Electromagnetic and Light Scattering by Particles
N e w s l e t t e r
October 2020
Issue 98
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We bring your attention to the on-line memorial to remember
Dr. Michael I. Mishchenko, which will take place on
November 6 (Friday) at 11:00 New York time (16:00 UTC). Please join and help us
to make it a memorable event. The memorial will take place via the Zoom
platform (instructions below) with live streaming on YouTube. The corresponding
links for both platforms will be sent by e-mail to the participants one day
before the event (and repeated one hour before the start). All participants
must register through the form https://forms.yandex.com/u/5f64914d01c7680384359aac/ or https://forms.gle/guw3zQLZDzgmfZhD6 (please,
register only at one of the sites); the links will be sent only to those who
register. Afterwards, the recording of the event will be made publicly
available.
The memorial will last 2-3 hours. It will start with short
speeches of family members and friends (the list will be announced later)
followed by a free-microphone part, where any participant may contribute. If
you wish to do the latter, please indicate it on the registration form. In case
you cannot participate live, you may contribute a short
recorded video (2-3 minutes) to be shared on the YouTube channel after the
event. Please send it to Maxim Yurkin (yurkin@gmail.com).
If you have photos of Michael, please send them to Ludmilla
Kolokolova (lkolokol@umd.edu) together with short descriptions
(captions). We will make them publicly available as a slide show or on-line
gallery after the event. If you wish to show a couple of photos during your
speech, you can do it through Share Screen function of Zoom.
Technical instructions on using Zoom.
If you used Zoom before, then no technical issues should aise. If not, we recommend spending some time studying it
before the meeting. Joining the meeting is described at https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362193-Joining-a-meeting . You can either install the
application on any device (recommended) or connect directly through the browser
(this should be possible even if Zoom is banned in your organization). Please
specify your real name, so it will be visible during the event (especially if
you want to provide voice or chat input).
Participant microphones will be muted by default and can be
unmuted only by organizers. You may request the latter during the
free-microphone part by raising your hand (a special button below the list of
participants). We recommend that you turn on your camera in Zoom, at least when
you are giving a speech. Zoom allows you to replace the background behind you
by arbitrary image, if you wish.You
can use chat in Zoom throughout the whole event - it is possible to send
messages to all or to specific participants. If you prefer to watch the event
through YouTube, you will not be able to provide input except for the chat at
YouTube, but the latter is not synchronized with the Zoom chat.
Finally, you can also use Zoom beforehand to record a video if you
cannot participate live - see https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362473-Local-recording (start a conference with yourself as
a single participant).
If you have any technical questions about using Zoom or recording
video, please contact Matthew Berg (mberg81@gmail.com) or Maxim Yurkin
(yurkin@gmail.com). Do the same if you have not received a
Zoom link by 12 hours before the event.
Since no single event is sufficient to describe Michael�s
legacy in different communities, we plan a series of various means to achieve
this goal. While the online memorial will focus on personal aspects and
interactions with other people, his profound scientific contributions will be
discussed at the ELS and APOLLO conferences next year.
Please distribute this announcement to anybody, who might be
interested.
If you have any questions, please contact Pinar Menguc (mpmenguc@gmail.com).
On behalf of the organizational committee:
Matthew Berg, Brian Cairns, Jacek Сhowdhary,
Оleg Dubovik Ludmilla
Kolokolova, Pinar Menguc (chair), Hans Moosmuller, Gorden Videen, Ping Yang, Maxim Yurkin
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Special issue
I would like to
bring your attention to a Special Issue for Remote Sensing on
"Scattering by Ice Crystals in the Earth's Atmosphere" that I am
acting as a guest editor for.
Details about the
Special Issue can be found here: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing/special_issues/Scatter_Ice_Crystal
Kind regards,
Anthony Baran
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New codes
Stuart Hawkins is
pleased to announce the release of MieSolver,
a Matlab software for simulating wave
scattering by a configuration of one or more nonidentical circular cylinders.
Features of MieSolver include
- arbitrary number
of nonidentical circular cylinders
- cylinders with
an arbitrary number of layers
- cylinders with
opaque or penetrable cores
- cores with soft,
hard and impedance boundary conditions
- a simple
object-oriented interface
For examples and MieSolver code please visit http://www.miesolver.org
For more details
about the algorithm and extensive numerical results please see the accompanying
ACM-TOMS paper https://doi.org/10.1145/3381537