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Exciting News! The NSERC Photovoltaic Innovation Network invites you to
join us in Montreal and Ottawa during the week of May 13 through 18, 2012
- for six interesting days filled with scientific presentations, discussions, posters, tours, and networking opportunities with the photovoltaics community.
May 13 is our private Annual Network Meeting
exclusively for our funded internal Network members and students in Montreal, Quebec.
May 14, and 15 is Next Generation Solar 2012 -
Photovoltaics Canada - Our Third National
Scientific Conference
at the
Coeur des Sciences at L'Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
. It is open to everyone and you can register online now at http://www.nextgenerationsolar.ca
.
Call for Abstracts ends April 22!
Following the conference, there will be tours of the new solar laboratory and facilities at Concordia University.
May 16, 17 and 18 is our First Canadian Photovoltaics Graduate School
which
aims to attract graduate students and postdoctoral fellows from across Canada to take part in an intensive three-day training event at the University of Ottawa.
Click on the Next Generation Solar logo above to learn more about all events and to register! See the "Other Events" tab. Registration closes May 8, 2012...
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Brand New Network BLOG...We invite you to follow our new blog at the following channel [http://nsercpvin.wordpress.com] and share your thoughts! Erik Janssen 
is our resident blogger and we also plan to invite guest bloggers to periodically contribute their various perspectives on timely solar ideas and issues.
Have you seen our YouTube Channel yet?!...We have close to 20 public videos for you to learn more about solar industry developments, policy, financing (government incentives), international perspectives, and the exchange experiences of our Network students. Check us out on the tube and subscribe at [http://www.youtube.com/pvinnovation].
Stories From Our Highly Qualified Personnel (HQP)....
We recently held a series of Network events in Ottawa: our Annual Network Meeting, Scientific Conference, and Industry Workshop. It was an exciting and educational experience that included scientific presentations, discussions, posters, tours, and networking opportunities within the photovoltaics community. Many of our HQP attended the events and were asked to share their experiences, including answers to three burning questions they had. Click on their pictures below to see what some of them have to say!
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Background:
The NSERC Photovoltaic Innovation Netw...