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June 2020

1-2	23rd Meeting of the Small Bodies Assessment Group, Laurel, Maryland  The Small Bodies Assessment Group (SBAG) was established by NASA in March 2008 to identify scientific priorities and opportunities for the exploration of asteroids, comets, interplanetary dust, small satellites, and Trans-Neptunian Objects.
1-5	Towards Other Earths III: From Solar System to Exoplanets *Postponed*, Lamego, Portugal  Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and its global impact, we sadly decided to postpone the conference "TOE3: From Solar System to Exoplanets" originally scheduled for June 1-5, 2020 in Lamego, Portugal. Due to the high number of conferences that have been and will be postponed, we have not decided on the new date yet. We will inform you as soon as possible.
1-26	Planet Formation: From Dust Coagulation to Final Orbit Assembly, Garching, Germany  The collective properties of the currently known ~4000 extrasolar planets have left no doubt that planetary systems come in a variety of sizes and orbital configurations. These diverse characteristics of planetary systems, combined with new observational data of our solar system, have raised many questions on the processes involved in the formation of planetary bodies and their dynamical evolution. This program will bring together experts with complementary expertise in observation, theory, solar system, and extrasolar planets to assess the current status of planet formation models, highlight problems in each formation stage, and explore the possibility of developing comprehensive models that can be applied to different planetary systems.
2-4	Mercury 2020 *Rescheduled*, Orléans, France  Because of the ongoing coronavirus crisis, we have to postpone the Mercury 2020 conference that was scheduled for June 2-4, 2020, in Orléans, France. This conference will now be held next year, from Tuesday June 8, until Friday June 11, 2021, also in Orléans. Note that an additional day has been included (4 days in total) to allow for more oral presentations.
5-15	GAIA & TESS: Tools for Understanding of the Local Universe, Brno, Czech Republic  The GAIA and TESS era brings many challenges with data reduction and with the handling of large data sets in general. This ERASMUS+ Summer School in Brno is aiming at bringing together expert lecturers and tutors who will share their knowledge with school attendants from the early career researcher group. The school is organized in blocks of lectures and hands-on exercises focussing on TESS and GAIA data. In addition, students will work on projects related to TESS and GAIA but from various fields of research. The projects will be led by experienced tutors. The location at Masaryk University Brno, which is home to about 30 thousand students, will offer a vibrant scientific environment for school attendants for exchanges of ideas and fostering of new collaborations. We plan to organize also a career session and a number of social events. Early career researchers (PhD students, young postdocs) focusing on various aspects of data handling of space, missions are welcome to apply. Topics: exoplanets; stellar pulsations; eclipsing binaries; dynamics of the Milky Way; runaway stars; stellar flares.
8-11	7th Mars Atmosphere Modelling and Observations Conference, Paris, France  The 7th Mars Atmosphere Modelling and Observations Conference will bring together experts in observations and modelling of the present and past Mars climate systems. We will discuss the nature of the atmospheric circulation and the photochemistry (up to the thermosphere), the dust cycle, the water cycle (vapor, clouds and frost) and the carbon dioxide cycle (polar caps).
8-12	17th International Planetary Probe Workshop, Monterey, California  IPPW brings together scientists, engineers, technologists, mission designers, space agency representatives and students from around the world for a collaboration focused on exploring solar system destinations through in-situ missions.
9-11	Global Space Exploration Conference, St. Petersburg, Russia  The conference, co-organized by the International Astronautical Federation (IAF) and ROSCOSMOS, will bring together leaders and decision-makers within the science and human exploration community – engineers, scientists, entrepreneurs, educators, agency representatives and policy makers. The leaders in the field will converge in St. Petersburg to discuss recent results, current challenges, and innovative solutions.The conference will provide several opportunities to learn about how space exploration investments provides benefits as well as discuss how those benefits can be increased through thoughtful planning and cooperation.
9-11	The 11th joint Planetary and Terrestrial Mining Sciences Symposium and Space Resources Roundtable *Postponed*, Ottawa, Canada  In response to the COVID-19 situation and the guidance provided by health officials, the Planetary and Terrestrial Mining Sciences Symposium (PTMSS) and the Space Resources Roundtable (SRR) eleventh joint meeting scheduled for June 9-11, 2020 has been postponed. We are working with our venue and stakeholders to determine a suitable date and will provide that information as soon as it becomes available. We will also be updating our abstract submission and early bird registration deadlines accordingly. For those of you who have already registered for the conference, your registration will be valid for the new dates. Should you wish a refund, please contact Sherry Schmidt directly to have it issued ([email protected]). The conference website remains the same: https://www.ptmss.ca/ We look forward to bringing the space resources community back together as soon as we are cleared for launch ..
15-19	Astrochemical Frontiers — Quarantine Edition, Virtual  IAU Commission H2 offers this opportunity via a remote conference to give a remote talk, participate in remote question and answers - and continue to share the science that unites us all. In terms of topics we value all work in our interdisciplinary field we therefore encourage you to apply for a talk and the SOC, comprised by the steering committee above, will create the schedule. We anticipate over-subscription to our 60 speaking slots and will focus the content on frontier/field-leading topics whether theory, observation, or the lab. We will favor early career scholars as this might be the only astrochemistry conference until the fall. Abstract submission is due May 18, 2020; Registration is due June 1, 2020; No registration fee. Talks will be announced on May 29.
