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March 2013

4-8	Ganymede Lander: Scientific Goals and Experiments, Moscow, Russia  A study of Jupiter system is an important part of international efforts to understand the origin of Galilean satellites and more generally the origin of the Solar System. Few years ago Russian Academy of Sciences and Roscosmos proposed to include a Lander for investigation of one of the moons of Jupiter, namely Europa or possibly Ganymede, as an additional element of EJSM/Laplace international mission to Jupiter system. This is considered as a very important component of Roscosmos’s long-term strategic plan for reinforced cooperation with ESA and NASA. Ganymede – the third of Galilean satellites is becoming now the final destination point of the European JUICE mission. Its concept results from the reformulation of the EJSM/Laplace mission into a European-led mission. On the other hand Russia is working now on a lander concept for Ganymede. Russian GL (Ganymede Lander) will be a partner mission for JUICE. The main scientific object of GL will be a search of possible present and past signatures of life and ‘in situ’ studies of the environment from the surface by remote and contact methods. In addition to coordination of scientific tasks, certain number of practical problems (e.g. navigation, data transfer, types of surface topography information for landing etc.) are planned to be discussed during these Colloquia. Russian GL mission is presently aimed for launch in 2023-2024, though this schedule might be revised in the future and aligned with JUICE. Science payload of the mission is being considered, and international participation is welcomed.
6-8	Committee on Astrobiology and Planetary Science, Washington, DC
10-15	Fundamental Properties and Processes of Magnetotails, Reykjavik, Iceland  The conference will provide a forum in which various communities can come together and discuss recent achievements of observational, theoretical, and modeling studies with the objective to develop a deeper understanding of fundamental properties and processes of planetary magnetotails through a comparative examination. We will have presentations to compare and contrast knowledge from our best-sampled environment, the Earth’s magnetotail, to the less explored magnetotails of Saturn and Jupiter, and to the least explored magnetotails of Mercury, Uranus, and Neptune.
11-12	Characterising Exoplanets: Detection, Formation, Interiors, Atmospheres and Habitability, London, United Kingdom  This meeting aims to set the agenda for the next decade in this rapidly expanding field of extra-solar planet science. Some 800 planets orbiting stars outside of our solar system have now been detected, with varying masses and orbital parameters. The challenge now is to move from detection to understanding these planets as bodies in their own right.
16-17	Microsymposium 54, Lunar Farside and Poles: New Destinations for Exploration, The Woodlands, Texas  The goal of Microsymposium 54 is to present a summary of these new discoveries, and to bring together representatives of the geology, mineralogy, petrology, spectroscopy, geochemistry, geophysics, and dynamics communities to discuss these new findings and to ponder their implications for the next generation of significant scientific problems. A critical aspect of this discussion will be to assess the implications of this new perspective for future goals and destinations for robotic and human lunar exploration.
18-22	44th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC 2013) *, The Woodlands, Texas
19-22	11th CoRoT Week, Tenerife, Spain  The 11th CoRoT Week seeks to bring together the full CoRoT community to present the mission’s results, to interchange ideas about the analysis and interpretation of its data, and to place CoRoT in the context of the rapidly developing fields of exoplanets and asteroseismology. Thereby, we want to prepare the CoRoT community to exploit the legacy of that mission to the best extent possible.
25-27	Herschel Calibration Workshop: Only the Best Data Products for the Legacy Archive, Madrid, Spain  This workshop will enable Herschel calibration experts and observatory users to gather to assess the current status, successes and shortcomings of the whole set of observing modes available to Herschel and the calibrations performed. It is scheduled to take place around the end of Helium cryogenic phase of the mission and before full consolidation of calibrations and archived observations in a post operational phase. The workshop will therefore provide further feedback into the planning of calibration improvements in the upcoming years so that the Herschel Science Archive has the best calibrated data possible.

 

