MAY 2006 Issue 17

October 2006 Issue 19

MEETINGS:

10th Conference on Electromagnetic and Light Scattering by Nonspherical Particles (ELS - 10), 17 - 23 June 2007, Bodrum, Turkey, collocated with the 5th International Symposium on Radiative Transfer

This internationally recognized conference will cover all aspects of single and multiple light scattering with special emphasis on scattering by nonspherical and heterogeneous particles and various applications. The main objective is to bring together experts in theory, computations, and experiments as well as those working on specific applications (geophysical, environmental, biomedical, astrophysical, etc.) to foster collaborations. The specific topics that will be covered include (but are not limited to) the following:

- new theoretical developments and numerical simulations of light scattering by nonspherical particles and particles with complex internal structure;

- laboratory and field experiments in light scattering by natural and artificial particles;

- single and multiple light scattering by dust grains and aerosols in terrestrial and planetary atmospheres (including exoplanets) and various cosmic objects;

- applications of light scattering in remote sensing, particle detection, and laboratory and field particle characterization;

- applications of light scattering methods in biology and biomedicine;

- light scattering methods to control material properties in chemical and material science experiments and in technological processes.

It is expected that this first ever collocation of radiative transfer and electromagnetic scattering conferences will result in a unique multidisciplinary forum for exchange of ideas and developing plans for future collaborations.

Several plenary lectures will highlight fundamental topics of common interest to participants of both conferences.

ELS-10 will have both oral and poster presentations. As always, the contributors will be invited to submit full-size paper versions of their presentations to a special issue of the Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer.

More details, further information, and important deadlines are available on the following web site:

http://www.engr.uky.edu/~menguc/ELS10/index.htm

http://www.engr.uky.edu/~menguc/ELSX

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NEW PAPERS:

Mishchenko, M. I., 2006: Radiative transfer in clouds with small-scale inhomogeneities: the microphysical approach, Geophys. Res. Lett. 33, L14820.

Several recent publications have indicated that cloud droplets belonging to a particular size range may tend to cluster by forming small random particle groups imbedded in an otherwise uniform cloud. To analyze radiative transfer in clouds with such small-scale inhomogeneities, we invoke the concepts of statistical electromagnetics. We show that as long as the assumption of ergodicity holds, one can still apply the classical radiative transfer equation in which the participating extinction and phase matrices are obtained by averaging the respective single-particle matrices over all the particles constituting the cloud. This result implies that comparisons of in situ and remote-sensing retrievals of the cloud-particle size distribution can be problematic and should be performed with caution.

Mishchenko, M. I., V. K. Rosenbush, and N. N.

Kiselev, 2006: Weak localization of electromagnetic waves and opposition

phenomena exhibited by high-albedo atmosphereless solar system objects, Appl. Opt. 45, 4459~V4463.

The totality of new and previous optical observations of a class of high-albedo Solar System objects at small phase angles reveals a unique combination of extremely narrow brightness and polarization features centered at exactly the opposition. The specific morphological parameters of these features provide an almost unequivocal evidence that they are caused by the renowned effect of coherent backscattering.

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NEW BOOKS:

Paul Martin

Multiple Scattering: Interaction of Time-harmonic Waves with N Obstacles

Hardcover: 450 pages

Cambridge University Press (3 Aug 2006)

ISBN: 0521865549

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Multiple-Scattering-Time-harmonic-Encyclopedia-Applications/dp/0521865549/ref=sr_11_1/202-2454963-2992654?ie=UTF8

Light Scattering Reviews

Single and Multiple Light Scattering

Series: Springer Praxis Books

http://www.springer.com/dal/home/math?SGWID=1-10042-69-173623016-0