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August 2018

6-11	Summer School/Workshop “Microsatellites in Planetary and Atmospheric Research", Tartu, Estonia  This early career scientist workshop/summer school aims to give participant an overview into the most pivotal research questions in planetary and atmospheric sciences; highlight the possible potential of microsatellites in those areas; explore novel applications of microsatellites in a multitude of different fields including astronomy, planetary and atmospheric sciences, geosciences and astrobiology; foster the interaction between space researchers and technologists; allow participants to start the design and planning of new space missions; contribute to the training of a new generation of space researchers. The course will consist of lectures by leading scientists, planning of a micro- or nanosatellite project in small groups, as well as open discussions. Participants will also have the possibility to display their own research results in a poster session. Furthermore, a half-day excursion to interesting sites in the area (Ice Age Museum, Lake Peipus) and a walk in Tartu are included as a social programme.
7-9	Lunar Polar Volatiles (#LPV2018) *, Laurel, Maryland  This meeting will be a combined SSERVI-LRO meeting to discuss the state of knowledge on volatiles in the lunar polar regions. We will bring together experts in the areas of data analysis, modeling, instrumentation, and laboratory research from the SSERVI and LRO community as well as experts outside of these communities.
8-10	9th Planetary Crater Consortium Meeting, Boulder, Colorado  The 9th Planetary Crater Consortium meeting will be held August 8-10, 2018, at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, CO. The Planetary Crater Consortium is open to all planetary scientists interested in any aspect of impact cratering on solar system bodies, including observational, theoretical, experimental, and numerical studies. Contributions on terrestrial impact crater field studies are encouraged, as well as presentations about cratering on other solar system bodies. The meeting is a combination of contributed talks, posters, and open discussion. Abstract deadline is Wednesday, August 1, 2018.
10	Physical Chemistry 2018, Amsterdam, The Netherlands  EuroSciCon proudly announces the conference on “Physical Chemistry 2018,” to be held October 8–10, 2018, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The conference will have the theme “Challenging Advanced Prospect and Forefront Innovations in Physical Chemistry.” The conference aims to bring participants from all over the world to share their innovative ideas and views in the field of physical chemistry. EuroSciCon through its Open Access Initiative is committed to make genuine and reliable contributions to the scientific community and the primary purpose of the open access movement is to disseminate scientific information to a global audience to improve knowledge sharing among practitioners and research scholars from various disciplines. Physical Chemistry 2018 is a worldwide event featuring the latest science, research, and innovations in the field of physical chemistry.
12-17	The Final Cassini Science Symposium, Boulder, Colorado  Invited and contributed talks will include the latest Cassini findings on the Saturn system, including the interpretation and synthesis of results.
13-17	LSST 2018 Project and Community Workshop, Tucson, Arizona
13-27	The 11th Meeting on Cosmic Dust, Sagamihara, Japan  Aims at establishing a consensus among experts about the evolution of cosmic dust. The primary objective of the meeting is to provide the cosmic dust community with a unique opportunity to develop long-term relationships and possible collaborations through scientific interactions among meeting attendees.
15-17	Experimental Analysis of the Outer Solar System Workshop (#ExOSS) *, Fayetteville, Arkansas  The purpose of this two-and-one-half-day workshop is to gather and network those who work specifically in the experimental regime of the outer solar system and share ideas for improving instrumentation in the laboratories. Specifically, we aim to advance our understanding of the processes that lead to geophysical and atmospheric behaviors and verify the likely mechanisms responsible in a laboratory environment.
16-17	3rd Planetary CubeSat Science Symposium, Greenbelt, Maryland  The 3rd Planetary CubeSat Science Symposium will be held at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, with the participation of CubeSat/SmallSat scientists and developers. Discussions will include current missions, mission concepts, and opportunities for future mission selections. The sessions will also include panel discussions about strategic and technical aspects of planetary small satellite missions, and an afternoon poster session providing mission proposers the opportunity to meet with vendors and suppliers.
20-31	XXXth General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union, Vienna, Austria
26-31	Molecular Geobiology EMBO Practical Course, Heidelberg, Germany  This course will bring together early career researchers in the fields of geology, planetary science, micro- and molecular biology for an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of Geobiology. Participants will be introduced to a collaborative environment and the course will facilitate interaction between researchers in multiple fields who would otherwise have a limited opportunity to exchange ideas. One of the core objectives will be knowledge translation and mobilisation.
27-30	Comparative Climatology of Terrestrial Planets III (#CCTP3) *, Houston, Texas  NASA’s 3rd Comparative Climatology of Terrestrial Planets: From Stars to Surfaces (CCTP-3) conference will promote cross-disciplinary conversation on climate processes at work on terrestrial planets both within our solar system and in extrasolar systems.
28-30	A Century of Asteroid Families, Vienna, Austria  In this focus meeting we propose to review the history of asteroid family science; highlight some of the major results as well as watershed moments in the field; discuss new work being done; and provide predictions for the future of the field in light of the new techniques and data sets that are currently being developed.

