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AAS 211th Meeting — Austin, TX Block Schedule

SUNDAY, 6 JANUARY 2008
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