February 2011      ISSUE 37

Meetings

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to inform you that the extended abstract submission for the ELS XIII conference is now open. The conference articles will be published on a special issue of the open access journal AAPP (Atti dell’Accademia Peloritana dei Pericolanti - Classe di Scienze Fisiche, Matematiche e Naturali).  You can find information about the extended abstract preparation and submission at http://elsxiii.unime.it . Please note that we extended the submission deadline to March the 7th.

In the conference web page http://elsxiii.unime.it    the conference registration and accommodation forms are now also available. Please make sure that you register as soon as possible because hotel rooms availability is limited.

Best regards,

The Local Organizing Committee

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Workshop "Nano structures on surfaces and light scattering"

Institut fuer Werkstofftechnik, IWT, Bremen, 24 - 25 March, 2011

http://www.scattport.org/index.php/conferences-menu/446-workshop-nano-structures-on-surfaces-

Light scattering by nano structures or nano particles is of interest in various kinds of applications such as scanning near-field optical microscopy (SNOM), surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS), defect characterization,  electron-energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS) and evanescent wave scattering.

At the workshop we like to discus the latest theoretical approaches and computational tools to simulate light scattering by structures or particles on plane interfaces taking into account particle – surface scattering interaction. The latest findings in the field will be presented and discussed.

Previous Workshops

    DDA Workshop 2007

    Null-Field Method 2008

    Near field computation 2010

Topics

    Evanescent wave scattering

    Program validation

    Multiple scattering

    Inverse problems

    Measurement results

If you are interested to participate in the workshop please send an email to register. If you like to present a talk or present some input for discussion please send a two to four page abstract  to one of the organizers as soon as possible using this Word template.

Preliminary list of talks

    Yuri Eremin:  TBD  

    V. L. Y. Loke and M. P. Mengüç:  Discrete dipole approximation with surface interaction (DDA-SI) toolbox for MATLAB - applied to nanostructures on planar substrates

    Christian Matyssek:  The T-Matrix-Method in Electron Energy Loss Spectra (EELS) Simulations

Venue

   IWT, Institut fuer Werkstofftechnik Room FZB1250

Badgasteiner Str. 3

   28359 Bremen

Germany

Proceedings: The proceedings and the final program will be sent by email prior to the workshop.

Fee: There will be no fee.

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Lasers and Interactions with Particles (LIP), Optical Particle Characterization

The 9th-LIP conference; Rouen, France, 26th to 30th March 2012.

Following the conferences on Optical Particle Sizing and on Optical Particle Characterization (Rouen, France : 1987; Phoenix, USA : 1990; Yokohama, Japan : 1993; Nürnberg, Germany : 1995; Minneapolis, USA : 1998; Brighton, England, 2001; Kyoto, Japan : 2004; Graz, Austria : 2007),  we are pleased to announce the continuation of the series in an up-to-dated format.

The conference will be dedicated to the study of interactions between laser beams and particles, from theory to practice, encompassing in particular the following topics:     

optical particle sizing and characterization,

internal fields and morphology-dependent-resonances,

mechanical effects of light,

the use of pulsed lasers,

multiple scattering,

and so on.

The first flyer and the opening of a website is planned for the beginning of the year 2011.

Interested people may however already contact the local chairs : gouesbet@coria.fr  and grehan@coria.fr

See more details here.

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New Book

    G. Gouesbet and G.Grehan “Generalized Lorenz-Mie theories” Springer

Table of Contents:

Background in Maxwell’s Electromagnetism and Maxwell’s Equations.

  Resolution of Special Maxwell‘s Equations.

Generalized Lorenz-Mie Theories in the Strict Sense, and other GLMTs.

  Gaussian Beams, and Other Beams.- Finite Series.-

Special Cases of Axisymmetric and Gaussian Beams.

The Localized Approximation and Localized Beam Models.

Applications, and Miscellaneous Issues.- Conclusion.

See more at http://www.springer.com/physics/optics+%26+lasers/book/978-3-642-17193-2

New Light-Scattering Websites

LISA  

Database of light scattering properties of aggregates  https://www.cps-jp.org/~lisa/

Contains models of aggregates and their computed light-scattering characteristics. Managed by Hiroshi Kimura.

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Recent Papers

See  recently indexed and summarized papers on the optics of particles and dispersions in TPDSci:

http://www.tpdsci.com/Sv_.php?list=SvPdo (Notice a change in the website address!! Update your bookmarks!!)