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March 2023

13-17	54th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference *, The Woodlands, Texas/Virtual  This conference brings together international specialists in petrology, geochemistry, geophysics, geology, and astronomy to present the latest results of research in planetary science.
19-24	Exoplanet Systems and Stellar Life Cycles: Late-Stage and Post-MS Systems, Aspen, Colorado  This conference will bring together leading scientific experts to explore the relationship between exoplanet demographics, stellar evolution, and stellar dynamics. The conference will focus on late-stage exoplanetary systems, including evolved stars and white dwarf hosts. Conference attendees will address and summarize what these relationships reveal about the underlying processes of the formation and evolution of planetary systems. In this one-week, interdisciplinary workshop, we will bring together experts in time-domain astronomy, dynamics, stellar evolution, stellar rotation, asteroseismology, and planetary science to address two major open questions related to late-stage exoplanetary systems.
20-24	PLANET-ESLAB-2023​ Understanding Planets in the Solar System and Beyond, Noordwijk, Netherlands/Virtual  This symposium is aimed at bringing together the communities involved in our fleet of planetary and exoplanetary science missions and exploring their synergies. Themes to be covered in the symposium, for both solar system planets and exoplanets, will include planetary formation and evolution; planetary system architecture, dynamics, stability; interior structure and processes; surface geological and geophysical processes; atmospheric dynamics and chemistry; ionospheres, magnetospheres, plasma environment; stellar/solar activity and interaction with planets; and habitability and exobiology.
27-30	Fifth Extreme Precision Radial Velocities (EPRV5) Conference, Santa Barbara, California  The Fifth Extreme Precision Radial Velocities (EPRV5) conference will feature talks from all major instrument and data analysis teams to ensure that the community is aware of what each independent node is working towards and what challenges they are facing. We will invite representatives from stellar physics and heliophysics to increase the knowledge transfer between our fields and to hopefully spark new, cross disciplinary collaborations. A primary objective of the meeting agenda will be to allow ample time for discussion both during and after talk sessions so that participants can engage in the level of detailed conversation that has made previous iterations such a boon to the field.

 

