Scope
The specific topics that will be covered include (but are not limited to) the following:
- 150 years of Maxwell’s electromagnetics
- new theoretical developments and numerical simulations of light scattering by nonspherical and morphologically complex particles and particle groups
- laboratory and field experiments in light scattering by natural and artificial particles
- single and multiple light scattering by cloud and aerosol particles in the terrestrial atmosphere
- single and multiple scattering of light in various astrophysical objects
- light scattering in densely packed particulate media
- near-field and coherent effects in light scattering
- optical trapping and manipulation
- micro and nano-optics
- applications of light scattering in remote sensing, particle detection, laboratory and field particle characterization
- applications of light scattering methods in biology and biomedicine
- light scattering methods to control material properties and technological applications