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November 3, 2008
IXO Science Team Meeting January 28-29, 2009

There will be a meeting of the International X-ray Observatory (IXO) science Team January 28 - 29, 2009 in Cambridge, MA at the Royal Sonesta Hotel on the Charles River. Participation by all members of the IXO science team is encouraged, as well as members of the scientific community interested in IXO. Members of the previous Con-X and XEUS teams are particularly encouraged to attend.

This IXO science team meeting will focus on preparing for the upcoming U.S. Decadal Survey. The meeting 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.

Please register on-line using the following link:

https://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/registration/?mtg=ixo2009

Registration closes on Jan 14. The registration fee includes a dinner at the Boston Museum of Science on Wednesday night – we will have exclusive access to the 'Blue Wing' of the Museum including the T-rex display. The hotel is holding a block of rooms for us only until Jan 14. You can reserve a room at the Hotel by calling 617-806-4200 and asking for Reservations, reference 'IXO Workshop', or use the link below

Book a hotel room at the Royal Sonesta on-line

Note that on the afternoon of Jan 28 and the morning of Jan 29 we plan to have a series of talks on the science white papers which will be submitted to the Astro 2010 Decadal Survey. On the afternoon of Jan 29th there will be time to discuss the science input to the Decadal panels.

On behalf of
Nicholas White
Hideyo Kunieda
Arvind Parmar