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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white">Dear Colleagues,</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">We are happy to announce
<b><u>CASST: The Canadian Astro-Particle Physics Summer Student Talk Competition</u></b>, cohosted by SNOLAB and the McDonald Institute to be held virtually on August 23rd and 24th, 2021.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Registration is now open! All prospective presenters must register and submit an abstract by August 1st, 2021. For more information, and to register, please visit our indico
page: <a href="https://indico.cern.ch/e/casst/">https://indico.cern.ch/e/casst/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">All summer students who are not currently engaged in graduate studies or have a graduate degree are encouraged to present. Two competitors will be granted an all-expenses-paid
opportunity to present in person at the 2022 Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP) Congress.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Please contact Christine Kraus (<a href="mailto:tine@snolab.ca">tine@snolab.ca</a>) or Benjamin Tam (<a href="mailto:benjamin.tam@queensu.ca">benjamin.tam@queensu.ca</a>)
if you have any questions, including those pertaining to registration.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">We look forward to your participation!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Karen Macías Cárdenas (they/she)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">HQPAC Communications Director.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">The McDonald Institute at Queen’s University is situated in the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe & Haudenosaunee First Nations.</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
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