• The XX

    Electromagnetic and Light Scattering Conference


    27 June - 1 July 2022
    St. Petersburg, Russia

    We are carefully monitoring the situation with traveling restrictions and will provide an update on the format of the conference in the beginning of 2022.


General info

The 20th Electromagnetic and Light Scattering Conference (ELS-XX) will be held in St. Petersburg, Russia on 27 June - 1 July 2022.
It will build on the remarkable success of the previous ELS conferences held in Amsterdam, Helsinki (twice), New York, Vigo, Halifax, Gainesville, Bremen, Salobreña, St. Petersburg, Bodrum, Hatfield, Taormina, Lille, Leipzig, College Park, College Station, and Hangzhou. The main objective of the conference is to bring together scientists and engineers studying various aspects of light scattering and to provide a relaxed academic atmosphere for in-depth discussions of theoretical advances, measurements, and applications.
This edition of ELS conference will be dedicated to our deeply regretted friend and colleague Michael Mishchenko .

The specific topics that will be covered include (but are not limited to) the following:

Topics

  • new theoretical developments, numerical simulations, and laboratory measurements of light scattering by nonspherical and morphologically complex particles and particle groups
  • detection and characterization of atmospheric particulates using laboratory, in situ, and remote sensing techniques
  • scattering of light by terrestrial aerosols and clouds
  • scattering of light by oceanic particulates
  • scattering of light by solar system objects, exoplanets, and exoplanetary environments
  • scattering of light by various astrophysical objects
  • applications of light scattering methods in biology and biomedicine
  • light scattering in densely packed particulate media
  • near-field and coherent effects in light scattering, optical trapping, and manipulation
  • light scattering methods to control material properties and technological applications

Submission



Please prepare your 1-page abstract using the template (download archive) available in .doc, .pdf and .tex.
Submit your application by creating an apply form (will be available soon).

Travel grants



There is a limited amount of funds available for participants who need financial assistance to attend the conference distributed on a competitive basis.

To be considered for a grant please fill in the grant application form and send it to Alexey Shcherbakov and CC to Anastasia Kaptsova before 1 April 2022.


Students from the US universities applying for the travel grant, please contact Matthew J. Berg (Kansas State University, US) via email.

Organizers

Conference conveners

Alexey Shcherbakov
ITMO University, Russia
M. Pinar Mengüç
Ozyegin University, Turkey
Ping Yang
Texas A&M University, USA
Matthew J. Berg
Kansas State University, USA
Anne Virkki
Arecibo Observatory, Puerto Rico
Maxim Yurkin
Voevodsky Institute of Chemical Kinetics and Combustion, Russia
Lei Bi
Zhejiang University, China


Local committee

Alexey Shcherbakov, Chair
Anastasia Kaptsova, Secretary

ITMO University, St. Petersburg, Russia)

Science committee

Pavel Belov, ITMO University, St. Petersburg, Russia
Anatoli Borovoi, Institute of Atmospheric Optics, Tomsk, Russia
Sharon Burton, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, USA
Anthony Davis, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, USA
Gérard Gouesbet, National Institute of Applied Sciences, Rouen, France
Joop Hovenier, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Evgueni Kassianov, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA
Nikolai Khlebtsov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Saratov, Russia
Gerhard Kristensson, Lund University, Sweden
Eric Le Ru, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand
James Lock, Cleveland State University, OH, USA
Hal Maring, NASA HQ, Washington, DC, USA
Alexander Marshak, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
M. Pinar Mengüç, Ozyegin University, Istanbul, Turkey
Karri Muinonen, University of Helsinki & National Land Survey, Finland
Timo Nieminen, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Elena Petrova, Space Research Institute, Moscow, Russia
Christopher Sorensen, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA
Knut Stamnes, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, USA
Gorden Videen, Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD, USA
Thomas Wriedt, University of Bremen, Germany
Ping Yang, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA
Maxim Yurkin, Novosibirsk State University, Russia


Invited speakers


regularly updated

Speaker Talk

Fabrice Onofri

Aix-Marseille University, France

 TBA

Yuri Eremin

Moscow State University, Russia

 TBA

Oleg Dubovik

University of Lille, France

 TBA

Gérard Gouesbet

Van de Hulst award lecture

Chris Sorensen

Kansas State University, USA

 TBA

Hans Moosmuller

 TBA


Awards


The following Elsevier awards will be presented at the conference:

  • Elsevier's Hendrik C. Van de Hulst Award
  • Elsevier's Peter C. Waterman Award
  • Elsevier's Richard M. Goody Award
  • Elsevier's Michael Mishchenko Award

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Contact info

Further information: Alexey Shcherbakov

NASA contact: Matthew J. Berg


199034, Russia, St. Petersburg, Lomonosova str. 9

Department of Physics and Engineering

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