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April 2013 |
| 29-May 3
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Friends of Friends Meeting 2013,
Cordoba, Argentina 
The meeting is aimed at stretching the bounds between the astronomers that work at the IATE and their external collaborators, as well as sharing the state-of-the-art of works that are being developed by the IATE members.
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May 2013 |
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CRISM Analysis of Crater Uplifts (Veronica Bray, University of Arizona),
Lecture Hall
The central uplifts of large impact craters can expose bedrock and ancient crust that are otherwise buried. One example is the central peak of the 79 km diameter Ritchey crater (28.8°S, 309°E). Ritchey Crater is near the boundary between Hesperian ridged plains and Noachian highland terrain units on the global geologic map of Mars. We are conducting lithological mapping of the central uplifts of Ritchey and other craters in order to reconstruct the stratigraphy of buried noachian crust in the region between Corprates Chasma and the Argyre basin.
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| 5-9
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43rd Annual Meeting of the American Astronomical Society Division on Dynamical Astronomy,
Paraty, Brazil
The annual DDA Meeting brings together top researchers in astronomy, astrophysics, planetary science, and astrodynamics for in-depth and stimulating discussions and talks on all aspects of dynamics in the space sciences. The DDA meeting features invited talks on a range of topics, contributed talks (with no parallel sessions), and posters that can be displayed throughout the entire meeting.
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| 6-7
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First Annual International Conference on Space Environment & Aviation Technology (SEAT 2013),
Singapore
The SEAT conference serves as a platform for aerospace scientists and engineers who are in academia, government labs, and industry to share and disseminate scientific knowledge, research results, and perspectives on the new challenges, future opportunities, and emerging trends in aviation education, research, and programs. The themes of the conferences are space environment (covers aerospace community, atmospheric/space/planetary environment, aviation weather, space weather, and other related space and atmospheric environment) and aviation technology (covers topics on aerospace engineering and aeronautical engineering).
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| 6-8
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Humans to Mars Summit (H2M),
Washington, DC
Explore Mars is hosting the Humans to Mars Summit at the George Washington University, Washington, DC. Every step of the planning and executing process of getting humans to Mars will be discussed.
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| 10
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RAS Specialist Discussion Meeting: Observation, Evolution and Origin of Planetary Satellites,
London, United Kingdom
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| 13-15
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Planet Validation Workshop,
Marseille, France
The “Planet Validation” Workshop proposes to ask fundamental questions and evaluate the best answers in this context. The stakes are high, as hundreds of Kepler candidates will be validated instead of firmly confirmed, and soon those detected by SPHERE, GPI, GAIA, ESPRESSO, EUCLID and maybe PLATO and TESS... The aim of the meeting is to bring together experts in data analysis, statistics, different planet detection methods, and stellar and galactic models and to discuss the choices made by the recently developed planet validation tools.
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| 15-17
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Ice and Planet Formation,
Lund, Sweden
This workshop in Lund focuses on ice(s) and planet formation. Astrophysical ice has become an increasingly popular topic in the past years, inspired and driven by new observations of ices in molecular clouds and protoplanetary discs, models of dust coagulation and planet formation where ice plays an important role and current and upcoming laboratory experiment of ice collisions and ice deposition.
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| 15-18
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Heavy Ion in Therapy and Space Radiation Symposium 2013
(HITSRS2013),
Chiba, Japan
Includes the 24th Annual NASA Space Radiation Health Investigators' Workshop (SRHIW)
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| 20-21
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Exoplanets in the Post-Kepler Era,
Cambridge, MA
The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics will host a conference to explore the future directions of exoplanet astrophysics after the abundant science harvest of the Kepler mission. We will take this opportunity to honor Dave Latham’s pioneering role in exoplanet science and his long and profound contributions to this field.
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| 20-21
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International Symposium on Radiation Science 2013
(ISRS2013),
Taipei, Taiwan
Proton and Heavy Ion Effects in Relationship to Risk and Cancer Treatment
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| 21-23
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NLSI Workshop Without Walls: Lunar Volatiles (Part 1),
Online
The workshop will focus on three themes: 1) “Origins of lunar volatiles” includes identifying the composition, as well as endogenous and exogenous processes for manufacturing, delivering, and releasing them, 2) “Sequestration of lunar volatiles” is the processes that contribute to the retention and loss of volatiles, as well as observations that define the distribution and concentrations of volatiles in different reservoirs on the Moon and 3) “Volatiles as a resource” explores in situ resource utilization prospecting, extraction techniques, experiments, and mission planning.
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| 24-27
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Spacefest V,
Tucson, Arizona
Spacefest is THE event for the space enthusiast of any stripe-Pure astronomy; manned exploration; robotic exploration; commercial space, and space history, professional or amateur.
