Events for October 2012

Here's a listing of 90+ conferences, educational events and public meetings for space science, technology, engineering and mathematics professionals occurring in October 2012. Each event is sorted by date of occurrence:

• The 4th Bethe Center Workshop, focused on "String Theory and Unification" will be held in Bad Honnef, Germany from October 1st - 5th.   

• The 63rd International Astronautical Federation (IAF) International Astronautical Congress (IAC) will be held in Naples, Italy from October 1st - 5th.

• A conference on X-Ray Astronomy - Towards The Next 50 Years!, will be held in Milan, Italy from October 1st - 5th. 

• A workshop on Large Deployable Antennas , organized by the European Space Agency (ESA), will be held in Noordwijk, The Netherlands from October 2nd - 3rd.  

• The 2012 Telecoms World Middle East conference, the regions leading event for telecom operators, will be held in Dubai, UAE from October 2nd - 3rd.

• The 2nd International Public Law Conference (IPLC), organized by the International Association of IT Lawyers (IAITL) will be held in Athens, Greece from October 2nd - 4th.

• The 2012 Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot Court Competition, organized by the International Institute of Space Law, will be held in Naples, Italy from October 2nd - 4th.

• The 1st International European Conference on Space and Satellite Telecommunications (ESTEL), organized through the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Aerospace and Electronics Systems Society (AESS), will be held in Rome, Italy from October 2nd - 5th.

• The 2012 Annual Conference on the Chemical Cosmos (COST) will be held in Catania, Italy from October 2nd - 5th. 

• The 13th biennial Baltic Electronics Conference (BEC2012) will be held in Tallinn, Estonia from October 3rd - 5th. 

• The 34th Antenna Workshop and 2nd Evolutions in Satellite Telecommunication Ground Segments Workshop on Satcom User Terminal Antennas, organized by the European Space Agency (ESA), will be held in Noordwijk, The Netherlands from October 3rd - 5th.   

• A workshop on Radio Stars and Their Lives in the Galaxy, organized by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Haystack Observatory, will be held in Westford, MA from October 3rd - 5th.

• The 2012 Banff Venture Forum, Canada's premier company financing event, will be held in Banff, AB from October 4th - 5th.

• The 1st International Conference on Lunar Cubes will be held in Mountain View, CA from October 4th - 6th.

• World Space Week, which celebrates the contributions of space science and technology to the betterment of the human condition, will be held throughout the world from October 4th - 10th. 

• A meeting on Observing Projects with Asteroid-Comet Connections will be held in Milton Keynes, UK on October 6th. 

• The 23rd annual Twin Lakes Star Party, will be held in Dawson Springs, KY from October 6th - 14th.

• The 6th Space Agency - MOD Workshop on Wide Bandgap Semiconductors and Components, organized by the European Space Agency (ESA), will be held in Noordwijk, The Netherlands from October 8th - 9th. 

• An Applied Technologies Institute (ATI) course on GPS & Other Radionavigation Satellites will be held in Cape Canaveral, FL from October 8th - 11th.

• A conference focused on Rocks n Stars - The Solar System Within Geo- and Astrophysics, will be held in Gottingen, Germany from October 8th - 11th.

• The 1st Erlangen Fall School on Quantum Geometry will be held in Erlangen, Germany from October 8th - 12th.

• The Fall 2012 Gamma Ray Burst Symposium will be held in Malaga, Spain from October 8th - 12th.

• The Low-Metallicity ISM - Chemistry, Turbulence and Magnetic Fields Workshop will be held in Goettingen, Germany from October 8th -12th. 

• The 3rd Moscow Solar System Symposium, sponsored by the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, will be held in Moscow, Russia from October 8th - 12th.

• The 31st Symposium of the Scientific Instrument Commission will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from October 8th - 12th.

• The UN/ Ecuador Workshop on the International Space Weather Initiative (ISWI) will be held in Quito, Ecuador from October 8th - 12th. 

• The Aircraft Composite Repair Management Forum will be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands on October 9th. 

• The 2012 Subthreshold Microelectronics Conference (SubVT), organized through the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), will be held in Waltham, MA from August 9th - 10th.

• An Applied Technologies Institute (ATI) course on Structural Test Design and Interpretation for Aerospace will be held in Littleton, CO from October 9th - 11th.

• The 2012 conference on MRO EUROPE, focused on aviation maintenance, repair and operations will be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands from October 9th -11th. 

• The 11th European Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) Network Symposium will be held in Bordeaux, France from October 9th - 12th. 

• The scientific workshop From Quantum to Cosmos5 - Space-based Research in Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, a joint project of the Center of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity (ZARM) and the German Aerospace Center (DLR), will be held in Cologne, Germany from October 9th - 12th.

• The International Conference on Space Optics (ICSO2012) will be held in Corsica, France from October 9th - 12th. 

