August 2014
Issue 63
Meetings
ELECTROMAGNETIC AND LIGHT SCATTERING XV
The 15th Electromagnetic and Light
Scattering Conference will be held in
Leipzig, Germany from 21 to 26 of June 2015. ELS-XV will build on the
remarkable success of the previous ELS conferences held in Amsterdam, Helsinki,
New York, Vigo, Halifax, Gainesville, Bremen, Salobrena, St. Petersburg, Bodrum, Hatfield, Helsinki, Taormina, and Lille. The
main objective of the conference is to bring together scientists and engineers
studying various aspects of light scattering and to provide a relaxed
atmosphere for in-depth discussions of theoretical advances, measurements, and
applications.
ELS-XV will support the United Nations
Year of Light, the 150th anniversary of Maxwell`s electromagnetics. Maxwell`s
paper ``A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field`` was published in 1865
and has widely been acknowledged as one of the supreme achievements in the
history of science.
With a history going back almost 1,000
years, Leipzig is famous as a city of culture and trade, history and music. It
is the site of the Peaceful Revolution of 1989. Passageways and exhibition
halls evoke the city's tradition as a center for trade fairs, which goes back
over many centuries. Significant artists worked here, like Johann Sebastian
Bach, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy,
Robert and Clara Schumann. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, who was a student in
Leipzig, named the City Little Paris.
For more details and regular updates
please check the conference website http://www.els-xv-2015.net/imprint.html
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FIVE ELSEVIER AWARDS ON ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING,
ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION, AND REMOTE SENSING
There will be 5 Elsevier awards presented
at ELS-XV:
The 3rd
Hendrik C. van de Hulst
Award for fundamental lifetime contributions to the discipline of
electromagnetic scattering.
The
2014 and 2015 Peter C. Waterman Awards presented to young scientists in the
category of electromagnetic scattering.
The
2014 and 2015 Richard M. Goody Awards presented to young scientists in the
category of atmospheric radiation and remote sensing.
The
official announcements can be found at http://www.els-xv-2015.net/els-xv-2015_call_for_nominations.pdf
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AGU Fall
Meeting, San Francisco, December 15-19, 2014 http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2014/
[fallmeeting.agu.org]
Please,
submit your abstracts to the session
Polarimetry as
an invaluable tool to study the Solar System Exoplanets, Brown Dwarfs and Disks
Deadline
for abstract submission
: 6
August 2014, 23:59 EDT/03:59 +1 GMT
Student
and Early Career Travel Grants are now available for those who need financial
assistance getting to the meeting. Application Deadline: 13 August.
Session Description: Polarimetry is a
powerful tool providing a wealth of information about various solar system
objects (e.g., planetary atmospheres; atmosphereless
objects, comets, dust, asteroids, ring systems; etc.); exoplanets, circumstellar disks, brown dwarfs; and biological markers
for habitability that cannot be obtained by traditional photometric and
spectroscopic observations. The session is open to invited and contributed oral
and poster papers about recent observational results; advances in vector
radiative transfer theory (including non-sphericity
effects on single scattering); laboratory measurements; instrumental
developments for imaging and spectropolarimeters
to be included in ground-based facilities and space missions. Polarization
across the entire electromagnetic spectrum is also included.
Primary
Convener: Padma A Yanamandra-Fisher, padma@spacescience.org
Co-Conveners:
Chester Maleszewski,
Anny-Chantal Levasseur-Regourd,
Ludmilla Kolokolova
New Book
Scattering by Aggregates on Surfaces
Series: ScattPort Series, Vol. 1
Wriedt, Thomas; Eremin, Yuri (Eds.) epubli, Berlin 2014, Softcover 31,59Euro, ISBN:9783844299441
See recently indexed and summarized papers on the optics of particles and dispersions in TPDSci: http://www.tpdsci.com/Sv_.phplist=SvPdo