting, Online, Singapore, August 2021
• "Plasmoid-dominated Turbulent Reconnection in a Low-β Plasma: MHD simulations and code developments", 5th Asia-Pacific Conference on Plasma Physics (AAPPS-DPP2021), Online, September 2021
• "Plasmoid-dominated turbulent reconnection in symmetric and asymmetric systems", US-Japan Workshop on Magnetic Reconnection (MR2022), Monterey, USA, May 2022 (invited)
• "Plasmoid-dominated turbulent reconnection in symmetric and asymmetric systems", EGU General Assembly 2022, Vienna, Austria, May 2022 (ADS)
• "Plasmoid-dominated turbulent reconnection in symmetric and asymmetric systems", AOGS 19th Annual Meeting, Online, Virtual, August 2022
• "Getting started with MHD simulations", The 14th International School/Symposium for Space Simulations (ISSS-14), Online/Kobe, Japan, September 2022 (invited lecture)
• "Hyper Boris integrators for particle-in-cell simulations", NINS International Research Collaboration Center Astro-fusion Plasma Physics (IRCC-AFP) meeting, Mitaka, Japan, October 2022 (invited)
• "Multiple Boris solvers for particle-in-cell (PIC) simulation", The 31st International Toki Conference on Plasma and Fusion Research (ITC31), Online, Japan, November 2022
• "Loading kappa distributions in particle-in-cell simulations", AGU Fall Meeting 2022, Online, USA, December 2022 (ADS)
• "Loading kappa-type distributions in particle simulations", EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria & Online, April 2023 (ADS; PDF file)
• "Hyper Boris solver for particle-in-cell simulation", 9th MMS Community Workshop, Boulder, USA, June 2023
• "Hyper Boris solvers for kinetic plasma simulations", US-Japan Workshop on Magnetic Reconnection (MR2023), Ise, Japan, June 2023 (invited)
• "Hyper Boris integrators for particle-in-cell simulation", AGU Fall Meeting 2023, San Francisco, USA, December 2023 (ADS; PDF file)
• "Hyper Boris integrators for particle-in-cell simulation", EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna, Austria, April 2024 (ADS; PDF file)
• "Some topics on a relativistic Kappa distribution", Electron Kinetic Physics: The Next Frontier in Space and Astrophysical Plasmas, Bern, Switzerland, April 2024 (invited)
• "Plasmoid-dominated turbulent reconnection in symmetric and asymmetric systems", UJI Reconnection Workshop (URW) 2024, Online, June 2024
• "Particle dynamics in collisionless magnetic reconnection", 3rd International Fusion and Plasma Conference (iFPC 2024), Seoul, South Korea, June 2024 (invited)
• "Development of a GPU-accelerated Magnetohydrodynamic Code: OpenMHD-GPU", AOGS 21st Annual Meeting, Pyongchang, South Korea, June 2024
• "Numerical Algorithms for Generating Loss-cone Distributions in Particle Simulation", AOGS 21st Annual Meeting, Pyongchang, South Korea, June 2024 (invited)
• "Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations", 15th International School for Space Simulations (ISSS-15), Munich, Germany, August 2024 (invited lecture; PDF file)
• "Loading various velocity distributions in particle-in-cell (PIC) simulation", 15th International Symposium for Space Simulations (ISSS-15), Munich, Germany, August 2024 (PDF file)
• "Loading loss-cone, kappa, and flattop distributions in particle simulations", AGU Annual Meeting 2024, Washington DC, USA, December 2024 (ADS; PDF file)
• "Recent advances in numerical algorithms for particle-in-cell simulation", US-Japan Workshop on Magnetic Reconnection (MR2025), Princeton, USA, March 2025 (invited)
• "Random number generation in kinetic plasma simulation: flattop and gamma distributions", EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienna, Austria, May 2025 (doi)
• "High-accuracy particle integrators for particle-in-cell (PIC) simulation", 9th Asia-Pacific Conference on Plasma Physics (AAPPS-DPP2025), Fukuoka, Japan, September 2025
• "Electron Energy Partition during Magnetic Reconnection", Joint Cluster-Plasma Observatory workshop, Paris, France, October 2025 (invited)
• "Hyper Boris integrators for particle-in-cell simulation", Joint Cluster-Plasma Observatory workshop, Paris, France, October 2025
