The 8th Itoh Project Prize Winner (2012)

Mr. Ilya Shesterikov (Ecole Royale Militaire, Belgium) was chosen as recipient of the Itoh Project Prize in Plasma Turbulence 2012 at the 39th European Physical Society (EPS) Conference on Plasma Physics. An award ceremony was held on Wednesday, November 7th, 2012, in the president’s office. The President Setsuo Arikawa, the Executive Vice President and Distinguished Professor Sanae Itoh, and Associate Professor Shigeru Inagaki of the research institute for applied mechanics attended the ceremony.
  The Itoh Project Prize in plasma turbulence bearing the name of the Executive Vice President Itoh is awarded to students presenting on outstanding poster at the conference. It is co-hosted by the Institute of Physics (IOP) Publishing and sponsored by Kyushu University. The winner is invited to Kyushu University. The aim of this prize is to offer PhD students a good opportunity to givie a lecture, collaborate and develope broad vision. Successive winners over the years are now very active all over the world.
  After much deliberation, the selection committee of internationally distinguished scientists chose Ilya Shesterikov for the world’s first observation of deformation and spliting of micro-eddies by shear flow in the peripheral region of magnetized plasma. 

[Photo] From left to right: President Arikawa, Mr. Shesterikov and Executive Vice President and Distinguished Professor Itoh