The Thirteenth (13th) International School/Symposium for Space Simulations; Los Angeles, California; September 6-14, 2018

该奖项是为了支持学生前往国际空间模拟学院（ISSS）。它于1982年首次在日本举行，是来自美国、亚洲和欧洲的顶尖科学家的联合合作，目的是向进入这一不断发展的领域的学生教授基本的模拟技术。第一次会议取得了巨大的成功，从那时起，ISSS平均每2到3年举行一次，在欧洲、亚洲和美国之间轮流举行。下一次会议将是该系列的第13次会议，按照亚洲、欧洲和美国之间轮流举行的传统，会议将于2018年9月6日至14日在美国加州大学洛杉矶分校举行。这个项目是为了支持（非加州大学洛杉矶分校）的学生能够参加iss13。国际空间站会议为新一代的学生提供了对数值模拟技术的基本理解，对许多人来说，这是他们第一次接触尖端的空间科学研究。多年来，参加过ISSS会议的学生的反馈非常积极，有些人说这是他们作为学生参加过的最喜欢的会议。许多以前的国际空间站学生已经在太空等离子体模拟领域从事研究工作，成为美国国家科学基金会和美国国家航空航天局的研究人员、教授和公务员。由于空间科学是一项国际性的努力，本次会议的国际性面向全世界开放了未来的空间科学家和模拟器，并启动了科学家、研究人员和学生之间持续一生的接触和合作。ISSS会议的前四天包括学校部分，包括与该领域专家的强化实践培训，这样，当完成后，学生将学习不同类型的代码如何工作，包括粒子在细胞（PIC），混合和磁流体动力学（MHD），并将运行代码自己产生输出和图表结果。基本的模拟代码给了学生，他们可以在会议结束后保留这些代码以供进一步使用和学习。会议的研讨会部分在学校部分之后立即举行，让刚刚学习各种代码基础的学生与在空间科学领域进行前沿研究的世界专家进行互动。研讨会的环境保持对学生友好，学生可以自由地提出基本问题，并与顶尖科学家进行小组或一对一的互动，无论是在科学报告，海报会议还是旨在促进教学和合作的社会活动中。多年来，这种学校和研讨会的方法已经被证明是非常有效的，学生可以从会议中最大限度地获得知识。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award is to support student travel to the International School for Space Simulations (ISSS). It was first held in 1982 in Japan as a joint collaboration between leading scientists from the US, Asia and Europe, in order to teach basic simulation techniques to students going into this growing field. The first meeting was a great success and since that time ISSS has been held on average every 2 to 3 years rotating locations between Europe, Asia, and the US. The next ISSS meeting will be the 13th in the series and following the tradition of rotating between Asia, Europe and the US will be held in the United States at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) from September 6-14, 2018. This project is for support for (non-UCLA) students to be able to attend ISSS-13. The ISSS meeting has provided new generations of students with a basic understanding of the numerical simulation techniques and is for many their first exposure to cutting edge space science research. Feedback from students over the years who have attended ISSS meetings has been overwhelmingly positive, with some saying it was their favorite meeting they attended as a student. Scores of previous ISSS students have gone on to careers in space plasma simulations as researchers, professors and civil servants at NSF and NASA. Since space science is an international endeavor, the international aspect of this meeting opens future space scientists and simulators to the world at large and initiates contacts and collaborations among scientists, researchers and students that last a lifetime.The first four days of the ISSS meeting comprise the school portion and include intensive hands-on training with experts in the field such that when finished students will learn how different types of codes work, including particle in cell (PIC), hybrid and magnetohydrodynamic (MHD), and will have run the codes themselves to produce output and graph the results. Basic simulation codes are given to the students, which are theirs to keep after the meeting for further use and study. The symposium portion of the meeting is held immediately after the school portion and allows the students who have just learned the basics of the various codes to interact with world experts who conduct cutting edge research in space science. The environment of the symposium is maintained to be student friendly whereby students can feel free to ask basic questions and interact with top scientists in smaller groups or one on one sessions, either at the science presentations, poster sessions or social events meant to foster teaching and collaboration. This school and symposium approach has proven over the years to be very effective for students to maximize their knowledge gain from the meeting.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.