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Electromagnetic
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Poynting Award on Radiative
Transfer Dear All, We would like to
bring to your attention a recent inaugural Elsevier Award on Radiative Transfer, open to all scientists who had
sizeable impact on the advancement of Radiative
Transfer. The Poynting Award on Radiative
Transfer will be administered by JQSRT and its details are announced at the
JQSRT web site: Please send all
nomination packages no later than April
30, 2012 to M. Pinar Menguc, one of the three
Editor-in-Chief of JQSRT (pinar.menguc@ozyegin.edu.tr
). Regards, M. Pinar Menguc ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- New
release of the discrete-dipole approximation scattering code DDSCAT ------------Link
corrected!!!!--------------- is now available -- DDSCAT 7.2. This supersedes the previous
release, version 7.1 As
before, the code is written in portable f90, and includes support for OpenMP, the Intel Math Kernel Library, and MPI (although
see note below). The distribution includes DDSCAT.f90, CALLTARGET.f90, and
READNF.f90, and VTRCONVERT.f90. A
new UserGuide is available from http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.3424 .
The complete DDSCAT 7.2 package can be downloaded from http://code.google.com/p/ddscat
The code distribution is ddscat7.2.0_120215.tgz You can also download a set
of "worked examples" that are referred to in the UserGuide: ddscat7.2.0_examples_120215.tgz DDSCAT
7.2 is gratis, subject to the GNU General Public License. [You may copy,
distribute, and/or modify the software identified as under this agreement. If
you distribute copies of this software, you must give the recipients all the
rights that you have.] As
always, please let us know if you encounter problems downloading DDSCAT, or
if you have trouble using DDSCAT (but **please** read the manual carefully
before reporting problems!!). Version
7.1 is no longer supported, although it will continue to be available on the google code site. If you have been using Version 7.1,
please switch to Version 7.2. We
hope that DDSCAT 7.2 will prove useful in your research. If you publish
papers using DDSCAT 7.2, please cite relevant papers describing the DDA and
its implementation in DDSCAT, e.g.: Draine, B.T. 1988, "The Discrete-Dipole Approximation
and its Application to Interstellar Graphite Grains", Astrophys. J., 333, 848-872 Goodman,
J.J., Draine, B.T., & Flatau,
P.J. 1991, "Application of FFT Techniques to the Discrete Dipole
Approximation", Optics Letters, 16, 1198-1200 Draine, B.T., & Flatau,
P.J. 1994, "Discrete dipole approximation for scattering
calculations", JOSA A, 11, 1491-1499 Draine, B.T., & Flatau,
P.J. 2008, "Discrete-dipole approximation for periodic targets: theory
and tests", JOSA A, 25, 2693-2703 Flatau, P.J., & Draine, B.T.
2012, "Fast near-field calculations in the discrete dipole approximation
on regular rectilinear grids", Optics Express, 20, 1247-1252 Note:
DDSCAT 7.2 has been extensively tested in single-processor mode. However, it
has not been tested with MPI and OpenMP, and it is
possible that some of the changes to the code in the 7.1 -> 7.2 transition might lead to OpenMP
or MPI problems. If you are a user of MPI and/or OpenMP,
please run some test calculations in both single-processor and multiprocessor
mode, and compare results, before doing any "production"
calculations with MPI and/or OpenMP. If you do such
tests, we would appreciate being informed of the outcome. ========================================================= Cosmic Dust Meeting WEBSITE: https://www.cps-jp.org/~dust/
VENUE: CPS (Center for Planetary Science),
Kobe, JAPAN https://www.cps-jp.org/access/ DATE: August 6-10, 2012 OBJECTIVES: This is the fifth
meeting on Cosmic Dust. This series of Cosmic Dust meetings aims at finding a
consensus among experts on the formation and evolution of cosmic dust: where
it comes from and where it goes. The meeting is organized by dust freaks who are very enthusiastic not only to make the goal
achievable but also to establish a dust community across Asian and Oceanian countries for the development of cosmic dust
research worldwide. For this reason, the primary objectives of the meeting
are to bring together professionals who deal with cosmic dust and to provide
an opportunity for participants to develop human relations and interactions
between the participants. SCOPE: All kinds of cosmic dust
such as Intergalactic and interstellar
dust Protoplanetary and debris disk dust Cometary, asteroidal,
interplanetary, and circumplanetary dust Stellar nebular condensates and presolar grains Micrometeorites, meteoroids, and
meteors Regolith particles are the subject of discussion. The
meeting is open for any aspects of dust research by means of different
methods of studies (in-situ and laboratory measurements, astronomical
observations, laboratory and numerical analogue simulations, theoretical modeling, etc.). All dust-related topics, for example,
the formation of molecules and their reactions on and their
desorption from the surface of dust particles, are also welcome.
Publishing the proceedings of this meeting as a special issue of a
peer-reviewed journal is currently being planned, while paper submission to
the proceedings is not obligatory. ADMISSIONS APPLICATION: Please
complete online meeting application at the CPS website in order to attend the
meeting. Because the number of participants shall be limited, the online
application does not guarantee admission to the meeting. Participants will be
determined at the discretion of the SOC and all applicants will be notified
of the admissions decision. Priority will be given to those who contribute to
oral or poster sessions and retain enthusiasm for discussions throughout the
meeting. For further details, please visit the Cosmic Dust website. IMPORTANT DATES: 13 May 2012, Deadline for
Admissions Applications 31 May 2012, Notification of
Admissions Decisions 6-10 August 2012, Cosmic Dust SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
(SOC): Akio Inoue (Osaka Sangyo
University, Japan) Cornelia Jaeger (Friedrich
Schiller University, Germany) Hiroshi Kimura (CPS, Japan)
[Chair] Ludmilla Kolokolova
(University of Maryland, USA) Alexander Krivov
(Friedrich Schiller University, Germany) Aigen Li (University of
Missouri-Columbia, USA) Keiko Nakamura-Messenger (NASA
Johnson Space Center, USA) Tetsuo Yamamoto (CPS/Hokkaido
University, Japan) LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE (LOC): Carsten Guettler
(Kobe University) Akio Inoue (Osaka Sangyo
University) Hiroshi Kimura (CPS) [Chair] Hiroshi Kobayashi (Nagoya
University) Hiroki Senshu
(Chitec/PERC) Aki Takigawa
(The University of Tokyo) Koji Wada (Chitec/PERC) Tetsuo Yamamoto (CPS/Hokkaido
University) CONTACT INFORMATION: Hiroshi Kimura
<dust-inquiries@cps-jp.org> Center for Planetary Science (CPS) Chuo-ku Minatojima Minamimachi 7-1-48 Kobe 650-0047, Japan Fax: +81 78 599 6735 BRIEF HISTORY: The Cosmic Dust
meeting started in 2006 as a session called COSMIC DUST of the 3rd AOGS
(Asia-Oceania Geoscience Society) annual meeting in Singapore. Dust freaks
have kept on organizing the session at subsequent AOGS meetings in South
Korea (2008), India (2010), and Taiwan (2011). The Cosmic Dust series has
been recognized as the most successful session of the AOGS Planetary Sciences
Section. In 2012, the time is ripe for being free from organizing
restrictions on the AOGS meeting. Therefore, the fifth meeting of the Cosmic
Dust series becomes detached, totally independent of any international
conference. The past meetings on Cosmic Dust have been held in a relaxed and
joyful atmosphere. So will be the coming one! ========================================================= See recently
indexed and summarized papers on the optics of particles and dispersions in TPDSci: http://www.tpdsci.com/Sv_.php?list=SvPdo
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