April 2023

4-5	The First Steps in a Bold New Era of Human Discovery: Candidate Artemis III Landing Sites, Virtual  This virtual NASA Lunar Surface Science Workshop will update the community on the Artemis site selection process and facilitate discussions of the scientific value of the 13 Artemis III landing region candidates. The goals of this workshop are twofold: to communicate aspects of the Artemis architecture that influence mission design parameters impacting the Artemis III landing site decision, and to provide a forum for community input and discussion on how a landing at one of the Artemis III landing region candidates will address identified scientific objectives.
10-15	Protostars and Planets VII, Kyoto, Japan  Protostars and Planets VII will take place in Kyoto, Japan, April 10 – 15, 2023. This is the first conference of the series held in Asia. This series of conference has provided important opportunity for the scientists working on the formation of stars and planets. The conference will have a series of review talks summarizing the development in the field in recent years. As in the previous Protostars and Planets series, those reviews will be published as a new volume, PROTOSTARS AND PLANETS VII, in the Space Science Series of University of Arizona Press.
11-12	MEPAG Hybrid Meeting #40 *, Washington, D.C./Virtual  This two-day meeting will consist of in-person and virtual oral presentations on a range of topics pertinent to the Mars exploration community.
16-21	5th COSPAR Symposium: Space Science with Small Satellites, Singapore  This symposium will address the broad topic of "Space Science with Small Satellites." It will feature plenary lectures as well as parallel sessions and poster sessions and will cover the rapid advances made in the last decade in small, micro, and nano-satellites for space science. In addition, the symposium will cover the emerging issue of space debris in low-Earth orbit. Another focus area will be capacity building using small satellite technologies and the perspective of emerging space nations such as Singapore.
18-20	4th Workshop on Thermal Models for Planetary Science, Noordwijk, The Netherlands/Virtual  This meeting is the fourth in the series of Thermal Models for Planetary Science workshops. Meeting objectives include: gathering experts to discuss the state of the art in thermal modelling for planetary science, including numerical modelling and laboratory work; showcasing new data and results from recent missions (e.g., Hayabusa2 and OSIRIS-REx); highlighting new and upcoming missions with thermal IR detectors that will contribute to the field (e.g. JWST, Hera, Lucy, Comet Interceptor, BepiColombo, JUICE, EnVision, PROSPECT); providing to the international science community a forum for discussion with leading experts and build connections between research activities and data acquired by space missions; and bridging and building interest between missions and domains (for example, disk-integrated and disk-resolved modelling), particularly between exoplanetary and solar system communities.
23-28	European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria/Virtual  The EGU 2023 General Assembly will combine the best of long-established, traditional presentation and networking formats, while drawing on new concepts to support hybridization, improving accessibility and inclusion for all participants. EGU23 will feature oral presentations, poster sessions and the established PICO format for both presenters on-site in Vienna as well as those presenting remotely.
24-25	Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium (LSIC) Spring Meeting, Laurel, Maryland/Virtual  The Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium (LSIC) 2023 Spring Meeting will focus on the United States, NASA, and Space Tech’s vision for a sustained presence on the lunar surface. Panels, discussions, and working sessions will include topics such as long-term use cases for infrastructure on the lunar surface, technology developments, and discussing a community white paper aimed to capture the community’s perspective on the infrastructure and technology developments needed to support transition from a mostly NASA-supported presence to industry or other public or private participants. The meeting will be held at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab and online. Abstract submission is open until February 15, 2023. The registration deadline is April 10 for in-person attendance and April 17 for virtual attendance.
24-30	2023 International Conference of Deep Space Sciences, Hefei, China  The International Conference of Deep Space Sciences (ICDSS) brings scientists from around the world to discuss new developments in deep space sciences. The conference consists of a series of topical sessions. It is jointly organized by Deep Space Exploration Laboratory (DSEL) and University of Science and Technology of China (USTC).
25-27	Extraterrestrial Materials Analysis Group (Spring Meeting) *, Virtual  The Extraterrestrial Materials Analysis Group (ExMAG) Spring Meeting will be held as a virtual meeting.
26	Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium (LSIC) Funding Workshop, Laurel, Maryland  Registration will be opening soon for this event. A Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium (LSIC) funding workshop centered around NASA STMD (i.e., SpaceTech) solicited proposal opportunities and community resources is set to take place following the 2023 LSIC Spring Meeting. The workshop content will focus on the components and requirements of various NASA STMD proposal opportunities, an advice-based panel discussion and Q&A from previously successful SpaceTech proposal awardees, and general knowledge about the NASA funding process. Space is limited for this in-person, first-come-first-serve event. Early registration is encouraged.

 

