Forthcoming meetings

Meetings i am likely to attend are
1. ACRSICON 2010 at Jaipur 24th - 26th Sept'2010
2. IASG 2010 at Hyderabad 7th to 9th Oct'2010
3. ASICON 2010 at Delhi in Dec'2010

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