The final schedule, with room assignments, will be distributed on-site to all registrants, and it may be modified slightly.

 

American Fern Society (AFS)

American Society of Plant Taxonomists (ASPT)

Botanical Society of America (BSA) BSA-Wide Historical Section Phytochemical Section Developmental & Structural Section Mycological Section Pteridological Section Ecological Section Pacific Section, BSA Systematics Section Economic Botany Section Paleobotanical Section Teaching Section Genetics Section Phycological Section Tropical Biology Section Physiological Section

Canadian Botanical Association / L’Association Botanique du Canada (CBA / ABC)

Phycological Society of America (PSA)

 

American Fern Society (AFS)

Sunday, 4 August

3:30 pm – 6:30 pm	Council Meeting (Pyle, 217)
7:30 pm – 8:30 pm	Plenary Lecture (Memorial Union, Theatre)
8:30 pm – 10:00 pm	All Society Mixer (Memorial Union, Tripp Commons)

Monday, 5 August

8:00 am – 11:30 am	Plenary Symposium: Evolution: Highlighting plants (Session 1 – Historical, Auditorium)
9:15 am – 11:30 am	Papers (Session 7 – Pyle, 225)
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm	Luncheon (Ticketed Event) (Pyle, 106-Ameritech Lounge)
2:15 pm – 4:00 am	Papers (Session 18 – Pyle, 225)
4:15 pm – 5:00 pm	Pteridological Section Business Meeting (Pyle, 309)
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm	Special Lecture: Sylvia Earle (Session 20 – Pyle, 325/326)
7:00 pm – 8:00 pm	Discussion Session – Uses of nuclear ribosomal RNA repeats, ITS2 sequences (Session 21 – Pyle, 335-McInerney Room)

Tuesday, 6 August

8:15 am – 12:15 pm	Symposium: `Werthwhile’ passions: Exploring the plants and research themes that fascinated Dr. Charles R. Werth (Session 26 – Humanities, 1131)
12:30 pm – 2:00 pm	Posters (Session 33 – Pyle, Main Dining Room-Lower Level & 109-Lee Lounge)
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm	Special Lecture: Peter Raven (Session 34 – Historical Auditorium)
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm	Discussion Session – Forensic botany (Session 39 – Pyle, 235)
5:00 pm – 7:00 pm	Meet the Botanical Artists Reception (Pyle, 106-Ameritech Lounge)

Wednesday, 7 August

9:30 pm – 11:30 pm

All-Conference Social (Memorial Union, Lakeside Cafeteria)

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American Society of Plant Taxonomists (ASPT)

Sunday, 4 August

8:30 am – 4:00 pm	ASPT Council Meeting and Luncheon (Pyle, 220)
7:30 pm – 8:30 pm	Plenary Lecture (Memorial Union, Theatre)
8:30 pm – 10:00 pm	All Society Mixer (Memorial Union, Tripp Commons)

Monday, 5 August

8:00 am – 11:30 am	Plenary Symposium: Evolution: Highlighting plants (Session 1 – Historical, Auditorium)
8:00 am – 12:30 pm	Colloquium: Rosaceae phylogeny: Current knowledge, problems, and prospects (Session 2 – Humanities, 1131)
8:00 am – 12:30 pm	Papers: Nonseed plants / gymnosperms / land plant phylogeny (Session 3 – Humanities, 1121)
8:00 am – 12:00 pm	Papers: Monocots I (Session 4 – Pyle, 313)
1:00 pm – 4:45 pm	Papers: Genomics / ITS secondary structure / phylogeny theory / character coding (Session 11 – Humanities, 1111)
1:00 pm – 4:45 pm	Papers: Basal angiosperms and basal eudicots (Session 12 – Humanities, 1121)
1:00 pm – 4:45 pm	Papers: Monocots II (Session 13 – Pyle, 313)
1:30 pm – 5:00 pm	Symposium: Generating diversity: The link between developmental morphology and phylogeny (Session 15 – Historical, Auditorium)
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm	Special Lecture: Sylvia Earle (Session 20 – Pyle, 325/326)
5:15 pm – 6:00 pm	ASPT / BSA Systematics Section Business Meeting (Pyle, 313)
7:00 pm – 8:00 pm	Discussion Session – Uses of nuclear ribosomal RNA repeats, ITS2 sequences (Session 21 – Pyle, 335-McInerney Room)

