<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear colleagues,<div><br></div><div><div><img width="139" height="79" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_11" id="872657d3-0e49-4aaa-bc17-6ae725a5b1c7" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; " src="cid:image003.jpg@01D22F22.DF278B70"></div><div><div><br></div><div>This is a final reminder that the abstract submission deadline is <b>this Tuesday (November 15)</b> for the FTAPS17 conference endorsed by <b>International Astronomical Union</b>-(OAD-AR) held at the American University of Sharjah <b>(February 22-25, 2017)</b>. The campus is less that 30 minutes away from <b>Dubai</b> International Airport. Please visit the website (<font color="#0042aa"><a href="http://ar-as.org/ftaps2017/"><b>http://ar-as.org/ftaps2017/</b></a></font>) for more details. </div><div><br></div><div><b>The themes of the conference include:</b></div><div><br></div><div><ul class="disc"><li><span style="font-weight: bold; "><font color="#38571a">Stellar Structure and evolution</font></span></li><li><span style="font-weight: bold; "><font color="#38571a">Stellar Clusters and Populations</font></span></li><li><span style="font-weight: bold; "><font color="#38571a">Extragalactic astronomy</font></span></li><li><span style="font-weight: bold; "><font color="#38571a">Cosmology</font></span></li><li><span style="font-weight: bold; "><font color="#38571a">Mars, solar system and Planetary Atmospheres</font></span></li><li><span style="font-weight: bold; "><font color="#38571a">Exoplanets</font></span></li><li><span style="font-weight: bold; "><font color="#38571a">Interstellar medium and Galaxy</font></span></li><li><span style="font-weight: bold; "><font color="#38571a">Astronomical instrumentation</font></span></li></ul></div><div><br></div><div>The abstract submission deadline is <font color="#b51a00"><b><u>November 15, 2016</u></b></font>. </div><div><br></div><div>Please feel free to contact me (<b><a href="mailto:raasad@aus.edu">raasad@aus.edu</a></b>) if you have any questions,</div><div>Best regards,</div><div>Randa</div><div apple-content-edited="true"><div><br></div><div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; "><div style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold; ">=======================</span></div><div style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; "><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Randa Asa'd, Ph.D<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Assistant Professor<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Physics Department</span></div><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; "><font color="#1f497d" face="Times New Roman, serif">American University of Sharjah</font></div><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Helvetica; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; "><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><b><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; "><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><img height="26" width="236" id="157ff4b5-2100-468f-a87f-c90acf152a2c" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D169EA.F3181300"></span></b></p><div style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; "><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><br></div></div><div style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; "><b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">========================</span></b></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>