Events

May 8, 2012

May 2012 Events

May 11 -

Lecture: The Quest for Other Worlds Like Earth, Pasadena, Calif.

www.jpl.nasa.gov/events/lectures_archive.cfm?year=2012&month=5

 

Lecture: Compositional Diversity of the Moon’s Primary Crust from Integrated Diviner and M3 Analysis, Houston, Texas

www.lpi.usra.edu/lpi/seminars/#1901

 

Lecture: Megamasers, Magnetic Fields, and Dense Gas in Starburst Galaxies, Los Altos Hills, Calif.

www.pastro.org/dnn/Home.aspx

 

May 13-19 -

Gravitational-Wave Advanced Detector Workshop, Waikoloa, Hawaii

www.ligo.caltech.edu/gwadw2012/

 

May 14-17 -

Extreme Space Weather Events Workshop, Boulder, Colo.

www.ligo.caltech.edu/gwadw2012/

 

7th Harvard-Smithsonian Conference on Theoretical Astrophysics: Testing General Relativity with Astrophysical Systems, Cambridge, Mass.

www.cfa.harvard.edu/events/2012/sackler/

 

May 14-18 -

Conference: Mapping Oxygen in the Universe, Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, Spain

www.iac.es/congreso/oxygenmap/

 

7th Conference of the Astronomical Data Analysis, Cargese, Corsica, France

http://ada7.cosmostat.org/

 

Conference: Galaxies – Origin, Dynamics, Structure, Sochi, Russia

www.galdyn-sfedu.ru/

 

12th Spacecraft Charging Technology Conference, Kitakyushu, Japan

https://aiaa.org/EventDetail.aspx?id=5592

 

Workshop: Subhaloes Going Notts, Dovedale, United Kingdom

http://popia.ft.uam.es/SubhaloesGoingNotts/Workshop.html

 

May 15-17 -

12th International Conference on Ionospheric Radio Systems and Techniques, York, United Kingdom

http://popia.ft.uam.es/SubhaloesGoingNotts/Workshop.html

 

May 16 -

Colloquium: The PAWS View of Giant Molecular Clouds, Gas Flows and Star Formation in M51, Sydney, Australia

www.atnf.csiro.au/news/news.php?action=show_item&item_id=1078

 

May 16-20 -

Asteroids, Comets, Meteors 2012 Meeting, Niigata, Japan

http://chiron.mtk.nao.ac.jp/ACM2012/

 

May 18 -

Lecture: Faults and Folds on Mercury, Houston, Texas

www.lpi.usra.edu/lpi/seminars/#1902

 

May 19 -

Northern Meeting of the British Interplanetary Society, York, United Kingdom

www.bis-space.com/2012/03/01/3922/british-interplanetary-society-northern-meeting

 

May 19-27 -

Cracow School of Theoretical Physics: Astroparticle Physics in the LHC Era, Zakopane, Poland

http://th-www.if.uj.edu.pl/school/2012/

 

May 20-25 -

ESF Research Conference: The Modern Era of Helio- and Asteroseismology, ÷tz Valley, near Innsbruck, Austria

www.esf.org/index.php?id=9140

 

Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2012, Chiba City, Japan

www.jpgu.org/meeting_e/

 

May 20-26 -

12th Pisa Meeting on Advanced Detectors, La Biodola, Isola d’Elba, Italy

www.pi.infn.it/pm/2012/

 

May 20-Jun 09 -

Aspen Meeting Summer 2012: A Window on the Formation of the Milky Way, Aspen, Colo.

www.aei.mpg.de/~pau/Aspen2012/A_window_to_the_formation_of_the_Milky_Way.html

 

May 21 -

Colloquium: The Distribution of Star-forming Regions in the Milky Way, Sydney, Australia

www.atnf.csiro.au/news/news.php?action=show_item&item_id=1079

 

May 21-22 -

Workshop: Extraterrestrial Life – Beyond Our Expectations?, Vienna, Austria

http://astrobiology.nasa.gov/events/extraterrestrial-life-beyond-our-expectations

 

May 21-23 -

Workshop on Coronal Magnetism: Connecting Models to Data and the Corona to the Earth, Boulder, Colo.

www.hao.ucar.edu/CoronalMagnetismWorkshop/index.php

 

Workshop: Galaxy Clusters as Giant Cosmic Laboratories, Madrid, Spain

http://xmm.esac.esa.int/external/xmm_science/workshops/2012_science/

 

May 21-24 -

Workshop: Stars Without Borders – Radial Migration in Spiral Galaxies, Medana, Slovenia

www.itp.uzh.ch/~roskar/migration_workshop/

 

