Dear IBM Workshop Participant;
We look forward to seeing you soon at the New
Otani Hotel on Waikiki for a week of discussion about the Izu-Bonin-Mariana
island arc September 8-12, 2002. Here is an update about the
meeting:
Travel
If you have not already done so, please send
your airline, flight numbers, and arrival and departure dates
and times to Joan at the MARGINS
Office immediately. You might want see if you can get an
even better airfare now. You will be met at, and returned to,
the airport. Details of this will be in our next letter to you.
Should systems fail, the meeting is at The
New Otani Kaimana Beach Hotel, 2863 Kalakaua Avenue, Honolulu,
Hawaii 96815, Telephone: (808)923-1555 Facsimile: (808)922-9404
Hotel
You have been assigned to a shared room unless
you requested a single room on your acceptance form or you have
made other arrangements directly with the MARGINS office. Changes
during check-in are your financial responsibility.
Website
Please consult this web site periodically between
now and the meeting.
Meeting agenda and materials
The agenda, background materials, and a participant
list are being posted on the website. Please download and bring
with you as many materials as you will need. Only limited materials
will be distributed at the meeting. We advise that you wait
until close to the meeting time to print abstracts of the invited
talks because they are likely to be updated periodically.
Invited speakers
Please start sending your abstracts, figures,
and tables to Olaf
at the MARGINS office as they become available, per information
that you have received separately. Invited speakers in general
should plan on formal presentation of
20-25 minutes to allow ample time for discussion.
Your oral participation
The meeting is intended to be interactive, about
100 people are expected to attend, and most have something to
contribute. Please bring overheads that can be used to support
short replies to the invited talks, or to call attention to
your poster or both. Convenors will manage the time after invited
talks and will try to call on as many people as possible. Plan
to show only 2-3 graphics and to talk for no more than 3-5 minutes
at a time. Although not everyone will be able to say everything
they wish to say publicly, we hope that you will be willing
to contribute to lively discussion throughout the week in many
venues.
PowerPoint presentations
Anyone who wants to use a PowerPoint presentation
must pre-load their presentation onto a CD-ROM. All CD-ROMs
must be delivered to Olaf the day before your session. We will
provide a PC running Powerpoint. We will not allow presenters
to use their own computers; it simply takes too much time between
presentations (i.e. same rules as AGU meetings). If you wish
to make a presentation requiring software or graphics that cannot
be incorporated into a Powerpoint presentation, contact Olaf
now about feasibility. We use an Epson PowerLite 50c projector
that works at 800 x 600 pixels and has a standard VGA plug with
cable. More
information.
Your poster
We are sending a separate email about posters.
Final day discussion topics. You will see that topics for discussion
on the final day remain to be determined. They will be chosen
during the meeting, probably Wednesday night. What do you most
want to learn and do at this meeting in order to further your
objectives in light of the topics to be discussed on Monday-Wednesday,
and the specific people attending? The answer should be what
we discuss on Thursday.
Sincerely,
Jim Gill, Simon Klemperer, Bob Stern, Yoshihiko
Tamura, Doug Wiens
Convenors
Garry Karner, Olaf Svenningsen, Joan Basher
MARGINS Office
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MARGINS Office
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
PO Box 1000, Palisades, New York 10964, USA
Phone: 845 365 8665 Fax: 845 365 8156
