Sent on: 22 Jan 2004

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Dear colleagues attending X-Ray and Radio Connections,

We are looking forward to seeing you in Santa Fe in 10 days. Some last information:

1. PLEASE submit your talk as soon as possible -- at least by Saturday January 31. We will make every effort to make sure that your presentation displays correctly on our computers/projector but presentations will be checked in the order they are received and it will be difficult to process 100 submissions at 11:25 PM Saturday night. We will have both an iBook and a Windows PC projecting. Procrastinate no longer -- limited last minute corrections can be made at the meeting. Files should be submitted to ftp.aoc.nrao.edu/incoming/xraydio. More instructions are at http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/events/xraydio/upload.shtml

2. Can you de-acronym GPS, CSS, FSRQ, PWN, MHD-SPH, and QSF? Please keep in mind while you create you presentation that since this meeting covers 6 topics 5/6 of the audience is not in your field. Please define and explain the terms used in your presentation. If possible, please avoid red letters on a blue or green background (vice versa), blue and black idem, to make sure the last 20 % of your audience suffering from color blindness will be able to follow your line of thoughts. It is better to use yellow on blue or black backgrounds. Graphs with small colored dots are also difficult for them; different symbols are better, preferrably black on white. If in doubt, ask your local color blind colleague for advice.

3. Poster presenters are urged to prepare and submit a single powerpoint slide for their one-minute poster advertisements. More information about how one-minute poster advertisements work is at http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/events/xraydio/posters.shtml

4. The schedule is now on the web at http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/events/xraydio/program.shtml

   Note that we begin at 8:15 AM Tuesday February 3. Registration is available 7-9 PM Monday February 2, and coffee and registration 7:30-8:15 AM Tuesday morning.

5. Santa Fe is at 7000 feet/3218 m. The nighttime temperature has been as low as 17 F/-8 C -- it will be beautiful and sunny but it will be cold at night. Please bring warm clothes. We also encourage you to drink plenty of water since dehydration is a issue.

6. The phone number of the conference hotel is 505-988-2811. Should you need to reach us in an emergency please leave a message for Kristy Dyer or Lorant Sjouwerman.

See you in Santa Fe!