 

September 2018

4-6	Asteroids and Comets - Inside Out Workshop, Tampere, Finland  This three-day workshop will concentrate on the recent developments in asteroid and comet research. It will cover both the surface and interior structures the latter of which still remain mainly unknown.
5-7	Physics of Coments After the Rosetta Mission: Unresolved Problems, Stara Lesna, Slovakia  The workshop will gather researchers studying different aspects of the physics of comets willing to discuss the heritage of the Rosetta mission with special emphasis on the remaining issues, unresolved problems, and unexpected findings.
10-13	ASP2018: Advancing Astronomy for All, Rohnert Park, California  Professional conference for scientists, educators, and others involved in education, outreach, and communication in astronomy and related sciences.
10-13	Observing the Sun as a Star: Would We Find the Solar System if We Saw It?, Gottingen, Germany  The workshop on Observing the Sun as a Star: Would We Find the Solar System if We Saw It? will present a comprehensive overview about the role of the Sun and the solar system in exoplanet research.
10-14	Triple Evolution and Dynamics Trendy-2, Leiden, The Netherlands
11-12	Outer Planets Assessment Group, Pasadena, California  he Outer Planets Assessment Group (OPAG) was established by NASA in late 2004 to identify scientific priorities and pathways for exploration in the outer solar system. The group consists of a 15-person steering committee, which actively solicits input from the scientific community and reports its findings to NASA Headquarters. OPAG provides input to NASA but does not make recommendations.
12-13	SSB Committee on Astrobiology and Planetary Science, Irvine, California  Purpose of the committee is to support scientific progress in astrobiology and planetary science and assist the federal government in integrating and planning programs in these fields by providing advice on the implementation of decadal survey recommendations.
12-14	International Workshop on Instrumentation for Planetary Missions (IPM-2018), Berlin, Germany  The workshop provides a forum for exchange of ideas in the area of the instruments, subsystems, and other payload-related technologies needed to address planetary science questions.
16-21	European Planetary Science Congress 2018 (EPSC), Berlin, Germany  The intention of the European Planetary Science Congress 2018 is to cover a broad area of science topics related to planetary science and planetary missions.
20-Oct 1	The 3rd Tautenburg School for Advanced Astronomical Observations: Echelle Spectroscopy, Tautenburg, Germany  The ten-day observing course will introduce students to advanced observational techniques using state-of-the-art research instruments. The focus of the 2018 school is spectroscopic observations with echelle spectrographs with an emphasis on techniques for the detection and characterization of exoplanets (orbital parameters, mass, radius, and atmospheres).
23-28	Extrasolar Cloud Academy: Cloud Formation and Properties in Extrasolar Planets, Grenoble, France  In the school we will review physical models for cloud formation in solar system planets, exoplanet observations, and laboratory studies.
24-27	SPIE Asia-Pacific Remote Sensing, Honolulu, Hawaii  All aspects associated with the design, development, and implementation of, as well as analysis and usage of data from remote sensing systems for terrestrial and planetary surfaces.
24-28	European Astrobiology Conference (EANA 2018), Berlin, Germany  The conference welcomes abstracts from all topics of astrobiology, and will set a special focus on "Water." EANA 2018 will be held together with the annual meetings of the German Astrobiology Society DAbG and the VAAM Space Microbiology Group. The third AbGradE symposium will take place directly before EANA at the same venue, from 22-24 September 2018.
