8th Annual October Astrophysics Conference in Maryland

      Accretion Processes in Astrophysical Systems: Some Like It Hot

                            October 13-15, 1997
                          College Park,  Maryland

Dear Registrant:

	The conference is only four weeks away.  This notice is meant to 
provide you with a few last minute reminders.

	First some new information.  If you have prepared a poster, upon 
your arrival at the registration desk you will be provided with the 
NUMBER of your poster and the location where it will be hung.  Some time 
will be set aside to provide ALL registrants with the opportunity to 
orally advertise ONE poster for ONE minute with ONE viewgraph, which will 
be presented serially in numerical order in the relevant sessions, with no 
introductions, discussion or applause between the one-minute 
advertisements.  

	Please remember to make your room reservations if you  haven't 
already done so -- room blocks are being held for us only until September 
20, although some rooms might be available afterward on a first-come, 
first-served basis.   Hotel information (and lots of other information, 
including poster dimensions) can be found at the conference website: 
http://www.astro.umd.edu/october/1997.html

	Registration will begin at 7:30 AM on October 13 at the 
Conference Center.  If you are not staying at Conference Center, please 
check the shuttle bus schedules at the Holiday Inn and the Quality Inn 
when you arrive.

	This is the first of several reminders that you will receive that 
the deadline for manuscripts to be received by the editors is December 
15, 1997.  Please take these reminders seriously.  All the style 
instructions will be posted on the conference website within the next
week.

						Steve Holt