Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 13:11:09 -0500 (EST)
Subject: CSWA Newsletter of 5/24/2000
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AAS Committee on the Status of Women
weekly issues of 5/24/2000, ed. by Priscilla Benson
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This week's issues:
CSWA in Rochester
2. A Call for Positive Action for Female representation
3. Reception at the New Hayden Planetarium
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1. CSWA in Rochester
From: cmustsci.edu
The meeting of the Committee on the Status of Women in
Astronomy will be held on Thursday, June 8, 1-2 pm, in
Highland C/H at the AAS meeting in Rochester. We will have
an open discussion on the status of women in astronomy and
the CSWA's role. Incoming AAS President Anneila Sargent,
Secretary-Treasurer Arlo Landolt, Councilor John Huchra, and
other AAS officials will be there to talk about their views
of the committee, its function, its importance, and how the
AAS executives and council will work with the CSWA to move
forward. The meeting will be chaired by Meg Urry.
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2. A Call for Positive Action for Female representation
We can all find statistics showing the women are
underrepresented as conference speakers, editors, etc, but
we may need to more than point out these discrepancies! I
have been informed that one reason there are no women
editors of ApJ is that the last time there was an opening
for new ApJ adjectival editors, there were NO women
volunteers in the fields that had been requested. AAS
council chooses invited speakers for meetings from prize
winners and nominations. If no women are nominated, there
will be no women speakers. Watch for the call for
nominations for these positions in the AAS Newsletter, and
then nominate a woman you know!
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3. Reception at the New Hayden Planetarium
From: Charles Liu cliuastro.columbia.edu
Hello! On behalf of the Department of Astrophysics at the
American Museum of Natural History, I am pleased to invite
every astronomer who will be in the metropolitan New York
area on Tuesday, May 30, 6:30pm, to a FREE RECEPTION at the
newly reopened Hayden Planetarium and Rose Center for Earth
and Space.
All faculty, postdocs, graduate students and astronomy
under-graduates are welcome. Wine, cheese and light dinner
fare will be served, and an exclusive showing of the new
space show plus astrophysical visualizations will be
presented for all attendees in the new planetarium theater.
Even if you don't live in the Metro NY/NJ/CT area, as long
as you're in town that evening, you are more than welcome.
This event is being held in conjunction with a conference on
Stellar Collisions, Mergers and their Consequences being
held at AMNH that week - but you need not be a conference
attendee to come to the reception.
I especially wanted to announce this event in this forum
because I'd really like to have as strong a representation
as possible from us readers of aaswomen. (The museum, by
the way, is going all out to promote this event -- local and
regional journalists (TV and print) have been invited en
masse.) The new planetarium and Rose Center can accommodate
over 3,000 people at a time, so don't worry about
overcrowding...
Again, this is a COMPLETELY FREE EVENT, set up specially for
astronomers. Please spread the word! We need a head count,
so please go to this website:
http://research.amnh.org/astrophysics/Reception2000/
Or, email Rachel Kooney (kooneyamnh.org), our department
administrator. For more information about the conference,
please see the URL http://www.amnh.org/rose/stellar; if you
have any questions at all please don't hesitate to contact
me. Hope to see you there.
Many thanks,
Charles Liu
cliuamnh.org or cliuastro.columbia.edu
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End of CSWA Newsletter of 5/24/2000