Tuesday, 6 August

8:00 am – 12:15 pm	Papers: Rosids: Fabales, Rosales, Cucurbitales, Fagales (Session 22 – Pyle, 121-VandeBerg Auditorium)
8:15 am – 11:30 am	Colloquium: Systematics and evolution of the Caryophyllaceae: a model family for integrating taxonomic, phylogenetic and population studies (Session 27 – Pyle, 313)
8:30 am – 12:00 pm	Papers: Rosids: Malpighiales and Myrtales (Session 29 – Pyle, 325/326)
12:30 pm – 2:00 pm	Posters (Session 33 – Pyle, Main Dining Room-Lower Level & 109-Lee Lounge)
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm	Special Lecture: Peter Raven (Session 34 – Historical Auditorium)
2:00 pm – 5:00 pm	Papers: Rosids: Brassicales, Malvales (Session 35 – Pyle, 313)
2:00 pm – 4:45 pm	Papers: Rosids: Sapindales; crop evolution; biogeography (Session 36 – Pyle, 325/326)
5:00 pm – 7:00 pm	Meet the Botanical Artists Reception (Pyle, Ameritech Lounge)
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm	ASPT Mixer (Memorial Union, Reception Room)
7:00 pm – 10:00 pm	ASPT Banquet (Ticketed Event) (Memorial Union, Great Hall)

Wednesday, 7 August

8:00 am – 12:15 pm	Papers: Asterids: Cornales, Ericales, Garryales, Solanales, Gentianales (Session 44 – Humanities, 1111)
8:00 am – 12:15 pm	Papers: Lamiales I: Oleacaceae, Lamiaceae, Acanthaceae, Bignoniaceae, Buddlejaceae, Gesneriaceae (Session 45 – Humanities, 1121)
8:20 am – 11:45 am	Symposium: Tropical intercontinental disjunctions: Gondwana break-up, immigration from the boreotropics, and transoceanic dispersal, Part I (Session 47 – Historical, Auditorium)
8:30 am – 11:30 pm	Papers: Asterids: Apiales, Dipsacales (Session 48 – Humanities, 1131)
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm	Papers: Asterids: Lamiales II (Session 55 – Humanities, 1111)
1:00 pm – 5:00 pm	Papers: Asterids: Asterales (Session 56 – Humanities, 1121)
1:00 pm – 4:30 pm	Papers: Floristics and bioinformatics (Session 57 – Humanities, 1131)
1:15 pm – 5:00 pm	Symposium: Tropical intercontinental disjunctions: Gondwana break-up, immigration from the boreotropics, and transoceanic dispersal, Part II (Session 61 – Historical, Auditorium)
9:30 pm – 11:30 pm	All-Conference Social (Memorial Union, Lakeside Cafeteria)

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Botanical Society of America (BSA)

BSA-Wide

Saturday, 3 August

7:00 pm – 10:00 pm

BSA Executive Committee Meeting (Pyle, 320)

Sunday, 4 August

9:30 am – 11:30 am	BSA Financial Advisory Committee Meeting (Pyle, 320)
1:00 pm – 5:00 pm	BSA Council Meeting (Lowell, B1-A)
7:30 pm – 8:30 pm	Plenary Lecture (Memorial Union, Theatre)
8:30 pm – 10:00 pm	All Society Mixer (Memorial Union, Tripp Commons)

Monday, 5 August

8:00 am – 11:30 am	Plenary Symposium: Evolution: Highlighting plants (Session 1 – Historical, Auditorium)
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm	Special Lecture: Sylvia Earle (Session 20 – Pyle, 325/326)
7:00 pm – 8:00 pm	Discussion Session – Uses of nuclear ribosomal RNA repeats, ITS2 sequences (Session 21 – Pyle, 335-McInerney Room)

Tuesday, 6 August

12:30 pm – 2:00 pm	Posters: All Societies (Session 33 – Pyle, Main Dining Room-Lower Level & 109-Lee Lounge)
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm	Special Lecture: Peter Raven (Session 34 – Historical Auditorium)
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm	Discussion Session – Forensic botany (Session 39 – Pyle, 235)
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm	BSA Business Meeting (Pyle, 313)
5:00 pm – 7:00 pm	Meet the Botanical Artists Reception (Pyle, Ameritech Lounge)

Wednesday, 7 August

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm	American Journal of Botany Editorial Board Meeting and Luncheon (Pyle, 112)
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm	BSA & CBA/ABC Mixer (Memorial Union, Tripp Deck)
7:00 pm – 9:30 pm	BSA & CBA/ABC Banquet – Banquet for all Botanists (Ticketed Event) (Memorial Union, Great Hall)
9:30 pm – 11:30 pm	All-Conference Social (Memorial Union, Lakeside Cafeteria)

Thursday, 8 August

8:00 am – 12:00 pm

BSA Executive Committee Meeting (Pyle, 320)

