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November 2018 |
| 4-7
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2018 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting,
Indianapolis, Indiana 
The 2018 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting.
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| 6-7
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Future of Space Astronomy in Canada,
Montreal, Canada
This 2-day workshop will bring together all stakeholders (academia, industry, the Canadian Space Agency) to discuss the participation of Canada in future space astronomy projects of all scales and wavelengths. The goal is to stimulate ideas and plans for the forthcoming Long Range Plan 2020. This will be an opportunity to hear about the status of ongoing and future space astronomy projects and to discuss current issues with CSA funding among other topics.
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| 6-8
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16th Venus Exploration Analysis Group Meeting,
Laurel, Maryland
The Venus Exploration Analysis Group is NASA's community-based forum designed to provide scientific input and technology development plans for planning and prioritizing the exploration of Venus over the next several decades.
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| 12-14
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5th International Conference on Artificial Light at Night 2018,
Salt Lake City, Utah
The ALAN conference series is dedicated to examining all aspects of artificial light at night. The broad scope of the conference includes how light is produced (e.g. technologies, industry, and lighting design), where it is present (e.g. remote sensing), what effects it has on humans and the environment (e.g. ecology), how it is perceived by the public (e.g. perceptions of safety and security), and how the benefits and detriments of lighting may be balanced by regulation.
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| 12-16
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2nd GeoPlaNet Thematic School — Fluid-Rock Interactions in the Solar System,
Nantes, France
This high-level training program in Planetary Geosciences will cover various aspects of these interactions through physics, chemistry, mineralogy, petrology, tectonics, geomorphology, and sedimentology. In addition to reporting on and comparing the most recent results derived from space missions in the solar system and observations on the Earth, the school will train participants in various techniques for observing, analysing, experimenting, and modelling the compositional and morphological aspects of fluid-rock interactions on all solid bodies of the solar system.
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Survive and Operate Through the Lunar Night Workshop
(#survivethelunarnight),
Columbia, Maryland
NASA will host a one-day workshop to discuss the challenges and opportunities for surviving and potentially operating through the 14-day lunar night.
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| 14-15
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Annual Meeting of the Lunar Exploration Analysis Group
(#LEAG2018),
Columbia, Maryland
This LEAG meeting features a new format and major content changes from previous years. Please read this and all subsequent announcements carefully. The theme of this year’s meeting is Progress and Preparation Towards Exploring the Surface of the Moon.
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| 15-16
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Hera Mission Workshop,
Berlin, Germany
The Hera Mission Workshop is open to the whole small body community as well as industry interested in innovative small deep-space missions. It will take place on 15 and 16 November at the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin. The community is invited to discuss bonus science objectives, including options for end of mission scenarios. In addition, criteria to select asteroids for additional flybys during transfer will be established. Also, presentations on high-TRL payloads are encouraged as well as in-orbit validation of technologies related to asteroid resource utilization and other industrial applications entailing close-proximity operations. These will be taken into account during phases B2/C in case additional spacecraft onboard resources are available. Finally, the Hera working groups will discuss priorities for analyses to be performed until 2019.
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December 2018 |
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Hayabusa 2018: 6th Symposium of the Solar System Materials,
Tokyo, Japan
The Hayabusa2 spacecraft has arrived at its target asteroid, Ryugu. The remote-sensing observations are now on-going for new insights into this C-type asteroid.
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| 4-7
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Ninth Symposium on Polar Science,
Tokyo, Japan
The NIPR is organizing this annual symposium to present and promote a wide variety of polar scientific research and interdisciplinary studies.
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| 10-14
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2018 AGU Fall Meeting,
Washington, DC
AGU's Fall Meeting is the largest worldwide conference in the geophysical sciences.
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January 2019 |
| 29-31
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20th Meeting of the NASA Small Bodies Assessment Group (SBAG),
Houston, Texas
The SBAG is NASA's community-based forum designed to provide science input for planning and prioritizing the exploration of small bodies throughout the solar system for the next several decades.
