Hello All: This year we will once again have a core-shell spectroscopy session at the Denver X-ray Conference. The conference web site is http://www.dxcicdd.com/13/index.htm The conference organizers are accepting abstracts for talks and posters until April 5, 2013 (the web page says that submission is closed but it is really open for this specific session). Bruce Ravel and I are organizing the session and we would like to encourage you to submit your abstracts for talks and posters as soon as possible so that we can keep a yearly meeting where our community can present talks in North America. Denver is a nice centrally located venue where students can easily drive in from many places in North America (certainly from Chicago!) and save some travel costs. There are special student registration rates and there are also funds which students may apply for to defray expenses. I hope that you will participate and encourage your collegues in the field to do so as well. Carlo -- Carlo U. Segre -- Duchossois Leadership Professor of Physics Director, Center for Synchrotron Radiation Research and Instrumentation Illinois Institute of Technology Voice: 312.567.3498 Fax: 312.567.3494 segre@iit.edu http://phys.iit.edu/~segre segre@debian.org