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face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">We are happy to announce a
one day EICUG workshop on tracking and silicon detector
development, which will be hosted by the University of
Virginia (UVa) on July 24<sup>th</sup><span> </span>2018.<span></span></font></p>
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style="font-size:12pt">Workshop Website:<span> </span></span><a
href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__indico.cern.ch_event_722363_&d=DwMFaQ&c=lz9TcOasaINaaC3U7FbMev2lsutwpI4--09aP8Lu18s&r=Rqsuco_YGup4VXZxaxcYOw&m=o9xdT3Y6DD_Q8w6yFHMq0oURb3WWBlPSrGa6D7kFuME&s=34RFNFJaF9IPpsaupXimvsv8BO2UsUT3fsa7qKV70UI&e="
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size="4">https://indico.cern.<wbr>ch/event/722363/</font></span></a><span
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face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The main goal of this
workshop is to discuss tracking and silicon detector ideas
which could be suitable for an EIC facility, but have not been
considered by the wider EICUG and are not officially supported
by EIC R&D funds.<span> </span><span> </span><span></span></font></p>
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face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">A remote connection will
be made available, so if you cannot make the trip and join us
at UVa we strongly recommend that you connect remotely. The
connection details will be posted on the workshop website
shortly.<span></span></font></p>
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face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">If you do plan on being at
UVa for the workshop, we would ask you to please register
through the workshop website. There are no registration fees,
but we would like to get a head count of how many people will
be coming to the workshop in person.<span></span></font></p>
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face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">We will be posting the
workshop agenda, as well as travel information in the coming
weeks.<span></span></font></p>
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face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">We look forward to hearing
from everyone!<span></span></font></p>
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face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Sincerely,<span></span></font></p>
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face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Kondo Gnanvo, Laura
Gonella, and Matt Posik</font></p>
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