| SUNDAY, 6 JANUARY 2008 | |||
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| NASA Center for Astronomy Education Workshop | AstroZone: Austin | 2008 NSF Astronomy & Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowships | |
| MONDAY, 7 JANUARY 2008 | |||
| NASA Center for Astronomy Education Workshop | 2008 NSF Astronomy & Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowships | Speaker Ready Room | Registration |
| Educator Reception | Undergraduate Orientation | Opening Reception | |
| Sessions Listed for Monday January 7, 2008 | |||
| TUESDAY-FRIDAY, 8-11 JANUARY 2008 | |||
| Registration | Cyber Cafe | Speaker Ready Room | Job Center |
| TUESDAY, 8 JANUARY 2008 | |||
| Opening Remarks: The Honorable Lieutenant Governor William Hobby | |||
| Invited Talk: The Search for Extrasolar Earths, James Kasting (Pennsylvania State University) | |||
| Going Deep: Results and Future Prospects with HST | HAD I: The International Geophysical Year and the Dawn of Space-Based Astronomy | ||
| Invited Talk: NASA: The View from the Top- Michael Griffin, (NASA HQ) | |||
| NASA Town Hall | HAD Business Meeting | Survey of Scientific Use of the Radio Spectrum | |
| New Surveys of the Taurus Molecular Cloud | HAD II: Astronomy at the Time of Jamestown and Its Role in the Exploration of America | ||
| Invited Talk: New Horizons at Jupiter, S. Alan Stern (NASA-HQ) | |||
| Helen B. Warner Prize Lecture for Astronomy: Exoplanets: Interiors, Atmospheres, and the Search for Habitable Worlds- Sara Seager (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) | |||
| LeRoy E. Doggett Prize Lecture for Historical Astronomy: Astronomy and its History on the Nation's Mall- David H. DeVorkin (Smithsonian Institution National Air and Space Museum) | |||
| AAAC Taskforce | |||
| Sessions Listed for Tuesday January 8, 2008 | |||
| WEDNESDAY, 9 JANUARY 2008 | |||
| Invited Talk: Survey of VLBI Astrometry, Mark J. Reid (Harvard-Smithsonian, CfA) | |||
| Probing Stars and Their Environs by Interferometry | What does it take to land a job anyway? | ||
| Henry Norris Russell Prize Lectureship: A Half-Century of Spectroscoptic Astrophysics- David L. Lambert (McDonald Observatory) | |||
| NSF Town Hall | JWST Technology Town Hall | Committee on the Status of Women in Astronomy | |
| Ground-based Gravitational Wave Astronomy | |||
| Invited Talk: Astronomy and Astrophysics 2010: A New Survey of the Field - Board on Physics and Astronomy and the Space Studies Board of the National Research Council | Invited Talks: Cultural Perspectives- Edward W. Kolb (University of Chicago) and Simon White, (MPI fur Astrophysik, Germany) | ||
| Invited Talk: AIP Andrew Germant Award Lecture- From the West Wing to Pink Floyd to Einstein Advertising: Astronomy in Popular Culture-Andrew Fraknoi (Foothill College and ASP) | |||
| Evening with IOP | Spitzer Warm Mission Science Opportunities | ||
| Sessions Listed for Wednesday January 9, 2008 | |||
| THURSDAY, 10 JANUARY 2008 | |||
| Invited Talk: Evolution of Disk Galaxies: Emerging Insights and Future Challenges, Shardha Jogee (University of Texas) | |||
| DDA: The Dynamics of Astrophysical Disks | Frontiers of Astronomy with Large Radio Telescopes | ||
| Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics: Star Formation in the Cosmological Context- Robert Kennicutt, (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom) | |||
| NOAO Town Hall Meeting | National Radio Astronomy Observatory Town Hall | HEAD Business Meeting | |
| HEAD I: Outbursts from Supermassive Black Holes | Present and future wide field submillimeter survey | ||
| Invited Talk: Emerging Principles of Galaxy Formation- Sandra M. Faber (UC - Santa Cruz) | |||
| Bruno Rossi Prize Lecture: Gamma Ray Burst Discoveries with the Swift Mission Neil Gehrels (NASA's GSFC) | |||
| Graduate Student Networking Event | Society Banquet | International Year of Astronomy | McCray Committtee on the Future of Radio |
| Sessions Listed for Thursday January 10, 2008 | |||
| FRIDAY, 11 JANUARY 2008 | |||
| Invited Talk: Star Formation Histories in the Andromeda Galaxy-Thomas M. Brown (STScI) | |||
| Early Science with the Square Kilometer Array | HEAD II: Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays | ||
| Invited Talk: Searching for the Secrets of Massive Star Birth- Crystal Brogan (NRAO) | |||
| Graduate Opportunities in Europe | How NSF Works | ||
| Sessions Listed for Friday January 11, 2008 | |||
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