26-28	NASA Technosignatures Workshop (#technosigs18) *, Houston, Texas  This workshop has four main goals: (1)Define the current state of the technosignature field. What experiments have occurred? What is the state-of-the-art for technosignature detection? What limits do we currently have on technosignatures? (2) Understand the advances coming near-term in the technosignature field. What assets are in place that can be applied to the search for technosignatures? What planned and funded projects will advance the state-of-the-art in future years, and what is the nature of that advancement? (3) Understand the future potential of the technosignature field. What new surveys, new instruments, technology development, new data-mining algorithms, new theory and modeling, etc., would be important for future advances in the field? (4) What role can NASA partnerships with the private sector and philanthropic organizations play in advancing our understanding of the technosignatures field?
27-28	4th International Conference on GIS and Remote Sensing, Berlin, Germany  The relative novel nature of the conference and its relevance to the current GIS market makes this summit an event to look forward to for all individuals of the GIS and remote sensing community. The theme is “Mapping the Future with GIS and Advancement in Remote Sensing” with an objective to help Geologists, Geo-Scientists, professors, and students to move beyond the boundaries of conventional yet ever-changing concepts.
27	Scale-Dependent Measurements of Meteorite Strength and the Implications for Asteroid Fragmentation (LPI Seminar: Desiree Cotto Figueroa, University of Puerto Rico), Hess Room  Measuring the strengths of asteroidal materials is important for developing mitigation strategies for potential Earth impactors and for understanding properties of in situ materials on asteroids during human and robotic exploration. Studies of asteroid disruption and fragmentation have typically used the strengths determined from terrestrial analog materials, although questions have been raised regarding the suitability of these materials. The few published measurements of meteorite strength are typically significantly greater than those estimated from the stratospheric breakup of meter-sized meteoroids. Given the paucity of relevant strength data, the scale-varying strength properties of meteoritic and asteroidal materials are poorly constrained. Based on our uniaxial failure studies of centimeter-sized cubes of a carbonaceous and ordinary chondrite, we develop the first Weibull failure distribution analysis of meteorites. This Weibull distribution projected to meter scales, overlaps the strengths determined from asteroidal airbursts and can be used to predict properties of to the 100 m scale. In addition, our analysis shows that meter-scale boulders on asteroids are significantly weaker than small pieces of meteorites, while large meteorites surviving on Earth are selected by attrition. Further, the common use of terrestrial analog materials to predict scale-dependent strength properties significantly overestimates the strength of meter-sized asteroidal materials and therefore is unlikely well suited for the modeling of asteroid disruption and fragmentation. Given the strength scale-dependence determined for carbonaceous and ordinary chondrite meteorites, our results suggest that boulders of similar composition on asteroids will have compressive strengths significantly less than typical terrestrial rocks
30-Oct 2	Bombardment: Shaping Planetary Surfaces and Their Environments (#1st1e9) *, Flagstaff, Arizona  This meeting is the third in the LPI’s The First Billion Years topical initiative.

