[IGPP Everyone] First Announcement: Symposium to Celebrate the Life of Mike Jura

[Kevin McKeegan]

Dear Colleagues,

On September 14th, 2016, there will be a one-day symposium at UCLA
celebrating the life and work of Mike Jura. The symposium will highlight
the wide range of astrophysical areas to which Mike made important
contributions
during his career. These include the physics of the interstellar medium,
the study of mass loss from red giants, dust in galaxies, debris disks,
and polluted white dwarf atmospheres as signposts of planetary systems.

The conference website can be found here:
https://conferences.pa.ucla.edu/jura-memorial-symposium/index.html

Confirmed speakers include:
Eric Becklin, Christine Chen, Boris Gaensicke, Ed Jenkins,
Jill Knapp, Bruce Margon, Mike Shull, Kate Su,
Mike Werner, Siyi Xu, Don York, and Ed Young

Registration for the symposium is now open at the conference website, here:
https://conferences.pa.ucla.edu/jura-memorial-symposium/registration.html

We also note that the Michael A. Jura Graduate Award Fund will be
established to support awards for astronomy graduate students in the
Department of Physics and Astronomy. To contribute, please contact
Desirae Vanek at dvanek at support.ucla.edu or 310-267-5194.

We look forward to seeing you at the September 14th Symposium.

Best,
Ben Zuckerman and Alice Shapley
(on behalf of the SOC and LOC)
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Kevin D. McKeegan
Professor of Cosmochemistry & Geochemistry
Chair, Dept. of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567
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mckeegan at epss.ucla.edu
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