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| 28-29
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iCubeSat 2013 — The 2nd Interplanetary CubeSat Workshop,
Ithaca, New York
iCubeSat was created in 2011 by JA as a neutral, non-profit, open source, open access forum for anyone with an interest in the concept of Interplanetary CubeSats to present, disseminate and archive their ideas, work, tools, techniques and other relevant items for anyone interested in the peaceful exploration of space.
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| 28-30
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Annual Meeting of the Canadian Astronomical Society (CASCA),
Vancouver, Canada
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| 28-31
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High Resolution Optical Spectroscopy,
Postdam, Germany
The scope of this meeting is to bring together the astronomical community that builds and uses high-
resolution spectrographs. High spectral resolution is essential to quantify and to constrain the many
micro- and macro-scale processes in cosmic plasma. In particular we will emphasize the coupling be-
tween predictive numerical simulations and quantitative spectroscopic observations. We organize this
meeting in the framework of the series of “Potsdam ThinkShops” as meeting number 10. The venue will
be held at the Telegrafenberg science campus of the AIP in Potsdam in May 2013 and will be open
for an international professional auditorium as well as students
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| 29-31
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Third Meeting of the International Primitive Body Exploration Working Group (IPEWG),
Nice, France
The IPEWG 2013 workshop will take place over the course of three days, and includes several topical panel sessions with scheduled time for discussion. These sessions will be structured to provide diverse perspectives from the international community in areas that are of great interest to the community. A final session will summarize the results into a series of recommendations and action items.
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Decoding the High-Temperature Origins of Refractory Oxides from Ancient Stars (Tom Zega, University of Arizona),
Lecture Hall
As stars evolve, they shed their matter through dust-driven stellar winds or explosive events such as supernovae. These stellar ashes can enter the interstellar medium and become the starting material for a new star. Our own solar system formed partly from the remnants of ancient stars, and it was long ago suspected that individual grains of this presolar stardust material should have survived intact within the solid relics leftover from its birth, i.e., primitive meteorites. The isolation and measurement of presolar grains has been a decades-long struggle, largely because many of them occur intimately mixed at the nanometer scale in chondritic meteorites - the bulk of which contain phases that formed in our own solar system. In recent years, developments in electron and ion optics have revolutionized our ability to measure the isotopic composition of a grain, extract it in situ, and investigate its crystal chemistry and structure. Such information is fundamental to inferring the origins of such grains, e.g., the type, mass, and composition of their parent stars as well as the thermodynamic processes of their circumstellar envelopes and secondary processing they experienced within our solar system. I will show how secondary ion mass spectrometry, focused-ion-beam scanning-electron-microscopy, and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) can be combined to gain insight into the origin of presolar spinel (MgAl2O4) and hibonite (CaAl12O19) grains.
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June 2013 |
| 2-6
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222nd Meeting of the American Astronomical Society,
Indianapolis, Indiana
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Exploring the Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems,
Victoria, Canada
Topics include 1) Diversity and Evolution of Planetary Systems, 2) Protoplanetary discs: high resolution imaging, composition and structure, 3) Grains and Planetesimals, 4) Disc Chemistry, 5) Initial conditions of planet formation; planet formation pathways, 6) Signposts of planetary systems, 7) Dynamics in Planetary Systems: migration, multiplicity, 8) Exoplanet Atmospheres; composition, radiative transfer and circulation and 9) Interior Structure and Planetary Composition.
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| 3-4
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1st Annual International Conference on Astronomy and Astrophysics (Astro 2013),
Singapore
GSTF provides a global intellectual platform for top notch academics and industry professionals to actively interact and share their groundbreaking research achievements. GSTF is dedicated to promoting research and development and offers an inter-disciplinary intellectual platform for leading scientists, researchers, academics and industry professionals across Asia Pacific to actively consult, network and collaborate with their counterparts across the globe.
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| 3-5
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Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference 2013,
Broomfield, Colorado
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| 6-9
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1st International Workshop on Education in Astrobiology,
Hoor, Sweden
The meeting aims to bring together scientists and teachers engaged in astrobiology education on universities and other training institutions to discuss new teaching and assessment forms in astrobiology, foster international cooperation in astrobiology teaching, and give the attendants a thorough overview of the field.
