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Welcome to the Chandra X-ray Center's Electronic News Bulletin Number 77.

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Contents:

1.  Ten Years of Science with Chandra Symposium 

2.  Meeting Announcement for The International X-ray Observatory 

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Item 1.   Ten Years of Science with Chandra Symposium
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The symposium "Ten Years of Science with Chandra: Chandra's First Decade
of Discovery" will be held in Boston, Massachusetts, USA from Tuesday,
22 September through Friday, 25 September 2009. The meeting will
highlight key science results from the first ten years of operation of 
the Chandra X-ray Observatory.

More details are available at
http://cxc.harvard.edu/symposium_2009

The SOC chairs
Antonella Fruscione, Douglas Swartz, Scott Wolk


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Item 2.  Meeting Announcement for The International X-ray Observatory
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The International X-ray Observatory team invites you to a science
meeting on January 28 - 29, 2009 in Cambridge, MA at the Royal Sonesta
Hotel on the Charles River.  Participation by all 
members of the scientific community is welcomed, 
and those on the previous Con-X and XEUS teams are 
particularly encouraged to attend.   The meeting will
focus on preparing for the upcoming U.S. Decadal Survey, and will
feature presentations by the IXO Science Definition Team, the Instrument
Working Group, the Telescope Working Group, and the ESA, JAXA and NASA
projects. There will be updates on the mission configuration from
the recent ESA Concurrent Design Facility (CDF) and NASA Mission Design 
Lab (MDL) efforts. The overall science goals of the IXO 
mission will be discussed and the status of preparing
the science case for submission to the Decadal Survey will be presented.

We expect on-line registration to open on Nov 24, and close Jan 14.
Please see the mission web sites (http://ixo.gsfc.nasa.gov/ and
http://sci.esa.int/ixo  for more info or contact Michael Garcia 
(mgarcia@head.cfa.harvard.edu). The project web sites will be 
updated shortly with details of the meeting.    We are in 
the process of reserving a block of rooms at the Royal Sonesta 
which will cost $149 per night, and expect  that this 
block will be available to you when registration 
opens on Nov 24.  To make a reservation   call the Hotel directly at 
617-806-4200 and ask for Reservations, reference 'IXO Workshop', or Book 
on-line at the either of the project web sites.




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