DUSTY VISIONS 2010
A workshop on Dust Spectroscopy and Dust Astronomy
14-16 July 2010 in Göttingen, Germany
A workshop on Dust Spectroscopy and Dust Astronomy
14-16 July 2010 in Göttingen, Germany
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In a workshop style we want to discuss the present state and new venues in cosmic dust research. There are exciting new results from Cassini, Stardust, Spitzer, Herschel and other space missions that 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, dust in interplanetary space including Kuiper belt dust, dusty plasmas, dust in extrasolar dust rings, lunar dust, 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, also in view of upcoming lunar and other space missions presently under study (e.g. EJSM, LEO, LADEE).
The meeting will be held at the conference facilities of the University of Göttingen which are located at the former University Observatory. The observatory is a beautifully renovated 200 years old historical building. It is conveniently located within walking distance of the city center of Göttingen. Göttingen is a two-hours train ride from Bremen where the COSPAR Scientific Assembly takes place from 18 to 25 July 2010, the week after the Dusty Visions workshop.
Please indicate, as soon as possible, your interest to participate by filling out our registration and abstract submission form or by email to dv2010@mpi-hd.mpg.de.
Deadline for abstract submission is 15 May 2010.
Harald Krüger (krueger@mps.mpg.de)
Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung, Katlenburg-Lindau
We have made a block reservation until 20th May for two hotels within walking distance to the conference site.
All prices include breakfast.
Please make your reservation by contacting the hotel directly stating the keyword "dusty visions".
Here you can download the preliminary programme
| Bernd Abel (University of Göttingen, Germany) |
Charge separation in Impacts of Ice Particles / Laboratory Simulations of Cosmic Particle Impacts and their Analysis |
| Alexander Krivov (University of Jena, Germany) |
Debris Disks |
| Jürgen Schmidt (University of Potsdam, Germany) |
The Enceladus Dust Plume: Observations and Scenarios for Particle Formation |
| Mark Showalter (SETI Institute, California, USA) |
News on dusty rings (preliminary title) |
| Gerhard Wurm (University of Duisburg, Germany) |
Light induced motion of dust in circumstellar environments: Why should we care? |
| Cecile Engrand et al. (CSNSM, Orsay, France) |
Ultracarbonaceous Antarctic Micrometeorites : a new family of cometary grains. |
| Eberhard Grün (MPIK Heidelberg, Germany) |
Big particles in th solar system dust disk. |
| Frank Postberg (MPIK Heidelberg, Germany) |
Enceladus: Insights into a cryo-volcanic world from CDA dust spectrometry. |
| Ralf Srama (MPIK Heidelberg, Germany) |
Dust Sensor Technologies. |
| Marco Fulle (Trieste, Italy) |
The GIADA dust environment model of the Rosetta Mission target. |
We will have a conference dinner on Wednesday, 14 July, in a German beer garden (18.50 EUR per person, not including beverages; http://www.paulaner-goettingen.de/).
On Saturday, 17 July, we plan to organize a full-day trip to the Brocken, the highest mountain in Northern Germany (elevation 1141m). We will take a local train from Göttingen and climb to the top of the mountain with a historic steam railway (see http://www.hsb-wr.de/ and http://www.hsb-wr.de/hsb_barrierefrei/impressionen/bb_videoman.htm). We will leave Göttingen at about 8:00 am and return at 8:00 pm. The price for the train tickets will be approximately 40 EUR per person.
Details will be announced later.