| Saturday, 10 January 2009 |
| 7:30 AM-10:00 AM, Saturday
Student Conference Badge Pick-up Only |
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| Sunday, 11 January 2009 |
| 7:30 AM-9:00 AM, Sunday
Short Course Registration |
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| 9:00 AM-6:00 PM, Sunday
Annual Meeting Registration Begins |
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| 12:00 PM-4:00 PM, Sunday, Northballroom A
Weatherfest
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| 3:00 PM-4:00 PM, Sunday, Room 130
First-Time Attendee Briefing |
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| 5:00 PM-6:00 PM, Sunday, Room 130
Annual Meeting Review and Fellows Awards |
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| 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, Sunday, Hall 5
Fellows Reception |
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| Monday, 12 January 2009 |
| 7:30 AM-5:30 PM, Monday
Registration Open |
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| 8:30 AM-10:15 AM, Monday, Ballroom ABC
Presidential Forum |
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| 10:15 AM-10:45 AM, Monday
Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer |
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| 10:45 AM-12:00 PM, Monday, Room 124A
Joint Session 8 T.R. Oke Symposium: Urban scales, urban systems and the urban heat island (Joint between the Timothy R. Oke Symposium and the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment) |
Chairs: James A. Voogt, Univ. of Western Ontario, London, ON Canada; H. P. Schmid, Research Center Karlsruhe, Garmisch-Partenkirchen Germany
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| 10:45 AM | J8.1 | Interactions between urban areas and weather and climate models; the Oke contribution 
Martin Best, Met Office, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom |
| | | J8.2 has been moved. New paper number 1.1A (8Urban)
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| 11:00 AM | J8.2A | Newly developed “thermal climate zones” for defining and measuring urban heat island “magnitude” in the canopy layer 
Iain Stewart, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and T. Oke |
| 11:15 AM | J8.3 | Seeing the city for all the buildings
H. P. Schmid, Research Center Karlsruhe, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany |
| 11:30 AM | J8.4 | The Need to Establish Protocols in Urban Heat Island Work
Tim Oke, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada |
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| 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Monday, Room 132A
Keynote Session 1 Oke Symposium Luncheon (Joint between the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment and the Timothy R. Oke Symposium) |
Speaker: Gerald Mills, University College Dublin, Dublin Ireland
Chairs: James A. Voogt, Univ. of Western Ontario, London, ON Canada; H. P. Schmid, Research Center Karlsruhe, Garmisch-Partenkirchen Germany
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| 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Monday
Lunch Break |
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| 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Monday, Room 132A
Tim Oke Symp Luncheon |
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| 1:30 PM-2:30 PM, Monday, Room 124A
Joint Session 9 Urban Energy Balance (Joint between the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment and the Timothy R. Oke Symposium) |
Chair: Sue Grimmond, King's College London, London United Kingdom
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|  | J9.1 | The Suburban Energy Balance in Shunyi, Beijing City
Junxia Dou, Institute of Urban Meteorology/CMA, Beijing, China; and W. Liu, C. Su, and Y. Wang |
| 1:30 PM | J9.1A | The EPiCC Vancouver Experiment—how do urban vegetation characteristics and garden irrigation control the local-scale energy balance?
Andreas Christen, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and B. Crawford, N. R. Goodwin, R. Tooke, N. Coops, S. Grimmond, T. R. Oke, and J. A. Voogt |
| 1:45 PM | J9.2 | Wintertime energy budget along an urbanisation gradient in Montreal, Canada
Onil Bergeron, McGill University, Ste-Anne de Bellevue, QC, Canada; and I. B. Strachan |
| 2:00 PM | J9.3 | Evaluation of the TEB model under cold and snowy conditions for the Montreal Urban Snow Experiment (MUSE) 2005
Aude Lemonsu, CNRM, Météo France, Toulouse, France; and S. Bélair, J. Mailhot, and S. Leroyer |
| 2:15 PM | J9.4 | The urban surface energy budget during the early spring period of the Montreal Urban Snow Experiment (2006)
Sylvie Leroyer, McGill Univ., Sainte-Anne-De-Bellevue, QC, Canada; and J. Mailhot, S. Bélair, A. Lemonsu, and I. B. Strachan |
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| 1:30 PM-2:30 PM, Monday, Room 124B
Joint Session 10 Urban Precipitation Patterns (Joint between the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment and the Timothy R. Oke Symposium) |
Chair: Matthias Roth, National University of Singapore, Singapore Singapore
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| 1:30 PM | J10.1 | Can satellite-derived rainfall really detect urban rainfall anomalies?
