Session list

Session 1. Invited Talk: Hill

Invited, Wednesday, 8:30-9:20am, Ballroom A

Session 2. Galaxy Evolution and Surveys I - Low Redshift

Display, Wednesday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall 1

Session 3. Galaxy Evolution and Surveys II - High Redshift

Display, Wednesday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall 1

Session 4. Intergalactic Medium

Display, Wednesday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall 1

Session 5. Relativistic Jets and their Interactions

Display, Wednesday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall 1

Session 6. Nearby AGN I - Dust, Gas, Obscuration and Fuelling

Display, Wednesday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall 1

Session 7. Nearby AGN II - Ionised Gas, Kinematics and Radiojets

Display, Wednesday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall 1

Session 8. Galactic Morphology and Stellar Populations

Display, Wednesday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall 1

Session 9. Elliptical Galaxies

Display, Wednesday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall 1

Session 10. The Hobby*Eberly Telescope

Display, Wednesday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall 1

Session 11. Observatories, Telescopes and Instruments

Display, Wednesday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall 1

Session 12. IR - UV New Missions

Display, Wednesday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall 1

Session 13. Data Discovery Tools and Services

Display, Wednesday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall 1

Session 14. Proto-Planetary Nebulae

Display, Wednesday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall 1

Session 15. Planetary Nebulae

Display, Wednesday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall 1

Session 16. HII Regions

Display, Wednesday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall 1

Session 17. Jets and Herbig-Haro Objects

Display, Wednesday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall 1

Session 18. SOFIA First Light Science

Oral, Wednesday, 10:00-11:30am, Ballroom A

Session 19. Tomorrow's Professor

Employment, Oral, Wednesday, 10:00-11:30am, Ballroom B

Session 20. Radio Galaxies and Quasars I

Oral, Wednesday, 10:00-11:30am, Room 6 (A and B)

Session 21. The Distance Scale and Dark Matter

Oral, Wednesday, 10:00-11:30am, Room 8 (A,B,C)

Session 22. Various Aspects of Stellar Evolution

Oral, Wednesday, 10:00-11:30am, Room 9 (C)

Session 23. Tools and Techniques of Data Collection and Reduction in Archaeoastronomy

Oral, Wednesday, 10:00-11:30am, Room 9 (A and B)

Session 24. Russell Prize Lecture: Townes

Invited, Wednesday, 11:40am-12:30pm, Ballroom A

Session 25. SIRTF: Opportunities for the Scientific Community

Oral, Wednesday, 2:00-3:30pm, Ballroom A

Session 26. Hobby*Eberly Telescope

Oral, Wednesday, 2:00-3:30pm, Ballroom B

Session 27. Radio Galaxies and Quasars II

Oral, Wednesday, 2:00-3:30pm, Room 6 (A and B)

Session 28. Gas in Galaxies

Oral, Wednesday, 2:00-3:30pm, Room 8 (A,B,C)

Session 29. Quasi-Periodic Oscillations and Pulsar Theory

Oral, Wednesday, 2:00-3:30pm, Room 9 (C)

Session 30. New Instruments

Oral, Wednesday, 2:00-3:30pm, Room 9 (A and B)

Session 31. Invited Talks: Cochran and Becklin

Invited, Wednesday, 3:40-5:10pm, Ballroom A

Session 32. Rossi Prize Lectures: Scarsi and van Paradijs

Invited, Thursday, 8:30-9:20am, Ballroom A

Session 33. Astronomy Education and Outreach

Display, Thursday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall 1

Session 34. Teaching Astronomy in Colleges and Universities

Display, Thursday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall 1

Session 35. The Next Generation Space Telescope

Display, Thursday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall 1

Session 36. HST Instrumentation

Display, Thursday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall 1

Session 37. White Dwarfs and Friends

Display, Thursday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall 1

Session 38. Galaxy Clusters

Display, Thursday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall 1

Session 39. Cosmology/Large Scale Structure

Display, Thursday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall 1

Session 40. Radio Source Surveys

Display, Thursday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall 1

Session 41. Pulsars

Display, Thursday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall 1

Session 42. Gamma-Rays/Gravitation

Display, Thursday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall 1

Session 43. RXTE, XTE and X-Ray Sources

Display, Thursday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall 1

Session 44. Modeling Stellar Characteristics

Display, Thursday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall 1

Session 45. Spectral Observations of Stars

Display, Thursday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall 1

Session 46. Photometric Observations of Variable Stars

Display, Thursday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall 1

Session 47. Supernovae

Display, Thursday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall 1

Session 48. HEAD I: Gravitational Radiation from Astrophysical Sources

Division, Oral, Thursday, 10:00-11:00am, Ballroom A

Session 49. Galaxy Evolution

Oral, Thursday, 10:00-11:00am, Ballroom B

Session 50. The Astronomy Biology Connection I

Special, Oral, Thursday, 10:00-11:00am, Room 6 (A and B)

Session 51. Supernova Remnants

Oral, Thursday, 10:00-11:00am, Room 8 (A,B,C)

Session 52. Stellar Disks and their Owners

Oral, Thursday, 10:00-11:00am, Room 9 (C)

