<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV class="Section1"><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy; color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; ">-------------------------------------------------------------------------------</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></P><DIV><FONT size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy; color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">On October 31, MIT will be hosting an energy-related forum with RPSEA (Research Partnership to Secure Energy for America) and Schlumberger. RPSEA has a major research award from the DoE to fund research at various universities, and in industry.</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "> </SPAN></SPAN></FONT><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; ">Please feel free to attend any part of the program; there is no charge. We ask that you pre-register so we know how many to expect – please do so at the Registration page of the Forum website</SPAN><FONT color="navy"><SPAN style="color:navy; color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; ">: </SPAN></SPAN></FONT><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "> </SPAN><A href="https://seagrantdev.mit.edu/RPSEA/register.php" title="https://seagrantdev.mit.edu/RPSEA/register.php"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; ">https://seagrantdev.mit.edu/RPSEA/register.php</SPAN></A><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "> </SPAN></SPAN></FONT></P><DIV><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "> </SPAN></SPAN></FONT><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="text-align: center; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; text-align: center; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; text-align: center; "> </SPAN></SPAN></FONT><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><P class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; text-align: center; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; text-align: center; ">Tuesday 31 October 2006</SPAN><BR style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; text-align: center; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; text-align: center; ">9:30 am to 3:30 pm</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; text-align: center; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; text-align: center; ">Bartos Theater, Bldg. E15</SPAN><BR style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; text-align: center; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; text-align: center; ">Massachusetts Institute of Technology</SPAN><BR style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; text-align: center; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; text-align: center; ">Cambridge MA</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></P><DIV style="text-align: center; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "><FONT size="3" face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: center; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: center; "> </SPAN></SPAN></FONT><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><P class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "><FONT size="3" face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="font-size:12.0pt; 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font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10.6667px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10.6667px; ">77 Massachusetts Avenue, E38-300</SPAN><BR style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10.6667px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10.6667px; ">Cambridge, MA 02139</SPAN><BR style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10.6667px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10.6667px; ">(617) 253-9305<FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Helvetica" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin-bottom:12.0pt; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; "><FONT size="1" color="navy"><SPAN style="font-size:8.0pt;color:navy; color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10.6667px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10.6667px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Helvetica" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">"Katharine de Zengotita" <<A href="mailto:kdez@MIT.EDU">kdez@MIT.EDU</A>></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV></DIV></SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML>