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The 9^th Workshop on the Physics of Dusty Plasmas will be hosted by the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Iowa in Iowa City on May 20-23, 2001. The workshop will take place over a two and one-half day period (Mon 5/21, Tues 5/22 and Wed. morning 5/23) and include both oral and poster sessions. All sessions will be held in the Iowa Memorial Union (IMU). Lodging for the workshop will be at the Iowa House Hotel (adjacent to the IMU) and the Sheraton Hotel in downtown Iowa City which is just a few blocks from the IMU. The workshop will include lunch and dinner on Monday and Tuesday as well as an informal opening reception on Sunday (5/20) evening.

As in other series workshops the scope of this one covers the full range of dusty plasma physics phenomena: both basic and applied science topics including laboratory experiments, space observations, theory, simulations and microgravity experiments.

A website containing further details of the workshop including information about abstract submission, registration, accommodation, transportation, deadlines and other pertinent material is located at

http://dusty.physics.uiowa.edu/~goree/workshop/9th_home.html

General correspondence concerning the workshop should be directed to the workshop secretary, Ms. Marcia Rogers at

mrogers@newton.physics.uiowa.edu

2 April 2001 Abstracts

20 April 2001 Housing

20 April 2001 Registration at reduced rate

REGISTRATION FEES

Early Registration: (before April 20, 2001)

250 USD (Students: 125 USD)

On-site Registration:

350 USD (Students: 155 USD)

Please note that the registration fee includes lunch and dinner on Monday and Tuesday and the Reception on Sunday Evening.

Submit your abstracts electronically, using the following two steps:

• First, prepare your abstract in one of the formats listed below.
• Second, visit our abstract-submission page

Format:

• Maximum length: one page, letter size paper.
• Acceptable formats include:
• PDF file (preferred format)
• Microsoft Word (.doc or .rtf)
• Plain Text
• PDF and Word files may include graphics, if desired.
• PDF or Word files should be formatted like this example. You may download the Word file for the example abstract.
• Please do not send:
• TeX, LaTex, or postscript files.
• Hardcopy. Ours is an all-electronic abstract submission.

Oral vs. poster

Oral presentations are 15 minutes plus 5 minutes for questions.

Posters: We're doing three things to make posters especially appealing:

All posters will remain on display throughout the workshop.

They will be displayed in the same large room where we eat together Monday and Tuesday. This will encourage informal discussions in addition to the scheduled time for the talk.

Posters are big: board size is 72 X 48 inches (182 X 122 cm).

Please indicate whether you prefer an oral or poster session.

The number of oral presentations will be limited. If your group submits more than one abstract for an oral presentation, please send us a list of the talk titles, rank ordered according to your preference for oral presentation. This will help us choose which talks to assign to oral vs. poster sessions.

As in the previous workshop in this series, all talks are contributed. The program will not identify any presentations as "invited talks."

You may request that your presentation be positioned before or after another speaker.

There is no assurance that we can meet all your requests for oral vs. poster or for positioning your paper.

Video Presentation Requirements: A video projector will be available in the meeting room for electronic presentations. You will need to bring your own laptop computer. A VCR will also be available to play tapes in NTSC format only.

We look forward to seeing you in Iowa City.

Information on how to submit an abstract is here.