Marshall Shepherd, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA; and S. Burian and M. Jin |
| 1:45 PM | J10.2 | An investigation of warm season spatial rainfall variability in Oklahoma City: Possible linkages to urbanization and prevailing wind
Lauren Hand, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA ; and M. Shepherd |
| 2:00 PM | J10.3 | An anthropogenic signal in Phoenix, Arizona winter precipitation
Bohumil M. Svoma, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ; and R. C. Balling |
| 2:15 PM | J10.4 | Long-term change and spatial anomaly of warm season afternoon precipitation in Tokyo
Fumiaki Fujibe, MRI, Tsukuba, Japan; and H. Togawa and M. Sakata |
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| 2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Monday, Hall 5
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
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| 2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Monday, Hall 5
Joint Poster Session 3 Urban Climate Studies—Poster Session (Joint between the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment and the Timothy R. Oke Symposium) |
| | | JP3.1 has been moved. New paper number J11.5A
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| | JP3.2 | High resolution surface temperature and urban thermal anisotropy simulations : validation against airborne remote sensing TIR data over Toulouse city (France)
Aurelien Henon, UMR CNRS, Nantes, France; and J. P. Lagouarde, P. G. Mestayer, and D. Groleau |
| | JP3.3 | Undercanopy and below ground microclimate patterns at the North Desert Village
Chris A. Martin, Arizona State University, Mesa, AZ |
| | JP3.4 | Evolution of snow properties over the winter 2007-2008 in urban and suburban Montreal, Canada
Eric Christensen, McGill University, Ste-Anne de Bellevue, QC, Canada; and O. Bergeron and I. B. Strachan |
| | JP3.5 | Sensible, Latent and Ground Heat Flux Model
Yanyan Zhang, Univ. of California, Riverside, CA; and M. Princevac and S. M. Lee |
| | JP3.6 | The dynamics of urban growth of Kolkata, India and its influence on precipitation
Chandana Mitra, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA; and M. Shepherd |
| | JP3.7 | Development of a Mesoscale Thermal Model for Urban Climate
Humberto Ramon Silva Jr., National Center of Excellence, Tempe, AZ; and P. Phelan and J. Golden |
| | JP3.8 | Urban climates and the urban surface: a review of T.R. Oke's contributions arising from conceptual representations of the urban surface
James A. Voogt, Univ. of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada; and S. Grimmond, S. Krayenhoff, S. M. Roberts, M. Roth, J. A. Salmond, and H. P. Schmid |
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| 2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Monday, Hall 5
Joint Poster Session 4 Urban Heat Islands—Poster Session (Joint between the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment and the Timothy R. Oke Symposium) |
| | JP4.1 | Urban effects on intense convective precipitation in Mexico City- an update
Ernesto Jauregui Sr., NOAA/CAC, Mexico City, Mexico |
| | JP4.2 | Atlanta's urban heat island under extreme heat conditions
Yan Zhou, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA ; and M. Shepherd |
| | JP4.3 | Assessment of Urban Land Surface Thermal Field Using Integrated Remote Sensing and Ancillary Information
Ying Zhang, Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada; and B. Guindon, L. Sun, and Y. Yang |
| | JP4.4 | The urban heat island in Hong Kong: analyses of spatial variability and exposure
Melissa A. Hart, Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong; and D. J. Sailor |
| | JP4.5 | Winter and summer temperatures in an European medium-sized city. Frost and hot nights trends
Albert Garcia-Manuel, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; and M. C. Moreno-García and J. Martín-Vide |
| | JP4.6 | Observed characteristics of the urban heat island during the harmattan and monsoon in Akure Nigeria
Ahmed Balogun, Univ. of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom; and I. A. Balogun, A. A. Abatan, and E. A. Adefisan |
| | JP4.7 | Urban southern California heat waves are becoming more frequent and longer
Arbi Tamrazian, Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA; and S. LaDochy, P. Ramirez, J. Willis, and W. C. Patzert |
| | JP4.8 | Summertime urban heat Island in Newark, NJ and its relationship with urban particulate matter
Christopher Thuman, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ |
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| 4:00 PM-5:30 PM, Monday, Room 124A
Joint Session 12 Urban Heat Islands (Joint between the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment and the Timothy R. Oke Symposium) |
Chair: Tim Oke, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC Canada
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| 4:00 PM | J12.1 | Urban heat island in Phoenix: An emergent property of rapid urbanization
H. J. S. Fernando, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; and K. Park |
| 4:15 PM | J12.2 | Phoenix Urban Heat Island experiment: Micrometeorological aspects
Brent C. Hedquist, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; and A. J. Brazel, S. Di Sabatino, W. Carter, and H. J. S. Fernando |
| 4:30 PM | J12.3 | Phoenix Urban Heat Island Experiment: Effects of Built Elements
Silvana Di Sabatino, Universita' del Salento, Lecce, Italy; and B. C. Hedquist, W. Carter, L. S. Leo, and H. J. S. Fernando |
| | | J12.4 has been moved. New paper number J8.2A (Oke/8Urban)
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| 4:45 PM | J12.4A | Annual spatio-temporal variability of Toulouse urban heat island