• "Loading non-Maxwell velocity distributions in particle-in-cell (PIC) simulation", AGU Annual Meeting 2025, New Orleans, USA, December 2025
• "Recent advances in numerical algorithms for particle-in-cell simulation", Macau International Forum on Space and Planetary Sciences, Macau, China, January, 2026 (invited)

Figures & Movies

1. Relativistic magnetic reconnection
   • PIC simulation - particle acceleration (QuickTime movie; 14MB)
   • Two-fluid simulation - outflow evolution (QuickTime movie; 9.2MB)
   • Two-fluid simulation - Petschek outflow structure
   • Resistive MHD simulation - outflow evolution (MP4 movie; 1.5MB)
   • Resistive MHD simulation - plasmoid edge structure (MP4 movie; 0.9MB)
   • Resistive MHD simulation - slow Sweet-Parker reconnection (MP4 movie; 1.8MB)
   • Resistive MHD simulation - repeated formation of plasmoids (MP4 movie; 1.1MB)
2. Particle acceleration and fast field dissipation by the relativistic drift kink instability
   • PIC simulation (QuickTime movie; 19.5MB)
   • PIC simulation - field structure (Fig. 1 in 2005a paper)
   • Two-fluid simulation (QuickTime movie; 160KB)
3. 3D evolution of a relativistic current sheet
   • 3D snapshots (Fig. 1 from 2005b paper)
   • an oblique hybrid instability (Fig. 11 in 2008a paper)
4. Weibel instability in relativistic magnetic reconnection
   • Basic mechanism of the counter-streaming Weibel instability (QuickTime slide show; 0.8MB)
   • Out-of-plane field generation (QuickTime movie; 7.9MB)
   • Weibel-scattered particle trajectory (QuickTime movie; 19MB)
5. Magnetic reconnection in a collisionless kinetic regime
   • PIC simulation - magnetic field lines (for Fig. 3 in 2011 PoP paper)
   • PIC simulation - magnetic field lines (white background)
   • PIC simulation - magnetic field lines (Fig. 3 in 2013 PoP paper, drawn by Wada-san)
   • PIC simulation - normalized reconnection rates
   • Schematic diagram of electron-scale structure (based on Fig. 9 in 2011 PoP paper)
   • Schematic diagram of electron orbits (Fig. 13 in 2016 PoP paper)
   • Geotail observation - the dissipation measure and plasma flows (data taken from 2012 GRL paper)
   • Distribution Function Explorer - Ion and electron velocity distribution functions in our PIC simulation. For Safari/Chrome/Firefox.
   • Electron VDF map (6.9MB)
   • Electron VDF map (particle view) (5.7MB)
   • Chaotic particle motion in a curved magnetic field
     • See also Zenitani et al. (2013), Chen & Palmadesso (1986), and Buechner & Zelenyi (1989)
     • Poincaré map of charged particles (QuickTime movie; 13.9MB)
     • Poincaré map in the 3D velocity space (QuickTime movie; 12.6MB)
     • Regular orbits (CG) (MP4 movie; 27.7MB)
     • Regular orbit - stable orbit (QuickTime movie; 0.5MB)
     • Regular orbit - weakly perturbed orbit (QuickTime movie; 3.2MB)
     • Stochastic orbit (QuickTime movie; 1.8MB)
     • Transient (Speiser) orbit (QuickTime movie; 0.4MB)
6. Asymmetric reconnection
   • PIC simulation - 3D magnetic geometry (for Fig. 4 in 2017 JGR paper; MP4 movie)
   • PIC simulation - crescent-shaped VDF (for Fig. 3b in 2017 JGR paper; MP4 movie; 7.3MB)
   • PIC simulation - crescent-shaped VDF (another view; MP4 movie; 7.5MB)
7. Magnetic reconnection in nonrelativistic low-beta MHD plasmas
   • See also Zenitani & Miyoshi (2011, 2015) papers
   • MHD simulation - overall evolution (MP4 movie; 2.4MB)
   • MHD simulation - different color (MP4 movie; 1.2MB)
   • MHD simulation - KH jet inside the plasmoid (MP4 movie; 1MB)
   • Schematic diagram of plasmoid structure (2011, 2015, 2016)
   • MHD simulation - plasmoid-dominated reconnection (MP4 movie; 2.7MB)
8. Kelvin-Helmholtz instability
   • MHD simulation - long-term evolution (1) (QuickTime movie; 18.7MB)
   • MHD simulation - long-term evolution (2) (QuickTime movie; 14.3MB)
9. Other materials
   • The growth of scientific meetings
   • Brio-Wu test in Palenzuela et al.(2009)
   • Radiative transfer by M1 closure
   • Synchrotron spectra a la Hededal & Nordlund (2005)
   • Voyager cosmic ray counting rates through 1977-2024 and in 2018