Recent Events & Courses

SPRING 2008 CIPS SEMINAR SERIES
Organizer: Mate Adamkovics

• January 23 : Alyssa Sarid, UC Berkeley, EPS
  "The Dynamics of Europa as Inferred From Tidally-Driven Fractures"
• February 6 : Paul Kalas , UC Berkeley, Dept. of Astronomy
  "A renaissance in imaging circumstellar debris disks with HST"
• February 13- Joint with Theory Lunch: Burkhard Militzer, UC Berkeley, EPS
  "Planetary Science with a Handful of Atoms"
• February 27 : Elena Adams, University of Michigan
  "How Titan got his cloak: Saturn's moon and the origin of its nitrogen atmosphere"
• March 5 : John T. Clarke, Boston University
  "Topics of interest to people who study giant planets at large distances"
• March 12- Joint with Theory Lunch : Rory Barnes, University of Arizona
• March 19 : Geoff Marcy
  "Other Earths: Formation, Structure, and Detection"
• April 2-Joint with Theory Lunch : Ruth Murray-Clay, UC Berkeley
  "Two Problems in Planet Formation: the Kuiper Belt and Hot Jupiters "
• April 16: Maegan Spencer, Stanford University
  "Detecting extraterrestrial organic compounds in aerogel-capture hypervelocity particles"
• April 23: Justin Simon, Dept. of Earth & Planetary Science, UC Berkeley
  "Al/Mg Isotope Evidence for the Formation of Refractory Inclusions in the Protoplanetary Disk—Time scales and Conditions of the Early Solar System" May 7:
• David Brain, Space Sciences Lab, UC Berkeley
  "Aurora in the lumpy magnetic fields of Mars"
• May 14: Xander Tielens, University of Gronigen & NASA Ames
  "Building planets one grain at a time"

12:00 noon- 1:00 pm
Campbell Hall #544

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COURSE OFFERING Spring 2008
Astro C12 / EPS C12/L&S C70T:
The Planets
Instructors: G. Marcy & M. Manga
TTh, 11am-12:30pm
4 LeConte

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JOINT ASTRONOMY / EARTH & PLANETARY SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM
21 February 2008
Bill Bottke , SWRI
""An Asteroid Breakup 160 My Ago as the Probable Source of the K-T Impactor""

Tea: 3:30pm, 661 Campbell Hall
Colloquium: 4:00 pm, 1 Le Conte Hall

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JOINT ASTRONOMY / EARTH & PLANETARY SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM
24 January 2008
Margaret Galland Kivelson, UCLA
"Auroras and related phenomena at moons and planets"

Tea: 3:30pm, 661 Campbell Hall
Colloquium: 4:00 pm, 1 Le Conte Hall

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JOINT ASTRONOMY / EARTH & PLANETARY SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM
29 November 2007
Dan Brownlee , University of Washington
"The origin of crystalline silicates around stars- new evidence from the Stardust comet sample return mission"

Tea: 3:30pm, 661 Campbell Hall
Colloquium: 4:00 pm, 1 Le Conte Hall

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FALL 2007 CIPS SEMINAR SERIES
Organizer: Mate Adamkovics

• September 4 : Imke de Pater, UC Berkeley, Dept. of Astronomy
  "Uranus RPX "
• September 12 : Geoff Marcy , UC Berkeley, Dept. of Astronomy
  "Origin of Planet Eccentricities "
• September 19 : Eugene Chiang , UC Berkeley, Dept. of Astronomy
  "Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities in protoplanetary disks"
• September 26: Greg Delory, UC Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory
  "Electrical Processes on Mars: New Sources and Sinks for Atmospheric Chemistry?"
• October 3 : Jerry Edelstein, UC Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory
  "Near-IR RV survey instrument 'TEDI'"
• October 17 : Jason Barnes , NASA Ames
  "Titan's Sand Dunes: Window to a New World"
• October 24 : James Roberts , UC Santa Cruz
  "Heating of Enceladus: Is there a subsurface ocean?"
• October 31 : Xylar Asay-Davis, UC Berkeley
  "DACIV: A Novel Method for Tracking Clouds in Planetary Atmospheres"
• November 7 : Eric Gaidos, University of Hawaii
  "Limnology, Geochemistry, and Biology of Icelandic Subglacial Lakes"
• November 14 : Phil Marcus , UC Berkeley, Dept. of Engineering
  "Building Planetesimals for Fun and Profit"
• November 21: Ruth Murray-Clay, UC Berkeley, Dept. of Astronomy
  "Atmospheric escape from Hot Jupiters
• November 28 : Rob Lillis, UC Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory
  "Electron reflectometry grab bag at Mars: dust storm effects in the
  thermosphere, magmatic intrusions and how the Dynamo may have died."
• December 5 : Speaker TBA
  Title: TBA

