报告题目：Atmospheric Optics and Radiation: History, Application, and Inspiration

报告人：Prof. Ping Yang1,2

1 Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Texas A&M University

2 Department of Physics & Astronomy, Texas A&M University

时　 间：2009年12月28日（星期一）下午3：00
地　 点：所二楼学术报告厅

附：Abstract

This talk is intended mainly for young scientists, particularly, graduate students. My view of the roadmap for academic development will be shared at the beginning of this talk, which will be followed by a review of the early evolution and advances in some research topics in atmospheric optics and radiation.

Elastic electromagnetic scattering and the transfer of radiation are two important branches of atmospheric physics, which are also fundamental to many other disciplines such as bio-optics, astrophysics, and reactor theory. In this talk, we will review the history and evolution of these topics. Specifically, we will review the contributions by Clebsch, Lorenz, and Mie to the early development of the theory of light scattering by a sphere, and some recent developments in the numerical approaches (e.g., the DDA, FDTD and ray-tracing methods) for solving for the optical properties of nonspherical and inhomogeneous particles, as well as research efforts on the relevant applications to atmospheric remote sensing. In the review of the development of radiative transfer theory, we will focus on the early contributions by Lommel, Chwolson, Schuster, Eddington, Ambartsumian, Sobolev, and Chandrasekhar, just to mention a few. Especially, I will review Chandrasekhar’s academic career and tremendous achievements. I hope that, after the talk, the students in the audience would be inspired by Chandrasekhar’s legendary academic achievements and his dedication to science.

欢迎各位科研人员及研究生参加！