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line[2]="The seminar is entitled, 'Silicon Challenges Quartz: ..."
line[3]="Precision Self-Referenced Solid-State Oscillators for Frequency Control and Generation.'"
line[4]="A link to the announcement will be available shortly."
line[5]="Dec. 3, 2009: Michael will be moderating a plenary panel at the annual NSF ERC meeting in DC."
line[6]="The panel is entitled, 'Growing Innovative Engineers.'"
line[7]="For more information, click 'NEWS' to navigate to www.erc-assoc.org."
line[8]="Feb. 1-4, 2010: Michael will be presenting a paper at DesignCon 2010 in Santa Clara, CA."
line[9]="The paper is entitled, 'Current & Future Trends in Frequency Generation, ..."
line[10]="and Applicable Jitter and Link Performance Analysis with Real-Time and Sampling Oscilloscopes.'"
line[11]="For more information, click 'NEWS' to navigate to www.designcon.com."

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