12:00 noon- 1:00 pm
McCone Hall #325

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JOINT ASTRONOMY / EARTH & PLANETARY SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM
13 September 2007
Eric Gaidos , University of Hawaii
"Dying Stars and Living Worlds: Short-lived Radionuclides and the Abundance of Planetary Water "

Tea: 3:30pm, 661 Campbell Hall
Colloquium: 4:00 pm, 2 Le Conte Hall

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COURSE OFFERING Fall 2007
Solar System Astrophysics
Undergraduate section: Astro C162 / EPS C162
TTh 2:30-4pm, 544 Campbell Hall

Instructor: Prof. Imke de Pater(Astronomy)

The physical foundations of planetary sciences. Topics include planetary interiors and surfaces, planetary atmospheres and magnetospheres, and smaller bodies in our solar system. The physical processes at work are developed in some detail. An evolutionary picture for our solar system and each class of objects, is developed. Some discussion of other (potential) planetary systems is also included.

For further detail on this course contact Prof. Imke de Pater.

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2007 SUMMER STUDY PROGRAM
Summer Small Spacecraft Study Program
Contact: Greg Delory, 510-643-1991
Space Sciences Laboratory

A student design exercise: defining next generation spacecraft and instrumentation for a small lunar orbiter mission.For more information on this opportunity, click here. Those interested in applying should contact Greg Delory

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SPECIAL JOINT EPS- ASTRONOMY SEMINAR
May 23 2007, 4pm
Bruce Buffett, University of Chicago
"Numerical Models of Planetary Dynamos: Dealing with the Challenge of Unresolved Turbulence"
Colloquium: 12 noon
544 Campbell Hall

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WORKSHOP
TITAN II WORKSHOP: TITAN AFTER CASSINI
A follow-up on the workshop "Titan: Pre-Cassini View", 17 Nov. 2003
Organizer: Imke de Pater , UC Berkeley / CIPS

May 15 - 16, 2007, 8:30am- 5:30pm
Space Sciences Laboratory, #105, University of California, Berkeley
Guest Speakers:

• Sushil Atreya, University of Michigan
  "The Methane Problem"
• Mike Flasar, NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center
  "Titan's Atmospheric Thermal Structure & Circulation"
• Bob West, NASA JPL
  "Hazes, aerosols, and DISR Results"
• Emily Schaller, Caltech
  "Seasonal Change in Titan's Clouds"
• Chris McKay, NASA Ames Research Center
  "Is Titan's Surface Active?"
• Mate Adamkovics, UC Berkeley / CIPS
  "Drizzle"
• Sonja Graves, NASA Ames Research Center
  Pop Up Talk: "Rain & Hail can Reach the Surface of Titan"
• Jason Barnes, NASA Ames Research Center
  "Titan's Surface in the Near-IR"
• Howard Zebker, Stanford University
  "Radar Measurements: Electrical Properties of Titan & Constraints on Surface Composition & Structure"
• Karl Mitchell, NASA JPL
  "Cassini Radar Observations of Titan's Surface"
• Veronique Vuitton, University of Arizona, Lunar & Plantary Laboratory
  "Upper Atmosphere Chemistry"
• Steve Ledvina , UC Berkeley -SSL / Steve Brecht, Bay Area Research Corp.
  "Magnetosphere Interactions "
• TBA
  "Status SDT, Cosmic Vision, Politics"
• Joe Pitman, Lockheed Martin
  "MIDAS"
• Ed Sittler, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
  "TOAMES"