16-18	SPICE Training Class at ESAC Training Class at ESAC *Canceled*, Madrid, Spain  Given the developing situation regarding the COVID-19 Virus, we sadly need to announce that we have decided not to hold the June 2020 SPICE Training Class at ESAC. We are deeply sorry for any inconvenience caused by the cancelation. To mitigate this cancellation you might consider using the self-training from NAIF. This option makes use of the same tutorials and lessons used in the live training classes. The tutorials are available here: https://naif.jpl.nasa.gov/naif/self_training.html
22-24	Planetary Science Informatics and Data Analytics Conference *Canceled*, Madrid, Spain  On March 24th 2020, after careful consideration and comprehensive evaluation of currently available information related to the COVID-19 outbreak, the PSIDA Programme Organizing Committee made the difficult for safe decision to cancel the Planetary Science Informatics and Data Analytics Conference, originally scheduled for June 22-24 at ESAC in Madrid, Spain. We continue to closely monitor the developments surrounding COVID-19, and we wish to inform you, that we are planning to take the opportunity to keep some PSIDA activities later this year using EuroPlanet Science Congress 2020, that will be held in Granada, Spain, between September 27 and October 2 2020, and possibly at the AGU, if the circumstances allow. In agreement with the session conveners, we are thinking of using the EPSC 2020 MITM9 session "Tools and Databases for Solar and Planetary Sciences at the Big Data Era", to include PSIDA themes.
22-24	Preparing for Sofia-HIRMES Science: The Missing Link Between JWST and Herschel, Baltimore, Maryland  The HIRMES Science Working Group invites the astronomical community to a workshop June 22-24, 2020 at Space Telescope Science Institute on the campus of Johns Hopkins University. The goal of the workshop is to raise the community's awareness to the upcoming availability of HIRMES, discuss the science that could be enabled by this new capability, and provide technical support for attendees interested in submitting HIRMES proposals. We envision a workshop with a mixture of invited and contributed talks and hands-on tutorial sessions. The invited and contributed talks will have a special focus on community contributions, but will also include presentations by NASA, SOFIA observatory, and Science Working Group members. Presentations will include: science talks illustrating the full range of HIRMES’ potential; the HIRMES instrument, status, and its capabilities; the HIRMES Legacy Science Program; HIRMES synergies with other missions. The tutorial sessions will be hands-on opportunities for members of the astronomical community to learn how to perform exposure time calculations and plan their observations. Attendees would have the opportunity to present posters.
22-25	Cosmic Explorations: At the Intersection of Science, Space, Art, and Culture, Pasadena, California  This is the eleventh international conference from the series “The Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena”, focused on the intersection of science, humanities, art, and culture. Celestial phenomena have fascinated the humanity for millennia, inspiring works of art, science, scholarship, and emerging technologies. Southern California has played a major, or even a central role in this arena over the past century. Our goals are to provide an opportunity for the scholars from various, disparate disciplines to interact, gain new perspectives, and establish novel collaborations, to celebrate our rich history and the ongoing activities in this arena, and to inform and inspire the general public.
24-25	Preventing Harassment in Science: Building a Community of Practice Toward Meaningful Change (#PreventScienceHarassment2020) *Virtual* *  The goal of this workshop is to bring leaders of anti-harassment efforts together to share ideas and discuss best practice methods to reduce harassment in the scientific workplace. An expected outcome of this workshop is to create a community of practice to continue future anti-harassment efforts.
25-26	The Planetary CubeSats/SmallSats Symposium, Greenbelt, Maryland  The Planetary CubeSats/SmallSats Symposia are held annually at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, with the participation of CubeSat/SmallSats scientists and developers. Discussions include current missions, mission concepts, and opportunities for future mission selections. The sessions also include panel discussions about strategic and technical aspects of planetary CubeSats/SmallSats, and an afternoon poster session provides mission proposers the opportunity to meet with vendors and suppliers.
29-Jul 3	European Astronomical Society Annual Meeting, Leiden, the Netherlands  The European Astronomical Society (EAS) Annual Meeting (formerly known as EWASS) has been a tradition for over 25 years, and is the largest conference for European astronomy. In addition to plenary sessions and the award of prestigious prizes, the conference hosts many symposia held in parallel, as well as special sessions and meetings. The EAS, often together with one of its affiliated societies, organises its annual meeting to enhance its links with national communities, to broaden connections between individual members and to promote European networks. EAS 2020 will be held in Leiden, The Netherlands, from June 29 to July 3, 2020. The conference is expected to welcome more than 1000 astrophysicists from all over Europe and beyond. EAS 2020 will also host the NAC 2020 (75th Nederlandse Astronomenconferentie) of the Royal Nederlandse Astronomenclub (NAC). EAS 2020 participants can participate in NAC 2020 and vice-versa. More details will be available on the EAS 2020 and NAC 2020 websites.