 

October 2018

1-2	Late Mars Workshop (#LateMars) *, Houston, Texas  The Late Mars Workshop will be a discursive platform for the exchange of ideas, observations and hypotheses amongst planetary scientists keen to explore and explain the recent evolution of the martian landscape. This includes discussions of, for example, aranieforms, aeolian bedforms, volcanism, and other landforms and/or geological processes that are not related to the possible presence or absence of liquid water but are part of the active martian geosphere.
1-5	HoRSE: High Resolution Spectroscopy for Exoplanet Atmospheres, Nice, France  This workshop is a crossroad between planetology and stellar physics.
8-12	The Ninth Moscow Solar System Symposium (9M-S3), Moscow, Russia  The main topics of this meeting will be 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; the interplanetary environment; and astrobiology problems. Experimental planetary studies, science instruments, and preparation for space missions are also considered at these symposia.
9-11	Europa Deep Dive 2: Composition (#DeepDive2) *, Houston, Texas  The focus of the Europa Deep Dive 2: Chemical Composition of Europa and State of Laboratory Data workshop is to assess existing laboratory data and identify gaps where laboratory work is still needed; assess existing data on the Europa surface and exosphere, and planning how to realize the needs for new data; encourage dialogue among laboratory, observational, and data-analysis communities; and foster collaborations among complementary laboratories.
10-12	7th Joint Workshop on High pressure, Planetary and Plasma Physics (HP4), Berlin, Germany  The aim of the upcoming workshop is to continue the discussion of scientific questions with relevance for extreme planetary environments in terms of high pressure (HP) and high temperature (HT). The conditions prevalent in the deep interiors and atmospheric envelopes of solar system planets, their satellites as well as massive solid and gas giant extrasolar planets, respectively, and are not fully accessible by conventional experimental and theoretical methods. New and enabling techniques to be used in the HP/HT regime are based on the combination of intense pulsed x-ray sources with pulsed sample excitation, in particular but not exclusively related to high energy optical lasers. Simultaneously, ab initio simulations for matter under extreme conditions provide a more and more predictive data set for planetary interiors in this HP/HT regime.
11	LPI Seminar: Lakes, Rivers, and Dry Landscapes in Gale Crater, Mars: The Importance of Understanding Grain Size Variations (Frances Rivera-Hernandez, Dartmouth College), Lecture Hall  Reconstructing ancient depositional environments is key to accomplishing the main goal of the Mars Science Laboratory mission: to characterize habitable environments of early Mars from the sedimentary record in Gale crater with the Curiosity rover. Accurate measurement of the size and distribution of grains in sedimentary rocks is crucial for interpreting depositional environment. This is a challenging task on Mars using rover images. However, grain size can be inferred from ChemCam Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy data using the Gini Index Mean Score (GIMS), a statistical measure of compositional variability. > Results using the GIMS suggest that rocks in Gale crater from the ~5.2 m thick Yellowknife Bay formation consist of mudstones overlain by poorly sorted sandstones, demonstrating that flow characteristics shifted abruptly from a low-energy lake to a high energy alluvial environment. In contrast, GIMS results suggest that the ~300-m thick Murray formation consists primarily of mudstones with intervals of fine to coarse sandstones. While the interstratified sandstones indicate rapid fluid flow either in aeolian or fluvial environments, the persistence of mudstones suggest that lakes may have been sustained in Gale crater for tens of thousands to millions of years. Early Mars must have had climatic conditions that could have sustained the diversity of depositional environments preserved in Gale Crater.
15-16	Science With HabEx: UV to Near-Infrared Space Astronomy in the 2030's, New York, New York  The Habitable Exoplanet Observatory (HabEx) is one of four concepts currently under study by NASA in preparation for the 2020 Astrophysics Decadal Survey. HabEx is designed to be the next-generation great observatory that has the capability to address physics of the cosmos, cosmic origins, solar system, and exoplanet science. HabEx is a space-based 4-meter diameter telescope with ultraviolet, optical, and near-infrared imaging and spectroscopy capabilities, and at least 50% of the primary 5-year mission will be dedicated to community involvement through a competed and funded Guest Observer (GO) program. The purpose of this meeting is to invite members of the community to present scientific investigations and observational programs that will be important and relevant in the 2030’s and can be specifically conducted — or could benefit from synergistic observations — with HabEx.
15-19	Multi-Dimensional Characterization of Distant Worlds, Ann Arbor, Michigan  This will be a two-day conference and three-day workshop on spectral retrieval and spatial mapping. The first two days will be spent learning about the nuances of retrieval in various contexts. Then we will spend the last three days working in groups to tackle some of the important problems we identify, with the goal of creating enough momentum that progress can continue after the workshop is over.
21-26	50th Meeting of the AAS Division for Planetary Sciences, Knoxville, Tennessee
25-26	Chromatography 2018, Rome, Italy  Meetings International proudly invites participants from all over the world to attend “World Congress on Chromatography” October 25-26, 2018 at Rome, Italy. Chromatography 2018 will be operated by world class experts in the field of Chemistry, Modern Chemistry, and Analytical Chemistry. Workshops will also be organised to discuss specific topics in the field of Chemistry (i.e. latest technologies, trends about chromatography and its application).
30-31	Towards an All-Sky Radio SETI Telescope, Manchester, United Kingdom  This meeting will address the topic of current and future wide-field SETI searches at radio wavelengths, with the goal of producing an inventory of the various international wide-field radio telescope projects and developments that are currently underway or being proposed.
31-Nov 2	Cosmic Dust and Magnetism, Daejeon, South Korea  The aim of this workshop is to bring together local and international experts in dust astrophysics and magnetic fields in order to discuss the following aspects: 1. Dust composition and dust coagulation from angstroms to centimeters to planetesimals, 2. Physics of dust polarization: grain alignment, scattering, and observational tests, 3. What is the role of magnetic fields on star and planet formation? 4. What can we learn from mm-cm dust polarization observations with VLA and ALMA Band 1: magnetic fields or grain growth? 5. Alternative ways to trace magnetic fields as a synergy to dust polarization, 6. Related important issues: turbulence, filaments, and shocks, 7. What dust astrophysics and magnetic fields are required for accurate modeling of CMB B-modes foregrounds?

 

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