October 2017
Issue 80
Job
Announcement (University of Potsdam, Germany)
Young, modern, and research oriented... the
University of Potsdam has firmly established itself within the scientific
landscape since its founding in 1991. Nationally and internationally renowned
scientists teach and perform research here at Brandenburg largest university.
The University of Potsdam is successful in acquiring third-party funds,
delivers outstanding performance in technology and knowledge transfer, and has
a very service-oriented administration. With about 20,000 students studying at
three campuses - Am Neuen Palais,
Griebnitzsee and Golm - the
University of Potsdam is a prominent economic factor and engine of development
for the region. The University of Potsdam has a total of about 2,750 faculty
and staff members and is located in one of Germany most scenic areas. innoFSPEC Potsdam, the Innovation
Centre (ZIK) for fibre-based Spectroscopy and
Sensing, is a joint initiative of the Physical Chemistry Group at the
University of Potsdam (UPPC) and the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam
(AIP). Subject to the grant approval decision UPPC invites applications for:
2 Postdoctoral Scientist/Wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in
(40 hours per week = 100 %) or PhD Student /Doktorand/in
(20 up to 26,7 hours per week 50-67 %) positions
Requisition No.: 157/2017
The salary is determined by the collective
bargaining agreement for public employees in Germany (TV-L 13 Ost). These are temporary positions up to 3 years.
innoFSPEC has set out to explore new frontiers in
fiber-optical chemical sensing and multichannel spectroscopy. innoFSPEC provides excellent
experimental facilities in a thriving interdisciplinary environment. Successful
candidates will join the Research Group Innovative
Fiber-Optical Sensing as soon as possible. The project will focus on
the experimental analysis of optical properties of highly scattering and polydis-perse liquid dispersions consisting of particles or
droplets. More details about the ZIK innoFSPEC
can be found under www.innofspec.de .
Candidates should have a Diploma, Master
or PhD in chemistry (Chemie), physics (Physik), applied mathematics (Angewandte
Mathematik), engineering (Inge-nieurswissenschaften),
or a related discipline, including experience in one or more of the following
fields:
Laser spectroscopy and optical sensing
Light scattering
Fibre-optical instrumentation and photonics
Radio frequency electronics
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12th
International conference series on LASER-LIGHT AND INTERACTIONS WITH PARTICLES
(LIP)
March
5th-9th, 2018, in College Station, Texas, https: https://atmo.tamu.edu/lip2018
The committees of the conference series on
"Laser-light and Interactions with Particles" are pleased to inform
you that the 12th edition of the LIP conference will be held on March 5th-9th,
2018, in College Station, Texas. Abstract submission opened on August 14th,
2017.
The conference will be focused on interactions between
laser beams and particles, from theories to applications, encompassing in
particular the following topics: far-field scattering, beam shape description,
time-resolved scattering, mechanical effects of light, multiple scattering
in dense media, complicated particle morphologies (overall shapes, micro-scale
textures, and compositions), near fields and
morphology-dependent-resonances, optical particle sizing and
characterization methods, and more.
Applications may range from multiphase flow
characterization to aerosol science and atmospheric environment,
biomedical optical engineering, remote manipulation of objects, plasma and soft
matter physics or quantum electrodynamics in cavities. In addition, papers
dealing with acoustical and quantum beams (scalar waves) however presenting
significant enough correlations with the main issues of the conference will
also be welcome.
A topical issue of the Journal of Quantitative
Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer (JQSRT) is also scheduled on the main
topics of the LIP-2018.
Note that the LIP-2018 conference will be organized in
parallel with the Electromagnetic and Light Scattering Conference (ELS-XVII)
with four LIP-ELS joint plenary sessions on March 5th, 2018 for several keynote
presentations.
More information on the abstract submission process
can be found under: https://sites.google.com/a/tamu.edu/lip2018/authors/abstract-submission
More information on the registration can be found
under: https://sites.google.com/a/tamu.edu/lip2018/registration
The direct link to the registration portal is the
following: https://events.tamu.edu/EmsRegics/LIP2018
Note that the LIP-2018 conference will be organized in
parallel with the Electromagnetic and Light Scattering Conference (ELS-XVII)
and the registration process for both ELS and LIP participants is identical. If
you have any questions regarding the registration process, please send your
inquiry to pstegmann (at) tamu.edu
Lastly, the organizing committee would like to
strongly encourage all prospective attendants to BOOK YOUR HOTEL NOW, even if
your attendance of the conference is not sure yet, as the NCAA Track and Field
Championships will take place at the same time as the conference. There is no
penalty for cancelling a hotel reservation until two days before arrival.
