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Hoda Rashedi receives top prize for poster paper at IAU Symposium 297 “The Diffuse Interstellar Bands”.

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Hoda Rashedi (photo) won one of two top prizes for poster papers (“Best Talent” award) at the IAU Symposium #297, “The Diffuse Interstellar Bands”, which was held in Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands, from May 20-24, 2013.

Hoda’s poster paper was titled “Relating diffuse interstellar band strengths to line of sight properties”.

Jan Cami was one of three co-organizers and co-Chairs for this conference.

Also attending from Western and presenting an invited talk was Els Peeters, while contributed talks were given by Neil Bhatt, Elisabetta Micelotta and Jan Cami.