Issue 1, June 2002

New book:

"Scattering, Absorption, and Emission of Light by Small Particles"

by M.I. Mishchenko, L. D. Travis, and A. A. Lacis

(Cambridge University Press)

For a limited time it is available for only $63 at http://www.booksmillion.com/ .

For information and an updated list of corrections, please visit the website http://www.giss.nasa.gov/~crmim/books.html

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Congratulations to Timo Nousiainen, new Ph.D. in light scattering!

Thesis title: Light scattering by nonspherical atmospheric particles (see the abstract)

Adviser: Karri Muinonen

Defended on June 1, 2002; University of Helsinki, Finland

Abstract and the introduction are available at http://ethesis.helsinki.fi/julkaisut/mat/fysik/vk/nousiainen/

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Announcements:

Paper is needed: Gustav Mie “Contributions to the optics of turbid media, especially colloidal metal suspensions.” English translation no. 79-21946, National Translation Center, John Crerar Library, Chicago, IL 60616, USA Please send an email if you could provide a paper copy of this paper to Thomas Wriedt thw@iwt.uni-bremen.de

Some classic papers on light scattering theory by Clebsch, Lorenz, Mie, Debye have recently been included in the Classic Papers section of the List of Electromagnetic Scattering Programs: http://www.T-matrix.de

Ideas or pdf files for further papers in the Classic Papers section are welcome.

Some chapters of the recent book E.R. Pike, P.C. Sabatier ( Eds.): Scattering and Inverse Scattering in Pure and Applied Science , Academic Press, London, 2001,. are available in pdf format in the internet. They have been collected in the Interesting Papers section of List of Electromagnetic Scattering Programs: http://www.t-matrix.de/.

There is an open position for a researcher working on the T-matrix method at University of Bremen. The job announcement can be found at List of Electromagnetic Scattering Programs: http://www.T-matrix.de (see also “Job market”)