First International Conference on New Trends and Applications of GNSS, Cairo, Egypt

www.ssc-cu.edu.eg/content/first-international-conference-new-trends-and-applications-gnss

 

Conference: SatCom 2012 Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa

www.terrapinn.com/exhibition/satcom-africa/

 

May 21-25 -

Third Conference on Early Mars: Geologic, Hydrologic, and Climatic Evolution and the Implications for Life, Carson City, Nev.

www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/earlymars2012/

 

First Stars IV Conference: From Hayashi to the Future, Kyoto, Japan

http://tpweb2.phys.konan-u.ac.jp/~FirstStar4/

 

9th LISA Symposium, Paris, France

http://lisasymposium2012.in2p3.fr/Welcome.html

 

4th International Meeting on Gravitation and Cosmology, Guadalajara, Mexico

http://imgc2012.cucei.udg.mx/

 

Third International European Radioactive Ion Beam Conference, Padova, Italy

http://agenda.infn.it/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=3946

 

May 21-26 -

NASA’s Third Annual Lunabotics Mining Competition, Kennedy Space Center, Fla.

http://www.nasa.gov/offices/education/centers/kennedy/technology/lunabotics.html

 

SIGRAV Graduate School in Contemporary Relativity and Gravitational Physics: Astrophysical Black Holes, Como, Italy

www.centrovolta.it/sigrav2012/

 

May 22-24 -

Global Space Exploration Conference, Washington, D.C.

http://glex2012.org/index.html

 

May 24-28 -

International Space Development Conference, Washington, D.C.

http://isdc.nss.org/2012/

 

May 27-30 -

Workshop: Whereabouts, Physical State and Metallicity of the Missing Baryons in the Local Universe, Cervia Milano Marittima, Italy

www.oabo.inaf.it/baryons2012/Home.html

 

May 27-June 1 -

24th Rencontres de Blois: Particle Physics and Cosmology, Blois, France

http://confs.obspm.fr/Blois2012/index.htm

 

May 27-June 3 -

Workshop: Planetary Origins and Frontiers of Exploration, Rehovot, Israel

www.weizmann.ac.il/conferences/frontiers/

 

May 28-30 -

Gravitational Wave Bursts Workshop 2012, Tobermory, Scotland

www.physics.gla.ac.uk/igr/GWbursts2012/

 

May 28-31 -

Workshop: The Physics and Evolution of Active Black Holes, Haifa, Israel

http://physics.technion.ac.il/eng/index.php?option=com_content&id=200

 

May 28-June 1 -

PLANCK 2012 Conference: From the Planck Scale to the Electroweak Scale, Warsaw, Poland

http://planck12.fuw.edu.pl/

 

May 29 -

ESA Concluding Conference: Consultation with Industry 2012, Noordwijk, The Netherlands

www.congrexprojects.com/12A14

 

May 29-30 -

First Interplantary CubeSat Workshop, Cambridge, Mass.

http://icubesat.wordpress.com/

 

May 29-June 1 -

Workshop: Cosmological Frontiers in Fundamental Physics 2012, Brussels, Belgium

www.perimeterinstitute.ca/Events/Cosmological_Frontiers/Cosmological_Frontiers_in_Fundamental_Physics_2012/

 

46th Canadian Meteorological and Oceanograpgic Society Congress 2012: The Changing Environment and its Impact on Climate, Ocean and Weather Services, Montreal, Canada

www.cmos.ca/congress2012/en/index.shtml

 

May 29-June 2 -

Meeting: The Warm Universe – Astrochemistry at Intermediate and Elevated Temperatures, Tallinn, Estonia

www.physto.se/~wgeppert/Tallinn2012/General.html

 

May 29-June 3 -

11th Conference on the Intersections of Particle and Nuclear Physics, St. Petersburg, Fla.

http://cipanp2012.triumf.ca/

 

May 29-June 5 -

13th Synthesis Imaging Workshop, Socorro, N.M.

www.aoc.nrao.edu/events/synthesis/2012/

 

May 30 -

International Academy of Astronautics Regional Meeting in Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine

http://iaaweb.org/content/view/485/653/

 

May 30-31 -

Second International Workshop on On-Orbit Satellite Servicing, Greenbelt, Md.

http://ssco.gsfc.nasa.gov/workshops.html

 

May 30-June 1 -

Meeting: Exploring the Radio Continuum Universe with SKA Pathfinders, Sydney, Australia

www.atnf.csiro.au/people/Nick.Seymour/sparcs2/Site/Home.html

 

May 31-June 7 -

Heliophysics Summer School 2012, Boulder, Colo.

www.vsp.ucar.edu/Heliophysics/summer-about-over.shtml

 




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