Scientific Sessions Schedule

Sunday, 06 January 2008
Workshop
9:00 AM – 5:00 PM NASA Center for Astronomy Education Workshop
Splinter Meeting
1:00 PM – 7:00 PM 2008 NSF Astronomy & Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowships
Workshop
3:00 PM – 5:00 PM Astronomy Center Workshop
Monday, 07 January 2008
9:00 AM – 4:00 PM Career Workshop
9:00 AM – 5:00 PM NASA Center for Astronomy Education Workshop
Splinter Meeting
9:00 AM – 7:00 PM 2008 NSF Astronomy & Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowships
1:00 PM – 5:00 PM SOFIA Community Task Force Workshop - I
1:00 PM – 6:00 PM NASA's Student Collaboration Workshop
Tuesday, 08 January 2008
Opening Remarks
8:00 AM – 8:20 AM Opening Remarks
Invited Session
8:30 AM – 9:20 AM The Search for Extrasolar Earths
Poster
9:30 AM – 6:30 PM Binary Stellar Systems, X-ray Binaries
9:30 AM – 6:30 PM Blazars
9:30 AM – 6:30 PM Education Practice - Students K-12 and Teacher Professional Development
9:30 AM – 6:30 PM Education Practice - Undergraduate, Graduate and Beyond
9:30 AM – 6:30 PM Education Research and Results
9:30 AM – 6:30 PM Exploring the Dark
9:30 AM – 6:30 PM Galaxy Groups, Mergers, and Clusters
9:30 AM – 6:30 PM Gamma Ray Bursts
9:30 AM – 6:30 PM Instrumentation: Ground Based or Airborne
9:30 AM – 6:30 PM New Surveys of the Taurus Molecular Cloud
9:30 AM – 6:30 PM Structure and Dynamics of Galaxies
9:30 AM – 6:30 PM The Milky Way
9:30 AM – 6:30 PM White Dwarfs
Oral Session
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM Dwarf Galaxies
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM Gamma Ray Bursts & Black Holes
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM Special Session: Going Deep: Results and Future Prospects with HST
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM Special Session: HAD I: The International Geophysical Year and the Dawn of Space-Based Astronomy
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM RR Lyraes, Cephieds, and Variable Stars
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM Stellar Topics
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM The Milky Way, Andromeda, and their Many Dwarfs
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM The Morphologies and Environments of Galaxies
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM The Nature of High-Redshift Galaxies I
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM The Planet Hunter's Toolbox I
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM White Dwarfs
Invited Session
11:40 AM – 12:30 PM Long Ago in a Galaxy Far, Far Away
Splinter Meeting
12:45 PM – 1:45 PM Astronomy Education Research Brown Bag Lunch
Town Hall
12:45 PM – 1:45 PM HAD Business Meeting
12:45 PM – 1:45 PM NASA Town Hall
12:45 PM – 1:45 PM Survey of Scientific Use of the Radio Spectrum
Oral Session
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Blazars
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Education Research
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Exploring the Dark
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Galactic Center
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Instrumentation: Space Missions
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Special Session: New Surveys of the Taurus Molecular Cloud
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Starburst Galaxies
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM The Nature of High-Redshift Galaxies II
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM The Planet Hunter's Toolbox II
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM Special Session: HAD II: Astronomy at the Time of Jamestown and Its Role in the Exploration of America
Invited Session
3:40 PM – 4:30 PM New Horizons at Jupiter
4:30 PM – 5:20 PM Helen B. Warner Prize Lecture for Astronomy: Exoplanets
5:45 PM – 6:30 PM LeRoy E. Doggett Prize Lecture for Historical Astronomy: Astronomy and its History on the Nation's M
7:15 PM – 9:00 PM The AAAC Exoplanet Taskforce
Splinter Meeting
7:15 PM – 10:00 PM Radial Velocities in the Infrared
Wednesday, 09 January 2008
Invited Session
8:30 AM – 9:20 AM Micro-arcsecond Astrometry with the VLBA: R_o, Theta_o, H_o and more
Poster
