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Please excuse the cross-postings...<br><br>
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<div align="center"><img src="cid:.0" width=166 height=166 alt="IBPSAlogo.jpg"><font size=7 color="#FF0000">IBPSA<br>
</font><font color="#000080">International Building Performance
Simulation Association<br>
USA Affiliate<br><br>
IBPSA-USA invites you to join us in Chicago, Illinois for our winter 2003
meeting!<br><br>
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<b>Meeting
Highlights:</b><x-tab>     </x-tab></font><font color="#FF0000"><b>Software
Exhibition<br>
<x-tab>        </x-tab><x-tab>        </x-tab><x-tab>        </x-tab>Social
Hour and Dinner<br>
<x-tab>        </x-tab><x-tab>        </x-tab><x-tab>        </x-tab>Business
Meeting<br>
<x-tab>        </x-tab><x-tab>        </x-tab><x-tab>        </x-tab>Guest
Speaker: Marija Todorovic, Belgrade University<br><br>
<br>
</font><div align="center"><font color="#000080">IBPSA-USA MEETING
ANNOUNCEMENT<br>
</font><font color="#FF0000">Dinner RSVP requested</b></font> (see
below)<br>
<b>4 PM, Saturday, January 25, 2003<br>
Chicago, Illinois<br><br>
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Location:         
<font color="#000080">The Palmer House Hilton<br>
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Montrose Wing 7th Floor <br>
                  
Chicago, IL <br>
                  
(ASHRAE Headquarters Hotel)<br><br>
<b>4:00 PM - 5:30 PM  <font color="#000080">Software 
Exhibition<br>
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Montrose 1<br>
                  
View the latest in simulation software available from a wide 
variety<br>
                  
of vendors.  Vendors interested in demonstrating their software
should<br>
                  
contact <font color="#0000FF"><u>Les Norford
<lnorford@mit.edu></u></font>.<br><br>
<b>5:30 PM - 6:30 PM  <font color="#000080">Social hour with cash
bar<br>
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Montrose 1<br><br>
<b>6:30
PM           
<font color="#000080">Dinner<br>
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Montrose 7<br>
                  
$25/person for IBPSA members (membership applications and <br>
                  
renewals will be accepted on-site)<br>
                  
$35/person for non-members<br>
                  
$15/person for students with a valid university ID<br><br>
<b>7:45 PM </b>(approx)<b>   <font color="#000080">Business
Meeting<br>
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Montrose 7<br><br>
<b>8:00 PM </b>(approx)<b>   <font color="#000080">After-dinner
talk<br>
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Montrose 7<br>
                  
Marija Todorovic<br>
                  
Professor, Belgrade University<br>
                  
Title: TBA<br><br>
<font color="#FF0000"><b><u>Reservations</u>:</font>     
<font color="#FF0000">Reservations should be made with
</b></font><font color="#0000FF"><u>Rick Strand
<r-strand@uiuc.edu></u></font><font color="#FF0000"><b> via email
by January 15, 2003, 5PM (EDT).</font>  </b>Confirmation of
reservations will be sent via email (you may experience a slight delay in
receiving a confirmation around the holidays).<br><br>
For the latest information on the IBPSA-USA meeting in Chicago, please
check out:
<a href="http://www.ibpsa.org/ibpsa_usa" eudora="autourl">http://www.ibpsa.org/ibpsa_usa</a><br><br>
We look forward to seeing you there!<br><br>
Les
Norford<x-tab>     </x-tab><x-tab>        </x-tab><x-tab>        </x-tab>Rick
Strand<br>
President,
IBPSA-USA<x-tab>    </x-tab><x-tab>        </x-tab>Secretary,
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