To: Southwest Astronomers From: Greg Taylor Subject: 19th Annual New Mexico Symposium - 1st Announcement On Friday, October 3, 2003, NRAO will hold the nineteenth annual New Mexico Symposium in Socorro at the NRAO Array Operation Center. The symposium will start at 9:00 a.m., and finish by 5:30 p.m. It will be followed by a dinner for registered meeting participants and at 8:00 p.m., the Jansky Lecture by, Dr. Donald C. Backer from the University of California, at Berkeley. We invite all astronomers from New Mexico and surrounding states to attend this symposium and to present a paper. There is no registration fee. There will be time for roughly 15 oral presentations in a format with ten minute presentations and five minute discussions. We will also have room to accommodate about 20 poster presentations. Please distribute or post this announcement at your institution so that it reaches a wide audience. We will request information from potential attendees in the 2nd announcement. If you are interested and you did not receive this message by email, please send us your email address so that we can add it to our list. Email addresses and requests for information should be sent to .