Grégoire Pigeon, CNRM-GAME, CNRS Meteo-France, Toulouse, France; and V. Masson |
| 5:00 PM | J12.5 | Estimating thermal responsiveness of local-scale climate 'zones' with a numerical modeling approach
Scott Krayenhoff, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and I. Stewart and T. Oke |
| 5:15 PM | J12.6 | Impact of urbanization and land use changes on climate trends
Eugenia Kalnay, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and M. Cai |
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| 5:25 PM-5:30 PM, Monday
Sessions Adjourn for the Day |
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| 5:30 PM-7:30 PM, Monday, Hall 4
Opening of the Exhibit Hall with Reception |
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| Tuesday, 13 January 2009 |
| 8:30 AM-9:45 AM, Tuesday, Room 124A
Joint Session 1 Measurements in the Urban Environment (Joint between the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment, the 11th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry, the Timothy R. Oke Symposium, the Special Symposium on Measurements in the Urban Environment and Observations, the Eighth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes, the 16th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, and the Fourth Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data) |
Cochairs: Henry Revercomb, SSEC/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; Bjorn H. Lambrigtsen, JPL, Pasadena, CA
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| 8:30 AM | J1.1 | An Overview of the Oklahoma City Micronet
Jeffrey B. Basara, Oklahoma Climatological Survey and University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and B. G. Illston, C. Fiebrich, R. McPherson, J. P. Bostic, P. Browder, D. Demko, C. Morgan, and K. Kessler |
| 8:45 AM | J1.2 | Development of a NYC Meteorological Network with emphasis on vertical wind profiles in support of meteorological and dispersion models
Mark Arend, City College of New York, New York, NY; and D. Santoro, B. Gross, F. Moshary, S. Ahmed, and S. Abdelazim |
| 9:00 AM | J1.3 | Urban meteorological observations in Helsinki, Finland
David M. Schultz, Univ. of Helsinki/FMI, Helsinki, Finland; and W. F. Dabberdt, J. Damski, E. Gregow, L. Järvi, J. Koskinen, A. Meskanen, J. Poutiainen, H. Turtiainen, T. Vesala, and Y. Viisanen |
| 9:15 AM | J1.4 | The Environmental Prediction in Canadian Cities (EPiCC) network
James A. Voogt, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada; and T. R. Oke, O. Bergeron, N. R. Goodwin, S. Leroyer, B. R. Crawford, E. Christensen, B. E. Nanni, R. Tooke, D. van der Kamp, D. Aldred, S. Bélair, F. Chagnon, A. Christen, N. Coops, J. Mailhot, I. McKendry, I. B. Strachan, J. Wang, M. Benjamin, S. Grimmond, A. Lemonsu, and V. Masson |
| 9:30 AM | J1.5 | Phoenix Urban Flash Flood Study (PUFFS)
Kenneth Howard, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and S. V. Vasiloff, C. Langston, J. Zhang, D. P. Jorgensen, and C. Dempsey |
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| 9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Tuesday, Hall 5
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (See poster listing in Monday's program) |
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| 11:00 AM-6:00 PM, Tuesday
Exhibits Open |
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| 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Tuesday
Lunch Break (Cash and Carry in Exhibit Hall)
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| 1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Tuesday, Room 124A
Joint Session 2 Observations/Studies of High—Impact Weather in Urban Regions (Joint between the Symposium on Urban High Impact Weather, the Special Symposium on Measurements in the Urban Environment and Observations, the Eighth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes, the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment, the 23rd Conference on Hydrology, the Fourth Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data, the Fourth Symposium on Policy and Socio—Economic Research, the Timothy R. Oke Symposium, and the Impacts of 2008) |
Cochairs: Pavlos Kollias, McGill University, Montréal, QC Canada; Bart Nijssen, 3TIER, Inc., Seattle, WA
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| 1:30 PM | J2.1 | (Invited Talk) Fire at the Urban Interface: The San Diego County Wildfires of October 2007
Jim Purpura, NOAA/NWS, San Diego, CA |
| 2:00 PM | J2.2 | Evolution of severe convection in the New York City Metropolitan Region
Brian A. Colle, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY ; and K. Lombardo and J. Murray |
| 2:15 PM | J2.3 | An observational study of the movement of Lake Breeze Fronts in the vicinity of Chicago, IL
Jason M. Keeler, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and D. A. R. Kristovich |
| 2:30 PM | J2.4 | An observational and modeling study of a rare tornadic storm in a major central business district: Possible linkages to drought and urban land cover
Dev Niyogi, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and M. J. Shepherd, M. Lei, W. O. Shem, and J. Entin |
| 2:45 PM | J2.5 | Meteorological conditions associated with major storm surge events at New York City
Katherine Rojowsky, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY; and B. A. Colle and F. Bounaiuto |
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| 3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Tuesday, Hall 4
Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall |
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| 5:25 PM-5:30 PM, Tuesday
Sessions Adjourn for the Day |
