**NEWS**

The proceedings papers have now been published! You can find them in the April and May issues of the Canadian Journal of Physics.

(If you have a problem downloading the papers from these two issues of the Canadian Journal of Physics, please send us a note at ASOS10(at)ssl.berkeley.edu

Thank you to all particpants for attending ASOS-10 and making this a successful conference by contributing excellent talks and posters!!!

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See you in 2013 in Mons, Belgium for ASOS-11!!!

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Welcome

The 10th International Colloquium on Atomic Spectra and Oscillator Strengths (ASOS) for Astrophysical and Laboratory Plasmas was held August 3 - 7, 2010 in Berkeley, California.

About the meeting

The ASOS meeting has been held once every three years since its inception in Lund in 1983 and has provided a forum for atomic spectroscopists and astronomers from around the world to meet and discuss atomic data from the perspectives of their production and application.

The 10th ASOS meeting was organized by University of California Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory. We had three and a half days of invited talks, contributed talks, and poster presentations. Some of the areas of interest for discussion at the meeting included

• oscillator strength measurements and calculations
• elemental abundance determinations
• spectroscopy of astrophysical sources
• spectroscopic diagnostics of magnetic fusion plasmas
• tests of fundamental constants
• Fe II and spectra from the other transition metals and rare earth elements
• calibration lamps
• spectra produced by charge exchange
• polarization
• hyperfine effects
• parity violation in atomic systems
• absorption by multiply charged ions
• atomic lifetime measurements and calculations
• computational and modeling techniques
• new theoretical approaches

The meeting also included a special session on the spectroscopy of tungsten.

The conference began with a welcome reception on Tuesday evening at the Berkeley City Club. Outings to locations in the greater San Francisco Bay Area took place during the last day of the conference.

The ASOS conference is an ideal occasion for students wanting to learn about atomic physics and its applications in astrophysical and laboratory plasmas. Student participation is highly encouraged. Faculty members/Advisors please contact us before April 1st, if you would like us to help to defray some of the cost of student participation.

Links to past meetings

ASOS9 was held in 2007 in Lund, Sweden. ASOS8 was held in 2004 in Madison, Wisconsin. ASOS7 was held in Belfast, in 2001. Earlier conferences were held in Victoria, British Columbia (1998), Meudon, France (1995), Gaithersburg, Maryland (1992), Amsterdam, Holland (1989), Toledo, Ohio (1986), and Lund, Sweden (1983).