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| 29-Feb 1
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Mars Extant Life: What's Next? (#lifeonmars2019),
Carlsbad, New Mexico
The conference will focus on understanding and discussing strategies for exploring for extant life on Mars. The program will promote broad community discussion of the numerous extant life hypotheses that have been advanced over the years and that have evolved in response to discoveries by on-going Mars missions.
Of special interest is hypotheses that can be tested by means of robotic spacecraft sent to Mars, and hypotheses that can be tested with or without the benefit of sample acquisition systems.
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February 2019 |
| 12-14
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PERC International Symposium on Dust and Parent Bodies 2019 (IDP2019),
Chiba, Japan
The objective of this symposium is to share state-of-the-art research on dust delivered to Earth and its parent bodies in a multidisciplinary approach of planetary science and astronomy in light of the DESTINY+ mission.
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| 20-22
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Lunar ISRU 2019 - Developing a New Space Economy Through Lunar Resources and Their Utilization,
Columbia, Maryland
The world is going forward to the Moon, as has been seen by missions this century. Information from this workshop will be useful to both government and industry leaders in evolving near-term and future development priorities and plans that will enable sustainable human exploration and promote the commercialization of space.
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| 20-22
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Thermal Models for Planetary Science III (TherMoPS III),
Budapest, Hungar
The main topic of this meeting will be the modeling and interpretation of thermal emission measurements of small bodies in our solar system.
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| 25-27
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Workshop on In-Situ Exploration of the Ice Giants,
Aix-en-Provence, France
The Workshop on In Situ Exploration of the Ice Giants will take place at Château La Coste in a three-day science program comprising themed sessions, and featuring a mixture of invited reviews, invited and contributed talks, and posters. The workshop will cover topics ranging from the link between the formation conditions of the ice giant planets and atmospheric composition, measurement techniques, instrumentation, and technologies, and mission concepts. Invited speakers will include international experts in the origin, formation, and evolution of giant planets, giant planet atmospheres, instrumentation for in situ measurements of atmospheres, entry and descent probes and their technologies, future technology needs and development, and what the ice giants can tell us about exoplanetary systems.
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March 2019 |
| 4-8
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Kepler and K2 Science Conference V,
Glendale, California
The meeting will be a celebration of Kepler's 10 years in space!
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| 11-13
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Large Surveys with Small Telescopes: Past, Present, and Future,
Bamberg, Germany
Large wide-field surveys have been carried out since more than a century, starting with the Carte du Ciel in the late nineteenth century, and have been recorded on photographic plates. With the advent of CCD detectors, monitoring the sky became even more intense. Wide-field surveys are carried out with small telescopes and cameras. Already with the Henry Draper Memorial project, spectroscopy became an important scientific technique for such surveys, early-on with objective prisms and latey with multi-fiber instruments. Most ongoing surveys are dedicated to specific scientific aims, such as search for MACHOS, exoplanet transits, or nearby asteroids, but provide data sets for a wide range of astrophysics research such as binary light curves, stellar pulsations, and eruptions to name a few. Many future surveys will also be based on small telescopes, both on ground and in space. The information stored in photographic plates distributed around the globe became accessible only recently, by digitization, calibration, and integration into data bases such as DASCH or APPLAUSE. Because a huge amount of data is piling up in the data bases of the different projects, an important task is to combine the information and harvest it in an optimum way. To this end, the meeting aims to bring together researchers working on the photographic heritage, with those involved in ongoing and future digital surveys. Combing data sets requires in-depth knowledge of calibration. Studying the objects requires the sophisticated tools of astroinformatics (big data, deep learning), which shall be addressed in the conference’ program.
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50th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (#lpsc2019),
The Woodlands
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| 26-28
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NASEM's Committee on Astrobiology and Planetary Science (CAPS),
Washington, D.C.
