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Committees and contact

Conveners

Dr Miroslav Kocifaj, Faculty of Mathematics Physics and Informatics, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia

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Miroslav Kocifaj is a senior researcher working in the Physics group of Slovak Academy of Sciences and has been in Vienna with a Lise Meitner Grant before joining University of Vienna as a visiting professor giving the lectures on Light Scattering by Small Particles. His research interest includes interaction of electromagnetic radiation with non-spherical aerosol particles, radiative transfer in disperse media, sky glow: theory, modelling and measurements, and also inverse problems of atmospheric optics. He has received 4 patents, Solar Energy Journal Best Paper Award, and US Army Research Lab. Grant awards. Currently he is leading a group of scientists who developed a generalized skyglow model.

Dr Martin Aubé, Département de Physique, Cégep de Sherbrooke, Canada 

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Martin Aubé is a a world leading researcher in the field of remote sensing and modeling of light pollution. He got his Ph.D. degree in remote sensing from Université de Sherbrooke and a M.Sc. degree in astrophysics from Université Laval. He is a physics professor at Cégep de Sherbrooke, adjunct professor of applied geomatics at Université de Sherbrooke, and adjunct professor of physics at Bishop's University. Prof. Aubé received the  2014 "excellence in research award" from the Québec's research agency; and the 2013 "Raymond Gervais award", which highlights excellence in science teaching.

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Scientific Committee (SC)

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  •     Prof. Dr. Martin Aubé, Département de Physique, Cégep de Sherbrooke, Canada

  •     Prof. Dr.Sc. Miroslav Kocifaj, Faculty of Mathematics Physics and Informatics, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia

  •     Dr. Salvador Bará, Applied Physics Dept, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

  •     Dr. Carmen Bao, Applied Physics Dept, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela 

  •     Dr. Brian Espey, School of Physics, Trinity College Dublin

  •     Dr. Zoltán Kolláth, Department of Physics, Eszterházy Károly Catholic University, Eger, Hungary

  •     Prof. Dr. Jaime Zamorano, Departamento de Física de la Tierra y Astrofísica, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

  • ​    Dr. John Barentine,  Dark Sky Consulting, LLC.

Organizing committee (OC)

  • Dr. Justo Arines (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela)

  • Prof. Dr. Martin Aubé (Cégep de Sherbrooke, Canada)

  • Dr. Carmen Bao (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela)

  • Dr. Salvador Bará (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela)

  • Dr. María Teresa Flores (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela)

  • Prof. Dr.Sc. Miroslav Kocifaj (Faculty of Mathematics Physics and Informatics, Comenius University in Bratislava)

  • Dr. Raul Cerveira Lima (Escola Superior de Saúde do Politécnico do Porto & Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço, Coimbra)

  • Mr. Martin Pawley ( Agrupación Astronómica Ío, A Coruña)

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