International Conference on Electromagnetic and Light Scattering XXI

ELS XXI will be held on June 23-27, 2025, in Milazzo, a town in Sicily, long referred to as “the pearl of the Tyrrhenian sea”.

The Electromagnetic and Light Scattering (ELS) XXI meeting will focus on theoretical, computational, and experimental advances in electromagnetic and light scattering by particles with arbitrary sizes, shapes, and optical properties. Contributions will cover a broad range of topics from cosmic dust, atmospheric aerosols, remote sensing observations, particle detection and characterization, to optical trapping and nano-optics.

The conference will build on the remarkable success of the previous ELS conferences held in Amsterdam, Helsinki (twice), New York, Vigo, Halifax, Gainesville, Bremen, Salobreña, St. Petersburg, Bodrum, Hatfield, Taormina, Lille, Leipzig, College Park, College Station, Hangzhou, the online 19th conference, and Almuñecar in May 2023.

During the Conference, two prestigious young-scientist awards will be presented by Elsevier together with the Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer (JQSRT): the 2024 Richard M. Goody Award for outstanding early-career scientists in the field of atmospheric radiation, remote sensing, and climate science, and the 2024 Peter C. Waterman Award for outstanding early-career scientists who work on the theory and applications of electromagnetic scattering.

Following the successful ELS practice, after the Conference, peer-reviewed full-size papers related to the conference topics will be published in a special issue of the JQSRT (Elsevier).

The conference is jointly organized by the Dipartimento di Scienze Matematiche e Informatiche, Scienze Fisiche e Scienze della Terra (MIFT) of the University of Messina and by the Istituto per i Processi Chimico-Fisici (IPCF) del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR).