Electromagnetic and Light Scattering by Particles
N e w s l e t t e r
August 2022
Issue 107
Call for Nominations - 2022
Elsevier/JQSRT Awards
Peter C.
Waterman Award
This prestigious
Elsevier/JQSRT young- scientist award is named after Peter C. Waterman (1928 -
2012) whose ground-breaking research has had a dramatic and long-lasting impact
and to a large degree has guided the progress in the disciplines of electromagnetic,
acoustic, and elastic wave scattering by obstacles.
The 2022 Waterman
Award will be competed among outstanding early-career scientists who work on
the theory and applications of Electromagnetic Scattering. The award will be
presented at the 20th Electromagnetic and Light Scattering Conference (ELS-XX).
The conference venue and time will be announced later. The award will consist
of a certificate and monetary prize of 750 USD.
For more details
see https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-quantitative-spectroscopy-and-radiative-transfer/about/awards-winners
Richard M.
Goody Award
This prestigious
Elsevier/JQSRT young-scientist award is named after Richard M. Goody whose
pioneering research has had a profound and long- lasting impact on the
disciplines of atmospheric radiation, remote sensing, and climate change.
The 2022 Goody
Award will be competed among outstanding early-career scientists who work in
the fields of Atmospheric Radiation and Remote Sensing. The award will be
presented at the 20th Electromagnetic and Light Scattering Conference (ELS-XX).
The conference venue and time will be announced later. The award will consist
of a certificate and monetary prize of 750 USD.
For more details
see https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-quantitative-spectroscopy-and-radiative-transfer/about/awards-winners
Anny-Chantal
Levasseur-Regourd (1945-2022)
With great sadness
we are informing the light-scattering community that Anny-Chantal Levasseur-Regourd passed away on
August 1, 2022.
Anny-Chantal
Levasseur-Regourd (ACLR,
as she liked to call herself) combined in her work ground-based and space-based
observations as well as laboratory and numerical simulations to better
understand the physical properties of cometary and interplanetary dust. She was
appointed as a professor of astronomy and space physics at the Universite Pierre et Marie
Curie (Paris VI) in 1985 and became professor emeritus in 2013, combining
teaching activities with the research at the Service d'Aeronomie and, since 2009, LATMOS institute.
In 1977, she applied to the ESA astronaut selection campaign and was the only
woman selected amongst the final participants.
She started her
research with studies of the interplanetary medium and derived the first global
map in intensity and polarization of the zodiacal light, providing constraints
on the local physical properties of the interplanetary dust particles.
ACLR participated
in the international campaign of Halley comet both with observations from the
ground and as the PI of the OPE experiment on-board the European Giotto
spacecraft, which observed the linear polarization in the inner coma of the
comet. Results showed the presence of low-density solid particles and light
scattering mostly by large particles.
She continued her
work on the study of light scattering by irregular particles by developing
facilities in the laboratory and in microgravity (such as PROGRA2, CODAG and
ICAPS-LSU) to simultaneously study the intensity and polarization of aggregated
particles. A reduced version of the ICAPS experiment will soon fly on-board a
TEXUS rocket.
ACLR participated
in the Rosetta mission, focusing on determining the physical properties of the
cometary nucleus and dust particles. She actively participated in the
development of the EnVisS camera,
a multiwavelength polarimetric imager of the ESA Comet Interceptor spacecraft
due to be launched in 2029.
She supervised
seven PhD students. She was particularly enthusiastic about supporting the
recognition and advancement of her female colleagues. Anny-Chantal published
five outreach books on astronomy and gave popular TV lectures. She was the
President of the French Committee for the organization of the International
Year of Astronomy 2009.
Asteroid 6170 is
named Levasseur in her honor. In recognition of her scientific work, she was
appointed Officier de
la Legion d`honneur in
2013 and was awarded the following prizes: prix Thorlet de l`Academie des sciences (1976), prix Glaxo
de vulgarisation scientifique (1982), prix
des Dames de la Societe Astronomique de France
(1986).
Edith Hadamcik
Jeremiee Lasue
Jean-Baptiste
Renard