IAU symposium on astronomical polarimetry

Submitted by mchane-y on Mon, 30/09/2019 - 17:32

We are pleased to announce IAU Symposium 360,  “Astronomical Polarimetry 2020 – New Era of Multi-Wavelength Multi-Wavelength Polarimetry”, which will be held at Hiroshima, Japan, 23 –27 March, 2020.



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Please find more information at https://astropol2020-iau.jp, which is still being updated. 

Important Dates



 * Abstract submission deadline: November 25th 2019

 * Early registration deadline: November 25th 2019

 * Travel grant application deadline: November 20th 2019

 * Late registration deadline: January 25th 2020

 * On-site registration: TBD

Scientific Rationale



Astronomical Polarimetry 2020 (Astropol 2020) is the next in a series of international conferences. The aim of this series of conferences is to bring researchers interested in astronomical polarimetry together to share and discuss recent results and advances in technical and scientific aspects in all relevant astronomical fields.



Since 2014, when the latest ASTROPOL took place in Grenoble, a number of sophisticated instruments and datasets have become available to the community ALMA was inaugurated in and started polarization observations in 2014. Adaptive optics aided 8-m class telescopes, such as Subaru, VLT and Gemini have been providing high-contrast spectropolarimetry. There is also the Robert Stobie Spectrograph (RSS) spectropolarimeter on the 11-m SALT telescope and the mid-infrared CanariCam polarimeter on the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC), that may become available to the public in the future. Data release of the all-sky radio and submillimeter polarization mapping by the Planck satellite has had a strong impact in many astronomical fields. The SOFIA/HAWC+ FIR polarimeter is available to the community. In addition, Astrosat and Hitomi and balloon experiments have offered us new insights into the polarized sky in X-rays and Gamma-rays.



ASTROPOL 2020 will demonstrate that a new era of polarimetry has come to the astronomical community.



The Symposium poster can be seen/downloaded from: https://astropol2020-iau.jp/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/astropol2020-iau360_wo_logos.pages-7.pdf.