January 2020

Issue 95

AOGS meeting, Session PS13

Polarization in the Solar System and Beyond

AOGS 17th Annual Meeting will be held on 28 Jun to 4 Jul 2020 in Sono Belle Vivaldi Park, Hongcheon, South Korea

Description of session PS13:

Polarimetry is a currently enjoying a rejuvenation in various astronomical applications. As a complementary techniques to imaging and spectroscopy, polarization allows (i) the investigation of scattering properties of variety of media ranging from planetary atmospheres, comets, small bodies (planetary satellites, asteroids, Kuiper Belt objects, etc.); (ii) detection and characterization of exoplanets, brown dwarfs, star and planet forming regions; (iii) solar total solar eclipses to study the solar coronal structures and (iv) characterization of magnetic fields and search for optically active molecules in a search for habitability elsewhere than our earth. We invite contributions from observers, modelers, laboratory measurements, instrument designers and missions. We anticipate half to one day of presentations including oral and poster contributions.

Abstract deadline is January 21, 2020.

Look forward to seeing you there,

Conveners

Padma A Yanamandra-Fisher (Space Science Institute, United States)

Masateru Ishiguro (Seoul National University, Korea, South)

Sungsoo Kim (Kyung Hee University, Korea, South)

Ludmilla Kolokolova (University of Maryland, United States)

Bremen Workshop on Light Scattering 2020, CALL FOR PAPERS

https://scattport.org/

Leibniz-Institut fuer Werkstofforientierte Technologien - IWT, Bremen, Germany 16. + 17. March 2020

Abstract deadline 1. Feb. 2020

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 four page abstract to one of the organizers by 1. Feb. 2020 using the provided Word template.

Email: thw@iwt.uni-bremen.de

Programme

start at 9.00 on 16.3.2020

end at 17.00 on 17.3.2020

duration for talks 20 mins + 10 mins discussion

There will be a preregistration meeting in Bremen city center on Sunday 15.3.2020 at about 19:00.

Venue: Leibniz-Institut fuer Werkstofforientierte Technologien (IWT), 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.

Organizing Committee

Thomas Wriedt, Process & Chemical Engineering, Leibniz-Institut fuer Werkstofforientierte Technologien - IWT, Bremen, Germany

Yuri Eremin, Applied Mathematics and Computer Science Faculty, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

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Cosmic Dust Meeting

WEBSITE: https://www.cps-jp.org/~dust/
VENUE: Kitakyushu International Conference Center 3-9-30 Asano, Kokurakita-ku, Kitakyushu-shi Fukuoka 802-0001 JAPAN
https://goo.gl/maps/uMsfBRsNfraScS9w7
DATE: Monday, August 17 - Friday, August 21, 2020

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 such as
intergalactic dust
circumnuclear dust
interstellar dust
proto planetary disk dust
debris disk dust
cometary dust
interplanetary dust
circumplanetary dust
stellar nebular condensates
presolar grains
micrometeorites
meteoroids
meteors
regolith particles
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
space missions and instrumentation for measurements of particulates

NOTES ON THE PLACE AND THE DATE This time the meeting will be held on the island of Kyushu for the first time, the third largest island of Japan five main islands famous for world's most active volcanoes (https://www.jma.go.jp/en/volcano/map_6.html). Kitakyushu city is the gateway to the Kyushu island from the main land of Honshu, separated only by 650 m (https://www.city.kitakyushu.lg.jp/english/index.html). It is also known as one of the UNESCO World Heritage sites as Japan Meiji Industrial Revolution (https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1484/gallery/&index=13&maxrows=12). The date is chosen to lie between the 2020 Summer Olympics on Jul. 24-Aug. 9 (https://www.olympic.org/tokyo-2020) and the 2020 Summer Paralympics on Aug. 25-Sep. 6 (https://www.paralympic.org/tokyo-2020) in Tokyo.

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, 2020, 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, 2020. 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, 2020. The registration fee for those who complete admissions application on and after April 25, 2020 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
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00320633/149

IMPORTANT DATES:
24 April 2020, Deadline for Early-Bird Application
8 May 2020, Deadline for Admissions Application
31 May 2020, Notification of Admissions Decision
17-21 August 2020, 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)
Hiroki Senshu (Chitec/PERC, Japan)

LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE (LOC):
Hiroki Chihara (Osaka Sangyo University)
Takayuki Hirai (Chitec/PERC)
Hidehiro Kaneda (Nagoya University)
Hiroshi Kimura (Chitec/PERC)
Hiroshi Kobayashi (Nagoya University)
Takaya Nozawa (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan)
Takaya Okamoto (ISAS/JAXA, Japan)
Tomomi Omura (Nagoya University)
Takafumi Ootsubo (ISAS/JAXA)
Hiroki Senshu (Chitec/PERC) [Chair]
Takashi Shimonishi (Niigata University)
Koji Wada (Chitec/PERC)

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!