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The Surface Composition of Mercury From MESSENGER Data (Shoshana Weider),
Lecture Hall
Geochemical results from the X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Spectrometers onboard the MESSENGER spacecraft, and insights they provide into Mercury's formation and geological evolution
Shoshana Weider
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| 10-14
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AbGradCon 2013,
Montreal, Canada
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| 10-14
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International Venus Workshop,
Catania, Italy
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| 11-14
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Isotopes as Diagnostic Tools in Astronomy, Geology and Biology,
Hoor, Sweden
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Massive Ice Avalanches on Iapetus Mobilized by Friction Reduction During Flash Heating (Kelsi Singer, Washington University, St. Louis),
Lecture Hall
Large ice avalanches on saturnian satellites exhibit a behavior similar to long-runout landslides found across the solar system: some mechanism (or mechanisms) apparently reduces the material’s friction, allowing the landslides to travel 10-30 times their drop heights (as opposed to ~2x for a more “normal” frictional regime). These landslides achieve immense runout lengths, even over variable slopes and topography. Landslides on Iapetus are some of the longest and most voluminous in the solar system, reaching lengths of 80 km. I will compare the long-runout landslides on icy satellites to their rocky cousins found on Earth and Mars, and discuss a possible friction reduction mechanism through flash heating.
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| 15-16
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IPPW-10 Short Course on Entry, Descent, and Landing Systems,
San Jose, California
This 10th workshop will build upon the IPPW tradition by encouraging international cooperation in planetary probe missions, new technologies, and scientific discoveries. In addition, students from around the world will have a unique opportunity to present their work and to interact with the leaders in their discipline areas.
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| 15-19
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11th International GeoRaman Conference,
St. Louis, Missouri
The 11th International GeoRaman conference in St. Louis will focus on two major aspects of laser Raman spectroscopy: (1) The most advanced technologies and instrumentation, from laboratories to a wide variety of field applications, e.g., industrial and security monitoring, geo-fields, deep ocean, and on other planets; (2) The newest applications in studying inorganic, organic, and bio-genetic materials in Earth Sciences, Planetary Sciences, Environmental Science, Forensic Science, Archaeology and Archaeometry, Gemmology, and Astrobiology.
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| 17-21
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10th International Planetary Probe Workshop (IPPW-10),
San Jose, California
The 10th Probe Workshop brings together engineers, technologists, scientists, mission designers, space agency leaders, and students from around the world for a compelling, week-long collaboration focused on exploration of Solar System atmospheres and surfaces using atmospheric entry and descent probes and aerial vehicles.
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| 17-21
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14th International Conference on Electromagnetic and Light Scattering (ELS-XIV),
Lille, France
The main objective of the conference is to bring together scientists and engineers studying various aspects of light scattering and to provide a relaxed atmosphere for in-depth discussions of theoretical advances, measurements, and applications.
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| 18-20
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10th IAA Low-Cost Planetary Missions Conference (LCPM-10),
Pasadena, California
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| 18-21
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From Exoplanets to Distant Galaxies: SPICA's New Window on the Cool Universe,
Kanagawa, Japan
The primary aims of the conference are to introduce the scientific capabilities of the SPICA mission to the international community, and to foster interactions in the IR community on how to optimally utilise this new facility to further explore the physical processes in formation and evolution of planets, stars and galaxies.
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| 20-21
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Interplanetary Small Satellite Conference,
Pasadena, California
This year the scope of the 1st Interplanetary Small Satellite Conference has been broadened to include interplanetary small satellite missions that do not fit into the CubeSat standard. We believe that with this change we will be able to incorporate an important segment of the community as well as encourage the “outside the box” thinking that will be critical to future interplanetary small satellite missions.
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TBD (Francis McCubbin, University of New Mexico),
Lecture Hall
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| 23-25
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2013 Space Cryogenics Workshop,
Girdwood, Alaska
The 25th Space Cryogenics Workshop will be held Sunday, June 23 through Tuesday, June 25, 2013 at the Alyeska Resort near Girdwood, Alaska. Sponsors are NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and the Cryogenic Society of America. Join us as we explore Space Cryogenics at Earth’s Last Frontier. The Workshop is an opportunity for all those engaged in low temperature work to exchange research results and knowledge, to inform the world about accomplishments and breakthroughs, and to network and share information with peers from around the world. All aspects of space cryogenics will be represented, with an emphasis on work related to previous missions as well as future research.
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| 23-28
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Gordon Conference on Origins of Solar Systems,
South Hadley, Massachusetts
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| 24-26
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AGU Science Policy Conference,
Washington, DC
Join hundreds of Earth and space scientists, students, policymakers, and industry professionals as they discuss key Earth and space science topics that address challenges to our economy, national security, environment, and public safety. This meeting will focus on the science that helps inform policymakers’ decisions related to energy, natural hazards, technology and infrastructure, climate, oceans, and the Arctic.
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| 24-27
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8th Workshop on Catastrophic Disruption in the Solar System (CD8),
Hapuna Beach, Hawaii
This workshop will provide a valuable opportunity for scientists specializing in theory, numerical modeling, laboratory experiments and telescopic observations to share their recent results and discuss new ideas in a focused, yet relaxed environment. Topics will include the internal structures of small bodies, their disruption through collisions, tidal or rotational forces, the outcomes of catastrophic breakup, including asteroid families, their size-frequency distributions and spin properties, collisional evolution, and the formation of dust. We particularly welcome young scientists – graduate students and postdocs who can contribute fresh ideas and will carry this important field of research into the future.