9:30 AM – 6:30 PM AGNs & QSOs I
9:30 AM – 6:30 PM AGNs & QSOs II
9:30 AM – 6:30 PM AGNs & QSOs III
9:30 AM – 6:30 PM Astrophysical Computation and Data Handling
9:30 AM – 6:30 PM Black Holes
9:30 AM – 6:30 PM Black Holes and Gravitational Waves
9:30 AM – 6:30 PM Circumstellar Disks
9:30 AM – 6:30 PM Evolved Stars, Cataclysmic Variables, Novae, Wolf-Rayet Phenomena
9:30 AM – 6:30 PM Galaxy Evolution at Intermediate and High Redshifts
9:30 AM – 6:30 PM HAD V: History Poster
9:30 AM – 6:30 PM Intergalactic Medium, QSO Absorption Line Systems
9:30 AM – 6:30 PM Large Scale Structure, Cosmic Distance Scale
9:30 AM – 6:30 PM Planetary Phenomena
9:30 AM – 6:30 PM Probing Stars and Their Environs by Interferometry
9:30 AM – 6:30 PM Star Associations, Star Clusters - Galactic & Extra-galactic
9:30 AM – 6:30 PM The Atmospheres and Winds of The Sun and Stars
9:30 AM – 6:30 PM Variable Stars
9:30 AM – 6:30 PM What does it take to land a job anyway?
9:30 AM – 6:30 PM Young Stellar Object Disks, Outflows and Accretion
Oral Session
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM AGNs I: through X-rays
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM Dynamics of Massive Galaxies
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM Education Activities and Strategies for Various Audiences and Undergraduate Non-Science Majors
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM Evolved Stars, Cataclysmic Variables, Novae, Wolf-Rayet Phenomena
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM Galaxy Clusters I
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM HAD III: Mostly 20th Century
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM Intergalactic Medium, QSO Absorption Line Systems I
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM Special Session: Probing Stars and Their Environs by Interferometry
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM Star Associations, Star Clusters - Galactic & Extra-Galactic and Our Nearby Neighbors
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM The Dynamics of Planet-Forming Systems
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM Special Session: What does it take to land a job anyway?
Invited Session
11:40 AM – 12:30 PM Henry Norris Russell Prize Lectureship: A Half-Century of Spectroscopic Astrophysics
Town Hall
12:45 PM – 1:45 PM Committee on the Status of Women in Astronomy: When is the Best Time to Have Kids?
12:45 PM – 1:45 PM JWST Technology Town Hall
12:45 PM – 1:45 PM NSF Town Hall
Oral Session
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM AGNs II: AGNs and QSOs
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Circumstellar Disks at Young Stars
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Galaxy Clusters II
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Special Session: Ground-based Gravitational Wave Astronomy
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM HAD IV: History Potpourri
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM High Mass Star Formation, Cores and Outflows
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Instrumentation: Ground Based
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Intergalactic Medium, QSO Absorption Line Systems II
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Planets, Satellites, and Small Bodies
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Stellar Populations
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM The Atmospheres and Winds of The Sun and Stars
Invited Session
3:40 PM – 4:30 PM Astronomy and Astrophysics 2010: A New Survey of the Field
4:30 PM – 5:20 PM Cultural Perspectives on the New Astronomy
6:30 PM – 7:15 PM AIP Andrew Gemant Award Lecture: Astronomy and Popular Culture
Splinter Meeting
7:15 PM – 10:00 PM Future of Optical Interferometry
7:15 PM – 10:00 PM Spitzer Warm Mission Science Opportunities
8:30 PM – 10:00 PM Cosmology and Astrophysics from Space Astrometry
Thursday, 10 January 2008
Invited Session
8:30 AM – 9:20 AM Evolution of Disk Galaxies
Poster
9:30 AM – 6:30 PM Clustered Star Formation, High Mass Young Stars and Prestellar Cores
9:30 AM – 6:30 PM Cosmic Microwave Background
9:30 AM – 6:30 PM Cosmology
9:30 AM – 6:30 PM Dark Clouds, HII Regions, etc.
