Electromagnetic and Light Scattering by Particles N e w s l e t t e r January 2010 Issue 33
	Meetings International conference on ELECTROMAGNETIC AND LIGHT SCATTERING XII ELS XII June 28 - July 2, 2010 Helsinki, Finland CALL FOR ABSTRACTS IS OPEN! The ELS'XII Call for Abstracts (that is, four-page articles) is now open at http://www.helsinki.fi/els/ ELS'XII Scientific Organizing Committee -------------------------------------------- With Best Regards, ELS-LOC / Antti Penttila ========================================================================= CALL FOR AOGS 2010 ABSTRACTS: COSMIC DUST: ITS FORMATION AND EVOLUTION You are cordially invited to attend Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS) Meeting that will be held on July 5-9, 2010 in Hyderabad, India and submit your abstracts to Session PS01 “Cosmic Dust: its Formation and Evolution.” Abstract deadline: 1 March 2010 Registration Fee Waiver Application deadline: 1 March 2010 Session URL: http://www.asiaoceania.org/aogs2010/mars/confSessionView.asp?sID=16 Other sessions and general information about the AOGS meeting see at http://www.asiaoceania.org/aogs2010/ Description: A primary goal of this session is to find a consensus among experts in the formation and evolution of cosmic dust: where it comes from and where it goes. All kinds of cosmic dust such as intergalactic dust, interstellar dust, circumstellar dust, cometary dust, asteroidal dust, interplanetary dust, circumplanetary dust, stellar nebular condensates, presolar grains, micrometeorites, meteoroids, meteors, and regolith particles are the subject of discussion. The session will address interrelation between them and perceptions on the dust alteration through a variety of processing. This includes different methods of its determination (in-situ and laboratory measurements, astronomical observations, laboratory and numerical analogue simulations, theoretical modeling, etc.). However, the session is open for any other aspects of dust research. Session Conveners: Hiroshi Kimura, Misato Fukagawa, Keiko, Nakamura-Messenger, Ludmilla Kolokolova, Aigen Li, Cornelia Jaeger ======================================================================================= D U S T Y   V I S I O N S   2 0 1 0 A workshop on Dust Spectroscopy and Dust Astronomy to be held from 14 to 16 July 2010 in Goettingen, Germany Objectives: In a workshop style we want to discuss the present state and new venues in cosmic dust research. There are exciting new results from Cassini, Stardust, Spitzer, Herschel and other space missions that stimulate new ideas and theories. Major topics of the workshop will include interstellar dust, circumplanetary dust including  dusty rings and space debris, presolar and cometary dust, dust in interplanetary space including Kuiper belt dust, dusty plasmas, dust in extrasolar dust rings, lunar dust, as well as laboratory measurements, instrumentation and space missions. In situ and observational results, theoretical models, and the outcome of laboratory experiments will be discussed and their implications for future space missions will be highlighted. Of special emphasis is cosmochemistry and compositional analysis of dust, also in view of upcoming lunar and other space missions presently under study (e.g. EJSM, LEO, LADEE). The meeting will be held at the conference facilities of the University of Goettingen which are located at the former University Observatory. The observatory is a beautifully renovated 200 years old historical building (http://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/96209.html). It is conveniently  located within walking distance of the city center of Goettingen. Goettingen is a two-hours train ride from Bremen where the COSPAR Scientific Assembly takes place from 18 to 25 July 2010, the week after the Dusty Visions workshop. Please indicate, as soon as possible, your interest to participate by email to dv2010@mpi-hd.mpg.de . Deadline for abstract submission is 15 May 2010. Scientific Organizing Committee (presently confirmed): Juergen Blum (Universitaet Braunschweig), Cecile Engrand (CSNSM CNRS-Univ. Paris Sud)  Simon Green (Open University, Milton Keynes), Amara Graps (SwRI Boulder), Eberhard Gruen (MPIK Heidelberg & LASP, Boulder),  Mihaly Horanyi (LASP & Univ. of Colorado, Boulder),  Alexander Krivov (Universitaet Jena) Harald Krueger (MPS Katlenburg-Lindau), Juergen Schmidt (Universitaet Potsdam), Ralf Srama (MPIK Heidelberg) Local Host: Harald Krueger (krueger@mps.mpg.de),  Max-Planck-Institut fuer Sonnensystemforschung, Katlenburg-Lindau The meeting web page will become available soon: http://www.mpi-hd.mpg.de/dustgroup/ Recent Papers See recently indexed and summarized papers on the optics of particles and dispersions in TPDSci: http://www.tpdsci.com/Lsv/Sv_.php?list=SvPdo The light-scattering newsletter is made on the basis of the information received from the subscribers. 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