April 2013

3-6	From Stars to Life — Connecting our Understanding of Star Formation, Planet Formation, Astrochemistry and Astrobiology, Gainesville, Florida  We would like to understand the physical and chemical processes that lead to habitable planet formation, starting from the simplest interstellar medium initial conditions of pre-stellar cores, through star formation, accretion & protoplanetary disk evolution, and planet & planetary system formation & evolution. We will discuss theoretical, observational and laboratory constraints on these processes. The conference aims to foster inter and multidisciplinary collaboration between researchers interested in these topics.
4-5	NASA Planetary Science Subcommittee Meeting, Washington, D.C.  In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public Law 92-463, as amended, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announces a meeting of the Planetary Science Subcommittee of the NASA Advisory Council (NAC). This Subcommittee reports to the Science Committee of the NAC. The meeting will be held for the purpose of soliciting, from the scientific community and other persons, scientific and technical information relevant to program planning.
5	GRAIL Explores the Moon's Interior (Walter Kiefer, Lunar and Planetary Institute), Lecture Hall  The overarching science goal for NASA’s GRAIL mission was to understand the structure of the Moon’s interior from crust to core. GRAIL mapped the Moon’s gravity field at elevations between 3 and 55 km during 2012. The resulting gravity map reveals features as small as 7 to 9 km across and is the best global gravity map for any planetary object, including Earth. When combined with recent measurements of the Moon’s global topography, GRAIL has dramatically improved our knowledge of the Moon’s internal structure. The bulk density of the lunar crust is about 10% lower than anticipated by prior geophysical models but is consistent with lab measurements of lunar rocks. The bulk density is particularly low surrounding major impact basins, reflecting the high porosity of basin ejecta sheets. The gravity observations require the presence of large volumes of intrusive basaltic material in the Aristarchus and Marius Hills volcanic fields, whereas the Cauchy and Hortensius volcanic fields do not contain such intrusions. Intrusive volcanism is also a likely contributor to the gravity anomalies at impact basin mascons, such as the Orientale basin.
7-12	European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2013, Vienna, Austria
8-12	Transformational Science with ALMA: From Dust to Rocks to Planets Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems, Waikoloa, Hawaii  The Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array (ALMA) is the world's most complex ground-based astronomical observatory. While still under construction, ALMA is opening a window into cosmic origins from previously inaccessible cold and dark parts of our universe. With its anticipated 66 antennae in full operations, ALMA will deliver astonishing imaging capabilities and sensitivity that will surpass any other telescope at millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths. The first light observations from ALMA, begun in September 2011, are exciting researchers with new views of gas and dust harboring young stars and planetary systems. We are on the threshold of an explosion of observations that will transform our knowledge and understanding of how solar systems, planets, and life all begin. In this workshop, investigators from around the world will meet in Hawaii to explore the evolution of material in protostellar disks from formation to dissipation. The Island of Hawaii is home to the largest observatory in the Northern Hemisphere, and is the site of extensive, collaborative, international research efforts. A focus of the workshop will be the processing of the gas and dust components, and the growth of planetesimals. We will also explore chemical changes, and radiative signatures at millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths. We will showcase results from ALMA early science projects and feature synergies with other telescopes that can help to advance this field, particularly those sited on the island of Hawaii.
9-10	Third International Workshop on Lunar Superconductor Applications, Cocoa Beach, Florida
11	LunarCubes Briefing #2, Cocoa Beach, Florida  Flexure Engineering is creating the LunarCube Working Group and LunarCube workshops to promote the creation of a standard to facilitate the development of low-cost, rapid-development payloads that could be easily added to the many lunar opportunities that will exist in the coming decades. LunarCubes will be more expensive and complex than typical CubeSats but much cheaper than typical interplanetary sats. Since lunar mission opportunities are more rare and costly than LEO opportunities, it will be common to combine multiple LunarCube-based payloads into one package for launch and operations. This will lead to complications not seen in a typical CubeSat mission and the LunarCube standard will have to address three new areas: Payload integration, launch - Multiple LunarCubes on one ride-along opportunity; Payload integration, operations - Multiple LunarCubes on one lander or Mother Ship; Mission Management - Multiple LunarCubes operating simultaneously. Due to tight travel budgets and new rules for government-sponsored workshops we have chosen to break the first workshop up into three one day briefings to be held in October, November, and April. The purpose of the briefings and the working group will be to create an open discussion about these issues and more to advance lunar science and mission opportunities for teams around the world.
