<p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px">Dear Colleagues,</span></font></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
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<strong><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">ION ITM 2013<u></u><u></u></span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">January 28-30, 2013<br>Catamaran Resort Hotel, San Diego, California</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">As a Session Chair for the ION International Technical Meeting (ITM) 2013, I’d like to personally invite you to submit an abstract for the conference scheduled to be held </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">January 28-30, 2013 at the Catamaran Resort Hotel, San Diego, California</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">The <a href="http://www.ion.org/meetings/?conf=itm&CFID=11912530&CFTOKEN=4a3a6b841c8379cb-CEE83FC1-C29F-2D71-642B99BC5A48EB77&jsessionid=ac30f8fa499357230a0c5a282f52d203c4a7" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">ION International Technical Meeting 2013</a> is ION’s winter meeting and is a more intimate conference designed to showcase advances in positioning, navigation and timing. </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">This year’s plenary session will focus on "Exploring the Frontiers of Navigation - unique and Exciting New Uses of Navigation Technologies." We will have some fantastic speakers talking about innovative uses of positioning and navigation such as tracking pelagic fishes like shark and blue fin tuna, use for near real time satellite information for consumers, and navigating on iceberg and asteroids<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">The deadline to <a href="https://www.ion.org/meetings/itm2013/itm2013cfa.cfm" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">submit an abstract</a> is Friday, October 5, 2012.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">I’m very proud of the program we’ve put together because it focuses new technologies and ideas centered around important topics like urban and indoor applications, emerging GNSS and modernization, GNSS processing and integration, receivers and antenna technology, terrestrial applications, and many more.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">To submit an abstract, simply go to <a href="http://www.ion.org/itm" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">www.ion.org/itm</a>.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">I look forward to seeing you in January in San Diego.<span><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
<br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px">Regards,</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">
<font face="Verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px">Seebany Datta-Barua</span></font></p><div><br></div>-- <br><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Seebany Datta-Barua, Ph.D.</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
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