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%%% Titel
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    {\sc \Huge Annual Math Department Holiday Party}\\[10mm]
    {\Large 5-8pm Friday, December 22, 2006\\[7.5mm]
    Van Vleck Hall, UW-Madison }
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\vspace{1.25cm}

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paper here... This is your abstract of this poster or just put your
abstract of your paper here... This is your abstract of this poster or
just put your abstract of your paper here... This is your abstract of
this poster or just put your abstract of your paper here... This is
your abstract of this poster or just put your abstract of your paper
here... This is your abstract of this poster or just put your abstract
of your paper here... This is your abstract of this poster or just put
your abstract of your paper here...



%%% Primo Piatti
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}
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%%% Segundo Piatti
\begin{center}\pbox{0.8\textwidth}{}{linewidth=2mm,framearc=0.1,linecolor=lightblue,fillstyle=gradient,gradangle=0,gradbegin=white,gradend=whiteblue,gradmidpoint=1.0,framesep=1em}{\begin{center}Segundo Piatti\end{center}}\end{center}
\vspace{1.25cm}

This is your abstract of this poster or just put your abstract of your
paper here... This is your abstract of this poster or just put your
abstract of your paper here... This is your abstract of this poster or
just put your abstract of your paper here... This is your abstract of
this poster or just put your abstract of your paper here... This is
your abstract of this poster or just put your abstract of your paper
here... This is your abstract of this poster or just put your abstract
of your paper here... This is your abstract of this poster or just put
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%%% Dolci
\vspace{2cm}\begin{center}\pbox{0.8\textwidth}{}{linewidth=2mm,framearc=0.1,linecolor=lightblue,fillstyle=gradient,gradangle=0,gradbegin=white,gradend=whiteblue,gradmidpoint=1.0,framesep=1em}{\begin{center}Dolci\end{center}}\end{center}\vspace{1.25cm}

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}
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