12	Lunar Crustal Magnetism — Origins and Influence on Space Weathering (Doug Hemingway, University of California, Santa Cruz), Lecture Hall  Although the Moon does not now possess a global magnetic field, its surface is dotted with strong crustal magnetic anomalies, often hundreds of kilometers across. These enigmatic magnetic features may be the signatures of a now extinct dynamo but could also be the result of exotic processes related to basin-forming impact events. In any case, the magnetic anomalies are important clues to the Moon's early history and evolution. Curiously, many of the magnetic anomalies are accompanied by complex, sinuous patterns of bright surface markings, known as "swirls". A strong candidate explanation for the appearance of swirls is that they form where locally strong magnetic fields disturb space weathering patterns, effectively shielding portions of the surface from the darkening effects of solar wind ion bombardment. In this talk, I will show that an analysis of the local magnetic field geometry supports the solar wind shielding hypothesis and I will discuss how the modeling results give insights into the underlying magnetic sources and the nature of the magnetizing field. I will also discuss the possibility of a low-cost spacecraft mission that could collect the extremely low altitude measurements needed to test our predictions.
15-18	Light Pollution: Theory, Modelling, and Measurements (LPTMM-2013), Smolenice, Slovak Republic  This conference is more specifically oriented toward scientific and astronomical issues. It will address themes concerning theoretical concepts of modelling light pollution, numerical tools and simulation experiments, effects of atmospheric aerosols and obstacles on light pollution, impact of spectral characteristics of light sources and reflecting surfaces, observational techniques, data, and products and design and evaluation of dark sky friendly lighting technologies.
15-19	2013 IAA Planetary Defense Conference, Flagstaff, Arizona  Papers are solicited in the following areas:  Planetary Defense  Recent Progress & Plans  NEO Discovery  NEO Characterization  Mitigation Techniques & Missions  Impact Effects that Inform Warning, Mitigation & Costs  Consequence Management & Education The conference will include an exercise where participants will simulate the decision-making process for developing deflection and civil defense responses to a hypothetical asteroid threat.
15-19	International Young Astronomer School on Exploiting the Herschel and Planck Data (2013), Meudon, France  The Doctoral School of Astronomy-Astrophysics of Great Paris (ED 127) is the only thematic doctoral school in France, in the field of astronomy and astrophysics. The school is supported by four universities or Institutes : the Paris Observatory (carrier), Université Paris-Sud (P11), Université Paris Diderot (P7) and UPMC (P6). Since 2008, the Doctoral School organizes a biennial international school in the field of observational astronomy, intended for PhD students and postdocs. The third edition of this school will be held in March 2013. The previous two had been very successful and received about 40 participants each, representing more than fifteen different nationalities. This is the third edition of a school with the goal to train young researchers, PhD students and postdocs, regardless of nationality, to the scientific exploitation of two recently launched European space missions, Planck and Herschel. The first results obtained by these two satellites, the most successful ever launched in their respective fields, are reshaping the landscape in many areas of astrophysics (cosmology, galaxies and large structures, star formation, interstellar medium, the solar system) and there is some urgency to introduce the concepts and specific methods of exploitation of their data to future researchers.
17-19	UK Astrobiology Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland  The fifth UK Astrobiology Conference (ASB5) will be held in Edinburgh from April 17-19, 2013. Hosted by the UK Centre for Astrobiology on behalf of the Astrobiology Society of Britain, the conference focus will be “Molecules and Life in Extreme Environments.”
22-24	Workshop on the Evolution and Constitution of Mercury's Interior, Chicago, Illinois
22-27	20th Young Scientists' Conference on Astronomy and Space Physics, Kyiv, Ukraine  The aim of the annual Open Young Scientists' Conference on Astronomy and Space Physics is to provide young scientists with a possibility to communicate and present their scientific work. Fields: • atmospheric studies and space geophysics • Solar physics and heliosphere • Solar System & extrasolar planets • stellar astrophysics • interstellar and intergalactic medium • extragalactic astrophysics and cosmology • high-energy astrophysics and astroparticle physics • positional astronomy and astronomical equipment • computers in astrono
23-25	SPICE Domestic Training Class for 2013, Monrovia, California
26	The Great (and Perplexing) Equatorial Ridge on Saturn's Moon Iapetus (Andrew Dombard, University of Illinois at Chicago), Lecture Hall  The equatorial ridge on Iapetus is one of the most peculiar features in the solar system. A mountain range up to 20 km high, it runs perfectly along the moon's equator for most of its circumference. The formation of this ridge has baffled scientists since its discovery almost a decade ago. Here, I review models that have been proposed to explain the ridge and argue that it is the end product of a sub-satellite formed by a giant impact during the formation of the solar system.
29-May 3	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.

 

May 2013

3	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.
5-9	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.
6-7	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).
6-8	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.
10	RAS Specialist Discussion Meeting: Observation, Evolution and Origin of Planetary Satellites, London, United Kingdom
13-15	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.
15-17	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.
20-21	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.
21-23	NLSI Workshop Without Walls: Lunar Volatiles (Part 1), Virtual  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.
24-27	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.
28-29	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.
28-30	Annual Meeting of the Canadian Astronomical Society (CASCA), Vancouver, Canada
28-31	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
29-31	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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