JOINT ASTRONOMY / EARTH & PLANETARY SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM
22 March 2007
Josh Eisner, University of California, Berkeley
"Building Blocks of Planets Around Young Stars"

661 Campbell Hall Colloquium: 4:00 pm, 1 Le Conte Hall

Tea: 3:30pm, 661 Campbell Hall
Colloquium: 4:00 pm, 1 Le Conte Hall

Tea: 3:30pm, 661 Campbell Hall
Colloquium: 4:00 pm, 1 Le Conte Hall

Everything we understand to be alive depends on water. In this graduate seminar we will explore the details of how water can shape the environments of planets and how it relates to life. Starting from a molecular understanding of the unique properties of molecular water, we'll discuss to the roles of water in lithospheres, cryospheres, and atmospheres. Frequently speakers will present reviews of the literature as well as recent research, before leading a class discussion on the material.

Location: 544 Campbell Hall
Time: Wednesdays
Seminar: 12 noon - 1:00pm
Optional Discussion with Speaker: 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Those attending the optional discussion are asked to read assigned papers listed in the class syllabus

Guest speakers:
• January 24: Andrew Westphal, Space Sciences Lab, UC Berkeley
  "The Return of Stardust: the first samples from the Kuiper Belt and the Local Interstellar Medium"
• January 31: David O'Brien, Planetary Science Institute
  "The Delivery of Water from the Asteroid Belt During Terrestrial Planet Accretion"
• February 14: Ralph Milliken, JPL/ Caltech
  "The water content of the Martian surface as seen by the Mars Express OMEGA spectrometer"
• February 21: Michael Manga, Dept. of Astronomy, UC Berkeley
• February 28: Eugene Chiang, Dept. of Astronomy, UC Berkeley
• March 21: Jared Smith, Lawrence Berkeley Lab
  "What Makes Water Wet: An Overview of the Molecular Level Properties of Water"
• April 4: Chris McKay, NASA Ames
  "The Search for life on Mars"
• April 11: Amy Barr, Southwest Research Institute
  "Grain Size in Icy Satellites"
• April 25: Michael H. Wong, UC Berkeley
  "Water in the Outer Planets "

Image by Mate Adamkovics

The undergraduate and graduate sections will be held at different times. Class locations and times will be decided in the fall.

Instructor: Prof. Imke de Pater(Astronomy)

The physical foundations of planetary sciences. Topics include planetary interiors and surfaces, planetary atmospheres and magnetospheres, and smaller bodies in our solar system. The physical processes at work are developed in some detail. An evolutionary picture for our solar system and each class of objects, is developed. Some discussion of other (potential) planetary systems is also included.

For further detail on this course contact Prof. Imke de Pater .

Meeting time and location to be announced.

Instructors: Profs. Geoffrey Marcy (Astronomy) & Michael Manga (Earth & Planetary Science)

This class will provide a tour of the planets and moons of the solar system, and an introduction to their internal structures, atmospheres, and surface features. Processes that form planets and act continually to change them (e.g., earthquakes, volcanoes, giant impacts) are discussed, as are comets, asteroids, rings, and life. Information gained from recent spacecraft missions is highlighted. Intended for non science majors.

For further detail on this course contact Prof. Geoffrey Marcy .

Over the last decade, astronomers have discovered over 1000 icy, rocky objects beyond Neptune, including one larger than Pluto. What is known about this "Kuiper Belt" of bodies? What are its implications for the formation of our solar system? What connections can be drawn between our home and other planetary systems? We will describe the chain of scientific discoveries that have allowed us to address these questions for the first time, in addition to some of the politics underlying the demotion of Pluto from planetary status.