9:30 AM – 6:30 PM Dust
9:30 AM – 6:30 PM Education and Public Outreach - Reaching a Variety of Audiences
9:30 AM – 6:30 PM Galaxies: A Multiwavelength View of Star Formation
9:30 AM – 6:30 PM Galaxy Clusters
9:30 AM – 6:30 PM Galaxy Evolution in the Local Universe
9:30 AM – 6:30 PM GLAST and Other High-Energy Space Missions
9:30 AM – 6:30 PM Gravitational Lenses
9:30 AM – 6:30 PM Planetary Nebulae, Supernova Remnants
9:30 AM – 6:30 PM Present and Future Wide Field Submillimeter Survey
9:30 AM – 6:30 PM Pulsars, Neutron Stars
9:30 AM – 6:30 PM Stars, Cool Dwarfs, Brown Dwarfs
9:30 AM – 6:30 PM Stellar Evolution and Stellar Populations
9:30 AM – 6:30 PM Supernovae
9:30 AM – 6:30 PM Towards the International Year of Astronomy 2009
Oral Session
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM AGNs III: Variable and Obscured
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM Cosmic Microwave Background
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM Special Session: DDA: The Dynamics of Astrophysical Disks
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM Special Session: Frontiers of Astronomy with the World's Largest Radio Telescope
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM Galaxies: Outer Disks, Star Formation, and Invisible Fields
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM Gravitational Lenses
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM Planetary Nebulae, Supernova Remnants
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM Star Formation in our Galaxy
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM Supernovae
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM Understanding the Key Processes in Galaxy Evolution
Invited Session
11:40 AM – 12:30 PM Heineman Prize: Star Formation in the Cosmological Context
Splinter Meeting
12:45 PM – 1:45 PM Cooking with Sloan
Town Hall
12:45 PM – 1:45 PM HEAD Business Meeting
Splinter Meeting
12:45 PM – 1:45 PM Improving NASA AOs:Community Input
Town Hall
12:45 PM – 1:45 PM NOAO Town Hall
12:45 PM – 1:45 PM NRAO Town Hall
Oral Session
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM AGNs IV: Accretion, Blackholes, and Accelaration
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Cosmology: Theory and Observation
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Dust in Circumstellar Debris Disks and Other Places
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Galaxy Evolution Driven by Interactions and Mergers
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Special Session: HEAD I: Outbursts from Supermassive Black Holes
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Large Scale Structure, Cosmic Distance Scale
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Local Structure from M81/82 to Virgo
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Special Session: Present and Future Wide Field Submillimeter Survey
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Pulsars, Neutron Stars and Black Holes I
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM The Evolution of Galaxy Populations
Invited Session
3:40 PM – 4:30 PM Emerging Principles of Galaxy Formation
4:30 PM – 5:20 PM Bruno Rossi Prize Lecture: GRB Discoveries with the Swift
Town Hall
5:45 PM – 6:30 PM McCray Committee on the Future of Radio in Astronomy
6:30 PM – 7:15 PM International Year of Astronomy
Friday, 11 January 2008
Invited Session
8:30 AM – 9:20 AM Star Formation Histories in the Andromeda Galaxy
Poster
9:30 AM – 4:00 PM Analysis of Metal Poor Galactic Stellar Populations
9:30 AM – 4:00 PM Catalogs, Surveys, and Database Astronomy
9:30 AM – 4:00 PM Early Science with the Square Kilometer Array
9:30 AM – 4:00 PM Extrasolar Planets
9:30 AM – 4:00 PM HST, Kepler, and Other Optical/UV Space Missions
9:30 AM – 4:00 PM JWST and Other IR Space Missions
9:30 AM – 4:00 PM LSST
9:30 AM – 4:00 PM Molecular Clouds, HII Regions and the Interstellar Medium I
9:30 AM – 4:00 PM Molecular Clouds, HII Regions and the Interstellar Medium II
9:30 AM – 4:00 PM Probing the Universe with Gravitational Waves: the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA)
9:30 AM – 4:00 PM Starburst Galaxies
Oral Session
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM Astronomical Surveys and Large Data Sets
