Tuesday, January 6, 1998

Session 1. HAD I: LeRoy E. Doggett Memorial Session

Oral presentation, Tuesday, 1:00-5:00pm, Georgetown

Wednesday, January 7, 1998

Session 2. Heineman Prize Lecture

Invited presentation, Wednesday, 8:30-9:20am, International Ballroom Center

Session 3. Source Surveys, Galaxy Surveys, Distance Scale I

Display presentation, Wednesday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 4. Education: Telescopes, the Web and Curricula

Display presentation, Wednesday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 5. Accretion and Outflows in YSOs

Display presentation, Wednesday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 6. HII Regions & Massive Star Formation

Display presentation, Wednesday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 7. Molecular Clouds

Display presentation, Wednesday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 8. Relativistic Astrophysics

Display presentation, Wednesday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 9. SOFIA and IR Instrumentation

Display presentation, Wednesday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 10. NICMOS

Display presentation, Wednesday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 11. VLBI & Radio Instrumentation

Display presentation, Wednesday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 12. Stellar Evolution - Theory

Display presentation, Wednesday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 13. Stellar Spectra

Display presentation, Wednesday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 14. Various Stellar Surveys

Display presentation, Wednesday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 15. Planetary Nebulae and White Dwarfs

Display presentation, Wednesday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 16. Astrometry

Display presentation, Wednesday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 17. Data Archives & Tools

Display presentation, Wednesday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 18. STIS

Display presentation, Wednesday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 19. Source Surveys, Galaxy Surveys, Distance Scale II

Display presentation, Wednesday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 20. Chemistry & Physical Process in the ISM

Display presentation, Wednesday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 21. Luminous Infrared Galaxies

Display presentation, Wednesday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 22. Radio - Loud AGN & Extragalactic Jets

Display presentation, Wednesday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 23. Science with the Space Interferometry Mission

Oral presentation, Wednesday, 10:00-11:30am, International Ballroom Center

Session 24. Disks, Bars & Halos

Oral presentation, Wednesday, 10:00-11:30am, International Ballroom East

Session 25. Seyfert Galaxies

Oral presentation, Wednesday, 10:00-11:30am, Georgetown

Session 26. Neutrinos & Stellar Abundances

Oral presentation, Wednesday, 10:00-11:30am, Jefferson

Session 27. Planets

Oral presentation, Wednesday, 10:00-11:30am, Lincoln

Session 28. HAD II: Modern Astronomical History

Oral presentation, Wednesday, 10:00-11:30am, Monroe

Session 29. Public Policy: D. Goldin

Invited presentation, Wednesday, 11:40am-12:30pm, International Ballroom Center

Session 30. Space Astronomy in the Next Millennium

Oral presentation, Wednesday, 2:00-3:30pm, International Ballroom Center

Session 31. Quasars

Oral presentation, Wednesday, 2:00-3:30pm, International Ballroom East

Session 32. General ISM

Oral presentation, Wednesday, 2:00-3:30pm, Georgetown

Session 33. Comets & Asteroids

Oral presentation, Wednesday, 2:00-3:30pm, Jefferson

Session 34. New Results on the Nature of Eta Carinae

Oral presentation, Wednesday, 2:00-3:30pm, Lincoln

Session 35. HAD III: From Hamlet to Crop Circles

Oral presentation, Wednesday, 2:00-3:30pm, Monroe

Session 36. Gamma Ray Bursts: Observations & Theory

Invited presentation, Wednesday, 3:40-5:10pm, International Ballroom Center

Thursday, January 8, 1998

Session 37. Rossi Prize Lecture

Invited presentation, Thursday, 8:30-9:20am, International Ballroom Center

Session 38. HAD IV: Demographics, Alignments & Outreach

Display presentation, Thursday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 39. Supernovae

Display presentation, Thursday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 40. Supernova Remnants & SN 1987A

Display presentation, Thursday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 41. Visible & UV Telescopes

Display presentation, Thursday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 42. SIRTF

Display presentation, Thursday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 43. Variable Stars

Display presentation, Thursday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 44. Double Stars

