The CASCA Annual Meeting 2004

Join us in Winnipeg for this unusual CASCA meeting that will be held jointly with the annual meetings of the Canadian Association of Physics (CAP), the Canadian Organization of Medical Physics (COMP), and the Biophysical Society of Canada (BSC). This concerted congress is in honour of the 100 years of science at the University of Manitoba.

Dates and Venue:

Saturday June 12, 2004 - the Graduate Student Workshop held at the University of Manitoba.

Sunday June 13 through Wednesday June 16, 2004 - the CAP/CASCA/COMP/BSC Congress 2004 held at the Delta Hotel and Convention Centre in downtown Winnipeg.

Programming:

In addition to the sessions on the CASCA theme of "Visualizing the Invisible" there will be special events in which all organizations participate. This includes sessions called: - "Scientific Imaging in the Public Sphere" which has invited speakers and a panel - "Scientific Imaging and Visualization" which consists of contributed talks. Please consider submitting an abstract. - "Enriching Our Teaching Through Integration" which is a day long education session. CASCA members are invited to contribute a presentation on education, on other topics as well as this one, in addition to a scientific presentation

CASCA will also joint with CAP for 3 parallel sessions with CAP's division of Optics and Photonics (on adaptive.active optics), Nuclear Physics (on Novae and Supernovae), and Instrumentation and Measurement (on Doppler imaging).

See the end of this article for confirmed invited speakers.

Website addresses:

For more information see the Congress 2004 website at http://www3.physics.umanitoba.ca/Congress2004/ and follow the CASCA links.

A preliminary schedule is available at http://www.cap.ca/congress/2004/Congprog-2004.html

Deadlines in 2004:

Abstract Submission until March 1.

*This deadline is earlier than usual and therefore a reminder will not appear in the next issue of E-Cass*

Submission is available now at http://www.cap.ca/congress/2004/ccongress.html Please review the CASCA Program Topics available under the "subject index" link before filling out the form at the "Contributed Talks" link.

Early Registration is before May 1.

We expect the form to be available mid-January 2004. It will be at the local CASCA website which you can reach via http://www3.physics.umanitoba.ca/Congress2004/

Delta Hotel Accommodation is before May 1.

Note that sharing in the conference hotel is cheaper than the campus accommodations and much more convenient.

Committee and Group Meetings:

We have reserved meeting rooms on Saturday June 12 and Sunday June 13. Please contact Samar Safi-Harb, safiharb@cc.UManitoba.CA, with your needs as soon as possible.

Confirmed Invited Speakers:

• P. James E. Peebles (Princeton) will give the keynote plenary public talk, entitled A Cosmic Picture Show: Images from Astronomy. The talk will be followed by a reception open to all in attendance.
• Carol Christian (STScI) is the CASCA invited speaker and panelist for the "Scientific Images in the Public Sphere" session in which all organizations will be participating.
• Una Hwang (Goddard) and Chris Matzner (UofT) are the CASCA invited speakers for the session on Novae and Supernovae held jointly between CASCA and the CAP Division of Nuclear Physics. The speakers for the sessions held jointly with the Division of Optics and Photonics and the Division of Instrumentation and Measurement Physics will be announced later.

As part of the CASCA programming:

• Suzanne Aalto-Bergman (Onsala Space Observatory) will report on the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA).
• Jo-Anne Brown (U. Calgary) will talk on visualizing the invisible using polarization observations.
• John Dubinski (U of Toronto) will describe visualizing galaxy interactions, the formation of galactic structure, and galaxy evolution.
• Jaymie Matthews (UBC) will report on the Microvariability and Oscillations of STars (MOST) satellite which has been launched and is now collecting data.
• David Schade (NRC/CADC) will describe data-mining and the Virtual Observatory.