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                      ANNOUNCING......                        
                                                              
       THE SEVENTH ANNUAL GREATER IPAC SCIENCE SYMPOSIUM       
                                                              
         Date:      Tuesday and Wednesday, October 3 and 4, 2006              
                                                              
         Location:  Beckman Institute Auditorium 

         Reception: Beckman Institute Patio, 4 October 5-7pm
                                                              
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Why settle for any old "dwarf planet" of a symposium when you can come
to the "classical" 2006 Greater IPAC Science Symposium that will be held
on October 3 and 4.

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 have a new venue for the Symposium this year, the Beckman Institute
Auditorium (not to be confused with the Beckman Auditorium).

Start shopping for your Hawaiian shirts now!

Following the talks on Wednesday, October 4, the GISS reception will be held
in the patio outside of the Beckman Institute Auditorium, 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 August 31, and titles will be due by 
September 15, 2006.  Please check the GISS 2006 web page 
(http://spider.ipac.caltech.edu/staff/roc/giss/2006/) for further details, 
and make sure to set aside October 3 and 4!

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