Events for January 2013

Here's a listing of 80 conferences, educational events and public meetings for space science, technology, engineering and mathematics professionals occurring in January 2013. Each event is sorted by date of occurrence:

• The 100th Indian Science Congress (ISC2013), focused on "science for shaping the future of India," will be held in Calcutta, India from January 3rd - 7th.

• The 7th Meeting of the Exploration Program Analysis Group (ExoPAG 7) will be held in Long Beach, CA from  January 5th - 6th.

• The 2nd Symposium on the Geological Resources in the Tethys Realm will be held in Aswan, Egypt from January 5th - 8th. 

• The 2013 conference on Cryosphere Geophysics - Understanding a Changing Climate with Subsurface Imaging  (AGU 2013), organized by the Society of Exploration Geophysics (SEG), will be held in Boise, ID from January 6th - 8th.

• The 221st Meeting of the American Astronomical Society will be held in Long Beach, CA from January 6th - 10th.

• The 93rd Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society (AMS), focused on "Taking predictions to the Next Level: Expanding Beyond Today's Weather, Water, and Climate Forecasting and Projections," will be held in Austin, TX from January 6th - 10th.

• The 2nd Symposium on Planetary Atmospheres, focused on the discussion of advances in modeling, data assimilation, spacecraft observations of planetary atmospheres will be held in conjunction with the 93rd Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society (AMS), in Austin TX from January 6th - 10th.

• The 51st Aerospace Sciences Meeting, organized by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and including the New Horizons forum and aerospace exhibition, will be held in Grapevine, TX from January 7th - 10th. 

• The Southern Hemisphere Summer Space Program (SHS-SP) the newest program offering of the International Space University (ISU) and provided in partnership with the University of South Australia, will be held in Adelaide, Australia from January 7th - February 8th.

• The Applied Technologies Institute (ATI) course on the Fundamentals Of Orbital & Launch Mechanics will be held in Cape Canaveral, FL from January 7th - 10th.

• The 296th International Astronomical Union (IAU) Symposium, focused on Supernova Environmental Impacts will be held in Calcutta, India from January 7th - 11th. 

• A workshop, focused on Plasma to Plasma, will be held in Leiden, The Netherlands  from January 7th - 11th. 

• The 2014 Nordita Winter School in High-Energy Astrophysics, focused on black hole accretion discs, gamma-ray bursts and their afterglows, particle acceleration, relativistic shocks, neutron star mergers, gravitational waves, extragalactic cosmic rays, high-energy neutrinos, will be held in Stockholm, Sweden from January 7th - 18th.

• A colloquium on the Atmospheric circulation of Pluto and Triton as predicted by a general circulation model, will be held in Mountainview, CA on January 8th.

• The 3rd meeting of the Human Spaceflight subcommittee of the National Acadamies will be held in Stanford, CA on January 8th.

• The 3rd Electronic Warfare Conference and Exhibition for the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) member states will be held in Dubai, UAE from January 8th - 9th. 

• The 2013 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2103), will be held in Las Vegas, NV from January 8th - 11th.

• The 1st SPACE Retreat for multidisciplinary collaboration focused on "developing a road map for space habitation, will be held in Tenerife, Canary Islands from January 8th - 22nd.

• The Engineers As Educators Workshop will be held in Grapevine, TX on January 9th.

• The next bimonthly meeting of the Canadian Space Commerce Association (CSCA), will be held in Toronto, ON on January 10th. 

• A lecture on Carbon Dioxide Snowfall and the Present Climate of Mars will be held in Houston, TX on January 11th. 

• Presentations on Integrated Atmospheric and Space Science and Planetary Systems of Evolved Stars will be held just before an Ordinary Meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) in London, UK on January 11th. 

• Space Day, organized by the British Interplanetary Society as a forum for astronomers, space authors and rocket scientists, will be held in Droitwich Spa, UK on January 12th.

• The 2013 International Conference on Communication and Electronics Information (ICCEI2012) will be held in Brussels, Belgium from January 12th - 13th.

• The 92nd Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB), including a special session on Commercial Space Transportation Past and Present: Money Wasted or Opportunities Galore and Where Will the Future of Space Exploration Lead Us, will  be held in Washington, DC from January 13th - 17th.

• The 5th Conference on Earth-Sun System Exploration: Earth Sun System Disturbances - Weak, Moderate and Extreme will be held in Kona, HI from January 13th - 19th.

• The 8th Meeting of the NASA Small Bodies Assessment Group, will be held in Washington DC from January 14th - 16th. 

• The 2nd Annual Space Weather Integrated Forecasting Framework, (SWIFF) meeting will be held in Turin, Italy from January 14th - 16th.