The CAPS will issue reports that will provide guidance to federal agencies that support astrobiology and planetary science research. The CAPS scope spans space-based and supporting ground-based planetary research within our own planetary system, including, for example, geosciences, atmospheres, particles, and fields of planets, moons, and small bodies, as well as astrobiology, planetary astronomy, and planetary protection. The CAPS's scope also includes appropriate cross-disciplinary areas and consideration of budget and programmatic aspects of the implementation of the decadal survey.
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New Quests in Stellar Astrophysics IV: Astrochemistry, Astrobiology, and the Origin of Life,
Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
This is the fourth of the "New Quests in Stellar Astrophysics” meeting series aimed at stressing the importance of stellar physics to understand the properties of stars, their progeny, and stellar systems at different scales. The proposed event for 2019 intends to convene researchers and young scholars from several fields to show the latest results on a number of interdisciplinary topics and enable cross-fertilization between scientists in the various disciplines. It will also be a good opportunity to gain insight into the future instrumentation from the ground and space that will substantially contribute to the exploration of the solar system and beyond in search of clues for understanding how life emerged from cosmic and planetary precursors.
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April 2019 |
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Centaur Exploration Workshop: The Roots of Activity,
Orlando, Florida
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The Space Astrophysics Landscape for the 2020s and Beyond (#landscape2019),
Potomac, Maryland
The purpose of this symposium is to provide the astrophysics community with a forum to hear and discuss science priorities, mission concepts, and enabling capabilities expected to be assessed by the upcoming Astro2020 Decadal Survey by the National Academies.
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| 14-Jun 28
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Better Stars, Better Planets: Exploiting the Stellar-Exoplaneatry Synergy,
Santa Barbara, California
Aimed to bring together experts in exoplanet science and stellar astrophysics to foster the unique synergy between these fields and capitalize on two powerful upcoming datasets.
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| 25-26
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4th Edition of International Conference on Advanced Spectroscopy, Crystallography, and Applications in Modern Chemistry,
Rome, Italy
EuroSciCon invites participants from all over the world to attend 4th Edition of International Conference on Advanced Spectroscopy, Crystallograph,y and Applications in Modern Chemistry. The conference will include prompt keynote presentations, oral talks, poster presentations, and exhibitions. The main highlights are Spectroscopy, Spectroscopy Types; Crystallography in Biology; Chemical Crystallography; Biological Structure Determination; Application in Modern Chemistry; Electron Crystallography; Recent Development in the X-Ray Studies; Advances in Neutron Diffraction. For more details visit: https://crystallography.euroscicon.com/call-for-abstracts
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| 29-May 3
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2019 IAA Planetary Defense Conference (PDC),
Washington, DC
The biannual conference brings together world experts to discuss the threat to Earth posed by asteroids and comets and actions that might be taken to deflect a threatening object: key international and political developments; advancements in NEO discovery; new NEO characterization results; deflection and disruption modeling and testing; mission and campaign design; impact consequences; disaster response; impact risk assessment and decision to act; and public education and communication. The conference will include a hypothetical NEO/Earth impact event scenario that will be part of the conference (similar to what was done at the 2013, 2015, and 2017 conferences). Conference attendees may also use the hypothetical scenario as their topic for papers and presentations.
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May 2019 |
| 20-21
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2nd European Physics Congress,
Berlin, Germany
The main theme is "Highlighting the Innovations and Challenges in the Field of Physics" which covers a wide range of critically important sessions. European Physics Congress is a novel chance to deliberate and share innovative and theoretical knowledge on physics and those in other related concepts of physics. It will provide a gathering for researchers in demonstrating and recreation to trade the data and discuss new ideas that benefit a wide area of accelerating engineering and technology. European Physics Congress is concerned with all aspects of nature, covering the behavior of objects under the action of given forces and the nature and origin of gravitational, electromagnetic, and nuclear force fields. The goal of Physics Congress 2019 is to formulate comprehensive principles that bring together and explain all discernible phenomena. Physics is a broad discipline which is often broken down into several sub-disciplines. These disciplines concern themselves with differing areas of physics work.
