Electromagnetic and Light Scattering by Particles
N e w s l e t t e r
January 2021
Issue 99
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1) The recording of the online
memorial (that took place last November) is available at https://youtu.be/ag8bts9o_gA ,
it is divided into chapters (based on speakers) to ease navigation. So if you missed (a part of) the memorial or want to
refresh your memory - you're welcome to watch it. The dedicated YouTube channel
- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9e6XD7dCmHdQJT2kW_fKmA -
contains a couple of other videos as well, and we recommend subscribing to it
to be notified of further relevant videos (e.g. special sessions of upcoming
conferences).
2) The photo gallery is available
at https://photos.app.goo.gl/VQLuSG9vdKEV8Mtq7 .
If you have other photos of Michael, please send them to us with a short
description.
3) We have created a memorial
page for Michael at https://www.weremember.com/michael-mishchenko/4f7i .
It has a basic guest-book functionality and links to other resources. The main
idea is to collect memories/stories of Michael from as many people as possible.
You can add your memories yourself by pressing "Add story" - the
platform will ask you to register through one of the provided options
(google, facebook, or account at ancestry.com),
but you can also skip this step and just specify your name (such contributions
will appear online only after moderation). Still, registration is recommended
since you will be automatically notified of new materials on this page.
Although there are known issues with registration from some destinations (e.g.,
from Russia), you can use proxy or VPN to circumvent this. You can also comment
on existing stories - please try it.
Some of you may have contributed memories to mishchenko.appreciation.giss@gmail.com .
We are not aware what has happened with the corresponding e-mails (we have
tried asking relevant people but with no result). So please consider
duplicating these memories to the memorial page. Please also let us know, if
you know of any other resources (links), which should be listed in this page,
or any videos for the YouTube channel.
Maxim Yurkin (yurkin@gmail.com)
and Matthew Berg (mberg81@gmail.com).
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Bremen Zoom Workshop on
Light Scattering 2021
Call for papers
Leibniz-Institut fuer Werkstofforientierte Technologien - IWT, Bremen, Germany
22. + 23. March 2021
Word template for
abstracts. Deadline 1. March. 2021
Topics
T-Matrix Methods
Generalized Multipole Methods
Discrete Dipole Approximation
Particle surface scattering
interaction
Evanescent wave scattering
Near field enhancement
Plasmonics
Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy
in the low loss region
Former Workshops
Nano structures on surfaces 2012
Inverse problems and numerical methods in applications
2012
Light Scattering: Simulation and inversion 2013
Scattering by Aggregates (on Surfaces) 2014
Bremen Workshop on Light Scattering 2015
Bremen Workshop on Light Scattering
2016
Bremen Workshop on Light Scattering
2017
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. March 2021 using this Word template.
Printed proceedings will be published as usual following the
workshop.
Email: thw@iwt.uni-bremen.de
Programme
start at 9.00 on 22.3.2021
end at 17.00 on 23.3.2021
duration for talks 20 mins + 10
mins discussion
Venue via Zoom: Leibniz-Institut fuer Werkstofforientierte Technologien - IWT Badgasteiner Str. 3 28359 Bremen, Germany
Proceedings: The
proceedings and the final program will be sent by email prior to the workshop.
Printed proceedings will be published as usual following the workshop.
Fee: There
will be no fee.
Organizing Committee: Thomas Wriedt, Process and 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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Please, note
that submission of papers to the special issue on "Scattering by Ice
Crystals in the Earth's Atmosphere" https://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing/special_issues/Scatter_Ice_Crystals has been extended until 1st July 2021.
Anthony Baran
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Software news
The new version of ADDA (1.4.0) has been released. Full release notes are given
at https://github.com/adda-team/adda/releases/tag/v1.4.0 ,
the most important changes are summarized below:
* Major new feature: non-cubical
(rectangular cuboid) dipoles. Can lead to drastic acceleration in some cases.
* Automatic testing of ADDA was made much more extensive.
* Remove limitations of grid size dimensions to be even. A monolayer of dipoles
is now possible.
* Many changes to OpenCL and MPI parts, including performance improvements and
use of modern libraries.
* Integration-of-Green's-tensor formulation is now applicable to arbitrarily
small particles.
* New command line option: `-so_buf {no|line|full}` for
manually specifying the buffering of `stdout`.
* Moved to GitHub with a lot of related changes to documentation and scripts.
Several wiki pages were added.
* Added extended explanation to the manual, how to apply decay-rate
enhancements calculated by ADDA in the case when intrinsic losses are
present.
* Improvements to `-near_field` and `pip`
miscellaneous packages.
You are advised to upgrade to a new version, which can be downloaded from
GitHub:
Main source archive (also includes docs, samples, etc.) - https://github.com/adda-team/adda/archive/v1.4.0.zip
Executables for 64-bit Windows: https://github.com/adda-team/adda/releases/download/v1.4.0/adda-1.4.0-win64.zip
You can also get the recent sources and executables directly from the git
repository https://github.com/adda-team/adda, either by
cloning or forking.
Please note that ADDA is an open-source project which development relies on the
community around it. There are many ways to help:
* Using ADDA and advocating its use through publications and conference
presentations
* Active participation in the discussion group - http://groups.google.com/group/adda-discuss ,
in particular, sharing your experience with other users
* Improving wiki pages ( https://github.com/adda-team/adda/wiki )
and other documentation
* Locating bugs and proposing new features for ADDA, using the issue tracker
- https://github.com/adda-team/adda/issues
* Contributing and improving the source code - https://github.com/adda-team/adda/wiki/InstructionCommitters
Maxim Yurkin