April 2019, Issue 90
Cosmic
Dust meeting, second circular
VENUE: Chiba Institute of Technology, Tsudanuma
2-17-1, Narashino Chiba 275-0016 JAPAN
DATE: Monday, August 12 - Friday, August 16, 2019
IMPORTANT DATES:
24 April 2019,
Deadline for Early-Bird Application
8 May 2019, Deadline
for Admissions Application
31 May 2019,
Notification of Admissions Decision
12-16 August 2019,
Cosmic Dust
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 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, e.g., 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; space missions and instrumentation for measurements of particulates.
CONFIRMED INVITED
SPEAKERS:
Julie Brisset (Univ. of Central Florida, USA) ``Levitating dust
clouds on orbital platforms: pathways to support the experimental calibration
of interstellar dust models``
Cesare Cecchi-Pestellini (INAF-Osservatorio
Astronomico di Palermo, Italy) ``PAHs, dust and
interstellar extinction modeling``
Christine H. Chen (STScI, USA) ``Characterizing dusty debris with the Gemini
Planet Imager''
Lia Corrales
(Michigan Univ., USA) ``Mineralogy of interstellar dust with high resolution
X-ray spectroscopy''
John H. Debes (STScI, USA) ``Challenges
for understanding dust in planetary systems''
Seb F. Hoenig (Univ. of Southampton, UK) ``Tori, disks, and winds:
the infrared emission in active galactic nuclei''
Takafumi Ootsubo
(ISAS/JAXA, Japan) ``Cometary dust: A perspective from
mid-infrared spectroscopy''
Eric Pantin (CEA, France) ``Protoplanetary and debris disks:
Polarimetric studies``
ADMISSIONS
APPLICATION: Please complete online meeting application at the CPS website in
order to attend the meeting. The deadline for the application is May 8, 2019,
11:59 p.m. Japan Standard Time (UTC+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, 2019. 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 (ca. $100) is available for those who complete
both admissions application and abstract submission by April 24, 2019. The
registration fee for those who complete admissions application on and after May
25, 2019 is 15,000 JPY (ca. $150). While no payment is required at the time of
admissions application and abstract submission, the registration fee should be
paid once admittance is guaranteed. No matter what circumstances are specified,
the registration fee will not be waived. The payment of the registration fee
permits free admission to all scientific sessions, daily coffee breaks, a
banquet, and an excursion.
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
SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZING
COMMITTEE (SOC):
Jean-Charles Augereau (IPAG, France)
Takayuki Hirai (Chitec/PERC)
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)
LOCAL ORGANIZING
COMMITTEE (LOC):
Takayuki Hirai
[Chair], Hiroshi Kimura, Koji Wada, Hiroki, Senshu (Chitec/PERC)
Hiroki Chihara (Osaka Sangyo University)
Hiroshi Kobayashi,
Tomomi Omura, Hidehiro Kaneda (Nagoya
University)
Takaya Nozawa (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan)
Takaya Okamoto, Takafumi Ootsubo (ISAS/JAXA)
Takashi Shimonishi, Ryo Tazaki (Tohoku
University)
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Hiroshi Kimura 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 conferences and professional associations. The past meetings on
Cosmic Dust have been held in a relaxed and joyful atmosphere. So will be the
coming one!
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APOLO-2019
APOLO-2019 is the 2nd
Conference on "Advancement of POLarimetric
Observations: instruments, calibration, and improved aerosol and cloud
retrievals that will take place
on 4-8 November 2019 in Lille, France
The submission of the
abstracts for APOLO-2019 is now open. All information can be found at:
http://www-loa.univ-lille1.fr/workshops/APOLO-2019/
We will be delighted
to see you among speakers and attendees of APOLO-2019.
APOLO Conveners
Committee: Oleg Dubovik, Zhengqiang
Li, Michael Mishchenko, Jerome Riedi, Pierre Tabary, Hal Maring, Bojan Bojkov
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Jobs!
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Dear Colleagues,
I am planning to hire
a postdoc through my recently funded NSF CAREER grant. The position will primarily
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The individual will
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collaborator, Thomas Wriedt, at the Institute of
Powder and
Particle
Measurement in Bremen, Germany to learn about the T-Matrix method and how to
run the simulations, which are described in a forthcoming paper in the Journal
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Note that our group
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The official
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Chemical and
Biomedical Engineering Department
Washkewicz College of
Engineering
Cleveland State
University
2121 Euclid Ave., FH
438
Cleveland, OH 44115
(P) 216-687-9225
(F) 216-687-9220
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