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July 2013

1-3	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.
1-4	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.
7-12	19th IAA Humans in Space Symposium, Cologne, Germany  The organizers of the 19th IAA Humans in Space Conference will organize a program that focuses on basic major questions and challenges and will try to attract respective specialists, regardless of whether they are from the space research community or not.
7-14	Davos Atmosphere and Cryosphere Assembly 2013 (DACA-13), Davos Switzerland  The conference will bring together some 1’200 scientists from both fields to present and discuss the latest research in separate or joint sessions. A large variety of topics will be covered, from ice-sheet modelling to extreme climate events, from solar UV radiation to avalanche formation and permafrost – be sure to contribute and benefit from the possibility to extend your network and meet excellent scientists from a wide range of fields.
8-12	Magnetospheres of the Outer Planets 2013, Athens, Greece
8-13	European Week of Astronomy and Space Science, Turku, Finland
9	Target NEO 2 Workshop, Washington, D.C.  Support the development of a robust human exploration program by ensuring that the technical viewpoints of experts in fields pertinent to robotic and human NEO exploration are provided and documented. Key questions: What are the technical challenges involved and what new capabilities are needed for the newly proposed Asteroid Retrieval Mission (ARM)? Are there any alternative approaches? What technical information is still needed to support and sustain a robust human exploration program to a NEO?
9-11	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.
10	4th Annual Lunar Graduate Conference (LunGradCon 2013), Moffett Field, California  LunGradCon 2013 will address the three main research areas of the NASA Lunar Science Institute: • Of the Moon: Investigations of the nature and history of the Moon (including research on lunar samples) to learn about this specific object and thereby provide insights into the evolution of our solar system. • On the Moon: Investigations of the effects of the lunar environment on terrestrial life and the equipment that supports lunar inhabitants, and the effects of robotic and human presence on the lunar environment. • From the Moon: Use of the Moon as a platform for performing scientific investigations, including observations of the Earth and other celestial phenomena that are uniquely enabled by being on the lunar surface.
10-11	Ninth Meeting of the Small Bodies Assessment Group, Pasadena, California
12	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.
13-14	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.
15-16	Outer Planets Analysis Group (OPAG) Meeting, Washington, DC area
15-20	Protostars and Planets VI, Heidelberg, Germany
16-18	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.
17-19	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).
22-25	13th European Workshop on Astrobiology, Szczecin, Poland  The list of main topics that will be the subject of EANA 13 is given below: • Astrochemistry, interstellar medium; • Astrophysics, protoplanetary discs and planets; • Planetary habitability and exploration; • Macromolecules and models of prebiotic molecules; • Origin and evolution of life, extremophiles; • Rocks, fossils and meteorites; • Space technology, medicine and industry; • Miscellaneous subjects in astrobiolog
22-26	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.
22-Aug 9	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.
29-31	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.
29-Aug 2	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.
29-Aug 2	25th Annual NASA Planetary Science Summer School (Session I), Pasadena, California  An intensive one-week team exercise, preceded by several weekly webinars and assignments, to learn the process of developing a robotic mission concept into reality through concurrent engineering.
29-Aug 2	76th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society *, Edmonton, Canada

 

August 2013

1-2	Comet ISON Observer's Workshop, Laurel, MD  The meeting's overarching goal is to maximize the scientific return from ISON's 2013 apparition.
5-7	Analog Sites for Mars Missions II: Past, Present and Future Missions to Mars *, Washington, DC  The Analog Sites Workshop is planned as an interactive process that consists of online discussions that will take place in advance of the in-person meeting and breakout sessions during the workshop with assessment of proposed analog sites against the science objectives. The open online forum will be used to discuss and identify outstanding Mars science questions that might be answered through previous, ongoing, or future missions, including the 2020 rover mission. The discussion will then turn to how our ability to address these questions could be augmented with analog research on Earth. The online discussion will be open in May and will remain open until the end of the workshop. On June 5 the topics discussed will be summarized and identified as science objectives to be addressed through abstracts on analog research.
5-8	Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution V *, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
5-9	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.
12-16	25th Annual NASA Planetary Science Summer School (Session II), Pasadena, California  An intensive one-week team exercise, preceded by several weekly webinars and assignments, to learn the process of developing a robotic mission concept into reality through concurrent engineering.
14-16	4th Planetary Crater Consortium Meeting, Flagstaff, Arizona
14-16	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.
15-18	2013 International Mars Society Convention, Boulder, Colorado
16-25	Summer Course: "Impacts and their Role in the Evolution of Life", Kuressaare, Estonia
19-22	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.
22-25	International Meteor Conference, Poznan, Poland  The 2013 International Meteor Conference will be held in Poznań, the capital of the western Poland. This conference will be organized by the Polish Comets and Meteors Workshop (CMW/PKiM) and will take place from 2013 August 22–25. This IMC will be closely connected with Meteoroids 2013 Conference organized a few days later in the same city. Such location of the IMC will help both amateurs and professionals to meet and exchange their scientific results. There are many traveling possibilities to reach Poznań; the city is very easy reachable for all European participants.
25-30	Goldschmidt 2013 Conference, Florence, Italy
26-30	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.
26-30	Meteoroids 2013, Poznan, Poland
27-31	IAG/AIG International Conference on Geomorphology, Paris, France  The main topic of this 8th Conference is “Geomorphology and Sustainability”.

