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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'>FYI<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Arlene Gibson<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>College of Engineering<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Office of the Dean<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>San Diego State University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Phone: 619 594-6061<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Fax: 619 594-6005<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Gerber, Kristina [mailto:Kristina.Gerber@med.usc.edu] <br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, August 18, 2011 3:49 PM<br><b>Cc:</b> Suarez, Yvonne<br><b>Subject:</b> Invitation: USC PSOC Short Course, Monday, October 17, 2011 (Free event)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Greetings, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>On behalf of the USC Physical Sciences in Oncology Center (PSOC), we would like to extend an invitation to your students, faculty and researchers, to attend our first annual short course focused on a physical sciences approach to understanding cancer. The USC PSOC short course is scheduled for Monday, October 17, 2011 at the USC Davidson Conference Center, located at the main campus (3415 South Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, CA 90089). There is no cost to attend this short course. However, registration is required and space is limited. <b><i>Please disseminate the attached flyer to interested students, faculty, and researchers within your institution.</i></b> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>This is a fantastic opportunity to acquire a fundamental understanding of various disciplines and their relation to cancer. As the day is meant to be significantly pedagogic to a diverse audience, our speakers/lecturers will be presenting their latest scientific results and providing significant background and highlighting emerging problems for the whole field. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>This course is sponsored by our USC Physical Sciences in Oncology Center, which was selected by NCI/NIH as one of twelve PSOC research centers in the nation. The overall goals of the center are to take new, non-traditional approaches to cancer research by studying the physical laws and principles of cancer; evolution and evolutionary theory of cancer; information coding, decoding, transfer and translation in cancer; and ways to de-convolute cancer’s complexity. In addition, we have been charged to encourage widespread collaboration and to <b><i>build a new generation of scientists to lead these transdisciplinary efforts.<o:p></o:p></i></b></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>The goals of the short course include bringing together students across diverse levels from undergraduates through faculty to:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>1)<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>introduce attendees to <i>potential collaborators and like-minded researchers</i> spanning diverse disciplines<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>2)<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>introduce attendees to this <i>emerging area of research</i>, as well as to give a quick booster on important problems and perspectives<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>3)<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>stimulate discussion around novel approaches</span></i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>, based in the physical sciences to tackle significant problems in oncology <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><b><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-variant:small-caps'>Topic areas include</span></i></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-variant:small-caps'>: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Session I - Cancer Biology and the Cancer Genome<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Session II - The Physicist Perspective on Cancer<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Session III - Novel Measurement Platforms & Data Management & Integration <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Session IV - Creativity in Research at the Interface between Life and Physical Sciences<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>This is a full day event beginning at 8:00 a.m. and ending at 8:00 p.m. Continental breakfast and lunch with be provided for registered attendees. Additionally, we will have a reception and poster session in the evening from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. <b><i>For more information regarding this event,<span style='color:red'> <u>please contact Kristina Gerber at 323-442-3849 or <a href="mailto:kgerber@usc.edu">kgerber@usc.edu</a></u>.</span></i></b><i> Registration is now available at</i><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></i><a href="http://bit.ly/USCPSOC2011shortcourse">http://bit.ly/USCPSOC2011shortcourse</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Best regards, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Yvonne Suarez<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Program Manager<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Physical Sciences in Oncology Center<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>USC - Center for Applied Molecular Medicine<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>2250 Alcazar Street, CSC-242<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Los Angeles, CA 90033-9075<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Office: 323-442-2596<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>Fax: 323-442-2764<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="mailto:yvonne.suarez@usc.edu"><b><i><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'>yvonne.suarez@usc.edu</span></i></b></a><b><i><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-family:"Cambria","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><br />--
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