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 This is the final reminder before registration closes TOMORROW for

           the MPA/ESO/MPE/USM Joint Astronomy Conference

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                  "Open Questions in Cosmology:
                    the First Billion Years"
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                to be held in Garching, Germany

                   August 22 - August 26 2005

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Please register now if you have not done so already.  By the beginning
of June, those who have registered for the conference will be
contacted by the LOC to inform them about the decision on their 
participation. Prospective participants that were not selected will
then  be included on a waiting list. From then on, Conference circulars
will be mailed only to the registered attendees.

For further details, please visit our web-site at:

           http://www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/~cosmo/2005/

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Invited Speakers:
K. Adelberger (OCIW), J. Bergeron (IAP), V. Bromm (U. Texas, Austin),
P. Cox (IAS), L. Cowie (U. Hawaii), R. Ellis (Caltech), X. Fan
(U. Arizona), A. Ferrara (SISSA), K. Gorski (JPL), Z. Haiman
(Columbia), P. Jakobsen (ESA), K. Jedamzik (U. Montpellier),
C. Lawrence (JPL), P. Madau (UCSC), S. Malhotra (STScI), K. Olive
(U. Minnesota), J.-L. Puget (IAS), S. Ryan (Open University, UK),
A. Songaila (U. Hawaii), J. Schaye (IAS), R. Schneider (OAA),
C. Steidel (Caltech), F. Walter (MPIA), S.D.M. White (MPA)

Scientific Advisory Committee: 
X. Fan (U. Arizona), A. Ferrara (SISSA), K. Gorski (JPL), P. Jakobsen
(ESA), B. Leibundgut (ESO), A. Loeb (Harvard), J. Silk (Oxford),
A. Songaila (U. Hawaii), M. Umemura (U. Tsukuba), S.D.M. White (MPA)

Local Organising Committee:
A.J. Banday, B. Ciardi, S.D.M. White (MPA); W. Freudling,
B. Leibundgut, P. Shaver (ESO); M. Lehnert (MPE); E. D'Onghia (USM)

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Proposed timeline:

~June 7th 2005:   Participants selection finished and registrants
                  notified. Following circulars to participants only.
                  At this stage participants should send in their
                  registration fee and apply for accommodation.
July 15th 2005:   (Early) Registration fee due, hotel cancellation
                  deadline.
August 15th 2005: Final circular, useful information
August 21st 2005: Welcome reception
August 22nd 2005: Conference begins

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