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| 20-24
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Planet-Star Connections in the Era of TESS and Gaia,
Santa Barbara, California
Stellar properties and behavior play a key role in addressing many pressing questions in exoplanet science, from breaking the stellar activity barrier for radial velocity planets to understanding how stellar environments affect planet formation and habitability. TESS and Gaia are improving stellar characterization by orders of magnitude in precision and sample size. Addressing both observations and theory, the conference will focus on recent advances in translating this new knowledge of stars into detecting and characterizing exoplanets and understanding their formation, evolution, and habitability. Members of the stellar community will share the latest results in characterizing and understanding stars, and members of the planetary community will share applications of planet-star connections and emphasize what stellar knowledge is most important in addressing open questions in exoplanet science.
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| 27-31
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3rd Advanced School on Exoplanetary Science: Demographics of Exoplanetary Systems,
Vietri sul Mare, Italy
The School is aimed to provide a comprehensive, state-of-the-art picture of a variety of relevant aspects of the fast-developing, highly interdisciplinary field of exoplanet research. The lecture topics will be focused on the exoplanet demographics and unveiling planet formation and evolution. The lectures will be delivered by five senior researchers to an audience of graduate students, Ph.D. students, and young post-docs.
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June 2019 |
| 3-9
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Planetary Dynamics 2019,
Heidelberg, Germany
The conference aims to bring together experts and students working in the field of extrasolar planets and planetary dynamics. We hope to discuss a variety of dynamical problems such as resonant and near-resonant pairs and chains; secular dynamics; chaos; three-dimensional structure and Lidov-Kozai mechanisms; formation and stability of S- and P- type planets in binaries; post-MS evolution of multiple plane systems; solar system dynamics; and much more.
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| 10-14
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50th Annual Meeting of the Division on Dynamical Astronomy (DDA) of the AAS,
Boulder, Colorado
Annual meeting of dynamical astronomers, including planetary dynamics such as the dynamics of planets, rings, moons, asteroids, comets, etc. as well as planet formation, solar system history, astrometry, ephemerides, etc.
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| 10-14
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Zooming in on Star Formation,
Nafplio, Greece
The conference is intended to celebrate the rich career of Professor Åke Nordlund (Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark) and in particular his contributions to the field of star formation with excursions into other fields in which Åke has extensively worked such as the modeling of stellar atmospheres, numerical code development, and more recently his work in the area of planet formation.
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| 17-20
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From Stars to Planets II — Connecting Our Understanding of Star and Planet Formation,
Gothenburg, Sweden
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| 20-Jul 4
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Royal Astronomical Society 2019 National Astronomy Meeting,
Lancashire, England
NAM2019 will bring together hundreds of delegates from the UK astronomy community and will feature a wide-ranging scientific programme in parallel with exciting outreach and cultural events. Keep an eye on the meeting website, Twitter feed, and emails for more details.
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July 2019 |
| 14-18
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Pluto System After New Horizons (#plutokbo2019),
Laurel, Maryland
The conference will provide an opportunity to summarize our understanding of the Pluto system and the Kuiper belt following the New Horizons encounters with Pluto and 2014 MU69 (Ultima Thule). It will also serve as the nucleus for a forthcoming volume in the University of Arizona Space Science Series.
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| 22-26
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Great Barriers in Planet Formation,
Palm Cove, Australia
We are made of dust. How does this dust collect in protoplanetary discs to form planets like the Earth and people like us? Since 2015 a huge number of new observations have been made with ALMA, SPHERE, and other telescopes. Can we make sense of them? We aim to bring together theory and observations to understand how nature overcomes the 'Great Barriers' in the planet formation process. The conference will follow a 3-week program of activities on protoplanetary discs at Monash University in Melbourne as part of the DUSTBUSTERS collaboration.
