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This event will be held in M&M U113.

Dr. Marco Potenza of the University of Milan will give a talk on Monday, November 11. The title of the presentation is "The Understanding of Optical Properties of Aerosol".

Abstract: Aerosols, including insoluble particles, still represent an open problem in climate, paleoclimate, radiative transfer and cryosphere quantitative description. The huge heterogeneity due to the widespread kind of sources and the physico-chemical time evolution poses limits to proper modelling. Understanding their effects and, even more severely, inversion of data from optical instruments including remote sensing is therefore uncertain. Multiparametric measurements on single particles give insight into this puzzle, appreciably reducing the model dependence. Results will be presented for aerosols and dust suspended in meltwater from the cryosphere.

Bio: Dr. Marco Potenza has been an Associate Professor at the University of Milan, Italy since 2019. He earned a Laurea in Physics in 1996 and a Ph.D. in Physics in 2000 at the University of Milan. His research focuses on single-particle optical properties, x-ray wavefront characterization, and instrument development.