Sent on behalf of Michael Dempsey: The Friends of the Colorado School of Mines Geology museum, the Friends of Mineralogy, Colorado Chapter and the Denver Region Exploration Geologists invite interested professionals, amateurs and students to participate in the Second Eugene Foord Pegmatite Symposium in Golden, Colorado. There will be two full days of talks, July 15-17, followed by two days of field trips. The symposium convening committee is interested in presentations on the pegmatite geology and mineralogy in the Four Corners region as well as world-wide occurrences, pegmatite genesis, pegmatite mineralogy - geochemistry, structure and crystallography, and pegmatite mining histories. We invite talks for 30 minute time slots (20-25 minutes presentation, 10-5 minute questions). We prefer powerpoint presentations but can accommodate 35 millimeter slide presentations (80 slide carousels). Posters are also invited for presentation using the Geological Society of American standards (4' x 8' or 46-1/8" high by 94-3/4"wide or 117cm x 240 cm). The technical level of the presentations is encouraged to appeal to both professionals and interested laymen. We will be providing the sound system and both wireless (lapel, hand-held or headset) and wired microphone as well as a wireless computer slide advancer. Presentation and poster titles should be submitted by February 10, 2015. Abstracts or extended abstracts with or without pictures should be submitted by May 15, 2015. Digital submittal in word format may be by mail, email or via a website to be provided later. If oral presentation slots are oversubscribed, presenters will be given the option of a poster session. Registration forms and fee schedule to be posted to the symposium website and facebook page. Michael P. Dempsey Geologist / Gemologist 536 Canyon View Drive Golden, CO  80403 303-279-4075  David London Stubbman-Drace Presidential Professor, Norman R. Gelphman Professor of Geology, and Director, Electron Microprobe Laboratory School of Geology & Geophysics, University of Oklahoma 100 East Boyd Street, Room 710 Sarkeys Energy Center Norman, Oklahoma 73019 Electron Microprobe Laboratory: http://ors.ou.edu/Microprobe/OUEMPLhome.html (405) 325 3253 (o) (405) 325 3140 (f)