May 2023

2-3	Outer Planets Assessment Group May 2023 *, Laurel, Maryland/Virtual
4-7	4th International Planetary Caves Conference *, Lanzarote, Spain  The 4th International Planetary Caves Conference plans to continue capitalizing on advances in the current state-of-the-art cave exploration and exchanging knowledge and ideas between scientists and engineers for future cave missions.
5-7	Second Barry Blumberg Memorial Workshop in Astrobiology, Green Bank, West Virginia  This three-day workshop at the Green Bank Observatory will focus on topics related to the role of oxygen in the universe, planets and life, and how the rise of oxygen on Earth may (or may not) likely have analogs on other planets. Attendance is limited to 50 participants, by application only, and all registration and travel expenses will be covered. The conference scope should be construed broadly; researchers working on any related problems are strongly encouraged to apply. Recognizing the challenges the pandemic has presented for networking over the past several years, this workshop will have a strong focus on early career researchers and will have broad international participation. Presenters are encouraged to gear their talks to an interdisciplinary audience.
7-13	The Inner Disk of Young Stars: Accretion, Ejection, and Planet Formation, Corsica, France  The Kepler satellite has revealed thousands of planets orbiting within a few 0.1 au’s from their host stars. The conference will address the origin of these abundant close-in multi-planetary systems by exploring the environmental conditions that prevailed at the time of their birth within the inner astronomical unit of circumstellar disks. Building on the state-of-the art observations and models of inner planets, disks, and outflows, it will address our understanding of inner planet formation and evolution, accretion/ejection processes at the inner disk edge, and star-planet-inner disk interactions.
10-12	Apophis T-6 Years: Knowledge Opportunities for the Science of Planetary Defense *, Virtual  As recognized by the Planetary Decadal Survey and the November 2022 Apophis Specific Action Team Report, unique asteroid science and planetary defense knowledge opportunities are presented by the April 13, 2029, near-miss passage of the asteroid Apophis. This workshop will focus on international collaboration opportunities for both Earth-based observations and potential in situ investigations, optimally supporting the science return from the OSIRIS-APEX spacecraft making a post-Earth-encounter rendezvous with Apophis.
15-18	Brines Across the Solar System: Ancient and Future Brines *, Reno, Nevada  The Brines Across the Solar System: Ancient and Future Brines conference focuses on integrating diverse fields of study, such as geology, mineralogy, (astro)biology, chemistry, planetary science, physics, technology, and engineering.
21-26	Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2023, Chiba, Japan/Virtual  The Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2023 (JpGU2023) will consist of hybrid oral sessions and in-person/online poster sessions; all the sessions in JpGU2023 will take place within a week. The progam committee will make the best effort to organize sessions that will stimulate interactions among in-person and online attendees by providing platforms for the presentations of both oral and online modes and for in-person and online discussion. In order to enhance scientific discussion among the attendees, we ask conveners to propose well-designed, well-focused sessions and to structure their sessions to promote communications among in-person and online participants.
23-26	4th Advanced School on Exoplanetary Science: Astrophysics of Transiting Exoplanets, Vietri sul Mare, Italy  The 4th Advanced School on Exoplanetary Science 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. Lecture topics will be focused on the astrophysics of transiting exoplanet systems, covering both theoretical and observational perspectives.
24-26	Dusty Visions 2023, Berlin, Germany  This is an international workshop on cosmic dust inside and outside the solar system. In a workshop style, we want to discuss the present state and new venues in cosmic dust research as exciting new results of past and ongoing missions stimulate new ideas and theories. Major topics of the workshop will include interstellar dust, circumplanetary dust including dusty rings and space debris, presolar and cometary dust, plumes, dust in interplanetary space, dusty plasmas, dust in extrasolar systems as well as laboratory measurements, instrumentation and space missions. In situ and observational results, theoretical models, and the outcome of laboratory experiments will be discussed and their implications for future space missions will be highlighted. Of special emphasis is cosmochemistry and compositional analysis of dust in view of the Cassini and Rosetta results and the upcoming Europa Clipper, Destiny+, IMAP and Comet Interceptor missions as well as potential future missions to Uranus and Enceladus.
25-26	Quantum Sensors for Science Exploration Workshop, Noordwijk, The Netherlands/Virtual  The objective of this workshop is to gather different communities to exchange ideas about how quantum sensors can help advance solar system science in the future, with various quantum sensing techniques. Synergies with other domains such as Earth observation, navigation, or fundamental physics will also be highlighted. The workshop will consist of invited and contributed talks, posters, round tables, and ample time for discussions.
28-Jun 2	AGU Chapman Conference on Advances in Understanding Alfven Waves in the Sun and the Heliosphere, Berlin, Germany  This conference aims to bring together scientists to review and discuss the current status of research on Alfvén waves in space plasmas, including the solar atmosphere, the solar wind, planetary magnetospheres and ionospheres, and laboratory plasmas (if relevant to space plasmas). Participants will have the opportunity to interact and exchange knowledge/ideas with scientists from the “other” communities in a collegial setting.
29-Jun 2	Star Formation in the Era of JWST, Pieria, Greece  The aim of this conference is to bring together the communities that observe the universe through the “eyes” of state-of-the-art telescopes and interferometers that study the origin and evolution of the local and distant interstellar medium using cutting-edge radiation-magnetohydrodynamics (RMHD) and chemical simulations. Discussion topics will include formation and evolution of galactic discs, planet formation and disc evolution, and fragmentation and the protostellar mass function.

 

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