The Seattle Meeting days differ from the normal AAS Meeting format. AAPT Workshops begin on Friday, 5 January 2007. The Opening Reception will be held Saturday, 6 January 2007. Scientific sessions begin Sunday, 7 January 2007 and will end on Wednesday, 10 January 2007.
Invited talks will be held in joint AAS/AAPT plenary sessions. Registrants will have access to all AAS, HAD, HEAD and AAPT sessions. Additional registration fees are required for extra events such as Workshops and the Banquet.
The following award will be presented at the Banquet:
AAS Education Prize for 2006
Dr. Sidney Wolff, National Optical Astronomy Observatory
LCD projectors and computers will be available for use in all oral session rooms. Presentations are preloaded. You may NOT use your own disk or laptop; this will be strictly enforced. Please read the AV instructions to participate. Send questions to speakerready@aas.org or call Rick Matthews 703-573-6910, 703-569-6701.
Foreign meeting attendees need to apply for their visas as early as possible and no later than three months before the meeting. Visa processing information is posted on the National Academy’s International Visitors website: http://national-academies.org/visas.
The Cyber Cafe, will open Sunday, opening at the beginning of the morning coffee break and closing Wednesday after the evening poster sessions. In addition to computers, there will be open lines for your laptops. There will be an open area with wireless connectivity. Please be advised that users need to bring their own wireless cards and review the connection process with their system administrators. In order to provide continuous network connectivity to all of our attendees and exhibitors, we will ask you to adhere to the following rules.
The network will be monitored throughout the meeting and the AAS Staff reserves the right to disconnect any device that is causing overall network problems.
A Late Paper Schedule will be included in the Program Update distributed at the meeting. Late papers are scheduled as poster presentations on Wednesday, 10 January 2007 and published in a subsequent issue of the B.A.A.S.
Poster Presentations: Posters should fit within an approximate 44” x 44” square area. Please bring your own thumbtacks. Posters may be set up after 7:30am and must be removed by the end of the evening cocktail hour ~7:00pm. Posters left after these times will be discarded.
Oral Presentation: Five minutes are allowed for the normal oral presentation and three minutes for open discussion. Timing for other talks (Invited, Special, etc. ) are at the discretion of the Session Organizer.
Dissertation Abstracts: Dissertation Abstracts are oral presentations of 15 minutes plus a few minutes for discussion.
The Program booklet is mailed to all who register by the early registration deadline 2 November 2006 and will be distributed at the meeting.
In order to book the Convention Center for this meeting, the AAS had to contract for blocks of sleeping rooms in two area hotels. If we do not fill these blocks, financial penalties will be incurred. This ultimately impacts the health of the AAS and consequently registration fees.
Purchase orders are not accepted for payment of AAS meeting registration fees. Please use alternate methods of payment (credit card, check or money order).