• The 2012 Joint Meeting of the Paneth Kolloquium and the workshop of the DFG special program (DFG SPP 1385) focused on the "First 10 million years of the solar system – a planetary materials approach,” will be held in Nordlingen, Germany from October 9th - 12th.

• A seminar on Climate Change: What’s Going On With the Sun?, part of the Weekly Colloquium at the SETI Institute, will be held in Mountain View, CA on October 10th. 

• An Applied Technologies Institute (ATI) course on the Fundamentals of Rockets & Missiles will be held in Cape Canaveral, FL from October 10th - 12th. 

• The 54th National Mountain Plains Management Conference will be held in Kearney, NB from October 10th - 13th.  

• The International Workshop on Instrumentation for Planetary Missions will be held in Greenbelt, MD from October 10th - 11th.

• The United Nations/Japan Nano-Satellite Symposium will be held from Nagoya, Japan from October 10th - 13th. 

• Spaces and Flows: Third International Conference on Urban and ExtraUrban Studies will be held in Detroit, MI from October 11th - 12th. 

• The lecture on Herschel Opens Up the Cool Universe, sponsored by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) at the California Institute of Technology and part of the 2012 von Kármán Lecture Series, will be held in Pasadena, CA on October 11th and repeated on October 12th.

• The International Trade and Law Symposium will be held in Bologna, Italy from October 11th - 14th.

• The 11th Annual Illinois Dark Skies Star Party will be held in Chandlerville, IL from October 11th - 14th.

• The 2012 Polytechnics Canada Applied Research Showcase will be held in Edmonton, AB from November 13th - 14th. 

• A conference on Earth Observation and Cryosphere Science, organized by the European Space Agency (ESA), will be held in Frascati, Italy from October 13th - 16th.

• The 31st Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC) organized through the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), will be held from Williamsburg, VA from October 14th - 18th.  

• The 44th Annual Meeting of the Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS) of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) will be held in Reno, NV from October 14th - 19th.

• A conference on the Time Machine Factory, focused on scientific discussion of causality and non-locality in physics, with emphasis on the implications for time machines, will be held in Turin, Italy from October 14th - 19th. 

• The 1st Asia-Europe-Pacific School Of High-Energy Physics (2012 AEPSHEP) will be held in Fukuoka, Japan from October 14th - 27th.

• The 12th European Workshop on Astrobiology (EANA2012) will be held in Stockholm, Sweden from October 15th - 17th. 

• A course on "Propagation Effects, Channel Models and Related Error Sources on GNSS" , organized by the European Space Agency (ESA), will be held in Noordwijk, The Netherlands from October 15th - 17th.

• The 8th Round Table on Micro and Nano Technologies for Space Applications , organized by the European Space Agency (ESA), will be held in Noordwijk, The Netherlands from October 15th - 18th.

• A workshop on Science from the Next Generation Imaging and Spectroscopic Surveys will be held in Garching, Germany from October 15th - 18th.

• The 5th Wernher von Braun Memorial Symposium, organized by the American Astronomical Society (AAS) will be held in Huntville, AL from October 15th - 18th. 

• The 9th INTEGRAL Workshop: An INTEGRAL View of the High-energy Sky (over the first 10 years), focusing on the 10th anniversary of the European Space Agency (ESA) INTErnational Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (INTEGRAL), will be held in Paris, France from October 15th - 19th.

• The 3rd MERIS/(A)ATSR and OCLI-SLSTR (Sentinel-3) Preparatory Workshop, organized by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (Eumetsat), will be held in Frascati, Italy from October 15th - 19th. 

• The 8th Institut de Radioastronomie Millimétrique (IRAM) Millimeter Interferometry School will be held in Grenoble, France from October 15th - 19th.  

• A Capacity Building Workshop Dedicated to Infrared and Submillimeter Astronomy, organized by the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR), will be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina from October 15th - 26th. 

• An ESA Investment Forum, organized by the European Space Agency (ESA) Technology Transfer Program (TTP) will be held in Toulouse, France on October 16th. 

• An Applied Technologies Institute (ATI) course on Synthetic Aperture Radar Fundamentals will be held in Columbia, MD from October 16th - 17th. 

• An Applied Technologies Institute (ATI) course on Space Mission Analysis and Design will be held in Huntsville, AL from October 16th - 18th. 

• A workshop on Dark Forces at Accelerators (DARK2012), focused on how recent astrophysical observations have revived the idea of the existence of a hidden force weakly coupled to ordinary matter, will be held in Frascati, Italy from October 16th - 19th.

• The 36th Johns Hopkins Workshop On Latest News On The Fermi Scale From LHC And Dark Matter Searches, organized through the Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics (GGI), will be held in Florence, Italy from October 16th - 19th. 

• The 2012 conference on Aviation Outlook Asia will be held in Singapore, Singapore from October 17th - 18th.