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| 24-27
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Herschel Data Processing for Newcomers,
Villanueva de la Canada, Spain
Successfully launched together with Planck on 14 May 2009, Herschel recently reached the end of its operational lifetime on 29 April 2013, after the exhaustion of its supply of liquid helium coolant, completing almost 4 years of pioneering observations of the cool universe. Indeed, Herschel has made over 35,000 scientific observations, amassing more than 25,000 hours' worth of science data from about 600 observing programs, most of which is already publicly available from the Herschel Science Archive. Although Herschel observing is now finished, the data collected by this wonderful mission will enable a vast amount of exciting science to be done for many years to come. We expect that it will provide even more discoveries that have been made during the lifetime of the Herschel mission. Our task is now to make the treasure trove of Herschel data as valuable as possible. This workshop, organized by the Herschel Science Centre, in collaboration with the Instrument Control Centres and the NASA Herschel Science Centre, is targeted at an audience of novice users interested in accessing and interpreting Herschel data for the first time, with little or no previous experience in the analysis of Herschel observations using HIPE (Herschel Interactive Processing Environment). We invite preferentially Ph.D. students and young post-docs who have recently started working on projects based on the analysis of Herschel observations, but we also accept more advanced users who may want to get a deeper knowledge of certain aspects of the interactive processing of Herschel data with which they may not be sufficiently familiar. The workshop, which can be attended online or in person, will consist of a mixture of tutorials in the format of presentations that will be broadcast live to online participants, and hands-on sessions customized for those participants attending the workshop in person.
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| 24-28
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10th Annual Meeting of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS),
Brisbane, Australia
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| 24-28
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Crossing the Boundaries in Planetary Atmospheres: From Earth to Exoplanets,
Annapolis, Maryland
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| 25-28
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5th Workshop on Hyperspectral Image and Signal Processing: Evolution in Remote Sensing (WHISPERS),
Gainesville, Florida
WHISPERS is the premier meeting of IEEE for hyperspectral image processing. The international annual meeting will be held this year in Gainesville, Florida, June 25-28, 2013, on the campus of the University of Florida. We invite members of the planetary science community to join colleagues from the terrestrial remote sensing and signal processing communities. This year we are proposing a special section devoted to exploring cutting-edge techniques in planetary image processing (described below) with a data users workshop.
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| 25-Jul 2
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Summer Course "Molecules in Space",
Onsala, Sweden
The summer course "Molecules in space" aims to give participants a thorough high-level introduction into the role of molecules in many astronomical environments such as the early universe, dark and diffuse interstellar clouds, star-forming regions and protoplanetary disks, atmospheres of plants and their satellites, cometary comae, circumstellar envelopes, and supernova remnants.
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| 28
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TBD (Francis McCubbin, University of New Mexico),
Lecture Hall
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| 30-Jul 2
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3rd Workshop on Binaries in the Solar System,
Kohala Coast, Hawaii
The goal of the 3rd Workshop on Binaries in the Solar System is to bring together various ideas on the detection, characterization, formation, and implications of binary and multiple objects among the NEO, main-belt, Trojan, Centaur, TNO populations.
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| 30-Jul 2
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Australian Astrobiology Meeting,
Sydney, Australia
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| 1-3
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Exoplanet Characterisation Observatory (EChO) Open Science Workshop,
Noordwijk, The Netherlands
The international Exoplanet Characterisation Observatory (EChO) Open Science Workshop will provide an update on the status of EChO. The conference will be open to all the scientific, technical and industrial community, to encourage feedback in advance of the ESA Cosmic Vision review process.
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| 1-4
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International Symposium on Planetary Sciences (IAPS2013),
Shanghai, China
The International Symposium on Planetary Sciences (IAPS2013) will be held at the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, July 1-4, 2013, Shanghai, China, which brings together international scientists to present the latest results of research and development in planetary exploration and science. Topics include planetary geodesy, navigation, remote sensing, atmosphere, ionosphere/plasma physics, magnetic and gravity field, geomorphology, geophysics, geology, petrology, geochemistry, interior physics, Life & Astrobiology, Giant & Extrasolar Planets, etc.
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| 8-12
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Magnetospheres of the Outer Planets 2013,
Athens, Greece
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| 8-13
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European Week of Astronomy and Space Science,
Turku, Finland
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| 9-11
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Comets as Tracers of Solar System Formation and Evolution,
Toulouse, France
The workshop will cover topics ranging from the dynamical and chemical evolution of the solar nebula during formation, to the techniques for measuring the composition of comets. Invited speakers include some of the community leaders in cometary science, measurements and technology development. We will discuss the role that Rosetta measurements will play in understanding the origin of Solar System bodies, and what future missions to comets are being planned. There will be a special issue of the journal Planetary and Space Science devoted to the works presented at this meeting.