Suggestions for hotels for conference participants can
be found here: https://sites.google.com/a/tamu.edu/lip2018/practial/accommodation
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Cosmic
Dust https://www.cps-jp.org/~dust/
VENUE:
Sagamihara
Campus of JAXA Institute of Space and Astronautical
Science 3-1-1 Yoshinodai,
Chuo-ku Sagamihara 252-5210 JAPAN
The campus is located in Sagamihara city, not far from
Hakone at the foot of Mt. Fuji, and easy to access sightseeing places such as
Yokohama and Kamakura, an ancient capital city.
DATE: Monday, August 13 - Friday, August 17,
2018
OBJECTIVES: 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 every scientifically relevant
discipline for the development of cosmic dust research. For this reason, the
primary objective of the meeting is to bring together professionals who deal
with cosmic dust as well as provide an opportunity for participants to develop
interpersonal relationships and scientific interactions among themselves.
SCOPE: All kinds of cosmic dust (intergalactic dust, circumnuclear dust, interstellar dust, protoplanetary disk
dust, debris disk dust, cometary dust, interplanetary dust, circumplanetary
dust, stellar nebular condensates, presolar grains,
micrometeorites, meteoroids, meteors, regolith particles, and planetary
aerosols) 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 simulations,
theoretical modeling, data analyses, etc.). Also welcome are papers on
dust-related topics, for example: the formation of molecules and their
reactions on and their desorption from the surface of
a solid substance; light scattering by non-spherical particles and particulate
surfaces; and space missions and instrumentation for measurements of
particulates.
ADMISSIONS
APPLICATION: Please complete online
meeting application at the CPS website in order to attend the meeting. The
deadline for the application is May 13, 2018, 11:59 p.m. Japan Standard Time
(GMT+09:00). Because the number of participants is limited to a maximum of 50,
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 by May 31, 2018. Priority will be
given to those who contribute oral or poster sessions and retain enthusiasm for
discussions throughout the meeting. For further details, please visit the
Cosmic Dust website https://www.cps-jp.org/~dust/Application.html
REGISTRATION
FEE: The early bird rate of 10,000
JPY is available for those who complete both admissions application and
abstract submission by April 30, 2018. The registration fee for those who
complete admissions application on and after May 1, 2018 is 15,000 JPY. While
no payment is required at the time of admissions application and abstract
submission, the registration fee should be paid by cash on arrival at the
venue. No matter what circumstances are specified, the registration fee will
not be waived.
BEST POSTER
AWARD: The best poster award will be
given to the most excellent content and presentation of a poster at the Cosmic
Dust meeting, although higher priorities are given to posters by students and
junior scientists. The award winner will be announced in the closing minutes of
the meeting.
PROCEEDINGS: The proceedings of the meeting is planned to be
published as a special issue of original papers (or in exceptional cases,
review articles from invited speakers) in a peer-reviewed journal. All
participants are strongly encouraged to publish a paper in this special issue
of the journal, although paper submission to the proceedings is not obligatory.
In recent
years, the proceedings were published in Planetary and
Space Science:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00320633/100
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00320633/116
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00320633/133
IMPORTANT
DATES:
30 April
2018, Deadline for Early-Bird Application
13 May 2018,
Deadline for Admissions Application
31 May 2018,
Notification of Admissions Decision
13-17 August
2018, Cosmic Dust
SCIENTIFIC
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE (SOC): Jean-Charles
Augereau (IPAG, France), Cornelia Jaeger (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Germany), Hidehiro Kaneda
(Nagoya University, Japan), Hiroshi Kimura (Chitec/PERC,
Japan) [Chair], Ludmilla Kolokolova
(University of Maryland, USA), Aigen Li (University
of Missouri-Columbia, USA), Takafumi Ootsubo (ISAS/JAXA,
Japan)
LOCAL
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE (LOC): Hiroki Chihara (Osaka Sangyo University), Takayuki Hirai
(JAXA/CAC), Hidehiro Kaneda (Nagoya University),
Hiroshi Kimura (Chitec/PERC), Hiroshi Kobayashi
(Nagoya University), Takaya Nozawa (National
Astronomical Observatory of Japan), Tomomi Omura
(Kobe University), Takafumi Ootsubo
(ISAS/JAXA, Japan) [Chair], Hiroki Senshu (Chitec/PERC), Takashi Shimonishi (Tohoku University), Ryo Tazaki
(Tohoku University), Koji Wada (Chitec/PERC), Shigeji Wakita (National
Astronomical Observatory of Japan)
CONTACT INFORMATION: dust-inquiries@cps-jp.org
Please mind that any email attachment will be blocked.
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 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 was ripe to be free from organizing restrictions on the AOGS meeting.
From that time on, the Cosmic Dust meeting is 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!