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Developmental and Structural Section, BSA

Monday, 5 August

8:00 am – 12:00 pm	Papers: Reproductive structures (Session 5 – Pyle, 325/326)
1:30 pm – 5:00 pm	Symposium: Generating diversity: The link between developmental morphology and phylogeny (Session 15 – Historical, Auditorium)
5:30 pm – 7:30 pm	Mixer and Business Meeting (Pyle, 213)

Tuesday, 6 August

9:00 am – 12:00 pm	Papers: Plant structure (Session 32 – Humanities, 1121)
12:30 pm – 2:00 pm	Posters (Session 33 – Pyle, Main Dining Room-Lower Level & 109-Lee Lounge)
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm	Papers: Roots and wood (Session 37 – Humanities, 1121)
4:00 pm – 4:45 pm	Special Lecture: Pelton Award Lecture (Session 42 – Pyle, 121- VandeBerg Auditorium)

Wednesday, 7 August

8:00 am – 12:00 pm	Symposium: Conifer reproductive biology: A tribute to Dr. John N. Owens (Session 43 – Pyle, 325/326)
1:00 pm – 5:00 pm	Symposium: Biocomplexity in mycorrhizae (Session 53 – Pyle, 121-VandeBerg Auditorium)

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Ecological Section, BSA

Monday, 5 August

8:15 am – 12:00 pm	Symposium: Evolution of mating systems in the genus Mimulus, Part I (Session 6 – Lowell, B1-A/B1-B)
1:30 pm – 6:00 pm	Symposium: Evolution of mating systems in the genus Mimulus, Part II (Session 16 – Lowell, B1-A/ B1-B)

Tuesday, 6 August

8:15 am – 11:45 pm	Papers: Seed ecology and reproductive biology (Session 28 – Lowell, B1-A/B1-B)
12:30 pm – 2:00 pm	Posters (Session 33 – Pyle, Main Dining Room-Lower Level & 109-Lee Lounge)
3:00 pm – 4:45 pm	Papers: Gene and physiological ecology (Session 38 – Lowell, B1-A/B1-B)

Wednesday, 7 August

8:00 am -12:00 pm	Papers: Herbivory, community, and ecosystem ecology (Session 46 – Lowell, B1-A/B1-B)
1:00 pm – 5:00 pm	Symposium: Biocomplexity in mycorrhizae (Session 53 – Pyle, 121-VandeBerg Auditorium)
1:00 pm – 4:45 pm	Papers: Student papers (Session 54 – Lowell, B1-A/B1-B)
5:00 pm – 6:30 pm	Mixer and Business Meeting (Lowell, B1-A/B1-B)

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Economic Botany Section., BSA

Monday, 5 August

10:00 am – 11:00 am	Business Meeting (Pyle, 235)
11:30 am – 1:00 pm	Luncheon (Ticketed Event) (Pyle, 112)
1:30 pm – 4:30 pm	Symposium: Ethnobotany of the Solanaceae (Session 17 – Humanities, 1131)

Tuesday, 6 August

12:30 pm – 2:00 pm

Posters (Session 33 – Pyle, Main Dining Room-Lower Level & 109-Lee Lounge)

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Genetics Section, BSA

Monday, 5 August

8:15 am – 12:00 pm	Symposium: Evolution of mating systems in the genus Mimulus, Part I (Session 6 – Lowell, B1-A/B1-B)
1:30 pm – 6:00 pm	Symposium: Evolution of mating systems in the genus Mimulus, Part II (Session 16 – Lowell, B1-A/ B1-B)

Tuesday, 6 August

12:30 pm – 2:00 pm

Posters (Session 33 – Pyle, Main Dining Room-Lower Level & 109-Lee Lounge)

Wednesday, 7 August

8:30 am – 12:15 pm	Papers: Population, conservation, and ecological genetics (Session 49 – Pyle, 335-McInerney Room)
1:00 pm – 4:30 pm	Papers: Ecological genetics, molecular and genomic evolution (Session 58 – Pyle, 335-McInerney Room)
4:30 pm – 5:30 pm	Business Meeting (Pyle, 335-McInerney Room)

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Historical Section, BSA

Tuesday, 6 August

12:30 pm – 2:00 pm

Posters (Session 33 – Pyle, Main Dining Room-Lower Level & 109-Lee Lounge)

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Mycological Section, BSA

Wednesday, 7 August

1:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Symposium: Biocomplexity in mycorrhizae (Session 53 – Pyle, 121-VandeBerg Auditorium)

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Pacific Section, BSA

Wednesday, 7 August

7:00 am – 8:30 am

Meeting and Light Breakfast (Pyle, 112)