 

September 2013

2-5	Exoplanets and Brown Dwarfs: Mind the Gap, Hatfield, UK  The aim of this meeting is to bring the exoplanet and brown dwarf communities together to explore common science questions, share exciting results, and foster collaboration to overcome shared challenges.
8-13	European Planetary Science Conference (EPSC 2013), London, United Kingdom
9-12	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.
9-12	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.
9-21	The 2013 VLTI School: High Angular Resolution for Stellar Astrophysics, Bercelonnette, France  The aim of the school is to offer Ph.D. students, post-doctoral and permanent researchers an introduction to the technique of long-baseline optical/infrared interferometry and data reduction in astrophysics, namely, stellar physics including the hot topics of stellar activity, evolution, hydrodynamics, planet-hosting stars, determination of fundamental parameters, circumstellar envelopes, young stellar objects, as well as the role of binaries.
16-18	Uranus Beyond Voyager 2: From Recent Advances to Future Missions, Meudon, France  The purpose of the meeting will be to review our current knowledge of Uranus from past measurements, to highlight recent advances and ongoing studies on this planetary environment, and summarize the important unsolved scientific questions together with the key measurements required to address them. The meeting will culminate in discussing the status of future international mission concepts in Europe and in the United States to explore the Uranus System, including updates on feasibility studies and available technologies, together with next Earth-based observing campaigns.
21	Bob Lin Memorial Symposium, Berkeley, California  The Robert P. Lin Graduate Fellowship will be used to support outstanding graduate students at the University of California, Berkeley who pursue research related to space sciences, including, but not limited to, students with training in Physics, Astronomy or Engineering.
23-24	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.
23-26	Polarimetry of Planetary Systems, Florence, Italy  The purpose of the meeting will be to review our current knowledge of Uranus from past measurements, to highlight recent advances and ongoing studies on this planetary environment, and summarize the important unsolved scientific questions together with the key measurements required to address them. The meeting will culminate in discussing the status of future international mission concepts in Europe and in the United States to explore the Uranus System, including updates on feasibility studies and available technologies, together with next Earth-based observing campaigns.
23-27	Improving the Performances of Current Optical Interferometers and Future Designs, Haute-Provence Observatory, France  This workshop is partly dedicated to the technologies that could improve the performances of interferometers: optimized telescope array geometries, solutions with and without delay-lines, fringe tracking optimizations, and « Adaptive Optics » for diluted telescopes, progress in the field of optical fibers and integrated optics, focal recombiner, etc. Experiment reports, new optical designs to improve the sensitivity and the quality of interferometer observables (accuracy on the visibilities, and closure phases), and any new theoretical ideas are particularly welcome. Presentations on new telemetry techniques for very accurate delay-line positioning, in particular for astrometry, are encouraged. Progress in the field of nulling interferometry are also welcome. We plan to discuss the best optical design for a post-VLTI facility. In this context, several talks on astrophysical goals achievable with such an interferometer will be selected.
24-28	Second International Congress of Astrobiology in Columbia, Medellin, Columbia
25-26	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.
29-Oct 4	Sudbury Field Camp, Sudbury, Canada  The Short Course and Field School at the Sudbury Impact Structure is a week long classroom and field training program based in Sudbury, Ontario. The goal of the program will be to introduce students to impact cratering processes and observe, in the field, the attributes of an immense basin-size impact structure.

 

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