Outline Agenda

April 13–17, 2026
Sapporo, Japan


ALL TIMES ARE IN JAPAN STANDARD TIME, JST (UTC+9), Sapporo, Japan. Current time is shown above.

Note that some details in the agenda may still change; please check back for updated versions regularly.

The detailed agenda may be downloaded here (last update 16 April 2026). 

Monday, April 13, 2026
Time Session Details
08:30 - 09:30 MSASI Team Meeting - Room 3 MSASI Team and invitees only
10:30 - 12:30 Parallel Working Groups and Study Groups (SCWG - Room 3, HEWG - Main Room, No GGWG session) WGs in parallel.
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch Break  
14:00 – 15:30 Joint Working Group Session - HEWG, SCWG, GGWG WG plenary and cross-WG topics
15:30 – 16:00 Social Break; end of day for those not attending YSSG session.  
16:00 – 17:30 Young Scientists' Study Group Activities of the YSSG sub-groups can be discussed within this meeting.

 

Tuesday, April 14, 2026
Time Session Details
09:30 - 12:30
Break 30 minutes at 10h30		 Mission Status OGS / SGS / JAXA / MISSION / PSs reports
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch Break  
14:00 – 15:30 MPO/Mio Strategic Science  
15:30 – 16:00 Social Break  
16:00 – 17:00 Data Handling and Archiving  
16:30 – 17:30 Open discussion  
Evening SWT Meeting Dinner  

 

Wednesday, April 15, 2026
Time Session Details
09:30 - 10:00 Mercury-Y; New Interdisciplinary Scientist and Guest Investigators Part I  
10:30 – 11:00 Social Break  
11:00 – 12:30 IDS special science session Magnetosphere, exosphere, and surface interactions
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch Break  
14:00 – 15:30 Working Group Reports  
15:30 – 16:00 Social Break  
16:00 – 17:30 Future conferences and mission meetings, and communications plans
New Interdisciplinary Scientist and Guest Investigators Part II		  

17:30 - 19:00

17:30 - 20:00

 

17:30 - 18:30

 MAG-MGF Teams meeting - Room 3

PWI-MPPE Teams joint meeting - Auditorium

ESA-JAXA Project Management meeting - Room 4		 MPO-MAG and Mio-MGF members, plus invitees, only

PWI and MPPE members, plus invitees, only

ESA and JAXA mission management representatives plus invitees, only

 

Thursday, April 16, 2026
Time Session Details
09:30 - 12:30
Break 30 minutes at 10h30		 Instrument reports  
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch Break  
14:00 – 15:00 Working groups science highlights Science presentations
15:00 – 15:30 Open discussion then SWT closure  
15:30 – 16:00 Social Break  
16:00 – 17:30 SWT Executive - Room 4 SWT Executive members and invitees only
17:30 – 20:00 PWI Team Meeting - Room 3 PWI team and invitees only

 

Friday, April 17, 2026
Time Session Details
09:30 - 12:30
Break 30 minutes at 10h30

MPO/Mio Joint observations

All welcome
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch Break  
13:30 - 15:30 MPPE Team Meeting - Room 3 MPPE Team members and invitees only