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Electromagnetic Scattering by Particles and Surfaces

Michael I. Mishchenko and Larry D. Travis

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• 2nd Conference on "Advancement of POLarimetric Observations: instruments, calibration, and improved aerosol and cloud retrievals" APOLO-2019, 4-7 November 2019, Lille, France

• Congratulations to the recipients of two Elsevier awards presented at the ELS-XVIII conference: Dr. Johannes Markkanen (2019 Waterman Award) and Dr. Jing Li (2019 Goody Award)!

• Congratulations to the recipients of two Elsevier awards presented at the RAD-19 conference: Dr. Andrew Lacis (2019 Poynting Award) and Dr. Sophia Haussener (2019 Viskanta Award)!

• Elsevier has launched a novel broad scope open access journal Physics Open covering all areas of physics and related interdisciplinary areas - be that fundamental or applied.

• Database of Scattering and Radiative Properties of Morphologically Complex Carbonaceous Aerosols
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• 18th Electromagnetic and Light Scattering Conference ELS-XVIII, 9-14 June 2019, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou city, Zhejiang province, China

• 9th International Symposium on Radiative Transfer, RAD-19, 3-7 June 2019, Athens, Greece

• Congratulations to the recipients of three Elsevier awards presented at the combined ELS-XVII / LIP2018 conference: Professor Leung Tsang (2018 Van de Hulst Award), Dr. Amos Egel (2018 Waterman Award), and Dr. Dmitry S. Efremenko (2018 Goody Award)!

• PIERS'2018 in Toyama, 1-4 August 2018, Focus/Special Session: Light Scattering and Radiative Transfer: Basic Research and Applications. Abstract submission deadline: 1 March 2018.

• 10 years of Elsevier/JQSRT awards.
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• 17th Electromagnetic and Light Scattering Conference ELS-XVII, 4-9 March 2018, College Station, TX, USA

• 11th International Conference on Laser-light and Interactions with Particles, 4-9 March 2018, College Station, TX, USA

• 1st International Workshop on Advancement of POLarimetric Observations: calibration and improved aerosol retrievals, APOLO-2017, 24-27 October 2017, Hefei, China

• Special session on Light Scattering and Radiative Transfer: Basic Research and Applications, Fall AGU Meeting, New Orleans, 11-15 December 2017

• Special session on Light Scattering and Radiative Transfer: Basic Research and Applications, PIERS 2017 in Singapore, 19-22 November, 2017

• Congratulations to the winners of the 2016 and 2017 Elsevier and Elsevier/JQSRT Awards presented at ELS-XVI: Petr Chylek (2017 van de Hulst Award), Feng Xu (2016 Waterman Award), Chao Liu (2017 Waterman Award), Sergey Korkin (2016 Goody Award), and Rajan Chakrabarty (2017 Goody Award)

• The 16th Electromagnetic and Light Scattering Conference ELS-XVI, University of Maryland/College Park, MD, USA, 19-25 March 2017.

• Maniac Lecture on "How much first-principle physics do we need in remote-sensing and atmospheric-radiation research" (NASA GSFC, 26 January 2015).

• Conference on Radiation mechanisms of astrophysical objects: classics today, 21-25 September 2015, St.Petersburg, Russia

• Congratulations to the 2014 and 2015 Elsevier and Elsevier/JQSRT awardees: George Kattawar, Dan Mackowski, Svend-Age Biehs, Aristi Christofi, Vijay Natraj, and Lei Bi

• Conference on Electromagnetic and Light Scattering ELS-XV: Celebrating 150 Years of Maxwell's Electromagnetics, 21-26 June 2015, Leipzig, Germany

• IAU Symposium 305 on Polarimetry: From the Sun to Stars and Stellar Environments, Punta Leona, Costa Rica, November 30 - December 5, 2014

• New book: Mishchenko M. I., 2014: Electromagnetic Scattering by Particles and Particle Groups: An Introduction, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
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• 10th International Conference on Laser-light and Interactions with Particles, August 25-29th, 2014, Marseille, France

• International Conference on Electromagnetic and Light Scattering XIV, Lille, France, 17-21 June 2013

• The 2011 Imact Factor of the Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer is 3.193. See comparison with related journals

• The first Van de Hulst Light-Scattering Award from Elsevier was presented to Professor Joachim (Joop) Hovenier
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• A new book on Polarimetric Detection, Characterization, and Remote Sensing

• A new multiple sphere T-matrix Fortran code for use on parallel computer clusters developed by Dan Mackowski.
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• A new book on Polarimetric Remote Sensing of Solar System Objects is now available on-line in the .pdf format.

• NATO Advanced Study Institute on "Special Detection Technique (Polarimetry) and Remote Sensing", Kyiv, Ukraine, 12-25 September 2010

• New book in Russian: Mishchenko, M. I. (2007): Electromagnetic Scattering in Discrete Random media: Fundamental Theory and Applications, Kyiv-New York (Habilitation Doctoral Thesis)
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• 10th International Conference on "Electromagnetic and Light Scattering by Nonspherical Particles" took place 17-23 June 2007 in Bodrum, Turkey and was co-located with the 5th International Symposium on "Radiative Transfer."

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    BOOK OF ABSTRACTS:
    Videen, G., M. Mishchenko, M. P. Menguc, and N. Zakharova, 2007: Peer-Reviewed Abstracts of the Tenth Conference on Electromagnetic and Light Scattering, 17-23 June 2007, Bodrum, Turkey.
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• A new book has just become available: Mishchenko, M. I., L. D. Travis, and A. A. Lacis (2006): Multiple Scattering of Light by Particles: Radiative Transfer and Coherent Backscattering, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
  • Front Matter (PDF)

• FORTRAN codes for the computation of polarized bidirectional reflectance of statistically rough surfaces (e.g., wind-roughened ocean surfaces) are now available.

• New, fully public-domain T-matrix codes are now available. They are based on the LAPACK version of the LU-factorization procedure and contain no proprietary components. We thank Cory Davis (University of Edinburgh) for pointing out the possibility of replacing the proprietary NAG matrix inversion routine by the public-domain LAPACK equivalent.

• The third electronic release of the book on Scattering, Absorption, and Emission of Light by Small Particles is now available on-line in the .pdf format. The new release incorporates numerous minor improvements and corrections.

• Maxwell's equations of electromagnetism top a poll to find the greatest equations of all time. The Poincare-Planck-Lewis-et-al. E = mc² and the Hilbert-Einstein equations of gravity were not even close.

• A comprehensive database of T-matrix publications is now available in the .pdf format. We plan to constantly update the database and would greatly appreciate notifying us of any corrections and missing or new references.

• New book on Photopolarimetry in Remote Sensing, Edited by G. Videen, Ya. Yatskiv, and M. Mishchenko (Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 2004).

  • Preface (PDF)
  • Corrected version of the chapter by Oleg Dubovik (PDF)

• NATO Advanced Study Institute on "Photopolarimetry in Remote Sensing," Yalta, Ukraine, 20 September - 3 October 2003

• Special JAS issue on "Global Aerosol Climatology Project" (to receive a free copy of the special issue, please e-mail your request to Michael Mishchenko).

• Special Section on Electromagnetic Scattering by Nonspherical Particles, J. Geophys. Res. 104, 31,671-31,808 (1999). (Table of contents PDF).

• Book on "Light Scattering by Nonspherical Particles: Theory, Measurements, and Applications" is available here.

• Special JQSRT issue on "Light Scattering by Nonspherical Particles '98". Click here to see the table of contents.

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