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM Clustered Star Formation and the IMF
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM Cosmology: Observation
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM Early Science with the Square Kilometer Array
Invited Session
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM HEAD II: Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays
Oral Session
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM Milky Way: Disk and Halo
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM Pulsars, Neutron Stars, Pulsar Wind Nebulae and Black Holes II
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM Young Stellar Objects I: Disks and Magnetic Fields
Invited Session
11:40 AM – 12:30 PM Searching for the Secrets of Massive Star Birth
Splinter Meeting
12:45 PM – 1:45 PM Cooking with Sloan
Town Hall
12:45 PM – 1:45 PM Graduate Opportunities in Europe
12:45 PM – 1:45 PM How NSF Works
Invited Session
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Binary Stellar Systems, X-ray Binaries
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Black Holes and Galaxy Evolution
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Cosmology: Mostly Theory
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM HII Regions, Dust, the Interstellar Medium and Astrobiology
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Observing Other Worlds
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Young Stellar Objects II: Jets, Outflows and Emission Lines
Splinter Meeting
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM White Dwarf Planets and Debris Disks
Saturday, 12 January 2008
Workshop
9:00 AM – 5:00 PM Running the Beyond Einstein Explorers' Program
Sunday, 13 January 2008
9:00 AM – 5:00 PM Running the Beyond Einstein Explorers' Program
Saturday, 31 May 2008
9:00 AM – 5:00 PM NASA Center for Astronomy Education Workshop
9:00 AM – 5:15 PM Amateur Astronomers as Champions of IYA
9:00 AM – 5:15 PM Discover the Universe with NASA During the International Year of Astronomy:
9:00 AM – 5:15 PM Telling Science Like A Story: Storytelling Techniques for IYA Education Programs
Event
12:00 PM – 4:00 PM AstroZone: St. Louis
Sunday, 01 June 2008
Workshop
9:00 AM – 12:30 PM Building a Telescope from the Ground Up
9:00 AM – 12:30 PM Effective Strategies for Engaging Latino/Hispanic Audiences in Astronomy during IYA: Examples Using
9:00 AM – 5:00 PM NASA Center for Astronomy Education Workshop
9:00 AM – 5:15 PM Afterschool Universe: Beyond the Solar System, Beyond the School Day
9:00 AM – 5:15 PM In the Footsteps of Galileo: A Workshop for Educators
Splinter Meeting
1:00 PM – 5:00 PM Early Science Opportunities with SOFIA II
Workshop
1:45 PM – 5:15 PM A User's Guide for Plugging into the New Media Community for IYA
1:45 PM – 5:15 PM Dark Skies from the Ground Up: Activities to Raise Awareness During IYA
Attendee Services
3:00 PM – 5:00 PM Speaker Ready Room
3:00 PM – 8:00 PM Registration
Event
5:30 PM – 6:30 PM K12 Educator Reception
Town Hall Meeting
6:00 PM – 7:00 PM Astronomical Society of the Pacific Membership Meeting
Event
6:00 PM – 7:00 PM Undergraduate Orientation
7:00 PM – 10:00 PM Opening Reception
Monday, 02 June 2008
Attendee Services
7:30 AM – 5:00 PM Registration
7:30 AM – 5:00 PM Speaker Ready Room
Invited
8:00 AM – 8:20 AM Opening Remarks
8:30 AM – 9:20 AM Chemical Evolution of the Galaxy
Poster
9:20 AM – 6:30 PM Binary Stellar Systems, X-ray Binaries
9:20 AM – 6:30 PM Black Holes, Pulsars, Neutron Stars & White Dwarfs
9:20 AM – 6:30 PM Bridging the Laboratory and Astrophysics
9:20 AM – 6:30 PM Circumstellar Disks: Protoplanetary, Debris, and Dust
9:20 AM – 6:30 PM Cosmic Microwave Background - Instrumentation, Analysis, and Interpretation
Attendee Services
9:20 AM – 6:30 PM Cyber Cafe
Poster
9:20 AM – 6:30 PM Dark Matter & The Structure of the Universe
9:20 AM – 6:30 PM Dust & Star Formation
9:20 AM – 6:30 PM Education and Public Outreach
9:20 AM – 6:30 PM Education Research
9:20 AM – 6:30 PM Extrasolar Planets, Substellar Companions
9:20 AM – 6:30 PM Formal Education for Students and Teachers K-12
9:20 AM – 6:30 PM Galactic Star Formation From mm & sub-mm Surveys
9:20 AM – 6:30 PM Galaxies
9:20 AM – 6:30 PM Galaxy Clusters
