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A wide range of topics related to classical and emerging areas of radiation transfer applications will be covered, including:

• Novel numerical, analytical and hybrid techniques for the solution of the radiative transfer equation in multidimensional and complex geometries;

• Radiative properties of gases, agglomerates and non-uniform particles;

• Interaction of radiation with conduction, convection, turbulence, chemical kinetics, and soot formation

• Advanced radiative transfer models for industrial and combustion systems such as furnaces, IC engines, gas turbines;

• Inverse radiative transfer techniques;

• Interactive use of radiative transfer for improved manufacturing processes;

• Fundamentals of radiative transfer for remote sensing;

• Radiative transfer in atmosphere and oceans;

• Biomedical applications of radiation transfer;

• Radiation transfer in microscale systems;

• Radiative transfer based diagnostic systems.

lgaz Mt., Kastamonu, Turkey

11 August 1999