WEDNESDAY, 12 January
  Invited Talks are in Town and Country, Poster Sessions in the Exhibit Hall
Room Town and Country Golden Ballroom  California  Pacific 2/3  Royal Palm
1-3 
Royal Palm
4-6 
Pacific
Salon 1 
Sunrise Pacific 6/7
7:30 Speaker Ready Room, 7:30am-5pm, Pacific Salon 4. Drop-off Zip-disk or CD for LCD/Computer talks.
8:00 Registration 8:00am-5:00pm, Atlas Foyer
8:30 Invited Session 90 Rossi Prize Lecture: Perspectives of the Chandra X-ray Observatory, M.C. Weisskopf (NASA/MSFC)and H. Tananbaum (SAO),  8:30-9:20am, Town and Country
9:20 Job Center, 9:20am-5:00pm, Stratford 
  Cyber Café, 9:20am-6:30pm, Terrace 2 
  Gadgets and Gizmos, 9:20am-TBA, Terrace 3  
  Coffee Break, Exhibits & Poster Sessions, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall 
91 Surveys and Catalogs, 92 Ellipticals and Early Types, 93 Dwarf Galaxies, 94 From Protogalaxies to Large Surveys: Tracing the Galaxy Evolution, 95 Technology in Astronomy Education, 96 Astronomy Education: K-12, 97 Communicating Astronomy, 98 High Mass Star Formation and Deeply Embedded Star Formation, 99 The Extragalactic ISM, 100 Origins Probes, 101 SNR in the LMC, SMC and Andromeda Galaxy, 102 Neutron Stars, 103 White Dwarfs, 104 Black Holes, 105 Triggered Star Formation and the Orion Protostellar Population, 106 SNRs and Loops, 107 Binary Stars Including Theory and Activity, 108 LSST, 109 Surveys for Young Stars Down to the Brown Dwarf Limit, 110 Active Galaxies, 111 Radio Pulsars, 112 Astronomy Teaching Through Humanities, 113 Research with the Virtual Observatory, 114 Studies of Variable and Moving Objects with the SDSS, 115 SWIFT                                                                                                                  
10:00 Special Session 116 HEAD I: SWIFT  117 Star Formation, Embedded Young Stars and Their Disks  118 Activity in the Nuclei of Galaxies  119 Galaxy Clusters and Groups II  Special Session 120 Studies of Variable and Moving Objects with the SDSS  121 G-waves: Gamma Rays and Gravity  122 HI and Galactic Disks  123 Matter on the Largest Scales  Special Session 124 Astronomy Teaching through Humanities: Poetry, Fiction, the Visual Arts and More
11:30 Break 11:30-11:40am
11:40 Invited Session 125 Science Results from the Mars Exploration Rover Mission,  S.W. Squyres (Cornell University), Athena Science Team, 11:40am-12:30pm, Town and Country 
12:30 Lunch Break 12:30-2:00pm 
1:00 HEAD Business Meeting
1-2pm
NSF Town Meeting,
1-2pm
   
2:00 Special Session 126 HEAD II: High Energy Astrophysics and the NASA Roadmap  127 Circumstellar Disks and the Origin of the Solar System  128 The Buildup of Galaxy Disks - Star Formation History  129 Absorptions and The Intergalactic Medium  Special Session Session 130 Astronomical Research with the Virtual Observatory  131 The Deep Dark Universe  132 Astronomy in the K-12 Classroom     
3:30 Break 3:30-3:40pm
3:40 Invited Session 133 Cosmology with Large-Area Surveys, 3:40-5:10pm, Town and Country,
What Can We Learn From Galaxy Clustering?, D. H. Weinberg (Ohio State University) and
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, P.A. Pinto (Steward Observatory, University of Arizona)
5:10 Cocktails 5:10-6:30pm, Exhibits and Poster Sessions, Exhibit Hall
7:15 Society Banquet, 7:15pm, Golden Ballroom 
Room Town and Country Golden Ballroom  California  Pacific 2/3  Royal Palm
1-3 
Royal Palm
4-6 
Pacific
Salon 1 
Sunrise Pacific 6/7