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| 22-26
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Ninth International Conference on Mars,
Pasadena, California
In addition to discussing science results from past and active robotic missions, telescopic studies, laboratory analyses of SNC meteorites, terrestrial analog studies, and numerical models, we anticipate new geophysical understanding gained from the InSight mission, and a review of objectives for several spacecraft scheduled for launch in 2020 from public, private, and international institutions.
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| 26-28
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NASA Exploration Science Forum,
NASA Ames/Mountain View, California
Three-day conference on science and exploration topics related to the Moon, near-Earth asteroids, and the moons of Mars. Sponsored by the Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI).
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| 29-Aug 2
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TESS Science Conference I,
Cambridge, Massachuesetts
TESS Science Conference I is the first conference dedicated to TESS mission science, including but not limited to exoplanets, asteroseismology, stellar binaries, variable stars, and extragalactic astronomy (e.g., active galactic nuclei and supernovae). The conference will cover all aspects of the mission, from TESS data analysis, through follow-up observations, to the impact of discoveries made with TESS data on theoretical understanding.The conference will take place at the beginning of TESS’s second year of operations when the satellite is scheduled to transition from surveying the southern ecliptic hemisphere to the northern ecliptic hemisphere. This will be an auspicious time to bring together experts on all aspects of the mission to discuss achievements made during the first year, as well as identifying potential improvements and lessons learned to be implemented in the second year.
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August 2019 |
| 6-8
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New Cometary Insights from the Close Approach of 46P/Wirtanen: A Symposium in Celebration of Mike A'Hearn,
College Park, Maryland
A symposium at the University of Maryland in College Park in celebration of the contributions that Mike A'Hearn made to cometary science. In Mike's honor, this symposium will focus on results from observations of comet 46P/Wirtanen (and the other recent bright comets) to allow the compilation of individual studies into a comprehensive understanding of the comet. We encourage comet scientists of all types as well as anyone who knew and worked with Mike in any capacity to come and participate in this event and to reflect on his legacy.
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| 19-22
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Hot-Wiring the Transient Universe VI,
Evanston, Illinois
Hot-Wiring the Transient Universe 6 will explore opportunities and challenges of massively parallel time domain surveys, coupled with rapid coordinated multi-wavelength follow-up observations. The interdisciplinary agenda includes future and ongoing science investigations, information infrastructure for publishing observations in real time, as well as novel data science to classify events and systems to optimize follow-up campaigns. Time domain astronomy is at the fore of modern astrophysics and crosses fields from solar physics and solar system objects, through stellar variability, to explosive phenomena at galactic and cosmological distances. Recent rapid progress by instruments in space and on the ground has been toward a continuous record of the electromagnetic sky with ever increasing coverage, sensitivity, and temporal resolution. With the advent of gravitational wave and neutrino observatories, we are witnessing the birth of multi-messenger astronomy.
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| 19-23
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Extreme Solar Systems V,
Reykjavik, Iceland
This conference, the fourth in a series that began in 2007 (Santorini meeting on Extreme Solar Systems, followed by ExSS II in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, in 2011, and ExSS III in Hawaii, in 2015), will cover all aspects of research on exoplanets.
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September 2019 |
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Habitability: Producing Conditions Conducive to Life (#1st1e9),
Big Sky, Montana
The astrophysical processes (e.g., accretion, differentiation, bombardment) that created the worlds we observe today also created at least one world where life has emerged and thrived. This topical conference on Habitability, the fourth and final installment of the LPI’s First Billion Years initiative, will focus on the production of habitable environments early in the history of our solar system, the emergence of life on Earth, and extensions to extrasolar systems.
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2019 GSA Annual Meeting,
Phoenix, Arizona
The Geological Society of America Annual Meeting & Exposition
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| 30-Oct 3
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Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution VI,
Brasilia, Brazil
LMI VI will provide a forum for discussion of pertinent advances in multidisciplinary research on planetary and terrestrial impact cratering, and the effects of this process on target rocks and minerals. Remote sensing, geophysical and numerical modeling, geological, mineralogical and geochemical, and astrobiological results and implications will be discussed. In addition, the future of impact cratering research, in the broadest sense, will be mapped out.