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Paleobotanical Section, BSA

Monday, 5 August

12:25 pm – 4:45 pm	Papers: Isabel Cookson student award session (Session 9 – Pyle, 121-VandeBerg Auditorium)
5:30 pm – 6:30 pm	Mixer (Essen Haus Restaurant)
6:30 pm – 10:00 pm	Banquet and Auction (Ticketed Event) (Essen Haus Restaurant)

Tuesday, 6 August

8:30 am – 12:00 pm	Papers: Tertiary paleobotany (Session 30 – Pyle, 309)
12:30 pm – 2:00 pm	Posters (Session 33 – Pyle, Main Dining Room-Lower Level & 109-Lee Lounge)
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm	Business Meeting (Pyle, 309)

Wednesday, 7 August

8:45 am – 11:30 am	Papers: Early Paleozoic paleobotany (Session 51 – Pyle, 309)
1:00 pm – 4:00 pm	Papers: Late Paleozoic and Mesozoic paleobotany & informal presentations (Session 59 – Pyle, 309)

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Phycological Section, BSA

See PSA

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Physiological Section, BSA

Monday, 5 August

10:30 am – 11:30 am	Papers (Session 8 – Pyle, 332)
11:30 am – 12:30 pm	Business Meeting and Luncheon (Pyle, 220)
1:00 pm – 4:00 pm	Symposium: Restoration of major plant ecosystems in the USA: Physiological research and teaching opportunities (Session 10 – Pyle, 335-McInerney Room)

Tuesday, 6 August

12:30 pm – 2:00 pm

Posters (Session 33 – Pyle, Main Dining Room-Lower Level & 109-Lee Lounge)

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Phytochemical Section, BSA

Monday, 5 August

3:00 pm – 4:00 pm	Papers (Session 19 – Pyle, 111)
4:15 pm – 5:00 pm	Business Meeting (Pyle, 111)

Tuesday, 6 August

12:30 pm – 2:00 pm

Posters (Session 33 – Pyle, Main Dining Room-Lower Level & 109-Lee Lounge)

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Pteridologal Section, BSA

See AFS

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Systematics Section, BSA

See ASPT

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Teaching Section, BSA

Monday, 5 August

1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Symposium: Restoration of major plant ecosystems in the USA: Physiological research and teaching opportunities (Session 10 – Pyle, 335-McInerney Room)

Tuesday, 6 August

8:00 am – 11:30 am	Papers: Strategies for teaching and learning (Session 23 – Pyle, 225)
11:30 am – 12:30 pm	Business Meeting and Luncheon (Pyle, 225)
12:30 pm – 2:00 pm	Posters (Session 33 – Pyle, Main Dining Room-Lower Level & 109-Lee Lounge)

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Tropical Biology Section, BSA

Tuesday, 6 August

8:00 am – 9:00 am	Papers (Session 24 – Pyle, 226)
9:30 am – 10:00 am	Business Meeting (Pyle, 226)
12:30 pm – 2:00 pm	Posters (Session 33 – Pyle, Main Dining Room-Lower Level & 109-Lee Lounge)

Wednesday, 7 August

8:20 am – 11:45 am	Symposium: Tropical intercontinental disjunctions: Gondwana break-up, immigration from the boreotropics, and transoceanic dispersal, Part I (Session 47 – Historical, Auditorium)
1:15 pm – 5:00 pm	Symposium: Tropical intercontinental disjunctions: Gondwana break-up, immigration from the boreotropics, and transoceanic dispersal, Part II (Session 61 – Historical, Auditorium)

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Canadian Botanical Association / L’Association Botanique du Canada (CBA/ABC)

Also see BSA disciplinary Sections for contributed paper and poster sessions.

Sunday, 4 August

3:00 pm – 5:00 pm	Outgoing Directors’ Meeting (Pyle, 320)
5:30 pm – 7:00 pm	Canadian Journal of Botany Editorial Board Meeting (Pyle, 320)
7:30 pm – 8:30 pm	Plenary Lecture (Memorial Union, Theatre)
8:30 pm – 10:00 pm	All Society Mixer (Memorial Union, Tripp Commons)

Monday, 5 August

7:00 am – 8:30 am	Canadian Graduate Student Breakfast (Ticketed Event) (Pyle, 112)
8:00 am – 11:30 am	Plenary Symposium: Evolution: Highlighting plants (Session 1 – Historical, Auditorium)
1:30 pm – 5:00 pm	Symposium: Generating diversity: The link between developmental morphology and phylogeny (Session 15 – Historical, Auditorium)
5:30 pm – 6:30 pm	Ecology Section Business Meeting (Pyle, 220)
6:30 pm – 7:00 pm	Structure and Development Section Business Meeting (Pyle, 320)
7:00 pm – 8:00 pm	Discussion Session – Uses of nuclear ribosomal RNA repeats, ITS2 sequences (Session 21 – Pyle, 335-McInerney Room)