 

July 2020

1-2	LunGradCon 2020, Virtual  The 10th Annual Lunar and Small Bodies Graduate Conference (LunGradCon 2020) is to be held virtually on Wednesday and Thursday, July 1-2, 2020, preceding the NASA Exploration Science Forum (ESF, July 8-10). With the expanded interests of the Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI), the scope of LunGradCon includes both lunar and small body science. LunGradCon provides an opportunity for grad students and early-career postdocs to present their research on lunar and small body science in a low-stress, friendly environment, being critiqued only by their peers. In addition to virtual presentations, the conference will feature Q&A panels with various groups to help grad students navigate the paths to careers in space science. The deadline for LunGradCon registration and abstract submission is June 19, 2019, 11:59 PM PDT. For more details, please visit: http://impact.colorado.edu/lungradcon/ or email any questions to: [email protected]
8-10	NASA Exploration Science Forum, Virtual  Due to the COVID-19 situation, this year’s NESF will be an all-virtual meeting. This year's Forum will feature exploration science discussions for human exploration targets of interest (the Moon, near-Earth asteroids, and the moons of Mars). Science sessions will focus on recent mission results and in-depth analyses of science and exploration studies. Dedicated side-conferences for graduate students and young professionals will coincide with the ESF. Public engagement discussions will be interwoven among science topics as well.
20-31	Data Analysis for Planetary Science (DAPS-CBW 2020), Antofagasta, Chile  We invite Earth and Space Science graduate students and early career researchers that are interested in working with data coming from planetary missions, to send an application to the COSPAR Data Analysis for Planetary Sciences Capacity Building Workshop 2020 (DAPS-CBW 2020): http://cospar.das.uchile.cl. The goal of the workshop is to develop interesting scientific projects guided by experts of missions as New Horizons, Juno, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, Hayabusa 2, MAVEN and representatives of Nasa's Planetary Data System and ESA's Planetary Science Archive. The workshop will take place between July 20-31 2020 in the facilities of the Universidad Católica del Norte, located in Antofagasta, Chile, in the core of the Atacama Desert. Registration fee and lodging expenses will be fully covered by the organization. Travel support is available for regional participants. Only applications received through the online form by March 31st will be considered.
23	2020 Annual Meeting of Planetary Geologic Mappers *, *Virtual*  The purpose is to report progress on NASA-funded geologic mapping projects. Other planetary geologists who are conducting geologic mapping are also welcome to attend.
27-31	Exoplanets III, Heidelberg, Germany  The overall program of talks will likely consist of the following sessions: Detection: Transits; Detection: Radial Velocity; Detection: Imaging, Microlensing, Gaia; Formation; System Architectures & Dynamics; Host stars; Planetary Interiors; Atmospheres; Habitability and Biosignatures; Future Missions and Observatories. There will also be an extensive poster session, with ample time allocated for poster viewing.
29-30	Lunar Surface Science Workshop *, *Virtual Session 2*  NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, and Space Technology Mission Directorate were co-sponsoring a three-day workshop to actively engage the scientific community in order to determine what science could be done by human crews on the lunar surface and how it can be achieved.

