Workshop on Spectroscopy, Photometry, and Polarimetry of Airless Solar System Objects

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The Planetary Systems Research (PSR) —group at the University of Helsinki organizes the SAEMPL workshop at September 14–15. 2017. The meeting will be held at Krapi, Tuusula, Finland

Invited speakers

Alberto Cellino (INAF, Osservatorio Astronomico di Torino, Italy), Stefano Bagnulo (Armagh Observatory, UK), Irina Belskaya (Kharkiv National University, Ukraine), Hermann Boehnhardt (Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Germany), Benoit Carry (Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, France), Olga Muñoz (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, CSIC, Spain), Dagmara Oszkiewicz (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland), David Polishook (MIT, USA), Antoine Pommerol (University of Bern, Switzerland), Vasilij Shevchenko (Kharkiv National University, Ukraine), Frans Snik (Leiden Observatory, The Netherlands), and Anne Virkki (Arecibo Observatory, Puerto Rico)

Program

PDF-version here.

Thursday, 14.9
9:00	Johannes Markkanen	Introduction to new theoretical, numerical and experimental methods from the SAEMPL scattering project
	Antti Penttilä
	Karri Muinonen
9:30	Benoit Carry	Photometry and spectroscopy of Solar System objects with Euclid
9:50	Irina Belskaya	Photometry and polarimetry of asteroids: phase angle effects
10:10	Stefano Bagnulo	Polarimetry of small bodies of the Solar System with small, mid-size, and large telescopes
10:30	coffee-break
11:00	Alberto Cellino	The synergy of polarimetry and photometry in the Gaia era
11:20	Dagmara Oszkiewicz	Asteroid phase-curves from Gaia-calibrated data
11:40	David Polishook	The Mission Accessible Near-Earth Objects Survey (MANOS): Characterizing small NEOs
12:00	Anne Virkki	Planetary surface characterization using dual-polarization radar observations
12:20	Jorma Harju	Occultation of a compact radio source by (372) Palma
12:30	lunch
14:00	Hermann Böhnhardt	Application of light scattering analysis – experiences in the imaging, spectroscopy and polarimetry domain
14:20	Frans Snik	Novel techniques and technologies for polarimetric remote sensing
14:40	Antoine Pommerol	Photometric measurements of Solar System icy surface analogues
15:00	Olga Muñoz	What we know and we do not know about light scattered by “small” cosmic dust grains. An experimental approach
15:20	Göran Maconi	Controlled single-particle light scattering measurement
15:30	Katerina Chrbolkova	Use of lunar spectra for space weathering study
15:40	Chair Karri Muinonen	discussion and coffee
16:30	Maria Gritsevich	Introduction to the ITN
16:45	Chair Karri Muinonen	ITN discussion
18:00	sauna and dinner held at the hotel Gustavelund, Tuusula

Friday, 15.9
9:00	Vasilij Shevchenko	Problems of determination of asteroid absolute magnitudes
9:10	Tomas Kohout	Asteroid Spectral Imaging Mission (ASPECT) CubeSat to characterize asteroid surfaces
9:20	Julia Martikainen	Spectral modeling of meteorites at UV-Vis-NIR region using multiple-scattering methods
9:30	Jouni Peltoniemi	Reflectance and polarization of light from particulate medium
9:40	Veli-Matti Pelkonen	3D radiative transfer code for polarized scattered light with aligned grains
9:50	Joonas Herranen	Effect of scattering dynamics on model dust polarization
10:00	Olli Wilkman	Surface scattering models for regolith surfaces
10:10	Jukka Räbinä	Discrete Exterior Calculus for large scale problems
10:20	Timo Väisänen	Simulating light scattering by planetary-regolith analog sample
10:30	coffee-break
11:00	Chair Karri Muinonen	discussion
12:00	lunch
13:00	Excursion
15:30	coffee-break
16:00	Chair Karri Muinonen	ITN discussion
17:00	Closing

Abstracts

Participants should send a short, max. one page abstract, before Monday September 4th to the local organizer contact person. The format of the one-page abstract is free, but you may use this template.

Conference Dinner

Sauna and dinner at Gustavelund hotel on Thursday, starting at 18:00.

Local organizers

Dr. Maria Gritsevich (contact: maria.gritsevich@helsinki.fi), Dr. Antti Penttilä, Prof. Karri Muinonen