**sent on behalf of D Savin**
Dear Colleague,
The American Astronomical Society (AAS) Working Group on Laboratory
Astrophysics (WGLA) is charged with improving the interaction between
the data users (astronomers, astrophysicists, astrochemists, planetary
scientists, etc.) and the data providers (laboratory astrophysicists and
astrochemists, i.e., all experimentalists and theorists carrying out
research motivated by problems in astrophysics, astrochemistry, and
planetary science). The WGLA promotes the coordination of research and
knowledge between astronomy and other branches of science (physics,
chemistry, geology, biology) and is guided by advancing astronomy
through the promotion of laboratory astrophysics and astrochemistry.
The WGLA also holds and sponsors topical sessions at AAS meetings and at
AAS division meetings (DPS, SPD, HEAD, etc...) and promotes
interaction with national and international science organizations.
The WGLA represents scientists in six areas of research: atomic,
molecular, solid matter, plasma, nuclear, and particle physics.
Chemistry is included as part of molecular physics. Since astronomy is
primarily an observational science detecting photons, atomic, molecular,
and solid state processes that produce the observed photons are a main
focus. Because our understanding of the Universe also relies on
knowledge of the evolution of matter (nuclear and particle physics) and
of the dynamical processes shaping it (plasma physics), the focus also
incorporates work in these areas as well. Planetary science, involving
in-situ measurements of solar system bodies, requires knowledge from
atomic, molecular, and solid state physics, in particular.
A full description of the WGLA can be found at
http://members.aas.org/comms/wgla.cfm.
To better accomplish our mandate, the WGLA has recently created an email
list which you can join and to which you can send laboratory
astrophysics related announcements. From time to time the WGLA will
also send out email announcements. Hence we encourage all those
interested to go to http://lists.aas.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/wgla
and to join the listserv.
With best regards,
Daniel Wolf Savin
on behalf of the WGLA membership
Michael A'Hearn (University of Maryland) --- UV/Vis spectroscopy,
planetary science
Nancy Brickhouse (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) ---
databases for modeling
John Cowan (University of Oklahoma) --- nuclear astrophysics
Paul Drake (University of Michigan) --- plasma physics/high density
plasmas
Steven Federman (University of Toledo) --- UV/visible atomic and
molecular physics (Past Chair 2007-2008)
Gary Ferland (University of Kentucky) --- modeling
Adam Frank (University of Rochester) --- astronomical plasmas
Murthy Gudipati (JPL) --- Planetary ices
Wick Haxton (University of California at Berkeley) --- nuclear physics
Eric Herbst (Ohio State University) --- astrochemistry
Michael Mumma (NASA/GSFC) --- IR spectroscopy, planetary science
Farid Salama (NASA/Ames) --- UV/visible, IR spectroscopy including
solids as well as planets (Chair)
Daniel Wolf Savin (Columbia University) --- atomic and molecular
collisions
Lucy Ziurys (University of Arizona) --- mm/sub-mm spectroscopy
TBD --- particle astrophysics
______________________________________________________________________________
Dr. Helen Fraser
Lecturer,
Scottish Universities Physics Alliance (SUPA)
Department of Physics
University of Strathclyde
John Anderson Building
107 Rottenrow, Glasgow G4 0NG
Scotland
phone +44 141 548 3420
fax +44 141 552 2891
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Scotland, with registration number SC015263".
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