Display presentation, Thursday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 45. Eclipsing Binaries

Display presentation, Thursday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 46. Variable Stars - Late Type

Display presentation, Thursday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 47. Circumstellar Disks & Shells

Display presentation, Thursday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 48. Gamma Rays & X-ray Instrumentation

Display presentation, Thursday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 49. Elliptical Galaxies & Bulges

Display presentation, Thursday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 50. Interstellar Medium I

Display presentation, Thursday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 51. Interstellar Medium II

Display presentation, Thursday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 52. AXAF, X-ray, Gamma Ray Instruments

Display presentation, Thursday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 53. The X Clusters: Cooling Flows

Display presentation, Thursday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 54. Next Generation Space Telescope

Oral presentation, Thursday, 10:00-11:30am, International Ballroom Center

Session 55. Gamma Ray Burst Breakthrough

Oral presentation, Thursday, 10:00-11:30am, International Ballroom East

Session 56. BL Lacs & Blazars

Oral presentation, Thursday, 10:00-11:30am, Georgetown

Session 57. Instrumentation & Information Science

Oral presentation, Thursday, 10:00-11:30am, Jefferson

Session 58. Masters Programs: Ones that Work & Plans for the Future

Oral presentation, Thursday, 10:00-11:30am, Lincoln

Session 59. Relativistic Astrophysics

Oral presentation, Thursday, 10:00-11:30am, Monroe

Session 60. Public Policy: A. Gore

Invited presentation, Thursday, 11:40am-12:30pm, International Ballroom Center

Session 61. Public Policy Panel

Oral presentation, Thursday, 2:00-3:30pm, International Ballroom Center

Session 62. Dark Matter in Large Scale Structures

Oral presentation, Thursday, 2:00-3:30pm, International Ballroom East

Session 63. Surveys of Galaxies

Oral presentation, Thursday, 2:00-3:30pm, Georgetown

Session 64. Telescopes for the Next Millennium

Oral presentation, Thursday, 2:00-3:30pm, Jefferson

Session 65. What are AAS Members Doing in Education?

Oral presentation, Thursday, 2:00-3:30pm, Lincoln

Session 66. Radio - Loud AGN & Extragalactic Jets

Oral presentation, Thursday, 2:00-3:30pm, Monroe

Session 67. Hubble Space Telescope: From the Interstellar Medium to Massive Black Holes

Invited presentation, Thursday, 3:40-5:10pm, International Ballroom Center

Friday, January 9, 1998

Session 68. Invited Talk

Oral presentation, Friday, 8:30-9:20am, International Ballroom Center

Session 69. Instabilities in Planetary Systems

Display presentation, Friday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 70. Planetary Systems Near & Far

Display presentation, Friday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 71. Comets & Asteroids

Display presentation, Friday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 72. Comet Hale-Bopp

Display presentation, Friday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 73. Solar Space Observations, SOHO & SERTS

Display presentation, Friday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 74. The Quiet & Active Sun

Display presentation, Friday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 75. Dust & PAHs in Galaxies

Display presentation, Friday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 76. Star Formation in Galaxies

Display presentation, Friday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 77. Structures of Galaxies

Display presentation, Friday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 78. Seyfert Galaxies

Display presentation, Friday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 79. Star Clusters in Other Galaxies

Display presentation, Friday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 80. Star Clusters in the Milky Way

Display presentation, Friday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 81. Dwarf Galaxies

Display presentation, Friday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 82. Spirals & Irregulars

Display presentation, Friday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 83. Gravitational Lensing

Display presentation, Friday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 84. IGM

Display presentation, Friday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 85. Cosmology: Observations

Display presentation, Friday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 86. Cosmology: Theory

Display presentation, Friday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 87. Large Scale Structure

Display presentation, Friday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 88. Comet Hale-Bopp