Monday, November 27, 2006
Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center
Lecture: 7:00 pm - 8:00pm, Reception following

For a campus map and parking tips, go to http://www.berkeley.edu/map/

• September 27 : Mike Wong, UC Berkeley, Dept. of Astronomy
  "Nitrogen on Jupiter- Clouds and Cosmochemistry"
• October 4 : Kevin Zahnle , NASA Ames Research Center
  "Earth after the Moon-forming impact "
• October 25 : Sarah Milkovich, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech
  "The South Polar Layered Deposits of Mars"
• November 1: Sean Raymond, University of Colorado- Boulder
  "Dynamics and Stability in Extra-solar Planetary Systems"
• November 8 : Wren Montgomery, UC Berkeley, EPS
  "Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
  Playing Twenty Questions with Exoplanets."
• November 15 : Devon Burr, SETI Institute, Center for the Study of Life in the Universe
  "Fluvial transport of sediment: an Earth-Mars-Titan comparison"
• November 29 : Emily Schaller, Caltech GPS
  "Seasonal Change in Titan's Cloud Activity"
• December 6 : Claire Newman, Caltech, GPS
  "Modeling Titan's atmosphere with a three-dimensional general circulation
  model"

12:00 noon- 1:00 pm
McCone Hall #325

Thursday, October 12, 2006
4:00 pm
141 McCone Hall

"The Terrestrial Planet Finder Coronagraph: Direct Imaging of
Extrasolar Earth-like Planets"

Speaker: Stuart Shaklan, Interferometry Engineering Group, Jet Propulsion Lab
Organizer: Dan Ceperley, EECS Dept,
Friday, October 13, 2006
11:00 - noon, Pizza provided
521 Cory Hall (Hogan Room)

TTh 11:00 a.m.-12:30 a.m.
2050 Valley LSB

Instructors: Profs. Geoffrey Marcy (Astronomy) & Michael Manga (Earth & Planetary Science)

This class will provide a tour of the planets and moons of the solar system, and an introduction to their internal structures, atmospheres, and surface features. Processes that form planets and act continually to change them (e.g., earthquakes, volcanoes, giant impacts) are discussed, as are comets, asteroids, rings, and life. Information gained from recent spacecraft missions is highlighted. Intended for non science majors.

For further detail on this course contact Prof. Geoffrey Marcy .

Tea: 3:30pm, 661 Campbell Hall
Colloquium: 4:00 pm, 1 Le Conte Hall

Tea: 3:30pm, 661 Campbell Hall
Colloquium: 4:00 pm, 1 Le Conte Hall

Tea: 3:30pm, 661 Campbell Hall
Colloquium: 4:00 pm, 1 Le Conte Hall

Tea: 3:30pm, 661 Campbell Hall
Colloquium: 4:00 pm, 1 Le Conte Hall

• December 12: Michael Manga, Dept. of Earth & Planetary Science
  "Water on Mars "
• November 7: Taylor Perron, Dept. of Earth & Planetary Science
  "Sediment transport and precipitation rates on Titan"
• December 12: Franck Marchis, Dept. of Astronomy
  "Orbits of multiple asteroidal systems"
• January 23: Sarah Zaranek, Dept. of Earth & Planetary Science "Convection and Composition in the Evolution of Planetary Interiors"
February 6 : Alison Skelley, Dept. of Chemistry
"Methods and microdevice instrumentation for in situ detection of bioorganic molecules on Mars "

• March 20 : Jason Wright, Dept. of Astronomy
  "Characterizing the Nearby Extrasolar Planets: 172 and counting..."
• April 17 : Eric Ford, Dept. of Astronomy
  "Evolving Theories of Planet Formation"

12:00pm - 1:00pm
Tan Hall #775

These monthly seminars are designed to encourage interdisciplinary interactions between graduate students, postdocs and junior faculty. The goal is to facilitate interdepartmental collaboration and synergistic research in planetary science.