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USRA/LPI-SPONSORED MEETINGS
Upcoming Meetings
Annual Meeting of the Lunar Exploration Analysis Group
(#LEAG2018)
November 14-15,
2018
Columbia, Maryland
Mars Extant Life: What's Next? (#lifeonmars2019)
January 29-February 1,
2019
Carlsbad, New Mexico
Lunar ISRU 2019 - Developing a New Space Economy Through Lunar Resources and Their Utilization
February 20-22,
2019
Columbia, Maryland
50th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (#lpsc2019)
March 18-22,
2019
The Woodlands
The Space Astrophysics Landscape for the 2020s and Beyond (#landscape2019)
April 1-3,
2019
Potomac, Maryland
Pluto System After New Horizons (#plutokbo2019)
July 14-18,
2019
Laurel, Maryland
Ninth International Conference on Mars
July 22-26,
2019
Pasadena, California
Habitability: Producing Conditions Conducive to Life (#1st1e9)
September 8-12,
2019
Big Sky, Montana
Large Meteorite Impacts and Planetary Evolution VI
September 30-October 3,
2019
Brasilia, Brazil
First International Orbital Debris Conference (IOC)
December 9-12,
2019
Houston, Texas
Seventh International Conference on Mars Polar Science and Exploration (#marspolar2020)
January 13-17,
2020
Ushuaia, Argentina
Survive and Operate Through the Lunar Night Workshop
(#survivethelunarnight)
November 13,
2018
Columbia, Maryland
16th Venus Exploration Analysis Group Meeting
November 6-8,
2018
Laurel, Maryland
Europa Deep Dive 2: Composition (#DeepDive2)
October 9-11,
2018
Houston, Texas
Late Mars Workshop (#LateMars)
October 1-2,
2018
Houston, Texas
Bombardment: Shaping Planetary Surfaces and Their Environments (#1st1e9)
September 30-October 2,
2018
Flagstaff, Arizona
NASA Technosignatures Workshop (#technosigs18)
September 26-28,
2018
Houston, Texas
Comparative Climatology of Terrestrial Planets III (#CCTP3)
August 27-30,
2018
Houston, Texas
Experimental Analysis of the Outer Solar System Workshop (#ExOSS)
August 15-17,
2018
Fayetteville, Arkansas
Lunar Polar Volatiles (#LPV2018)
August 7-9,
2018
Laurel, Maryland
81st Annual Meeting of The Meteoritical Society
July 22-27,
2018
Moscow, Russia
Mars Workshop on Amazonian and Present Day Climate (#amazonianmars2018)
June 18-22,
2018
Lakewood, Colorado
Lunar Polar Prospecting Workshop
June 14-15,
2018
Golden, Colorado
Ninth Joint Space Resources Roundtable and Planetary and Terrestrial Mining Sciences Symposium
June 12-14,
2018
Golden, Colorado
Planetary Geologic Mappers Annual Meeting (#pgm2018)
June 12-14,
2018
Knoxville, Tennessee
Cryovolcanism in the Solar System Workshop (#cryovolcanism2018)
June 5-7,
2018
Houston, Texas
Ocean Worlds 3: Water-Silicate Interactions (#oceanworlds2018)
May 21-23,
2018
Houston, Texas
Friday, November 16, 2018
Lecture Hall - 3:30 PM
LPI Seminar: Juno’s Exploration of the Giant Magnetosphere of Jupiter
Frances Bagenal, University of Colorado
Thursday, December 6, 2018
Lecture Hall - 3:30 PM
LPI Seminar: Ocean World and Martian Sub-ice Access and Exploration Technology: How close are we to viable flight vehicles?
Bill Stone, Stone Aerospace, Austin, TX
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