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| 9-11
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Ninth Meeting of the NASA Small Bodies Assessment Group,
Pasadena, California
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Rocks in our Solar System — Bridging the Gap Between Meteor, Meteorite and Asteroid Studies (European Week of Astronomy and Space Science EWASS 2013 Special Session Sp11),
Turku, Finland
The session will bring together scientists working on all aspects of solar system rocky material properties. The topic includes laboratory analysis of meteorites and cosmic dust as well as observations and modeling of both meteoroids and asteroids. The contributions bridging the gap between properties of meteors, meteorites, and asteroids are highly welcome. The session will also focus on the recent Chelyabinsk fireball/Chebarkul meteorite fall event in order to put together knowledge acquired from studies of fireball trajectory, orbital analysis, and recovered meteorites.
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| 13-14
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LunGradCon 2013,
Virtual Meeting
LunGradCon provides an opportunity for grad students and early-career postdocs to present their research in a low-stress, friendly environment, being critiqued only by their peers. In addition to oral presentations, the conference presents opportunities for professional development and networking with fellow grad students and postdocs, as well as senior members of the NASA Lunar Science Institute (NLSI). In keeping with the future direction of the NLSI, we encourage participation from all students and postdocs investigating the Moon, near-Earth asteroids, Phobos and Deimos, and the near-space environments of these target bodies.
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Eighth International Mars Conference — MEETING POSTPONED,
Pasadena, California
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| 15-20
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Protostars and Planets VI,
Heidelberg, Germany
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NASA Lunar Science Forum,
Virtual Meeting
The conference consists of invited and contributed oral and poster presentations, together with breakout sessions to plan for the future of lunar science. The session summaries, along with the abstracts, list of organizers, and participants, will be included in a final report to be posted on the NASA Lunar Science Institute website.
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| 17-19
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Dusty Visions 2013,
Stuttgart, Germany
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, Stereo, as well as other missions. Major topics of the workshop will cover new ideas and theories. We will also discuss observational results and the outcome of laboratory experiments, for they give implications for future space missions. Of special emphasis is cosmochemistry and compositional analysis of dust, also in view of upcoming space missions presently under way or in preparation (e.g. Juice, Lunar Lander, Rosetta, Ladee).
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| 22-26
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The Pluto System on the Eve of Exploration by New Horizons: Perspectives and Predictions,
Columbia, Maryland
NASA’s New Horizons mission is now over 22 AU from the Sun en route to a reconnaissance flyby of the Pluto system at 32 AU in July, 2015. In advance of that historic flyby, the New Horizons mission is sponsoring a scientific meeting to review knowledge of the Pluto System, to inform the planetary science community about the flyby and collaboration/DAP funding opportunities, to discuss and begin to prepare groundbased and spacebased observing proposals, and to provide a venue for scientific predictions.
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| 22-Aug 9
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The University of California International Summer School on AstroComputing 2013: Star and Planet Formation,
Santa Cruz, California
The objective of the 2013 UC-HiPACC AstroComputing Summer School is to train the next generation of researchers in the use of large-scale simulations in star and planet formation problems. The school will cover many of the major public codes in use today, including tutorials and hands-on experience running and analyzing simulations. Students will receive accounts on the new 3,000-core supercomputer Hyades on the UCSC campus for the duration of the school.
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TBD (Oliver White, Lunar and Planetary Institute),
Lecture Hall
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| 29-31
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PLATO 2.0 Science Workshop,
Noordwijk, The Netherlands
PLATO 2.0 is an ESA M3 candidate mission and has been designed and optimized from the outset specifically to detect habitable zone rocky sized planets around bright solar type stars. Not only are these host stars suitable for planetary confirmation and follow-up studies, but they are ideal for asteroseismology studies whose impact has been proven from the CoRoT and Kepler missions. Thus PLATO 2.0 will produce catalogues of accurate parameters of terrestrial planets and planetary systems. It will be the first large-scale survey determining the ages of its detected planetary systems from their host stars. PLATO 2.0 data will be vital to test and develop planetary formation and evolution models and to address planetary science questions via its large numbers of accurate bulk planet parameters in systems of all kinds. As a result of the many hundred thousands of stars observed, PLATO 2.0 has furthermore a large complementary and legacy science program, from stellar to galactic science.
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2013 Sagan Exoplanet Summer Workshop (CANCELED),
Pasadena, California
The 2013 workshop will explore current techniques and technology used to detect exoplanets and debris disks, as well as the underlying science driving the modeling of exoplanetary atmospheres and disk structure. Leaders in the field will summarize the current state of the art in science, hardware, and software. Prospects for future space instruments will also be discussed. Attendees will participate in hands-on exercises to gain experience working with imaging data, astrophysical models, and instrument design. Attendees will also have the opportunity to present their own work through short presentations (research POPs) and posters.
