Colloquium in honour of Professor Bruno Sicardy
Stellar occultations: a route to major advances in Planetary Sciences
https://bsicardy2024.sciencesconf.org
Introduction
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The colloquium coincides with the 40 years anniversary of the discovery of Neptune's ring arcs to which the young Bruno Sicardy has contributed. Over the past four decades Bruno has combined stellar occultations engaging with huge network of amateur astronomers across the globe as well as celestial mechanics. He studied and discovered system of rings, arcs, atmospheres... |
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This colloquium is meant to honour the work of Bruno, by giving the general framework of the past work and accomplishments, discussing current work, and how this shapes the future works for the next decades. The Colloquium will bring together Bruno's former students and postdocs (his scientific children) as well as his closest colleagues with whom he has been collaborating over the decades.
This colloquium is about giving a tribute to Bruno and his very Scientific Legacy, by looking beyond his past discoveries as these works will inspire future generations of Planetary Scientists. As we are entering a new era with Gaia, ELTs, JWST ... it is important to bring together people who worked with Bruno over the decades to continue along this scientific path.
The colloquium has now an official webpage : https://bsicardy2024.sciencesconf.org
Important dates
- Abstract, title, first list of authors: July 30th 23:59 UT, 2023
- A first draft of the paper: January 7th, 2024
- A second draft (after internal review): mid-March 2024
- Colloquium dates: April 22nd to April 26th, 2024 in Salle Cassini, Observatoire de Paris (France)
- The final papers: May 31st, 2024.
Programme
The program will focus on five main axes :
- Ring discoveries and dynamical implications;
- More dynamics, resonances, numerical simulations;
- Atmospheres (Titan, Pluto, Triton, campaigns and results), evolution models of the atmospheres;
- Exploration of outer solar system using occultations (shapes, internal structures, connections between occultation results and the structure implication for the solar system formation;
- The growing contribution of the Amateur community.
Registration
Registration as well as abstract submission can be done on the meeting page.
LOC
Diane Bérard, Thamiris de Santana, Josselin Desmars, Valéry Lainey, Stefan Renner, Rafael Sfair, Bruno Sicardy, Damya Souami.