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PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE 

Prize Lectures and Invited Talks are presented during unparalleled time slots. Invited Speakers will receive specialized abstract submission instructions. 

The Special and Topical Sessions included in this schedule are being organized by AAS Members and were approved by AAS Vice-Presidents. Speakers for these sessions have been selected and will receive abstract submission instructions. If additional contributed papers are accepted it is noted in the session descriptions found online. 

Additional Sessions will be added to the Meeting Schedule based on contributed papers. Abstracts for contributed presentations, both oral and poster are due 9:00pm EST, Thursday, 23 March 2006 (No exceptions, this is a strict deadline.) 

We are always looking for DC area volunteers to help sort papers. If you are interested contact sorters@aas.org

SATURDAY-SUNDAY 3-4 June

The NASA Center for Astronomy Education (CAE) Teaching Excellence Workshop

   

SUNDAY 4 June 

Astro 101 

Undergraduate Orientation 

Opening Reception 

MONDAY-THURSDAY 5-8 June 

Cyber Café 

   

MONDAY 5 June 

Opening Remarks 

   

Invited Talk, Henry Norris Russell Lectureship: Bohdan Paczynski (Princeton University Observatory) 

Organic Compounds: from Stars to the Solar System 

Canadian Women Astronomers: Their Status & Science 

Improving Astronomy Education with Virtual Support 

Invited Talk: Michael Perryman (ESA-ESTEC) 

Cool Astronomy

Imaging Star Formation in the Cosmos with ALMA

 

Invited Talk:  Luminous Infrared Galaxies with the Submillimeter Array:  Probing the  Extremes of Star Formation, Christine Wilson (McMaster University) 

Invited Talk, Hale Prize: Peter A. Gilman, HAO/NCAR 

TUESDAY 6 June 

First Results from the Suzaku X-ray Mission 

Short-Period Binaries 

Warm-hot Gas in and around Disk Galaxies 

JWST Town Hall

   

Graduate Student Networking 

   

WEDNESDAY 7 June 

Dust and Gas Interplay in Supernova Remnants 

Dark Energy Now and in the Future 

NSF Astronomy Division Senior Review Outcome 

AAS Members Meeting 

 

 

Banquet 

   

THURSDAY 8 June 

Invited Talk: Scott Ransom (NRAO) 

Large Scale Structure in the SDSS 

Workshop on Balloon Science 

 

Invited Talk: Laura Ferrarese ( NRC, Canada)

Future Large Ground-Based Telescopes