From: aasmail [aasmail@aas.org]
Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 9:23 AM
To: aasmembers@aas.org
Subject: AAS Informational Email 2005-18

AAS Informational Email 2005-18

Dear Colleagues,

We thank those of you who came forward after our most 
recent update on plans for the senior review with offers to 
host regional town meetings in the western part of the 
country. We now are planning on two additional meetings, 
one in Boulder and one in Berkeley. Town meetings currently 
scheduled are:

Boston, Massachusetts - 29 September 2005
	Boston University
Contact Ken Janes (mailto:janes@bu.edu) or Tereasa 
Brainerd (mailto:brainerd@bu.edu) for information. 

Minneapolis, Minnesota - 7 October 2005
	University of Minnesota
	Contact Virginia Olson for information at 
	mailto:ginny@astro.umn.edu 

Washington, DC - 14 October 2005
	AAS, to be held at the Carnegie Institution
	Contact Kevin Marvel for information at 
	mailto:marvel@aas.org 

Clemson, South Carolina - 15 October 2005
	Clemson University
	Contact Dieter Hartmann for information at 
	mailto:hdieter@clemson.edu 

Boulder, Colorado - 24 October 2005
	University of Colorado/High Altitude Observatory 
	Contact Mike Shull for information at 
	mailto:mshull@casa.colorado.edu 
 
Berkeley, California - December 2005, date to be determined 
	University of California, Berkeley
	Contact Don Backer for information at 
	mailto:dbacker@astro.berkeley.edu 

These meetings are intended to be an opportunity for us to 
explain why and how we are carrying out this review of our 
programs, to answer questions, and to hear your views. We 
expect each of these meetings to last a full day, and hope 
to have 3 or 4 staff from the Astronomy Division present. 
Typically the morning will be spent in a plenary session, 
with a presentation providing background and describing 
the context and the process of the review, followed by an 
ample period for questions. We expect that the afternoon 
sessions will be organized as brief 15 to 30 minute 
meetings with small groups or individuals who have 
particular issues they would like to discuss or who wish 
to speak privately with AST staff. 

To help us plan for these afternoon sessions, we need 
information from you. If you are interested in meeting 
with AST staff privately, please send an email to me 
(efriel@nsf.gov) with an indication of your interest and 
topic of discussion, the length of time you would like to 
meet, how many people will likely be in the group, and any 
constraints on your availability.  You are welcome to send 
background information for the meeting, but please limit it 
to one page. With this information we will draw up 
schedules for these afternoon meetings, be able to prepare 
any material that might be helpful, and decide which AST 
staff members will be available to meet with you. We will 
then let you know what arrangements we have made. 

We look forward to meeting and talking with many of you 
this fall.


Sincerely,

Eileen Friel
Executive Officer, Division of Astronomical Sciences
National Science Foundation

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