Hello All: The deadline for oral presentations abstracts for the 1st North American Core Shell Spectroscopy Conference is just 2 days away! The conference will feature a symposium in honor of Ed Stern and is an ideal place for graduate students and postdocs to present their results. Please see the conference web page and the attached announcement. http://www.dxcicdd.com/cssc We urge you to consider attending the conference and submitting an abstract. Carlo Segre & Daniel Haskel