Oral presentation, Friday, 10:00-11:30am, International Ballroom Center

Session 89. Star-forming Galaxies

Oral presentation, Friday, 10:00-11:30am, International Ballroom East

Session 90. High Energy Phenomena in AGNs

Oral presentation, Friday, 10:00-11:30am, Georgetown

Session 91. COBE and the Search for the Cosmic Infrared Background

Oral presentation, Friday, 10:00-11:30am, Jefferson

Session 92. Very Young Stars, T-Tauri Stars, H-H Objects

Oral presentation, Friday, 10:00-11:30am, Lincoln

Session 93. Binary and Variable Stars

Oral presentation, Friday, 10:00-11:30am, Monroe

Session 94. Pierce Prize Lecture

Invited presentation, Friday, 11:40am-12:30pm, International Ballroom Center

Session 95. Cosmological Parameters and Large Scale Structure Formation

Oral presentation, Friday, 2:00-3:30pm, International Ballroom Center

Session 96. High-Throughput Spectroscopy & Imaging with XMM

Oral presentation, Friday, 2:00-3:30pm, International Ballroom East

Session 97. Galactic Structure, Galactic Center

Oral presentation, Friday, 2:00-3:30pm, Georgetown

Session 98. Globular Clusters

Oral presentation, Friday, 2:00-3:30pm, Jefferson

Session 99. Supernovae & Supernova Remnants

Oral presentation, Friday, 2:00-3:30pm, Lincoln

Session 100. Pulsars & X-ray Binaries

Oral presentation, Friday, 2:00-3:30pm, Monroe

Session 101. SOHO

Invited presentation, Friday, 3:40-5:10pm, International Ballroom Center

Saturday, January 10, 1998

Session 102. Hale Prize Lecture

Invited presentation, Saturday, 8:30-9:20am, International Ballroom Center

Session 103. Quasars & Blazars

Display presentation, Saturday, 9:20am-4:00pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 104. Radio Galaxies, Radio Observations of AGN Jets & Outflows

Display presentation, Saturday, 9:20am-4:00pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 105. Galaxies: Counts & Kinematics

Display presentation, Saturday, 9:20am-4:00pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 106. Clusters of Galaxies

Display presentation, Saturday, 9:20am-4:00pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 107. The Galactic Center & Bulge

Display presentation, Saturday, 9:20am-4:00pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 108. The Galactic Stellar Disk & Halo

Display presentation, Saturday, 9:20am-4:00pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 109. Novae & Cataclysmic Variables

Display presentation, Saturday, 9:20am-4:00pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 110. X-ray, Binaries & Accretion Disks

Display presentation, Saturday, 9:20am-4:00pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 111. Pulsars

Display presentation, Saturday, 9:20am-4:00pm, Exhibit Hall

Session 112. Early Universe & the CMB

Oral presentation, Saturday, 10:00-11:30am, International Ballroom Center

Session 113. Neutron Stars & Pulsars

Oral presentation, Saturday, 10:00-11:30am, International Ballroom East

Session 114. Circumstellar Material & Nebulae

Oral presentation, Saturday, 10:00-11:30am, Georgetown

Session 115. Star Clusters & Dwarf Galaxies

Oral presentation, Saturday, 10:00-11:30am, Jefferson

Session 116. Galaxy Clusters & Evolution

Oral presentation, Saturday, 10:00-11:30am, Lincoln

Session 117. Infrared Space Observatory

Oral presentation, Saturday, 10:00-11:30am, Monroe

Session 118. Warner Prize Lecture

Oral presentation, Saturday, 11:40am-12:30pm, International Ballroom Center

Session 119. Gamma Ray Bursts

Oral presentation, Saturday, 2:00-3:30pm, International Ballroom Center

Session 120. The Sun

Oral presentation, Saturday, 2:00-3:30pm, International Ballroom East

Session 121. Molecular Clouds/Star Formation

Oral presentation, Saturday, 2:00-3:30pm, Georgetown

Session 122. Galaxies, Clusters of Galaxies & IGM

Oral presentation, Saturday, 2:00-3:30pm, Jefferson

Session 123. Galaxy Evolution: Dwarfs & Clusters

Oral presentation, Saturday, 2:00-3:30pm, Lincoln

Session 124. Elliptical Galaxies

Oral presentation, Saturday, 2:00-3:30pm, Monroe