9:20 AM – 6:30 PM Gamma Ray Bursts and Supernovae
9:20 AM – 6:30 PM Instrumentation: Ground Based or Airborne & Computation
9:20 AM – 6:30 PM Instrumentation: Space Missions & Surveys
9:20 AM – 6:30 PM Intergalactic Medium, QSO Absorption Line Systems
9:20 AM – 6:30 PM IYA - A Simple Telescope of Your Own (Galileoscope) and Other Hands-on Optics Activities
9:20 AM – 6:30 PM IYA - Astronomy for Classrooms, Afterschool Programs, and Families
9:20 AM – 6:30 PM IYA - Astronomy in the Arts, Entertainment and Storytelling
9:20 AM – 6:30 PM IYA - Dark Skies Awareness Activities (including programs to measure local sky brightness)
9:20 AM – 6:30 PM IYA - Image Exhibits: Traveling & Local Displays of Astronomical Imagery
9:20 AM – 6:30 PM IYA - Looking through a Telescope/Sidewalk Astronomy Activities
9:20 AM – 6:30 PM IYA - Other
9:20 AM – 6:30 PM IYA - Programs at Science Centers, Planetaria and Observatory Visitor Centers
9:20 AM – 6:30 PM IYA - Reaching the Public through New Media (Facebook, Second Life, Podcasts, etc.)
9:20 AM – 6:30 PM IYA - Research Experiences for Schools and Citizens.
9:20 AM – 6:30 PM Molecular Clouds, HII Regions, Interstellar Medium
9:20 AM – 6:30 PM Planetary Nebulae, Supernova Remnants & Cataclysmic Variables
9:20 AM – 6:30 PM Seyferts, QSOs, Blazars
9:20 AM – 6:30 PM Stars, Cool Dwarfs, & Brown Dwarfs
9:20 AM – 6:30 PM Stellar Populations, Atmospheres, and Winds
9:20 AM – 6:30 PM The Milky Way Galaxy and Its Neighbors
9:20 AM – 6:30 PM The Sun:The Solar System:Astrobiology:SETI
9:20 AM – 6:30 PM Undergraduate and Graduate Education
9:20 AM – 6:30 PM Variable Stars and Stellar Masers
9:20 AM – 6:30 PM Young Stellar Objects, Very Young Stars, T-Tauri Stars, H-H Objects
Oral
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM Bridging Laboratory and Astrophysics: ATOMS
Special
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM Cooking with Sloan
Oral
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM Extrasolar Planets, Substellar Companions
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM Symposium on Preparing for the International Year of Astronomy - Plenary Session I
Invited
11:40 AM – 12:30 PM International Year of Astronomy 2009
Splinter Meeting
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Astronomy Education Research Brown Bag Lunch
Town Hall Meeting
12:45 PM – 1:45 PM NASA Standard Town Hall
Oral
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Bridging Laboratory and Astrophysics: MOLECULES and CHEMISTRY
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Intelligent Design, a Young Universe, Astrology, UFO's, and More: A Guide for Those Involved with IY
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM IYA Tabloid in Your Community
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM IYA: Telescopes and the Sky
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Meeting IYA Goals for Diverse Science Center Audiences
Special
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM My Space, Your Space, and Virtual Space: New Media E/PO
Oral
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM The Milky Way and Other Galaxies
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Topics in Galactic Astronomy
Invited
3:40 PM – 4:30 PM The Era of Comparative Exoplanetology
4:30 PM – 5:20 PM The Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey
Town Hall Meeting
6:15 PM – 7:30 PM NASA R&A/EPO Night
Event
8:00 PM – 9:30 PM Public Lecture, AAS Second Century Lecture Series: How Galileo and the Telescope Changed Everything
Tuesday, 03 June 2008
Attendee Services
7:30 AM – 5:00 PM Speaker Ready Room
8:00 AM – 5:00 PM Registration
Invited
8:30 AM – 9:20 AM Imaging with the CHARA Interferometer
Attendee Services
9:20 AM – 6:30 PM Cyber Cafe
Oral
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM Bridging Laboratory and Astrophysics: SOLIDS
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM Getting to Know and Address Your State Science Standards to Connect Classroom Instruction and Field
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM IYA: Cross-Cultural Astronomy in Informal Education Settings - Collaborations with Integrity
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM IYA: The Arts/Research Experiences