• The 2012 International Symposium for Personal & Commercial Spaceflight (ISPCS 2012) will be held in Las Cruces, NM from October 17th - 18th.

• The 5th International Workshop on System & Concurrent Engineering for Space Applications (SECESA2012), organized by the European Space Agency (ESA) will be held in Lisbon, Portugal from October 17th - 19th. 

• A conference on Solar System Exploration @50, focused on the 50th anniversary of solar system exploration, will be held in Washington DC from October 18th - 20th.

• The 13th Annual International and Interdisciplinary Conference (Internet Research 13.0) of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR)  will be held in Salford, UK from October 18th - 21st. 

• The conference celebrating 50 Years of Brown Dwarfs: from Theoretical Prediction to Astrophysical Studies, will be held in Bavaria, Germany from October 21st - 24th.

• The 2012 i-CANADA Summit and the World Congress on Information Technology (WCIT) 18th Global Digital Society Summit, will be held together in Montreal, PQ from October 21st - 24th.

• The 2012 Annual Meeting of the the Association of the United States Army (AUSA), will be held in Washington, DC from October 22nd - 24th. 

• The Annual Meeting of the Lunar Exploration Analysis Group (LEAG) will be held in Greenbelt, MD from October 22nd - 24th.

• The International Conference on Space Weather and Challenges for Modern Society will be held in Oslo, Norway from October 22nd - 24th.

• A conference focused on Neutrinos at the Forefront of Elementary Particle Physics and Astrophysics will be held in Lyons, France from October 22nd - 24th.

• A meeting on the Experimental Search for Quantum Gravity - The Hard Facts, organized by the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, will be held in Waterloo, Canada from October 22nd - 25th.

• A workshop on Nature's Particle Accelerators, hosted by the Joint Space-Science Institute (JSI) at the University of Maryland and the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, will be held in Annapolis, MD from October 22nd - 25th.

• An Applied Technologies Institute (ATI) course on Design & Analysis of Bolted Joints for Aerospace Engineers will be held in Littleton, CO from October 23rd - 25th.

• The 2012 World Academy of Science Autumn Conference will be held in Bali, Indonesia from October 24th - 25th.

• The 2012 Conference on Intelligent Data Understanding: Bringing Data and Models Together will be held in Boulder, CO from October 24th - 26th.

• A Course on Photometry and Radiometry, organized by the National Research Council (NRC) of Canada will be held in Ottawa, ON from October 24th - 26th.

• The 2012 Australia, Canada, UK, USA Quadrilateral Conference, focused on “special relationships in the defence trade,” will be held in Washington, DC on October 25th.

• The 3rd Conference on Terrestrial Mars Analogues, jointly organized by the European Space Agency (ESA), the International Association of Sedimentologists, the Ibn Battuta Centre for exploration and field activities and the Italian Space Agency (ASI) will be held in Marrakech, Morocco from October 25th - 27th.

• A conference on Frontiers in Star Formation, organized to honor Dr. Richard Larson, who contributed to the understanding of star formation and galaxy evolution, will be held in New Haven, Connecticut from October 26th - 27th.

• The 2012 Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (2012 NSS/MIC), organized through the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), will be held in Anaheim, CA from October 27th - November 3rd.

• The 4th International Fermi Symposium, focusing on data collected from the Fermi gamma ray space telescope, will be held in Monterey, California from October 28th - November 2nd.

• The On-Board Payload Data Compression Workshop (OBPDC2012) will be held in Barcelona, Spain from October 29th - 30th.

• The 2012 International Symposium on Optomechatronic Technologies (ISOT2012), organized through the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) will be held in Paris, France from October 29th - 31st. 

• A workshop on Molecular Spectroscopy in the Era of Far-IR Astronomy will be held in Atlanta, GA from October 29th - 31st.

• The 2012 Annual Convention of the Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) will be held in Hong Hong from October 29th - November 1st.

• The 2012 European Microwave Conference (EuMC), sponsored by Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT) of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) will be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands from October 29th - November 1st.

• The 2012 Military Communications Conference (MILCOM'12) will be held in Orlando, FL from October 29th - November 1st.

• The 5th East Asia Numerical Astrophysics Meeting will be held in Kyoto, Japan from October 29th - November 2nd. 

• The conference on Engine Maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO) Europe will be held in Paris France from October 30th - 31st. 

• Securetech 2012, a two day public safety and security omnibus conference and exhibit, organized by the Canadian Association of Defence and Security Industries (CADSI) will be held in Ottawa, ON from October 30th - 31st. 

• The 2012 Power Systems Conference (SAE2012), organized by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) will be held in Phoenix, AZ from October 30th - November 1st. 

If your event is not presently on the list and you'd like it to be, please send an e-mail to mr.chuck.black@gmail.com.

Our next listing of conferences, covering the November 2012 period, should be ready for publication around the middle of October 2012.