THE 2016 GREATER IPAC SCIENCE SYMPOSIUM
March 23-24, 2016 Hameetman Auditorium
Call for Titles


The sixteenth annual Greater IPAC Science Symposium will be held on 
Wednesday and Thursday, March 23th and 24th, 2016 in the Cahill Hameetman Auditorium.  
The Symposium is a forum for science staff, postdocs and students of the 
"Greater IPAC" (IPAC, Spitzer Science Center and NExScI) to present and discuss 
their astronomical research in an informal setting.  All members of the Pasadena astronomy 
community are invited to attend and hear about the exciting and diverse 
research being carried out at IPAC. Attendance is not limited to scientists; 
all Greater IPAC staff are welcome and encouraged to attend, particularly 
the executive summary by George Helou.

Format will be ten minute oral talks. The talks are meant to be informal; 
some levity is encouraged! The goal of the talks is to expose the community 
to the research being done at IPAC. Wondering who all those post-docs and 
students are? Who is that person you keep seeing at the microwave? What do 
all these people around here actually do, anyway? Here's where you can find out!

An additional highlight will be the "State of IPAC" 
presentation by Executive Director George Helou. There will be catered goodies. 

IPAC members who wish to make a contributed science presentation are asked to 
submit a talk title no later than February 15th to Roberta Paladini and 
Patrick Ogle (paladini@ipac.caltech.edu and ogle@ipac.caltech.edu). 
Please use the following title submission form:

http://giss.ipac.caltech.edu/meetings/2016/form.html


Titles may be inventive. If the topic of your presentation is not immediately 
apparent from the title, we will contact you for further clarification to aid 
in making the schedule. Abstracts are not necessary. A preliminary schedule 
will appear on March 4th, and the final schedule on March 16th.

For questions, please contact Roberta Paladini (paladini@ipac.caltech.edu) 
and Patrick Ogle (ogle@ipac.caltech.edu), GISS Co-chairs.