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM Round Table: Connecting Local and National New Media Programs in the IYA 2009
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM Supernovae, Theory and Observations
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM The Spiral Structure of the Galaxy I
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM Using the Hands-on Optics Terrific Telescopes Kit in the International Year of Astronomy
Invited
11:40 AM – 12:30 PM SPD Hale Prize Lecture
Town Hall Meeting
12:45 PM – 1:45 PM NSF Standard Town Hall
Oral
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Bridging Laboratory and Astrophysics: PLASMA
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Building an IYA Legacy for Underserved Communities
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Citizen Science and the International Year of Astronomy - Your Role
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Instrumentation
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM IYA: In the Footsteps of Galileo
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM IYA: Muggles, Meteoritic Armor, and Menelmacar: Using Fantasy Series in Astronomy Education and Outr
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM IYA: NASA Programs/Global Projects
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM The Spiral Structure of the Galaxy II
Invited
3:40 PM – 4:30 PM Planet Forming Disks
Oral
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM IYA: A Burger, a Beer, and A Side of Science
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM IYA: Image Exhibits/Informal Science Education Settings
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM IYA: Using Google Earth and Sky to Introduce Astronomy for Classrooms, Afterschool Programs, and Fam
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM Professional Development in the International Year of Astronomy: Expanding the Universe in the Class
Invited
4:30 PM – 5:20 PM JWST's Near-Infrared Camera
Event
7:00 PM – 7:30 PM ASP Reception
7:30 PM – 9:00 PM Astronomical Society of the Pacific Awards Banquet
Wednesday, 04 June 2008
Attendee Services
7:30 AM – 5:00 PM Speaker Ready Room
8:00 AM – 5:00 PM Registration
Invited
8:30 AM – 9:20 AM Astrometry with the Hubble Space Telescope
Attendee Services
9:20 AM – 6:30 PM Cyber Cafe
Oral
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM AGN and Starburst Galaxies
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM Bridging Laboratory and Astrophysics: NUCLEAR
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM Dark Skies are a Universal Resource: IYA Programs on Dark Skies Awareness
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM IYA: Capturing Public Interest in Astronomy through Art and Music
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM IYA: Classrooms and Families
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM IYA: Introducing the Virtual Astronomy Multimedia Project
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM The Spiral Structure of the Galaxy III
Special
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM Workshop for Prospective Kepler Guest Observers
Invited
11:40 AM – 12:30 PM Reionization and the Dark Ages
Town Hall Meeting
12:45 PM – 1:45 PM AAS Members Meeting
Oral
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Bridging Laboratory and Astrophysics: PARTICLES
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Symposium on Preparing for the International Year of Astronomy - Plenary Session II
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM The Spiral Structure of the Galaxy IV
Invited
3:40 PM – 4:30 PM AGN with Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics
4:30 PM – 5:20 PM The Origin of The Universe
Town Hall Meeting
5:30 PM – 6:30 PM Working Group on Laboratory Astrophysics
Event
7:15 PM – 9:30 PM Society Banquet
Thursday, 05 June 2008
Attendee Services
7:30 AM – 12:00 PM Speaker Ready Room
8:00 AM – 12:00 PM Registration
Invited
8:30 AM – 9:20 PM Highlights of the Swift Mission
Attendee Services
9:20 AM – 2:00 PM Cyber Cafe
Oral
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM Education, Outreach and More
Special
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM Galactic Star Formation From mm & sub-mm Surveys