Topical issue of JQSRT

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Following the highly successful LIP practice, we will be soliciting papers for the LIP-2018 Topical Issue of the Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer (JQSRT) and hope that you will want your state-of-the-art research to become part of yet another benchmark collection of papers on light and shaped beam interactions with particles and particle systems. This Topical Issue will consist only of full-size papers documenting research either reported at the conference or pertaining to the main topics of LIP-2018. Extended abstracts of conference presentations will not be considered. Each submission will be thoroughly reviewed by at least two independent referees to ensure that all accepted manuscripts satisfy the highest standards of scientific quality adopted for JQSRT. Again, this will be a topical issue of JQSRT rather than a conference proceedings volume. Guest editors for this LIP special issue of the JQSRT are: Prof. Dr. Gérard Gouesbet Prof. Dr. Fabrice Onofri Prof. Dr. Ping Yang To expedite the communication of your research results to the scientific community, each paper will be officially published (including year, volume, and page numbers) as soon as it has been accepted, typeset, and proof-read. In other words, the authors of accepted manuscripts will see their papers officially published without having to wait for the rest of the manuscripts to get accepted. This accelerated publication protocol is a recent improvement in the JQSRT production process. The paper submission deadline is 15 June 2018. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________