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| Wednesday, 14 January 2009 |
| 10:00 AM-10:30 AM, Wednesday
Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer |
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| 10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Wednesday, Room 124A
Joint Session 4 Modeling and Forecasting Urban Areas (Joint between the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment, the Timothy R. Oke Symposium, the Eighth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes, the 11th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry, the Fourth Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data, and the 16th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography) |
Chair: Gregory R. Carmichael, University of Iowa, Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research, Iowa City, IA
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| 10:30 AM | J4.1 | Regional and Global Perspectives of Megacity Air Pollution
Gregory R. Carmichael, University of Iowa, Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research, Iowa City, IA |
| 10:45 AM | J4.2 | GURME—the WMO GAW Urban Research Meteorology and Environment Project
Liisa Jalkanen, WMO/AREP, Geneva, Switzerland; and G. R. Carmichael |
| 11:00 AM | J4.3 | Regional modeling and prediction of the extreme smoke episode in Buenos Aires, 15–20 April 2008
Ernesto Hugo Berbery, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and E. Kalnay and H. Ciappesoni |
| 11:15 AM | J4.4 | How well can we model the Houston area for air pollution studies?
Wayne M. Angevine, CIRES, University of Colorado, and NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and M. Zagar and J. Brioude |
| | J4.5 | Modeling of TexAQS–II Urban Air Quality Events
Daewon W. Byun, Institute for Multi-dimensional Air Quality Studies, University of Houston, Houston, TX; and F. Ngan, H. C. Kim, S. T. Kim, and D. Lee |
| 11:30 AM | J4.6 | NOAA-EPA's National Air Quality Forecast Capability: Recent Progress in Providing Guidance for Cities
Paula Davidson, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. McQueen, R. Mathur, R. Draxler, R. A. Wayland, and I. Stajner |
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| 11:00 AM-6:00 PM, Wednesday
Exhibits Open |
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| 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Wednesday
Lunch Break (Cash and Carry in Exhibit Hall) |
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| 2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Wednesday, Hall 5
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break |
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| 4:00 PM-5:30 PM, Wednesday, Room 126A
Joint Session 5 Geographic Effects on Urban Weather and Climate (Joint between the Eighth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes, the Timothy R. Oke Symposium, the 21st Conference on Climate Variability and Change, the Fourth Symposium on Policy and Socio—Economic Research, the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment, the 23rd Conference on Hydrology, and the Fourth Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data) |
Chair: William T. Thompson, NRL, Monterey, CA
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| 4:00 PM | J5.1 | Assessing sea breeze and heat island interactions using coastal-urban mesoscale ensembles
Teddy R. Holt, NRL, Monterey, CA; and J. Pullen |
| 4:30 PM | J5.2 | Urban effects on Sea Breeze Circulation over Huston, TX
Kazuyuki Ota, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and U. S. Nair, W. A. Petersen, L. D. Carey, and T. E. Nobis |
| 4:45 PM | J5.3 | Variable impacts and differential response to flash flooding in the Paso del Norte metroplex (El Paso, Texas, USA / Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico)
Thomas E. Gill, University of Texas, El Paso, TX; and T. W. Collins and D. J. Novlan |
| 5:00 PM | J5.4 | Modeling and forecasting lee side spillover precipitation resulting in major flooding in an urban valley location
Michael L. Kaplan, DRI, Reno, NV; and P. J. Marzette, C. S. Adaniya, K. C. King, and S. J. Underwood |
| 5:15 PM | J5.5 | The evolution of lake-effect clouds and snow across Lake Michigan
Faye E. Barthold, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and D. A. R. Kristovich |
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| 5:25 PM-5:30 PM, Wednesday
Sessions Adjourn for the Day |
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| 5:30 PM-6:30 PM, Wednesday, Hall 4
Reception in Exhibit Hall (Cash Bar) |
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| 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, Wednesday, Northballroom
AMS Annual Awards Banquet |
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| Thursday, 15 January 2009 |
| 9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Thursday, Hall 5
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (See poster listing in Wednesday's program) |
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| 11:00 AM-4:00 PM, Thursday
Exhibits Open |
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| 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Thursday, Room 131AB
Hollingsworth Symp Luncheon |
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| 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Thursday
Lunch Break (Cash and Carry in Exhibit Hall) |
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| 3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Thursday, Hall 4
Coffee Break and Exhibit Hall Raffle |
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| 5:15 PM-5:20 PM, Thursday
AMS 89th Annual Meeting Adjourns |
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