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| 29-Aug 2
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76th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society,
Edmonton, Canada
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Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution V,
Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
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| 5-9
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The 6th Meeting on Cosmic Dust,
Kobe, Japan
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 objectives of the meeting are to bring together professionals who deal with cosmic dust and to provide an opportunity for participants to develop human relations and interactions between the participants.
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4th Planetary Crater Consortium Meeting,
Flagstaff, Arizona
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International Conference on Astronomy and Cosmology,
Chicago-North Shore, Illinois
OMICS Group invites all the participants across the globe to attend the International Conference on Astronomy & Cosmology during August 14-16, 2013 at Chicago-North shore, USA. Astronomy-2013 is a remarkable event which facilitate the education, development, and participation of atmospheric scientists from developing countries as a conference. It initiates, encourages, facilitates and coordinates international cooperation in scientific research and stimulates discussion, presentation and publication of scientific results. To promote public education and awareness of the role and importance of the atmosphere and atmospheric sciences.
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| 16-25
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Summer Course: "Impacts and their Role in the Evolution of Life",
Kuressaare, Estonia
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| 19-22
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The Annual Conference on Characterization and Radiometric Calibration for Remote Sensing,
Logan, Utah
The Annual Conference on Characterization and Radiometric Calibration for Remote Sensing provides a forum for scientists, engineers, and managers to present, discuss, and learn. Experts in the calibration community offer relevant knowledge and suggestions about calibration, characterization, and radiometric issues within the microwave, IR, visible, and UV spectral ranges.
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| 25-30
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Goldschmidt 2013 Conference,
Florence, Italy
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| 26-30
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Exploiting the Herschel Science Archive: A Data Processing Workshop,
Pasadena, California
The goal of this workshop is to showcase the contents and capabilities of the Herschel Archive, and to provide information and training about how to best exploit it. This workshop is directed to astronomers new to Herschel, interested in exploiting the Herschel archive; beginner Herschel users who want to learn how to reduce their data; and intermediate Herschel users who want to learn about the latest software capabilities. Workshop topics will include an introduction to the Herschel Space Observatory, the contents of the Herschel Archive, and how to reduce Herschel data.
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| 26-30
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Meteoroids 2013,
Poznan, Poland
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September 2013 |
| 9-12
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LSST @ Europe: The Path to Science,
Cambridge, United Kingdom
The meeting will provide an opportunity to review the current status of the LSST, and the key science programmes which are underpinning its development. The conference will include presentations identifying current science challenges where a combination of LSST and major new European facilities and expertise will result in major leaps in understanding. These topics will range from studies of our Solar System and the Milky Way, to the Universe at the largest scales.
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| 9-12
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The 11th Hellenic Astronomical Conference,
Athens, Greece
The Hellenic Astronomical Conference, organized by the Hellenic Astronomical Society (Hel.A.S.), is the major scientific event of the greek astronomical community. The Conference, which takes place every two years in a different part of Greece, typically brings together over 100 scientists with research interests in Astronomy, Astrophysics, and Space Physics.
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| 9-13
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European Planetary Science Conference (EPSC 2013),
London, United Kingdom
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| 10-12
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Planet Formation and Evolution 2014,
Kiel, Germany
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| 15-18
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59th Annual Meeting of the Radiation Research Society,
New Orleans, LA
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| 23-24
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Origin of the Moon,
London, United Kingdom
Despite widespread acceptance of the giant impact hypothesis for lunar origin, our understanding continues to be challenged by remarkable new geochemical data, improved simulations and theory, and spacecraft exploration. This will be a timely consideration of our current understanding, how this relates to our Earth and planetary systems and an opportunity to identify the directions of future research.
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| 24-28
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Second International Congress of Astrobiology in Columbia,
Medellin, Columbia
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| 25-26
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Origin of the Moon — Challenges and Prospects,
Chicheley, United Kingdom
Our understanding of the origin of Earth’s moon is challenged by recent isotopic data, simulations of physical processes for giant impacts and evolution of the resulting disk, and new spacecraft studies. This meeting follows on from a Royal Society meeting in London on the same topic by focusing on the unsolved problems and assessing the prospects for future directions of research.
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October 2013 |
| 3-4
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Workshop on Golden Spike Lunar Human Expeditions: Opportunities for Intensive Lunar Scientific Exploration,
Houston, Texas
Commercial spaceflight is rapidly beginning to impact capabilities for scientific research in numerous ways, including commercial suborbital spaceflight, commercial robotic lunar missions, and commercial near-Earth asteroid (NEA) exploration. In late 2012, the Golden Spike Company, consisting of space professionals and numerous veteran NASA engineers and executives, announced plans to mount a series of commercial human lunar expeditions in the 2020s, primarily for space and science agencies in countries around the world. The goals of this workshop are to provide a detailed overview of Golden Spike expedition capabilities to the worldwide lunar science community, and to seek feedback and input on science and exploration priorities and associated landing sites, surface experiment packages, and sample return requirements. The meeting will also explore desired future capabilities for more advanced Golden Spike missions, and the synergistic roles of Golden Spike human expeditions and robotic exploration missions.
