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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>STUDENT POSTER COMPETITION</b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Win a travel scholarship to attend the
IBPSA Building Simulation conference in Glasgow in July 2009.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">IBPSA-USA will held a student poster
competition at the IBPSA-USA meeting, to be held on January 24 at 4pm
in Chicago prior to the ASHRAE conference.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">To participate, submit your poster in
PDF or PPT format to Michael Wetter (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:MWetter@lbl.gov">MWetter@lbl.gov</a>) and Michael J.
Brandemuehl (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:Michael.Brandemuehl@Colorado.EDU">Michael.Brandemuehl@Colorado.EDU</a>)
by January 4, 2009.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">A maximum of six posters will be
selected for presentation at the IBPSA-USA meeting in Chicago. The
authors of these six posters will bring a hardcopy to the IBPSA-USA
meeting in order to present their poster to a larger jury. The jury
will decide who will be awarded a US-$ 2000 grant, to be used to pay
or offset expenses to attend the IBPSA Building Simulation conference
in Glasgow in July 2009.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Eligibility</b></p>
<ul>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Participants must be students during
the Spring 2009 semester.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Participants must be able to attend
and present their poster at the IBPSA-USA meeting in Chicago.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Participants need not be authors of
a paper for the IBPSA-USA meeting, but priority will be given to those
who have an abstract accepted.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The grant need to be used to pay or
offset expenses to attend the IBPSA conference in Glasgow.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Format</b></p>
<ul>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Posters should be maximum 2 feet by
3 feet, portrait orientation.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Email submissions should be no more
than 10 MB, in PDF or PPT format.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Key dates</b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">January 4, 2009: Poster submission to
Michael Wetter (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:MWetter@lbl.gov">MWetter@lbl.gov</a>) and Michael J.
Brandemuehl
(<font color="#000080"><u><a
href="mailto:Michael.Brandemuehl@Colorado.EDU">Michael.Brandemuehl@Colorado.EDU</a></u></font>).
This is a firm deadline.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">January 12, 2009: Participants will be
informed whether they are among the six best submissions.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">January 24, 2009: The authors of the
six best submissions will present their poster at the IBPSA-USA
meeting in Chicago. The winner will be announced during the dinner.<br>
<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">We hope to see you in Chicago,<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Michael Wetter<br>
IBPSA-USA Vice President</p>
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Michael Wetter, PhD <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://btech.lbl.gov">http://btech.lbl.gov</a>
Simulation Research Group
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Phone: 510 486 6990 Fax: 510 486 4089
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