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(fwd) polarimetry conference
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+++++++ ASTRONOMICAL POLARIMETRY +++++++
+++++++ CURRENT STATUS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS +++++++
+++++++ 15-19 March 2004 +++++++
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+++++++ Waikoloa Beach Marriott, Waikoloa, Hawaii +++++++
Second Announcement
Dear Colleague,
We are pleased to confirm the holding of a conference on optical -
infrared - mm/submm (OIM) Astronomical Polarimetry, in the wonderful
surroundings on the South Kohala coast of the Big Island of Hawaii in
March 2004. The aim of the meeting is to bring together workers in
all areas of OIM astronomical polarimetry to discuss the most recent
results in this exciting and crucial field, and to consider the
potential for polarimetry in the era of eight- and ten-metre
optical/infrared telescopes and new and future mm/submm facilities.
The meeting will concentrate on ground-based polarization
measurements, and will include a session devoted to new and novel
instrumentation and techniques. The remaining sessions will be
organized according to the astronomical source rather than wavelength
regime or specific technique. Neither Radio Polarimetry (beyond the
mm regime) nor Solar Polarimetry are within the conference remit,
however, each will be the subject of dedicated review talks.
The conference web site, including conference registration forms, is
open at:
http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/JACpublic/JAC/pol2004
SCIENCE AREAS
Sessions will be divided into two, with approximately 80% of the time
guaranteed for current results and 20% for presentations on future
directions, facilities etc. Proceedings, including posters, will be
published. Details of the division between oral and poster
presentations will be given once the relative demands are known. The
web site gives details of expected sessions, each of which will
consist of an invited review and a number of contributed talks.
The following science areas will be covered:
* Techniques and Instrumentation, Data Analysis
* Theory and Modelling
* Star Formation
* Extrasolar Circumstellar matter
* Ejecta
* Interstellar Dust and Gas
* Stars, CVs, Magnetic Stars
* Galaxies, Radio Galaxies and AGN
* High-redshift and Cosmological Polarimetry
INVITED REVIEWERS (with provisional titles):
Confirmed:
* Jim Hough Observational Techniques in Ground-based
Polarimetry
* Jane Greaves Techniques in the millimetre and far
infrared
* Brenda Matthews Polarimetry and Star formation in the
submillimetre
* Francois Menard Circumstellar disks in YSOs
* Tim Gledhill Ejecta and the late stages of stellar
evolution
* Dave Aitken Dust and infrared polarization signatures
* Nadine Manset Polarimetry of binary stars
* Clive Tadhunter Polarimetry of AGN
* Angelica de Oliveira-Costa Cosmological polarimetry - the CMB
* Motohide Tamura Circumstellar disks in PMS and T Tauri
stars
* Alex Lazarian Dust Alignment mechanisms
To be confirmed:
* Alyssa Goodman Polarimetric observations of the ISM in
molecular clouds
Additional reviews:
* Haosheng Lin Solar polarimetry measurements
* Tim Cawthorne High-resolution radio polarimetry
CONFERENCE SUMMATION
Dr. Roger Hildebrand of the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics,
University of Chicago has kindly agreed to provide a summation of the
conference at the end of the last session of the week. Roger has long
been a world-leader in astronomical polarization research, in
particular the study of magnetic fields via far-infrared and sub-mm
polarimetry. We are honored to include Dr. Hildebrand in our
conference program.
DATES AND DEADLINES
End of Early Registration: 1-Dec-2003
Abstract Deadline: 1-Jan-2004
Late Registration Deadline: 1-Feb-2004
SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS
* Joint Astronomy Centre
* Subaru Telescope
* Canada-France Hawaii Telescope
* Gemini Observatory
* University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy
* W.M.Keck Observatory
* Caltech Submillimetre Observatory
SCIENCE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
* Andy Adamson - Joint Astronomy Centre
* Pierre Bastien - Universit? de Montr?al
* Chris Packham - University of Florida
* Colin Aspin - Gemini Observatory
* Ian Robson - UK Astronomy Technology Centre
* Martin Houde - Caltech Submillimeter Observatory
* Jim Hough - University of Hertfordshire
* Jeff Kuhn - University of Hawaii
* Nadine Manset - Canada France Hawaii Telescope
* Motohide Tamura - National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
* Bob Goodrich - W. M. Keck Observatory
LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
* Andy Adamson - Joint Astronomy Centre
* Chris Davis - Joint Astronomy Centre
* Colin Aspin - Gemini Observatory
* Douglas Pierce-Price - Joint Astronomy Centre
* Dolores Walther - Gemini Observatory
* Gerald Moriarty-Schieven - Joint Astronomy Centre
* Sally Nicol - Joint Astronomy Centre
* Takuya Fujiyoshi - Subaru Telescope
* Donna Delorm - Joint Astronomy Centre
Contact email address: pol2004@jach.hawaii.edu
Web site: http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/JACpublic/JAC/pol2004
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