A symposium in honor of the late Professor Albert I. Meyers is being held at Colorado State University in Ft. Collins on Friday, 24 October, 2008, in the late afternoon and all day Saturday, 25 October, 2008. The symposium speakers are Clayton Heathcock, Peter Beak, Daniel Comins, Kyoshi Tomioka, Daniel Romo, Victor Snieckus, Jeff Seeman, and Paul Reider. I look forward to attending.
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That’s a really nice lineup. Seeman was supposed to speak at our ACS local meeting but he got nuked by our Ike blowback.
Colorado State has a chunk of decent synthetic people on their own, anyway.