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this is just sort of a advertisement and

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heads up for some of the most successful

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things that have come out of the AB grad

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cons in the past is something to keep

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your mind on while you're at a break on

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meeting new people just some of the

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important things that you can do after

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AB grad con to keep this experience

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going in to help yourself be a better

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astrobiologist so I'm going to be

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talking about s astrobiology journal

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clubs collaborations and also looking

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for organizers for next year so why form

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an online journal club one of the main

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reasons is astrobiology is a hugely

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diverse field and it is hard to be an

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expert in all of those but it is nice to

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be familiar what's happening in the

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field the other fields of astrobiology

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as it helps to drive your research as

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well too because a its clout it's a very

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interdisciplinary and so all these

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fields tie into each other and we're all

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trying to work on the same questions

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here and so we don't want to be confused

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like Marty McFly out of time we want to

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know what's going on when somebody's

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talking about geo microbiology or

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astrochemistry the other thing is that

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as astrobiologists in this field we are

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often isolated in and spread out across

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the country so a lot of us are fortunate

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to be in large department at like

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georgia tech for example or RPI even has

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a sizable growing department where you

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can have a lot of fellow graduate

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students that are working in the field

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too but a lot of us were the only

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astrobiologists at the school and so

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it's hard to find other srl just to talk

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to and to communicate with and to keep

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up on what's going on in the field and

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so if you form journal clubs based upon

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the people that you meet here you can

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meet online and still have access to

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experts in the field and a fun way of

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talking and communicating about the

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fields that you work in and so that's

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online journal club and also

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get to keep in touch and build

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friendships with some of the people that

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you meet here so who knows maybe you

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hate everybody you meet here and want

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nothing to do with them but hopefully

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that's not the case so it's pretty easy

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you get together with a know like five

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that I'm in right now I think has eight

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people in it but you get together and

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like hey one former journal club sure

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these this thing you can do is just use

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what we currently use as it works best

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journal club is that size or less you're

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perfectly okay we've also used a skype

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the 10-person limit as well and if your

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school has access to adobe connect

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older version which is why we switched

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format your journal club however you

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want for these online tools and here's

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just a quick sampling of the diversity

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of the journal club talks that we have

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had and so we'll talk about genetic

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geochemistry and so it's a very diverse

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field and I'd be completely lost looking

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at some of these papers myself so it's

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nice having experts in these fields to

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walk us through and to ask questions and

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than an hour have a great question back

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and forth and can cover all of these

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topics and whatever else you want to so

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forming a journal club you can do it

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people at the collaboration time

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tomorrow also if you're having trouble

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meetings people if you're somewhat shy

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collecting a list of people that will

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that and also Sanjay some who I believe

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was watching right now who's in charge

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of Sagan net they also allow journal

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clubs and promote them through say

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Gannett so he'll be talking about that

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feature on Wednesday as well and so you

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networking as well but form your own

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clubs come talk to me or work on second

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lot of collaborations that come out of

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AB grad con so if you see a lot of if

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interested in and think that working

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together could help to further your

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research or their research feel free to

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about working together a lot of

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scientist Laurie barge from a JPL and

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our collaboration so I work on RNA

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synthesis and she works on forming a

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hydrothermal vents at the bottom the

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ocean floor so we looked at whether or

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not we could synthesize RNA in her in

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her hydrothermal systems and so she came

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month that's what we're targeting right

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now it's all written we're just about to

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start shopping it around so it's cool

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have done without getting a without

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talking to her at Caltech a couple years

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astrobiology institute these

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collaborative projects as well so

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career collaboration award and this is

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an award that will give you five

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thousand dollars for traveling between

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sites to conduct your work and it's

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specifically targeted at our group here

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the award if you have to na nai team

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members matched up or if one of you is a

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through participating members and when

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excited that we applied to it and so I

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teams to supply this funding to the

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deadlines for these for submitting this

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corner so right now is a perfect time to

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get together develop a research plan

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question to develop a research plan and

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submit a proposal so you can either

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search for the early career

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collaboration award or there's this URL

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there submit your request and get money

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and fly and see collaborators also oh

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the collaboration stuff you can talk to

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me directly as well too as I went

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through the process and I can share my

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experience with what happened for that

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conference that somebody in this room

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is going to have to plan it for next

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year so if you're sitting there and

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think that this is something you want to

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do if you have way too much free time or

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never feel like you have enough emails

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to go through totally step up it decide

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to be a collaborator so this is

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tomorrow during the collaboration time

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come up find me or another organizer and

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say you're interested we will try to get

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you guys in touch with each other to

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form a very preliminary committee so our

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committee last year out of a grad con I

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them and you can always you know drop

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much work for you but definitely keep it

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in mind if you want to plan it if you

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want to have it your school

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collaboration time figure this out and

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we'll get this going next year what

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consciousness they have announced the

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site that is going to be for the

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following year by the end of a broadcom

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do that announcement on Wednesday and

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not going to happen so we've had ten

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years running here pretty good it'd be a

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shame if it did not happen so get

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together make it happen find some people

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choose the site if I'm voting I'm going

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to choose either Hawaii or Spain so that

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would be awesome I know we have have

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these might actually happen we do have

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Hawaii that could host it there and some

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people from Spain were interested in

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hosting it there for our committee that

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we formed last year so maybe keep dreams

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and so exchanged emails find us and

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all right and that's it it's all I got

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you want sure Eddie overall questions

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previous organizer Thank You Bradley and

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the organizing committee for doing it

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this year for us and it is a good

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appreciation for administrative support

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and one other thing I will say is that

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over the last few years we've kind of

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established a pattern where like we have

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it in the US one year and then maybe

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outside the US and inside the US and so

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there have been other there is a

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precedent set for having a brad khan

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outside of the US i mean obviously you

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need to have people on the ground that

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are organizing but yeah this spain thing

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has been talked about for a few years

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now i think it might be the right time

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to do it yes I what Tim said there is

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exactly right so Kristen and I doing

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this it became like minor MVPs of our

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little team here for doing it they're

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very excited your pies will love you if

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you bring a conference to your school

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uh-huh yep and we're both up for renewal

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right now our schools are is AB guy can

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always this time of year like late July

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months as it's easier for the grad

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students to travel there one thing is a

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we have partnered it with apps icon

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before an AB site cons happening june

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it's happening june next year in chicago

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so it is possible that the organizers

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will decide to pair it up find somebody

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local and attach it either before after

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apps icon in june but we do typically in

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for the summer months