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| 6-11
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45th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS 2013),
Denver, Colorado
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| 7-11
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ESO/NUVA/IAG Workshop on Challenges in UV Astronomy,
Garching, Germany
The network for UV astronomy (NUVA) has been organizing interdisciplinary meetings every three years where scientists and instrumentalists working in the UV can obtain updated information on the current status of the field. The third meeting of the NUVA will come at a crucial time in UV astronomy. The ESA/NASA programs that created the community are reaching completion and future missions, apart from WSO-UV, are small-class, some operating from balloons. The purpose of this ESO/NUVA/IAG workshop is to bring together the international community interested in UV astronomy to discuss the present and future of the field and in particular to examine and broaden the scientific case of CUBES, the joint ESO-Brazil high-resolution UV spectrograph. Invited talks and reviews will cover the topics of UV astronomy of the solar system, exoplanets, abundances of stars at various stages of evolution, resolved stellar populations in the galaxy and beyond, the star-formation history of the universe, and the properties of the diffuse interstellar and intergalactic medium near and far.
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| 7-11
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Third Workshop on Robotic Autonomous Observatories,
Torremolinos, Spain
The main focus of the workshop will be on the new and existing astronomical facilities whose goal is to observe a wide variety of astrophysical targets with no (or very little) human interaction. The workshop will become an international forum for researchers to summarise the most recent developments and ideas in the field, with a special emphasis given to the technical and observational results and public outreach (including Citizen Science) and educational applications achieved within the last five years as well as the future strategies foreseen.
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| 14-16
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Annual Meeting of the Lunar Exploration Analysis Group,
Laurel, Maryland
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| 14-18
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Fourth Moscow international Solar System Symposium (4M-S3),
Moscow, Russia
Starting in 2010, the Space Research Institute has held annual international symposia on solar system exploration. Main topics of these symposia include a wide range of problems related to formation and evolution of the solar system; planetary systems of other stars; exploration of solar system planets, their moons, and small bodies; study of the Sun, interplanetary environment, exobiology problems. Experimental planetary studies and preparation for space missions are also considered at these symposia. The fourth Moscow international Solar System Symposium (4M-S3) will covers many problems of solar system science with the central topic “Moon and Mars Exploration.” This topic relates to scientific problems of several projects, which are under development in Russia: “Luna-Glob”, “Luna-Resource,” and “ExoMars,” a project that is developed under cooperation between Roscosmos and ESA.
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| 15-18
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The (F)IR Universe Three Years Later — The Contributions by Herschel,
Noordwijk, The Netherlands
The overall objective of the meeting will be to present and take stock of what has been learned to date based on Herschel observations. The symposium will feature invited and contributed talks, and poster sessions. More information and the formal first announcement will be issued about a year ahead of the meeting date.
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| 20-25
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16th International Symposium on Microdosimetry
(MICROS 2012),
Treviso, Italy
16th International Symposium on Microdosimetry. Oct 20-25, 2013 at Treviso, Italy
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| 20-25
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Planet Mars 4,
Les Houches, France
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| 21-23
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Solar System Formation and Observation Conference (SFO),
Bern, Switzerland
The conference is divided in five sessions, covering the topics of planetary interaction with the space plasma, investigating planet atmospheres and exospheres and planetary surfaces. Invited review speakers (see webpage and poster) will open each session. By abstract submission participants can contribute to the program with oral or poster presentations. Abstracts about simulations, observations, investigations, instrumentation and data analysis are welcome.
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| 27-29
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Workshop on Planetesimal Formation and Differentiation,
Washington, DC
Evidence from meteorites and, increasingly, from asteroids indicates that some early-forming bodies had sufficient heat to melt and differentiate into a core and mantle. Partial or complete melting can allow core formation and silicate differentiation, and can also remove volatiles. Other small bodies are apparently primitive (i.e., undifferentiated). We are now at a point where targeted interdisciplinary work can create a leap in our understanding. What bulk compositions and time frames of accretion would have allowed differentiation? Where in the solar system did these bodies originate? What can we observe of differentiated bodies in the asteroid belt today? Can we link asteroid observations to meteorites from differentiated parent bodies? What was the history and large-scale structure of meteorite parent bodies? These questions bear on the critical transition from a protoplanetary disk to a solar system with rocky planets, on the habitability of those planets, and on resources in our solar system today for future space exploration. Progress in understanding these processes will depend upon communication among the fields of meteorite and asteroid/icy body observations including space missions, theory, and modeling. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers on all these subjects as they pertain to differentiation, asteroid observations, and meteorite compositions.