• The 2012 Solar ALMA workshop, focused on the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) will be held in Glasgow, UK from January 14th - 17th.

• The 7th Canada-Norway Student Sounding Rocket (CaNoRock) exchange program, a partnership between the Universities of Alberta, Calgary and Saskatchewan, the University of Oslo and the Andoya Rocket Range, will be held on Andoya Island, Norway from January 14th - 18th.

• The Wilhelm und Else Heraeus-Seminar: Astrophysics with Ion Storage Rings will be held in Bad Honnef, Germany from January 14th - 18th.

• A colloquium on the Sentinel B612 telescope – Finding Asteroids Before They Find Us, will be held in Mountain View, CA on January 15th.

• The International Symposium on the Astrobiological and Cosmochemical Implications of Marco Polo-R Sampling of a Primitive Asteroid will be held in Barcelona, Spain from January 16th - 17th. 

• The Exoplanet Characterization Observatory (EchO) Open Science Workshop will be held in Noordwijk, the Netherlands from January 15th - 17th. 

• A technical conference on the Helix Nebula: The Science Cloud, Results and Engagement, part of a larger initiative to build a cloud computing platform for "governments, businesses and citizens" and organized by Congrex for the European Space Agency (ESA), will be held in Rome, Italy on January 16th. 

• The 2013 Emissions Control for Light Duty Automotive Vehicles Symposium , organized by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) will be held in Detroit, MI from January 16th - 17th. 

• A seminar on Gravitational Waves: New Frontiers will be held in  Seoul,  Korea from January 16th - 18th.

• The 21st Convergence India Expo, will be held in New Delhi, India from January 16th - 18th.

• A lecture on Probing the Dark Sector with Euclid, focused on the European Space Agency (ESA) Euclid space telescope and organized as part of the von Kármán Lecture Series, will be held in Mountain View, CA on January 17th and repeated on January 18th. 

• Stardate North Island, an astronomical gathering for people who are interested in observing the stars through a variety of telescopes and diverse aspects of astronomy, will be held in Tukituki Valley, New Zealand from January 18th - 20th. 

• An Educators Academy for the Mars Rover, organized by the South West Texas chapter of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) will be held in San Antonio, TX on January 19th. 

• The 2013 Conference of the Pacific Telecommunications Council (PTC'13), focused on "Capacity, Capability, Collaboration" will be held in Honolulu, HI from January 20th - 23rd.

• The 2013 Radio Wireless Week, organized by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and including the IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium (RWS), the 2013 IEEE Topical Conference on RF/microwave Power Amplifiers (PAWR2013), the 2013 IEEE Topical Conference on Bio-medical Wireless Technologies, Networks, and Sensing Systems (BioWireleSS2013), the 13th IEEE Topical Meetings on Silicon Monolithic Integrated Circuits in RF Systems (SiRF2013) and the IEEE Topical Meeting on Wireless Sensors and Sensor Networks (WisNet2013) will be held in Austin, TX from January 20th - 23rd.

• The Applied Technologies Institute (ATI) course on Strapdown & Integrated Navigation Systems will be held in Cape Canaveral, FL from Jan 21st - 24th.

• The Canadian Workshop on the Long Term Sustainability of Outer Space Activities, organized by Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada (DFAIT) and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) will be held in Ottawa, Ontario on January 22nd. 

• A Cubesat Community Workshop, organized by the UK Space Agency, will be held in Milton Keynes, UK on January 22nd. 

• The 2013 conference on Aircraft Interiors, Middle East (AIME2013) will be held in Dubai, UAE from January 22nd - 23rd. 

• The Applied Technologies Institute (ATI) course on Advanced Satellite Communications Systems will be held in Cocoa Beach, FL from January 22nd - 24th.

• The 15th Annual Global Air Finance Conference Dublin will be held in Dublin, UK from January 22nd - 24th. 

• A Space Exploration Seminar, organized by the Space Foundation for students to learn about nanotechnology, engineering, science and robotics will be held in Colorado Springs, CO on January 23rd. 

• A seminar on Stars: From Cradle to Grave, organized by the British Interplanetary Society,  will be held in London,  UK on January 23rd. 

• A Tour of NASA Glenn Venus Test Chamber, organized by the NASA Venus Exploration Analysis Group (VEXAG), will be held in Cleveland, OH on January 23rd. 

• The 2013 conference on Airline Merchandizing, Ancillary Revenue and New Commercial Models will be held in London, UK from January 23rd - 24th. 

• The 2013 Comprehensive Guide to Patent Reform conference will be held in New York, NY from January 23rd - 24th. 

