Please submit your material to Peg Kay - pegkay@washacadsci.org - by the following dates. If you know that your submission will be late, please contact Peg as soon as possible. We will try to accommodate late submissions within the limitations of Conference space. All submissions (estimates, abstracts, papers) MUST be made through the appropriate Society. Submissions by individuals will not be accepted.

• September 30: Best guesstimate of time and space required. This allows us to hold space for you -- it does NOT commit you. Try to get your guesstimates in early -- space is limited and it's first come, first serve.

• January 3: Abstracts (for traditional sessions) or Titles and Descriptions (for other types of Presentations such as Round Tables). We will post these abstracts as we receive them.

• February 1: Revised estimates of time and space required. Again, try to get your revised estimates (or confirm your earlier guestimates) in early. By this time, space will not just be limited -- it will be tight!

• March 6: Papers to be posted on the website and included in the Proceedings and schedule of presentations. For purposes of both the website and the Proceedings, papers can be PowerPoint or similar presentations. The website is laid out in two sections. The first section contains the name of the sponsoring Affiliate and Title of the Abstract. Clicking on that will bring you to the Abstract and, if the paper has been submitted, the attached paper, and when that paper is scheduled to be delivered. We realize that you may not be able to hold your presenters to the schedule, but the information will give auditors some idea of when papers of interest will be presented.

• March 13: Papers to be included in the Proceedings. In general the papers included in the Abstracts section will form a major part of the Proceedings (which will be sent, as a CD to all registrants. However, if someone misses the March 6 deadline, we will hold processing the Proceedings for a week in order to accommodate the late-comers.

• Whenever All presenters are invited to submit their papers to the Washington Academy of Sciences Journal. Instructions for such submissions can be found at http://www.washacadsci.org/Journal/journal.htm Note that the Journal cannot accept PowerPoint presentations.