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| 27-30
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2013 GSA Annual Meeting and Exposition,
Denver, Colorado
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November 2013 |
| 4-8
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Second Kepler Science Conference,
Moffett Field, California
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| 11-14
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Second Exobiology Workshop,
Frejus, France
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| 11-15
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First COSPAR Symposium: Planetary Systems of Our Sun and Other Stars, and the Future of Space Astronomy,
Bangkok, Thailand
This first Symposium will address the theme “Planetary Systems of our Sun and other Stars, and the Future of Space Astronomy”. It is open to participants from all regions, but scientists, young professionals and students in the Asian region are particularly encouraged to participate. The Symposium will feature plenary lectures as well as parallel and poster sessions.
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| 27-30
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Astro-Engineering Workshop 2012,
Santiago, Chile
The sky in northern Chile is the best in the world for astronomy and the biggest telescopes are here. The Astro-Engineering is the technical junction between astronomy and engineering for the development of technology for astronomical instruments. This workshop is the first opportunity to congregate astronomers and engineers to discuss telescopes, instruments and the next big projects to be built in Chile.
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December 2013 |
| 9-13
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AGU Fall Meeting,
San Francisco, California
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February 2014 |
| 5-7
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Vesta in the Light of Dawn,
Houston, Texas
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| 9-14
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Exoclimes III: The Diversity of Planetary Atmospheres,
Davos, Switzerland
Planetary atmospheres are complex and evolving entities, as mankind is rapidly coming to realize while attempting to understand, forecast, and mitigate human-induced climate change. In the solar system, our neighbors Venus and Mars provide striking examples of two endpoints of planetary evolution: runaway greenhouse and loss of atmosphere to space. The variety of extrasolar planets brings a wider angle to the issue: from scorching “hot Jupiters” to ocean worlds, exo-atmospheres explore many configurations unknown in the solar system, such as iron clouds, silicate rains, extreme plate tectonics, and steam volcanos. Exoplanetary atmospheres have recently become accessible to observations, starting with hot gas giants, and gradually moving toward more Earth-like planets. This meeting will bring together Earth, solar system, and exoplanet specialists to discuss recent results and the way ahead.
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March 2014 |
| 17-21
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45th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference
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| 17-21
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Search for Life Beyond the Solar System,
Tucson, Arizona
The goal of the conference is to bring together the interdisciplinary community required to address this multi-faceted challenge: experts on exoplanet observations, early and extreme life on earth, atmospheric biomarkers, and planet-finding telescopes.
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| 17-21
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Search for Life Beyond the Solar System — Exoplanets, Biomarkers and Instruments,
Tucson, Arizona
The goal of the conference is to bring together the interdisciplinary community required to address this multi-faceted challenge: experts on exoplanet observations, early and extreme life on earth, atmospheric biomarkers, and planet-finding telescopes.
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USRA Sponsored Meetings
Upcoming Meetings
Eighth International Mars Conference — MEETING POSTPONED
July 15-19,
2013
Pasadena, California
76th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society
July 29-August 2,
2013
Edmonton, Canada
Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution V
August 5-8,
2013
Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
Workshop on Golden Spike Lunar Human Expeditions: Opportunities for Intensive Lunar Scientific Exploration
October 3-4,
2013
Houston, Texas
Annual Meeting of the Lunar Exploration Analysis Group
October 14-16,
2013
Laurel, Maryland
Workshop on Planetesimal Formation and Differentiation
October 27-29,
2013
Washington, DC
Vesta in the Light of Dawn
February 5-7,
2014
Houston, Texas
45th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference
March 17-21,
2014
44th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference
(LPSC 2013)
March 18-22,
2013
The Woodlands, Texas
Friday, May 31, 2013
Lecture Hall - 3:30 PM
Decoding the High-Temperature Origins of Refractory Oxides from Ancient Stars
Tom Zega, University of Arizona
Friday, June 7, 2013
Lecture Hall - 3:30 PM
The Surface Composition of Mercury From MESSENGER Data
Shoshana Weider
Friday, June 14, 2013
Lecture Hall - 3:30 PM
Massive Ice Avalanches on Iapetus Mobilized by Friction Reduction During Flash Heating
Kelsi Singer, Washington University, St. Louis
Friday, June 21, 2013
Lecture Hall - 3:30 PM
TBD
Francis McCubbin, University of New Mexico
Friday, June 28, 2013
Lecture Hall - 3:30 PM
TBD
TBD
Francis McCubbin, University of New Mexico
Friday, July 26, 2013
Lecture Hall - 3:30 PM
TBD
Oliver White, Lunar and Planetary Institute
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