Organizers: Mate Adamkovics (Astronomy) & Sarah Zaranek (EPS)

December 1, 2005: BayPAC Discussion
December 2, 2005: CIPS/ BayPAC Workshop
9:00am-5:00pm both days
#105 Space Science Lab, Addition Conference Room

Next January,  Stardust,  the first sample return mission from a planetary body since the 1970's, and the first ever from beyond the Moon, will return cometary and contemporary interstellar dust to terrestrial laboratories. These samples are effectively the first bona fide solid samples from the Kuiper Belt and from the Local Interstellar Medium.  They will be available for analysis to the entire scientific community.

The Bay Area Particle Analysis Consortium (BayPAC) and the Center for Integrative Planetary Science (CIPS) at U. C. Berkeley will host a joint workshop on the analysis of Stardust samples on Dec. 1-2.  The workshop will be held at the Space Sciences Laboratory at U. C. Berkeley.   The Bay Area Particle Analysis Consortium (BayPAC) was set up in 2003 to take advantage of the analytical facilities available at Lawrence Livermore and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories, Stanford and UC Berkeley.    On Dec. 1,  BayPAC will  host a discussion of  the full range of available analytical facilities with special emphasis on facilities in California.    On Dec. 2, we will have a joint CIPS/BayPAC workshop focused on the science that can be expected from analysis of the Stardust cometary and interstellar dust samples.

For a detailed agenda, click here

Organizers: Andrew Westphal (SSL) & Giles Graham (LLNL)

• Tom Ackerman, PNNL
  "A comprehensive review of ground-based measurements
• Tarek Zohdi, UC Berkeley"
  "Light scattering and coupled thermal processes in particulate clouds"
• Graham Feingold, NOAA ETL
  "Small-scale aerosol-cloud interactions"
• Surabi Menon, LBL
  "Global scale climate effects of aerosol-cloud interactions: Past and future changes"
• Chris McKay, NASA Ames
  "Transition from Earth to Titan, challenges and goals"
• Henry Roe, Caltech
  "Titan clouds"
• Mate Adamkovics, UC Berkeley
  "Titan's aerosol haze"

For a detailed agenda, click here.

Organizer: Mate Adamkovics

Mondays 5:00pm- 7:00pm
544 Campbell Hall

Instructors: Profs. Geoffrey Marcy & Eugene Chiang (Astronomy)

Topics to be covered include: observations of super-earths, formation scenarios, composition (rock, rock-ice, gaseous), equations of state, leading to observables, surface effects such as tectonics, seismology, and minerology, composition / retention/ cycling of atmospheres, internal energy/ transport/ thermodynamics/ tidal effects, detection techniques, and characterization by future observations.

For further detail on this course contact Prof. Geoffrey Marcy or Eugene Chiang. For class reading, go to: http://cips.berkeley.edu/events/superearths.html

Colloquium: 4:00 pm, 2 Le Conte Hall

More details can be found at http://www.ssl.berkeley.edu/fellowships.html

Daniel P. Lathrop , Dept. of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park
"Building Laboratory Models of Planetary Cores"

Colloquium: 4:00 pm, 3110 Etcheverry Hall
Host: Phil Marcus

Astro C12 / EPS C12 / L&S C70

TTh 8:00 a.m.-9:30 a.m.
Wheeler Auditorium

Instructors: Profs. Imke de Pater(Astronomy) & Raymond Jeanloz(Earth & Planetary Science)

This class will provide a tour of the planets and moons of the solar system, and an introduction to their internal structures, atmospheres, and surface features.Processes that form planets and act continually to change them (e.g., earthquakes, volcanoes, giant impacts) are discussed, as are comets, asteroids, rings, and life. Information gained from recent spacecraft missions is highlighted. Intended for non science majors.

For further detail on this course contact Prof. Imke de Pater.

