MAY 2006 Issue 17
NEW BOOK:
Mishchenko, M. I., L. D. Travis, and A. A. Lacis
Multiple Scattering of Light by Particles: Radiative Transfer and Coherent Backscattering,
Cambridge
University Press,
The
book cover page, abstract, contents and preface can be seen as PDF file here:
http://www.giss.nasa.gov/~crmim/publications/2006_book3_front_matter.pdf
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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
on Electromagnetic and Light Scattering by Non-spherical
Particles:
Theory, Measurements, and
Applications
June 5-9, 2006,
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Dear Colleague,
This is the third (last) announcement of the
9th International Conference on Electromagnetic and Light
Scattering by
Non-Spherical Particles to be held at the
Further on for more fresh information,
please, visit the conference website that will be regularly updated
at http://www.astro.spbu.ru/ELS9
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Conference Format and Program
The meeting will include the morning and
afternoon sessions consisting of invited lectures, oral talks and poster
sessions during coffee-breaks.
The invited lectures will be 40 min. long
(35 min. for the talk + 5 min. for discussions).
The oral talks will be 20 min. long (15 min.
for the talk + 5 min. for discussions).
For the oral contributions, computer-based presentations
are recommended. You can bring your presentation on CD, flash drive, or
diskette.
The files should be passed to the LOC during
the registration. They will be transferred to our computer to decrease the time
pauses
between talks. An
overhead projector for transparencies will be also available. If anyone has
special requirements for projection, please, let us
know as soon as
possible.
The poster panel display area will be about
0.85 m (width) x 1.0 m (the size A0 is acceptable). Scotch, etc. for hanging
posters up
will be provided by
the LOC.
A preliminary program is available on the
conference website. It may be slightly modified by some last moment
cancellations.
Please, check the program just before your
leaving to have the latest version.
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Extended Abstracts
All 72 accepted abstracts are published as a
booklet. All participants will get its hardcopy during the registration.
The booklet in the electronic form has been
made accessible through the conference website (the size of the pdf file is 10.1 Mb).
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Conference Proceedings
A special issue of the Journal of
Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer
(JQSRT) will be published after the conference.
The deadline for submissions of papers is
October 1, 2006.
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Conference place and time
The conference will be officially opened at
9:45 on June 5 and closed at 13:00 on June 9.
All sessions of the conference will take
place in the conference hall of the hotel "Znamenka"
(http://www.znamenka.spb.ru in Russian only).
Its address is Hotel Znamenka,
Sankt-Peterburgskii prospekt,
115, Petrodvorets,
Znamenka is located at about 27 km from
The hotel is situated in the park within a 5
minute walk from the road to the right (north) if one looks to Peterhof.
The bus stop Znamenka
is in a few meters from a small red chapel and a large poster with the word `Znamenka' written in Russian.
A
good map of this region will be available at the conference website.
One
can reach Znamenka by the buses 224, 300, 404, 424,
424a from the metro station "Avtovo" or by
the buses 103, 420 from the metro
station "Leninskii prospect" (the bus trip should take about 25
min.). The price of the ticket is 30 Rubl.
It is also possible to take the taxi near
the metro station "Avtovo" (recommended
price is 300-400 Rubl.).
You
can also use the train from Baltiiskii railway
station to the station "Novyi Peterhof" (destination Oranienbaum
or Kalishche,
the trains depart
from 6 a.m. till 0.30 a.m. every half an hour or more often, the trip should
take about 45 min., the price of the ticket
is 36 Rubl.) and then to take the bus
278, 357 (12 Rubl.) or taxi (100 Rubl.).
At
the airport Pulkovo-2 there will be representatives of the LOC who will help
you to reach the hotel as it is rather difficult to
do that. Please,
send information on your flight to the LOC as soon as possible!
In the case of any questions, delays,
problems with luggage, etc. please contact the LOC by
mobile1:
+7 (904) 559 1930
mobile2:
+7 (921) 748 4440
phone: +7 (812) 784 2243
The hotel has no access to internet. We are
trying to create some (perhaps, not very fast) internet access with
wifi
connection. You will be informed about the result.
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Registration
The registration will occur on June 4 from
17:00 till 18:30 at the hall of the hotel Znamenka on
the ground floor and will
be continued on
June 5 till lunch near the conference hall.
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Payments and money exchange
All payments (except for the fees) are made
in
The current exchange rates are on average 1
Euro = 34.5 Rubl and 1$ US = 27.0 Rubl.
We plan that participants will have
possibilities to change their money or to get rubles using their credit cards:
1) at the airports
and railway stations on arrival;
2) on the way from
the terminals to the hotel;
3) in local bank
offices in a nearby town.
In all the cases the LOC will be ready to
help you. Note that it is impossible to use anyhow your credit cards at the
hotel. You will not have enough
time to get money
using travel checks (such operations in
IT IS IMPORTANT that the PARTICIPANTS SHOULD
PAY for their ROOMS and MEALS (if pension is selected)
TO the LOC DURING the REGISTRATION! It is
because of a special agreement between a tourist firm that
represents the
hotel and the LOC (such a way allowed us to reduce all prices by 20%).
If you need estimation of your expenses
(rooms, meals, etc.) in Rubles, please contact the LOC.
The LOC will provide you with necessary
documents with the LOC Chair signature, the host institute seal and information
that you paid the
fee, for your room and so on (formulations in these documents can be very
flexible).
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Social events
On June 4 before the dinner, there will be a
reception party in the hall on the ground floor of the hotel.
On
June 6 after the dinner we plan an informal meeting where it will be possible
to make a brief (5-10 min.) presentation about your
special interests,
hobbies, etc.
The
whole day of June 7 is reserved for excursions. After the breakfast our busses
will bring you to the Hermitage (the
city center).
Excursions in this museum with English and Russian-speaking guides will be
organized. It will allow us
to avoid long
queues at the museum typical of this time.
At
14:00 this day there will be a lunch in a small restaurant "Literaturnoe Kafe" located
in a 10 min. walk from the Hermitage.
After the lunch a bus excursion over the
historical center of
is possible.
On
June 8 between the lunch and conference dinner we suggest to visit Peterhof parks and palaces. There will be a shuttle
connecting
the hotel and the
park complex entrance all this time.
The
details of all mentioned social events will be described at the conference
website. The LOC will pass tourist maps of the
city and its
environments to all participants on their arrival.
Additional excursions in particular for
participants arriving before June 4 and leaving after June 9 are possible.
We consider possibilities of excursions to Kronstadt, Lomonosov, etc. and a
night (day, evening) boat voyage along city rivers and channels
(nights in June in
For more information, please, visit the
conference website or write to the LOC.
If you have not yet informed the LOC about
your desire to participate in the abovementioned events
(excursions,
banquet, etc.), please do it.
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Climat
In the beginning of June the average monthly
temperature is about +20C. Please don't forget umbrella or waterproof overcoat.
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Contact information
Light Scattering Conference
c/o Vladimir Il'in
Sobolev Astronomical Institute
Universitetskii
pr., 28
fax: +7 (812) 428-7129
e-mail: ELS9@astro.spbu.ru