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SATURDAY, 31 MAY 2008
NASA Center for Astronomy Education Workshop Preparing for the International Year of Astronomy Workshops AstroZone: St. Louis
SUNDAY, 1 JUNE 2008
NASA Center for Astronomy Education Workshop Preparing for the International Year of Astronomy Workshops  
Speaker Ready Room Registration Undergraduate Orientation
ASP Membership Meeting K12 Educator Reception    
MONDAY-THURSDAY, 2-5 JUNE 2008
Registration Cyber Cafe Speaker Ready Room
MONDAY, 2 JUNE 2008
Opening Remarks
Invited Talk: Chemical Evolution of the Galaxy, Anna Frebel, University of Texas at Austin
Bridging the Laboratory and Astrophysics Preparing for the International Year of Astronomy Cooking with Sloan My Space, Your Space, and Virtual Space: New Media E/PO
Invited Talk: International Year of Astronomy 2009, Catherine Cesarsky, ESO, Germany
NASA Town Hall      
Invited Talk: The Era of Comparative Exoplanetology, David Charbonneau, Harvard Univ.
Invited Talk: The Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey, Mark Dickinson, NOAO
Astronomy Teaching and Learning Reception      
Public Lecture, AAS Second Century Lecture Series: How Galileo and the Telescope Changed Everything by Dava Sobel      
NASA R&A/EPO Night      
TUESDAY, 3 JUNE 2008
Invited Talk: Imaging Stars and Their Environments with the CHARA Interferometer, John Monnier, University of Michigan
Bridging the Laboratory and Astrophysics Preparing for the International Year of Astronomy    
SPD Hale Prize Lecture: Focusing Down on the Impulsive Phase of a Solar Flare, Hugh Hudson, UC Berkeley
NSF Town Hall      
Invited Talk: Planet Forming Disks, David J. Wilner, Harvard-Smithsonian, CfA
Invited Talks: Building for the James Webb Space Telescope: the Near-Infrared Camera, Marcia J. Rieke, Univ. of Arizona
ASP Awards Banquet      
WEDNESDAY, 4 JUNE 2008
Invited Talk: From Exoplanetary Systems to the Cosmic Distance Scale: Astrometry with the Hubble Space Telescope, G. Fritz Benedict, Univ. of Texas, Austin
Bridging the Laboratory and Astrophysics Preparing for the International Year of Astronomy Workshop for Prospective Kepler Guest Observers  
Invited Talk: 21cm Experiments for Reionization and the Dark Ages: Plans and Progress, Jacqueline N. Hewitt, MIT
AAS Members Meeting      
Invited Talk: Active Galactic Nuclei with Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics: Status and Future Prospects, Claire E. Max, UC, Santa Cruz
Invited Talk: The Origin of The Universe and the Arrow of Time, Sean Carroll, Caltech
Working Group on Laboratory Astrophysics Town Hall      
Society Banquet      
THURSDAY, 5 JUNE 2008
Galactic Star Formation From mm & sub-mm Surveys      
Invited Talk: X-ray Flares in Gamma-ray Burst Afterglows and Other Highlights of the Swift Mission, David N. Burrows, Penn State University
DATE, TBA
Astronomy Education Research Brown Bag Lunch