October 2014
Issue 64
Position opened
The Optical Remote Sensing Laboratory of the City
College of City
The position is available immediately. Salary is
commensurate with experience.
Send Application and CV to:
Dr. Alex Gilerson
Electrical Engineering Department
City College of New York (CUNY)
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Meetings
Cosmic
Dust VIII
WEBSITE: https://www.cps-jp.org/~dust/
VENUE:
Tokyo Skytree Town Campus
of Chiba Institute of Technology
8F solamachi, Tokyo Skytree Town(R)
1-1-2 Oshiage, Sumida-ku, Tokyo 131-0045, JAPAN
http://www.it-chiba.ac.jp/skytree/index_en.html
DATE: Monday, August 17 - Friday, August 21, 2015
OBJECTIVES:
This series of Cosmic Dust meetings aims at finding a consensus among experts
on the formation and evolution of cosmic dust: where it comes from and where it
goes. The meeting is organized by dust freaks who are very enthusiastic not only to make the goal
achievable but also to establish a dust community across every scientifically
relevant discipline for the development of cosmic dust research. For this
reason, the primary objective of the meeting is to bring together professionals
who deal with cosmic dust as well as provide an opportunity for participants to
develop human relations and interactions among themselves.
SCOPE:
All kinds of cosmic dust such as
intergalactic dust
circumnuclear dust
interstellar dust
protoplanetary disk dust
debris disk dust
cometary dust
interplanetary dust
circumplanetary dust
stellar nebular condensates
presolar grains
micrometeorites
meteoroids
meteors
regolith particles
planetary aerosols
are the subject of discussion. The meeting is open for any aspects of dust
research by means of different methods of studies (in-situ and laboratory
measurements, astronomical observations, laboratory and numerical simulations,
theoretical modeling, data analyses, etc.). All dust-related topics, for
example, the formation of molecules and their reactions on and their desorption from the surface
of dust particles, are also welcome. Publishing the proceedings of this meeting
is currently planned as a special issue of a peer-reviewed journal, while paper
submission to the proceedings is not obligatory.
ADMISSIONS APPLICATION:
Please complete online meeting application at the CPS website in order to
attend the meeting. The deadline for the application is May 13, 2015, 11:59
p.m. Japan Standard Time (GMT+09:00). Because the number of participants is
limited to a maximum of 50, the online application does not guarantee admission
to the meeting. Participants will be determined at the discretion of the SOC
and all applicants will be notified of the admissions decision by May 31, 2015.
Priority will be given to those who contribute to oral or poster sessions and
retain enthusiasm for discussions throughout the meeting. For further details,
please visit the Cosmic Dust website.
https://www.cps-jp.org/~dust/Application.html
REGISTRATION FEE:
The early bird rate of 10,000 JPY is available for those who complete both
admissions application and abstract submission by April 30, 2015. The
registration fee for those who complete admissions application on and after May
1, 2015 is 15,000 JPY. While no payment is required at the time of admissions
application and abstract submission, the registration fee should be paid by
cash on arrival at the venue. No matter what circumstances are specified, the
registration fee will not be waived.
IMPORTANT DATES:
30 April 2015, Deadline for Early-Bird Application
13 May 2015, Deadline for Admissions Application
31 May 2015, Notification of Admissions Decision
17-21 August 2015, Cosmic Dust
SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZING COMMITTEE (SOC):
Jean-Charles Augereau
(IPAG, France)
Cornelia Jaeger (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Germany)
Hidehiro Kaneda (Nagoya
University, Japan)
Hiroshi Kimura (Kobe University, Japan) [Chair]
Ludmilla Kolokolova (University of Maryland, USA)
Aigen Li (University of
Missouri-Columbia, USA)
LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE (LOC):
Hiroki Chihara (Osaka
Sangyo University)
Takayuki Hirai (ISAS/JAXA)
Akio Inoue (Osaka Sangyo University)
Hidehiro Kaneda (Nagoya
University)
Hiroshi Kimura (Kobe University)
Hiroshi Kobayashi (Nagoya University)
Takaya Nozawa (National
Astronomical Observatory of Japan)
Hiroki Senshu (Chitec/PERC)
Takashi Shimonishi (Kobe
University)
Ryo Tazaki (Kyoto
University)
Koji Wada (Chitec/PERC)
[Chair]
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Hiroshi Kimura <dust-inquiries@cps-jp.org>
Graduate School of Science, Kobe University
c/o Center for Planetary Science (CPS)
Chuo-ku Minatojima Minamimachi
7-1-48
Kobe 650-0047, Japan
Fax: +81 78 599 6735
BRIEF HISTORY:
The Cosmic Dust meeting started in 2006 as a session called COSMIC DUST of the
3rd AOGS (Asia-Oceania Geoscience Society) annual meeting in Singapore. Dust
freaks have kept on organizing the session at subsequent AOGS meetings in Korea
(2008), India (2010), and Taiwan (2011). The Cosmic Dust series has been
recognized as the most successful session of the AOGS Planetary Sciences
Section. In 2012, the time was ripe to be free from organizing restrictions on
the AOGS meeting. From that time on, the Cosmic Dust meeting is totally
independent of any international conference. The past meetings on Cosmic Dust
have been held in a relaxed and joyful atmosphere. So will be the coming one!
See recently indexed and summarized papers on the optics of particles and dispersions in TPDSci: http://www.tpdsci.com/Sv_.phplist=SvPdo