Tea: 3:30pm, 661 Campbell Hall
Colloquium: 4:00 pm, 1 Le Conte Hall

Lecture: 5:45 pm, 1 Pimentel, Free Admission

Tea: 3:30pm, 661 Campbell Hall
Colloquium: 4:00 pm, 1 Le Conte Hall

Tea: 3:30pm, 661 Campbell Hall
Colloquium: 4:00 pm, 1 Le Conte Hall

Tea: 3:30pm, 661 Campbell Hall
Colloquium: 4:00 pm, 1 Le Conte Hall

Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, ME 267

5108 Etcheverry

Instructor: Profs. Philip Marcus

The first half of the course covers the essential physics of fluid dynamics under the influence of strong rotation and stratification. During the second half, we will examine the dynamics of large-scale flows in oceans and atmospheres, with special attention to: Gulf Stream, jets streams, Antarctic ozone hole, Jupiter's great red spot, other planetary flows, abrupt climate change, and star and planet formation in protoplanetary disks. The emphasis on each topic will depend upon student interest.

Conditions of high Reynolds number, large spatial scales, strong rotation, stratification, shallow aspect ratio and various combinations that often occur in atmospheres, oceans, planetary atmospheres, and astrophysics result in flow behavior that is qualitatively different from what is normally encountered in the laboratory. We shall derive the equations needed to describe these flows, including the quasigeostrophic, shallow-water, and anelastic equations, using a combination of physical intuition and rigorous asymptotic analysis. Topics such as Ekman dissipation, the thermal wind, geostrophy, Poincare, Kelvin and Rossby waves, resonant triads, Karman vortex streets, the beta-plane, potential vorticity, vortex dynamics, and nonlinear and baroclinic instabilities will be covered.

For further detail on this course, go to www.me.berkeley.edu/ME267/ or contact Prof. Philip Marcus.

COURSE OFFERING Fall 2004
Interdisciplinary course on Planetary Sciences (or Solar System Astrophysics)

Astro/ EPS 249
MWF 10:30am - 12:00pm
501 Campbell Hall

Instructors: Prof. Imke de Pater

Discussions in class are strongly encouraged; discussions are best if a variety of students with different backgrounds participate in the class. Topics may range from planetary atmospheres, to surface geology, interior structure and formationof our solar system (including meteorites, asteroids and comets). Topics depend a bit on students' interests.

Book: Planetary Sciences, by de Pater and Lissauer.

For further detail on this course, contact Imke de Pater.

401 McCone Hall

Instructors: Prof. Raymond Jeanloz

An examination of 7 classic papers that helped shape modern Earth and Planetary Science, this course is intended for graduate students from across the full breadth of the EPS Department.

For further detail on this course, contact Prof. Raymond Jeanloz.

JOINT ASTRONOMY / EARTH & PLANETARY SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM
28 October 2004
Bill McKinnon , Washington University, St. Louis
"Remarkable Moons: Structure and Evolution of the Galilean Satellites of Jupiter"

Tea: 3:30pm, 661 Campbell Hall
Colloquium: 4:00 pm, 2 Le Conte Hall

WORKSHOP
Europa: From Geophysics to Astrobiology
October 11, 2004
1:30pm-5:30pm
#105 Space Science Lab, Addition Conference Room

• Francis Nimmo , UCLA
  "Geophysical constraints on Europa's ice shell"
• Brad Dalton, NASA Ames,
  "Surface Composition of Europa"
• Sarah Rieboldt, UC Berkeley
  Pop-up talk: "A Search Strategy for Life on Europa"
• Kevin Hand, Stanford
  "The Chemistry of the Europan Surface and Putative Ocean Environments"
• Chris McKay, NASA Ames
  "Search for evidence of life on Europa's surface"
• Charles Cockell, British Antarctic Survey
  "Microbial exposures to UV radiation in icy environments and some questions about Europa"
• Michael Manga's Lab
  Pop-up talk: Research in Michael Manga's group
• Boris Rubinsky, UC Berkeley
  "Biology under extreme condition: cryogenic temperatures and hyperbaric pressures"

Organizer: Imke de Pater and Greg Delory.

JOINT ASTRONOMY / EARTH & PLANETARY SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM
16 September 2004
Yorum Lithwick , University of California, Berkeley
"Planet Formation: The Final Chapter"

Tea: 3:30pm, 661 Campbell Hall
Colloquium: 4:00 pm, 2 Le Conte Hall

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