Upcoming Meetings
INTERNATIONAL PLANETARY PROBE – 9 WORKSHOP - ABSTRACT DEADLINE EXTENDED
Week of June 17, 2012 in Toulouse, France.
Abstract deadline extended 16 March 2012
Al Seiff Award nomination deadline 15 March 2012
The 9th International Planetary Probe Workshop (IPPW-9) will be held in Toulouse, France on June 18-22, 2012. It will be hosted by ISAE (Institut Supérieur de l’Aéronautique et de l’Espace) on its campus. The list of session topics includes: Giants planets, Titan, Venus, Mars, Airless & Primitive Bodies, Science and technologies of probes, Landers and penetrators, Earth entry and Sample return technologies.
Short course
In addition to the five-day workshop, a two day short course is normally held on a related topic during the preceding weekend. The topic selected for IPPW-9 is “ Probe Science Instrumentation Technologies ” (June 16-17, 2012).
For more information, the website for the workshop is:
http://www.planetaryprobe.eu/
CONTACTS:
The IPPW9 conference secretariat
Carte Blanche
7, chemin En Barbaro - 81710 Saïx - France
Phone: +33 - 5 63 72 30 73 - Fax: +33 - 5 63 72 30 32
Email: contact@ippw9.cborg.net
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OPAG MEETING, MARCH 29-30, 2012, ST. LOUIS
The Outer Planets Assessment Group (OPAG) will meet 29-30 March at the
Renaissance Grand St. Louis Hotel, St. Louis, Missouri. Information
regarding hotel and other logistics can be found at:
Potential attendees are kindly asked to go to this website, and click
on the invitation link and RSVP for attendance (this will assist our
meeting planners). Please note that the hotel room block closes
7 March 2012.
This OPAG meeting will focus on the the recently released FY13 NASA
budget for Planetary Science, reports from the Europa Science
Definition team on the 3 Europa options, a report from our European
colleagues on JUICE, and other important, related matters. A detailed
agenda will follow.
Bill McKinnon, OPAG Chair
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TRANSITING PLANETS IN THE HOUSE OF THE SUN: A WORKSHOP ON M DWARF STARS AND THEIR PLANETS
3-6 June 2012, Maui, HI
http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/GG/FACULTY/GAIDOS/haleakala.html
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THE ORIGINS OF STARS AND PLANETARY SYSTEMS
10-15 June 2012, Hamilton, Ontario
http://origins.physics.mcmaster.ca/oi_planets/
Ralph Pudritz (pudritz@physics.mcmaster.ca)
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2012 SAGAN SUMMER WORKSHOP: WORKING WITH EXOPLANET LIGHT CURVES
23-27 July 2012, Pasadena, CA
Dawn Gelino (sagan_workshop@ipac.caltech.edu)
http://nexsci.caltech.edu/workshop/2012/
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THE SPACE RESOURCES ROUNDTABLE (SRR) AND THE PLANETARY & TERRESTRIAL MINING SCIENCES SYMPOSIUM (PTMSS), IN COLLABORATION WITH THE LUNAR AND PLANETARY INSTITUTE (LPI),
will convene their third joint meeting on June 4–7, 2012, at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado.
A special bonus this year will be the Transit-of-Venus observation event that we have prepared for the afternoon of June 5. This is an astronomical occurrence you won't be able to experience again in your lifetime!
For more information, please visit the SRR webpage at: http://www.isruinfo.com and open the SRR/PTMSS 1st Announcement pdf file.
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AOGS-AGU(WPGM) JOINT ASSEMBLY
Resort Worlds Sentosa, Singapore
13-17 August 2012
**** ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE IS March 12 ****
Website:
www.asiaoceania.org/aogs2012
Session PS09 - Active Satellites in the Outer Solar System
Convenors: Dr. Dennis Matson (JPL); Dr. Athena Coustenis (Paris Observatory); Dr. Steven Vance (JPL); Dr. Ashley Davies (JPL)
This is a session of contributed and invited papers on the geophysics of satellites, especially those that are currently active - Io, Enceladus, Triton, and possibly Europa and Ganymede. Research is progressing rapidly due to the stream of new spacecraft data. Welcome are papers on processes that affect the interiors of individual bodies as well as the surface expressions they produce. Included are the affects and chronology of internal heating (e.g., radioactivity, tidal dissipation, and other), structural evolution (e.g., differentiation), tides, and other processes. These geophysical processes themselves are universal in their application and transcend the compartmentalization suggested by nomenclature such as "satellite," "dwarf planet," "asteroid," "comet," "KBO," "TNO," "parent body," and "planetesimal".