 

August 2020

5-7	11th Planetary Crater Consortium Meeting *, *Virtual*  The 11th PCC meeting is open to planetary and terrestrial scientists interested in any aspect of impact cratering on solar system bodies. We welcome abstracts related to observational, theoretical, experimental, and/or numerical modeling studies of impact craters on planets, dwarf planets, moons, asteroids, comets, or other small solar system objects. This year, we particularly encourage discussions on the use of topographic data for the analysis of craters on any planetary body.
9-14	83rd Annual Meeting of The Meteoritical Society *Canceled* *, Glasgow, Scotland  As the Covid pandemic continues to advance around the world it is clear that the Glasgow meeting, originally scheduled for August, will need to be rescheduled to another year. Please bear with us as the society adjusts its schedule of annual meetings to respond to the pandemic. It takes years to organize an annual meeting and moving all scheduled meetings is difficult but essential for the safety of our members and their communities. We will announce the rescheduling of annual meetings once arrangements have been finalized and Council has approved the revised schedule.
15-23	43rd COSPAR Scientific Assembly, Sydney, Australia  The Assembly represents the next significant aiming point for Australia to showcase our space sector growth, with particular emphasis on research and innovation to support industry and world class space science, in the context of what by then will be a young but rapidly maturing Australian Space Agency. Australian space activities will be showcased to the world of space research. This will lead to strengthening existing and growing new ties between Australia and international partners, resulting in collaborations and partnerships that will assist both the innovation and industry parts of the sector. The theme of the 2020 Assembly is Connecting Space Research for Global Impact, and Australia stands to use the Assembly to help deliver such impact at a time when the Australian Space Agency is gathering momentum.
19-26	Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems and Habitable Planets, Torun, Poland  The summer school will be held on August 19-26, 2020 in the Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Informatics of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland. Its aims are: to introduce early career scientists to interdisciplinary work in planetary sciences, to introduce science journalists and science teachers to scientific work and scientists, to teach future scientists how to explain scientific concepts to general public and each other, facilitating interdisciplinary research. The idea behind the school is to gather people from different backgrounds, including astronomy, geology, biology, physics, journalism and teaching, and provide them with the opportunity to work in multidisciplinary groups on solving scientific problems.The program of the school will include joint lectures - from protoplanetary discs and exoplanets to geologic features of the surfaces of Earth and Mars - and afternoon hands-on sessions in small, interdisciplinary groups. Participants will present posters and flash talks about their work at the beginning of the school. Presentations by groups of students about the results obtained as part of the school are schedules at the final day of the school.
20	Lunar Surface Science Workshop *, *Virtual Session 3*  NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, and Space Technology Mission Directorate were co-sponsoring a three-day workshop to actively engage the scientific community in order to determine what science could be done by human crews on the lunar surface and how it can be achieved.

 

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