Call for Abstracts:

Submission of abstracts will be at the CAP website BY MARCH 8, 2004

Abstracts will be printed beforehand in the Physics in Canada journal and will be available as part of the registration package, which will be used as the program booklet. Conference registration for CASCA members will be on this site. Also, please consider submitting a press release about the work you will present at this meeting. Information on creating media packages is at the CASCA press release guidelines website.

CASCA members are invited to contribute one abstract for the education session: Enriching Our Teaching Through Integration, in addition to one abstract for one of the science sessions. The science sessions include traditional CASCA sessions, as well as CASCA joint sessions, and special sessions including all organizations participating in this congress (CAP, CASCA, COMP, and BSC). Details about submissions are at the top of the CAP session topics list information. While you may request an oral presentation on any topic, preference will be given to the themes below.

CASCA Sessions

• Visualization: Theory, concepts, modelling, and simulations
• Visualization: Observational Data
• Imaging: Research imaging techniques and analysis (all wavelengths and particles)
• Imaging: for the public outreach
• Imaging: data mining, archiving
• Imaging the Invisible: polarization and other detection techniques
• News from Space
• Miscellaneous Visualization and Imaging Topics

• Adaptive Optics in Astronomy, Biology, Medicine, and Physics (joint with Division of Optics and Photonics Physics)
• Novae and Supernovae (joint with Division of Nuclear Physics)
• Specialized Imaging (joint with Division of Instrumentation and Measurement Physics)
• Dark Matter and Dark Energy (joint with the Particle Physics Division)

• Scientific Imaging and Visualization
• these 15-minute talks will be selected from abstract proposals from each of the organizations.
• Scientific Images in the Public Sphere
• this session consists of 5 invited talks and a panel

• Fundamental Astronomy including astrometry and time
• Sun and Heliosphere
• Planetary Systems Sciences: Sol and Extra-solar Planets
• Stars
• Variable Stars
• Compact Objects: Blackholes, Neutron Stars, White Dwarfs
• Supernovae and Supernova Remnants
• Interstellar Medium
• Galactic System
• Globular Clusters
• Galaxies
• The Universe: Large Scale Structure, Dark Matter, Cosmology
• Optical and Infrared Techniques
• Radio Techniques
• High-Energy Astrophysics
• Space Astrophysics
• General Relativity