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                          ANNOUNCING......                        
                                                              
         THE NINTH "ANNUAL" GREATER IPAC SCIENCE SYMPOSIUM       
                                                              
         Date:      Thursday and Friday, January 22 and 23, 2009              
                                                             
         Location:  Beckman Institute Auditorium 

         Reception: Keith-Spalding 410, Friday January 23, 5-7pm
                                                              
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The ninth annual Greater IPAC Science Symposium will he held on Thursday and 
Friday, January 22 and 23, 2009.

The Science Symposium is a forum for all staff of IPAC, the Spitzer Science 
Center (SSC) and the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute (NExScI) to present, 
discuss and learn about the diverse research that is being carried out at the 
"Greater IPAC."  The atmosphere is informal, and the location is designed 
to get us away from our offices and project work for a while to let us
focus on IPAC science.  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 Friday 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, January 23, 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 December 22, and titles will be due 
by January 13, 2009.  Please check the GISS 2009 web page 
(http://web.ipac.caltech.edu/staff/roc/giss/2009/) for further details. 

Remember to ask Santa for new Hawaiian shirts to wear to the Symposium!

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