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        THE THIRD ANNOUNCEMENT : *** ABSTRACT SUBMISSION WILL BE CLOSED SOON ***

        "Mapping the Galaxy and Nearby Galaxies"
        26 June - 30 June, 2006
        Ishigaki island, Okinawa, Japan

        http://www.ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/galaxy2006/

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Dear colleagues,

 If you are planning to attend the conference, and you have not submitted the abstract yet,
please  submit it through the conference web site no later 
than

      *** 1 March, 2006 ***. (NEXT Wednesday !)

 The SOC will select papers immediately after the deadline and notify 
authors of the results. 

We look forward to your contributions,
SOC and LOC

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<< Practical Information >>

We have revised practical information pages in our web site.
Please visit http://www.ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/galaxy2006/
The main revised topics are the following:
1) our discount package tours from Tokyo and Osaka
2) revised room rate of Hotel Nikko Yaegaki, the symposium venue
3) domestic flight schedule between Main Island Japan and Ishigaki
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<< Contact Address >>
   e-mail:   galaxy2006-loc-ex@ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp
   URL:      http://www.ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/galaxy2006/

SOC: Keiichi Wada (NAOJ, chair), Nobuo Arimoto (NAOJ), 
     Francoise Combes (Obs. Paris), Reinhard Genzel (MPE), 
     Naomasa Nakai (Tukuba), Nick Scoville (Caltech),
     Masato Tsuboi (NAOJ)

LOC: Mareki Honma (NAOJ, chair), Jin Koda (Caltech), 
     Kotaro Kohno (U. Tokyo), Toshihiro Handa (U. Tokyo), 
     Hiroyuki Nakanishi (NAOJ), Keiichi Wada (NAOJ)

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