Dear Colleague,

On behalf of the local organizing committee of MG12
we invite you to chair a parallel session:

Is this an appropriate title?

We are now planning for the Twelth Marcel
Grossmann Meeting (MG12) to be held in Paris, France 
during the week of July 12-18, 2009, 
Sunday though Saturday, opening Monday morning.
 website: http://www.icra.it/MG/mg12/
 email: mg12@icra.it
 Tuesday is Bastille Day!
As information becomes available it will be posted on the
meeting website. The meeting will be an official celebration
of the 2009 Year of Astronomy sponsored by the United Nations 
http://www.astronomy2009.org/

Paris is a wonderful city for any event, but we are especially
happy to make it a first time destination for our MG Meeting series.
The local organizing committee has enlisted the help of the
following key institutions in Paris relevant to the meeting to host 
this event. Meeting sessions will be held in rooms selected from:
 UNESCO Headquarters
and in a few locations in the Latin Quarter a short Metro ride
from the UNESCO location.
The parallel sessions will be split among UNESCO and a number of
institutions near by. Preliminary interactive maps of the UNESCO
conference site and the additional parallel session sites and a
global map showing all the supporting institutions are available at
our location page:
 http://www.icra.it/MG/mg12/en/conf_location.htm

The preliminary poster is:
 http://www.icra.it/MG/mg12/images/poster.pdf

The current list of parallel session titles and chairpersons is:
 http://www.icra.it/MG/mg12/en/parallel_session.htm

The MG Meetings would not be possible without the generous help 
of a large network of parallel session chairpersons and we 
appreciate very much the valuable contribution you can  make to 
the success of the next meeting.

This is just a preliminary inquiry to find out whether or not you
are interested in chairing the above parallel session.  Please let 
us know as soon as possible by return email to the reply email 
address of this message (mg12@icra.it) together with your contact 
information as requested below and please begin contacting possible 
contributors to your session. If you do not wish to accept our 
invitation, please let us know as well by email and we would 
appreciate your suggestions for an alternative chairperson. 

Since most of our work relies on efficient email communication,
we must be able to contact you and get a reply via email.
That means if we are able to establish contact in the first place,
that you put the conference email address in your address 
book/contacts list or safe list or doing whatever it takes
to allow our incoming emails to pass through to your mailbox.
We also need the string "mg12" somewhere in the subject line so that
the forwarded email that arrives in our own mailboxes is clearly
identified, and we need a useful subject line so we can categorize
how to deal with it.

The chairperson responsibilities are described on the webpage:
http://www.homepage.villanova.edu/robert.jantzen/mg/mg12/mg12parallelchair.htm

The current list of parallel session titles and chairpersons is:
 http://www.icra.it/MG/mg12/en/parallel_session.htm

The MG11 parallel program session logs can be consulted 
for an idea of how time was allotted:
http://www.icra.it/mg/mg11/schedule.htm
Click on the checkmark arrow for a particular session to see the time grid.

We look forward to hearing from you,

Remo Ruffini, chair of International Organizing Committee
 ruffini@icra.it
 
Robert Jantzen, chair of International Coordinating Committee
 robert.jantzen@villanova.edu 
 
Pierre Coullet, chair of Local Organizing Committee 
 Pierre.COULLET@unice.fr 

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           Given names last using only middle name initials 
           separated by a comma after the family names):

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