March 2012 ISSUE 46
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
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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.]
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.
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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!