Tuesday, 6 August

11:45 am – 12:45 pm	Luncheon (Ticketed Event) (Pyle, 106-Ameritech Lounge)
12:30 pm – 2:00 pm	Posters (Session 33 – Pyle, Main Dining Room-Lower Level & 109-Lee Lounge)
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm	Special Lecture: Peter Raven (Session 34 – Historical Auditorium)
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm	Discussion Session – Forensic botany (Session 39 – Pyle, 335-McInerney Room)
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm	Conservation Committee Business Meeting (Pyle, 320)
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm	Teaching Section Business Meeting (Pyle, 220)
5:00 pm – 7:00 pm	Meet the Botanical Artists Reception (Pyle, Ameritech Lounge)

Wednesday, 7 August

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm	Systematics and Phytogeography Section Business Meeting (Pyle, 220)
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm	Mycology Section Business Meeting (Pyle, 320)
4:30 pm – 5:30 pm	Annual General Meeting (Pyle, 225)
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm	Mixer (Memorial Union, Tripp Deck)
7:00 pm – 9:30 pm	Banquet – Banquet for all Botanists (Ticketed Event) (Memorial Union, Great Hall)
9:30 pm – 11:30 pm	All-Conference Social (Memorial Union, Lakeside Cafeteria)

Thursday, 8 August

7:30 am – 9:00 am

Incoming Directors’ Breakfast and Business Meeting (Pyle, 220)

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Phycological Society of America (PSA)

Saturday, 3 August

12:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Board of Trustees Meeting (Pyle, 320)

Sunday, 4 August

8:30 am – 6:00 pm	Executive Committee and Board of Trustees Meeting (Lowell, B1-B)
7:30 pm – 8:30 pm	Plenary Lecture (Memorial Union, Theatre)
8:30 pm – 10:00 pm	All Society Mixer (Memorial Union, Tripp Commons)

Monday, 5 August

8:00 am – 11:30 am	Plenary Symposium: Evolution: Highlighting plants (Session 1 – Historical, Auditorium)
11:30 pm – 1:00 pm	Journal of Phycology Editorial Board Luncheon (Pyle, 320)
1:00 pm – 4:45 pm	Papers: Bold student award session (Session 14 – Pyle, 325/326)
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm	Special Lecture: Sylvia Earle (Session 20 – Pyle, 325/326)
7:00 pm – 10:00 pm	Social and Auction (Pyle, 106-Ameritech Lounge)
7:00 pm – 8:00 pm	Discussion Session – Uses of nuclear ribosomal RNA repeats, ITS2 sequences (Session 21 – Pyle, 335-McInerney Room)

Tuesday, 6 August

8:15 am – 12:00 pm	Symposium: Green algal conquests of the land: Many conquests, one victory? (Session 25 – Historical, Auditorium)
8:30 am – 12:00 pm	Papers: Algal ecology (Session 31 – Humanities, 1111)
12:30 pm – 2:00 pm	Posters (Session 33 – Pyle, Main Dining Room-Lower Level & 109-Lee Lounge)
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm	Special Lecture: Peter Raven (Session 34 – Historical Auditorium)
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm	Discussion Session – Forensic botany (Session 39 – Pyle, 235)
3:15 pm – 5:00 pm	Papers: Algal cell biology and physiology (Session 40 – Humanities, 1131)
3:15 pm – 5:00 pm	Papers: Harmful and invasive algae (Session 41 – Humanities, 1111)
5:00 pm – 7:00 pm	Meet the Botanical Artists Reception (Pyle, Ameritech Lounge)
6:00 pm – 10:00 pm	Banquet (Ticketed Event) (Memorial Union, Tripp Commons)

Wednesday, 7 August

8:30 am – 12:00 pm	Papers: Molecular phylogeny and organelle evolution in micro-algae (Session 50 – Pyle, 313)
9:00 am – 12:00 pm	Symposium: Mycosporines: Detection methodologies and assessment (Session 52 – Pyle, 121-VandeBerg Auditorium)
1:00 pm – 3:45 pm	Papers: Molecular phylogeny in macro-algae (Session 60 – Pyle, 313)
4:00 pm – 6:00 pm	Business Meeting (Pyle, 313)
9:30 pm – 11:30 pm	All-Conference Social (Memorial Union, Lakeside Cafeteria)

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