Dear Colleague,

We are pleased to confirm the holding of a Workshop on optical - infrared - mm/submm (OIM) Astronomical Polarimetry, in the wonderful surroundings of the north Kona coast in March 2004. The aim of the Workshop is to bring together workers in all areas of OIM astronomical polarimetry to discuss the most recent results in this exciting and crucial field, and to consider the potential for polarimetry in the era of eight- and ten-metre optical and infrared telescopes. The meeting will concentrate on ground-based polarization measurements, and will include a session devoted to new and novel instrumentation. The remaining sessions will be organized according to the astronomical source rather than to wavelength regime or specific technique. Neither Radio polarimetry nor Solar polarimetry are within the conference remit, but each will be the subject of review talks which will set the scene for two of the conference sessions.

The conference web site, including conference registration forms, is open at http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/JACpublic/JAC/pol2004. If you wish to be put on the conference email list, please send a message to pol2004@jach.hawaii.edu

SCIENCE AREAS

Sessions will be divided into two, with approximately 80% of the time guaranteed for current results and 20% for presentations on future directions, facilities etc. Proceedings, including posters, will be published. Details of the division between oral and poster presentations will be given once the relative demands are known. The web site gives details of expected sessions, each of which will consist of an invited review and a number of contributed talks.

The following science areas will be covered:
• Techniques and Instrumentation, Data Analysis
• Theory and Modelling
• Star Formation
• Extrasolar Circumstellar matter
• Ejecta
• Interstellar Dust and Gas
• Stars, CVs, Magnetic Stars
• Galaxies, Radio Galaxies and AGN
• High-redshift and Cosmological Polarimetry

Invited reviewers:
• Dave Aitken
• Tim Cawthorne
• Clive Tadhunter
• Tim Gledhill
• Alyssa Goodman [TBD]
• Jane Greaves
• Jim Hough
• Alex Lazarian [TBD]
• Haosheng Lin
• Nadine Manset
• Brenda Matthews
• Francois Menard
• Angelica de Oliveira-Costa
• Motohide Tamura

DATES AND DEADLINES

• End of Early Registration: 1-Dec-2003
• Abstract Deadline: 1-Jan-2004
• Late Registration Deadline: 1-Feb-2004

SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS

• Joint Astronomy Centre
• Subaru Telescope
• Canada-France Hawaii Telescope
• Gemini Observatory
• University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy
• W.M.Keck Observatory
• Caltech Submillimetre Observatory

SCIENCE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

• Andy Adamson - Joint Astronomy Centre
• Pierre Bastien - Université de Montréal
• Chris Packham - University of Florida
• Colin Aspin - Gemini Observatory
• Ian Robson - UK Astronomy Technology Centre
• Martin Houde - Caltech Submillimeter Observatory
• Jim Hough - University of Hertfordshire
• Jeff Kuhn - University of Hawaii
• Nadine Manset - Canada France Hawaii Telescope
• Motohide Tamura - National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
• Bob Goodrich - W. M. Keck Observatory

LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
• Andy Adamson - Joint Astronomy Centre
• Chris Davis - Joint Astronomy Centre
• Colin Aspin - Gemini Observatory
• Douglas Pierce-Price - Joint Astronomy Centre
• Dolores Walther - Gemini Observatory
• Gerald Moriarty Schieven - Joint Astronomy Centre
• Sally Nicol - Joint Astronomy Centre
• Takuya Fujiyoshi - Subaru Telescope
• Donna Delorm - Joint Astronomy Centre

Contact email address: pol2004@jach.hawaii.edu Web site: http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/JACpublic/JAC/pol2004