• The European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) workshop on Calibration targets for astronomical polarimetry for the 0.3 to 30 μm wavelength range, will be held in Zurich, Switzerland from January 23rd - 24th. 

• A science and technical interchange meeting (STIM) focused on Venus Upper Atmosphere Investigations, organized by the Ohio Aerospace Institute and the NASA Glenn Research Center, will be held in Cleveland, OH on January 24th.

• The 2013 Technology Futures Inc (TFI) Asset Valuation Conference, focused on technology forecasting, depreciation and trends in technology, will be held in Austin, TX from January 24th - 25th.

• A conference on the Commercialization of Space: Opportunities and Challenges, sponsored by the Department of War Studies, King’s College London, and the McGill University Institute of Air & Space Law, will be held in London, UK from January 24th - 25th. 

• The 10th Annual Symposium of the Astronomy & Space Exploration Society (ASX), focused on 'life on other planets," will be held in Toronto, ON on January 25th. 

• A conference on the Future of Geobiology - Perspectives from Graduate and Postdoctoral Research, part of the 2013 listing of Gordon Research Conferences, will be held in Ventura, CA from January 26th - 27th.

• The 16th International Workshop on Astrophysics and Nuclear Structure (Hirschegg2013) will be held in Hirschegg, Kleinwalsertal, Austria from January 26th - February 1st.

• The 2013 International High Octane Fuels Symposium, organized by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) will be held in Washington, DC from January 28th - 29th. 

• The Applied Technologies Institute (ATI) course on GPS & Other Radionavigation Satellites will be held in Columbia, MD from January 28th - 31st.

• The 6th International Workshop on Science and Applications of SAR Polarimetry and Polarimetric Interferometry (POLinSAR 2013) will be held in Frascati, Italy from January 28th - February 1st.

• The 2013 British Columbia Association of Mineral Exploration (AME BC) Mineral Exploration Roundup Conference, will be held in Vancouver, BC from January 28th - 31st.

• The 5th Conference on European Union (EU) Space Policy, focused on "Building up a Global Tool for Global Challenges," will be held in Brussels, Belgium on January 29th. 

• A colloquium on the First Results from the ChemMin Mineralogical Instrument on Mars Science Laboratory, will be held in Mountain View, CA on January 29th.

• The 2013 Design, Manufacturing and Economics of Composites Symposium, organized by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) will be held in Torino, Italy from January 29th - 30th.

• The Applied Technologies Institute (ATI) course on the Fundamentals of Rockets & Missiles will be held in Albuquerque, NM from January 29th - 31st.

• The 8th Annual International Ilan Ramon Space Conference, organized by the Fisher Institute for Air and Space Strategic Studies, will be held in Herzelia, Israel from January 29th - 31st.

• West 2013, organized by the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) and the U.S. Naval Institute and considered the largest event on the West Coast for communications, electronics, intelligence, information systems, imaging, military weapon systems, aviation and shipbuilding, will be held in San Diego, CA from January 29th - 31st.

• A technical conference on Electromagnetic Devices in Aerospace Mechanics, organized by Congrex for the European Space Agency (ESA), will be held in Noordwijk, the Netherlands on January 30th. 

• The Naval and Maritime Commercial SATCOM Users’ Workshop will be held in San Diego, CA on January 30th.

• The Space Angels Network (SAN) will be hosting a virtual pitch event for members only featuring selected SAN companies on January 30th.

• The Applied Technologies Institute (ATI) course on the Space Environment - Implications for Spacecraft Design will be held in Columbia, MD from January 30th - 31st.  

• A workshop on Space Technology for Competitiveness, Non-dependence and Innovation, part of the Horizon 2020 series of workshops on space technology, will be held in Brussels, Belgium from January 30th - 31st. 

• The 2013 Government/Industry Meeting, organized by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) will be held in Washington, DC from Januaary 30th - February 1st.

• The 19th Korea-Japan Joint Workshop on Frontiers of Computer Vision (FCV2013) will be held in Inchon, Korea from January 30th - February 1st.

• A conference on World Low Cost Airline Asia Pacific, focused on cost reduction techniques used by airlines in this market, will be held in Singapore from January 30th - February 1st. 

• A technical conference on Mechanisms Final Presentations, intended to provide European industries, companies, institutions and universities with the opportunity to present and discuss their latest space mechanisms and tribology technology developments under European Space Agency (ESA) technology programs and organized by Congrex for the ESA, will be held in Noordwijk, the Netherlands on January 31st. 

• A Policy Forum on Space Entrepreneurship, organized by the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) will be held in Palo Alto, CA from January 31st - February 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 February 2013 period, should be ready for publication around the middle of January 2013.