April 2019, Issue 90

 

Cosmic Dust meeting, second circular

 

https://www.cps-jp.org/~dust/

 

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!

 

The Climate and Radiation Laboratory at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) seeks a scientist with expertise in shortwave polarized radiative transfer for Earth science applications, and in particular the remote sensing of clouds and aerosols. The scientist will be conducting research which includes, but is not limited to, assessing, enhancing and improving the algorithms and techniques used for the remote sensing of aerosol and cloud properties from satellite, airborne, and ground instruments; studying the polarized radiative signals at solar wavelengths of atmospheric particles and various surfaces; creating simulation tools that mimic the measurements of instruments observing such polarized radiative signals, including versions that can be implemented in atmospheric models. See details at

https://findajob.agu.org/job/8009483/research-physical-scientist-ast-climate-and-radiation-studies/

 

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Dear Colleagues,

 

I am planning to hire a postdoc through my recently funded NSF CAREER grant. The position will primarily focus on light scattering simulations, but will also include evanescent wave scattering and (potentially) holographic microscopy experiments, of complex colloidal particles (ellipsoids, Janus particles, cells). I have allocated 2-years of funding for the position, so the 1-year contract will be renewable.

 

The individual will initially spend a few weeks at the beginning of the postdoc with my 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 of Modern Optics. We are using these simulations to compare with experiments run in my lab of scattering from ellipsoidal and composite (i.e. Janus) particles.

 

Note that our group recently moved into a new facility, a combined Soft Materials and Complex Fluids Lab at CSU. This facility, along with our neighbors CWRU, Akron, Kent State, and NASA Glenn, make NE Ohio a great place for complex fluids, colloids, and soft matter research! I have found colleagues at these neighboring institutions to be collegial and welcoming.

 

The official advertisement should be available in a few weeks. However, please feel free to let your students and colleagues know about this opportunity. Given the importance of this project, the individual will have a substantial opportunity to be productive during her/his postdoc.

 

Christopher Wirth

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

wirthlab.org