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                      ANNOUNCING......                        
                                                              
       THE EIGHTH ANNUAL GREATER IPAC SCIENCE SYMPOSIUM       
                                                              
         Date:      Thursday and Friday, September 13 and 14, 2007              
                                                              
         Location:  Beckman Institute Auditorium 

         Reception: Keith-Spalding 410, Friday September 14, 5-7pm
                                                              
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If you think Beckham's move to Los Angeles is already old news and you're 
ready for something really exciting, then this is for you.  The eighth annual 
Greater IPAC Science Symposium will he held on Thursday and Friday, 
September 13 and 14, 2007.

The Science Symposium is a forum for all staff of IPAC, the Spitzer Science 
Center (SSC) and the Michelson Science Center (MSC) to present, discuss 
and learn about the diverse research that is being carried out at the 
"Greater IPAC."  The atmosphere is intended to be informal, and the location 
is designed to get us away from our offices and project work for a little
while.  All projects are being asked to cancel project meetings for the two 
days of the Symposium, and to give consideration of the meeting when 
assigning deadlines.

As in past years, the format of the Symposium includes 15 minute contributed 
talks from Greater IPAC science staff.  In addition, each day there will be 
one or two Invited Talks given by science staff members.  The final 
presentation made on Wednesday will be a "State of IPAC" address presented 
by IPAC Executive Director George Helou.  All Greater IPAC staff members are 
invited to attend.

We will return to the Beckman Institute Auditorium (not to be confused with 
the Beckman Auditorium) for the Symposium this year.

Following the talks on Friday, September 14, the GISS reception will be held
in KS-410, where the sciences of good food and conversation are the grand 
finale.  Again, all IPACers are invited!  

A Call for Titles will be made on on about August 1, and titles will be due by 
August 21, 2007.  Please check the GISS 2007 web page 
(http://spider.ipac.caltech.edu/staff/roc/giss/2007/) for further details, 
and make sure to set aside September 13 and 14!

Start shopping for your Hawaiian shirts now!

For questions, please contact Roc Cutri (roc@ipac.caltech.edu) or
Bill Latter (latter@ipac.caltech.edu) GISS Co-chairs.