Session 53. Star Formation and Evolution of Elements in Galaxies

Oral, Thursday, 10:00-11:00am, Room 9 (A and B)

Session 54. Invited: Mazur

Education, Invited, Thursday, 11:40am-12:30pm, Ballroom A

Session 55. Committee on the Status of Women in Astronomy

Committee, Oral, Thursday, 1:00-2:00pm, Room 6 (A and B)

Session 56. HEAD II: Exotic Neutron Stars

Division, Oral, Thursday, 2:00-3:30pm, Ballroom A

Session 57. Accretion Disks in Nearby AGN

Oral, Thursday, 2:00-3:30pm, Ballroom B

Session 58. The Astronomy Biology Connection II

Special, Oral, Thursday, 2:00-3:30pm, Room 6 (A and B)

Session 59. Undergraduate Teaching: Members Experiences and Research Results

Education, Oral, Thursday, 2:00-3:30pm, Room 8 (A,B,C,)

Session 60. Star Clusters in Galaxies

Oral, Thursday, 2:00-3:30pm, Room 9 (C)

Session 61. Cosmology/Large Scale Structure I

Oral, Thursday, 2:00-3:30pm, Room 9 (A and B)

Session 62. Invited Talks: Genzel and Hauser

Invited, Thursday, 3:40-5:10pm, Ballroom A

Session 63. Invited: Kaspi

Invited, Friday, 8:30-9:20am, Ballroom A

Session 64. Pulsating Stars

Display, Friday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall 1

Session 65. Interstellar Dust and Gas

Display, Friday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall 1

Session 66. X-Ray/Gamma-Ray Detectors

Display, Friday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall 1

Session 67. Open Clusters

Display, Friday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall 1

Session 68. Globular Clusters

Display, Friday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall 1

Session 69. Circumstellar Material

Display, Friday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall 1

Session 70. Star Formation and the ISM in Galaxies

Display, Friday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall 1

Session 71. Molecular Clouds

Display, Friday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall 1

Session 72. Star Formation

Display, Friday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall 1

Session 73. Young Stars

Display, Friday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall 1

Session 74. Supernova Remnants

Display, Friday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall 1

Session 75. Hubble Deep Field South and North

Display, Friday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall 1

Session 76. Starburst and Ring Galaxies

Display, Friday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall 1

Session 77. Astrophysical Processes and Computational Techniques

Display, Friday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall 1

Session 78. Computers in Education

Display, Friday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall 1

Session 79. Gamma-Ray Bursts I

Oral, Friday, 10:00-11:30am, Ballroom A

Session 80. X-Ray Astronomy with Astro-E

Special, Oral, Friday, 10:00-11:30am, Ballroom B

Session 81. L Dwarfs, Brown Dwarfs, Infrared AGNs and Rare Objects from 2MASS

Special, Oral, Friday, 10:00-11:30am, Room 6 (A and B)

Session 82. Circumstellar Material, Planetary Nebulae and Extra-Solar Planets

Oral, Friday, 10:00-11:30am, Room 8 (A,B,C)

Session 83. Interstellar Medium

Oral, Friday, 10:00-11:30am, Room 9(C)

Session 84. Elliptical Galaxies and Galaxy Dynamics

Oral, Friday, 10:00-11:30am, Room 9 (A and B)

Session 85. Intergalactic Medium

Oral, Friday, 10:00-11:30am, Room 10 (B)

Session 86. Public Policy: Colwell

Invited, Friday, 11:40am-12:30pm, Ballroom A
Sessions 86 and 115 have switched presentation times,
Colwell will speak on Saturday and Blandford on Friday.

Session 87. Gamma-Ray Bursts II

Oral, Friday, 2:00-3:30pm, Ballroom A

Session 88. Astronomers and the Press

Special, Oral, Friday, 2:00-3:30pm, Ballroom B

Session 89. Protoplanetary Disks, Molecular Clouds

Oral, Friday, 2:00-3:30pm, Room 6 (A and B)

Session 90. Ultra-Luminous IR Galaxies/AGN - The Central Regions

Oral, Friday, 2:00-3:30pm, Room 8 (A,B,C)

Session 91. Computers in Education

Education, Oral, Friday, 2:00-3:30pm, Room 9 (C)

Session 92. Clusters of Galaxies

Oral, Friday, 2:00-3:30pm, Room 9 (A and B)

Session 93. Pulsars I

Oral, Friday, 2:00-3:30pm, Room 10 (B)

Session 94. Invited Talks: Perlmutter and Kirshner

Invited, Friday, 3:40-5:10pm, Ballroom A

Session 95. Warner Prize Lecture: Kamionkowski

Invited, Saturday, 8:30-9:20am, Ballroom A

Session 96. The Solar System

Display, Saturday, 9:20am-4:00pm, Exhibit Hall 1

Session 97. Extra-Solar Planets and the Search for Life

Display, Saturday, 9:20am-4:00pm, Exhibit Hall 1

Session 98. Low Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs

Display, Saturday, 9:20am-4:00pm, Exhibit Hall 1

Session 99. Stellar Atmospheric Activity and Luminous Blue Variables

Display, Saturday, 9:20am-4:00pm, Exhibit Hall 1

Session 100. The Quiet and Active Sun

Display, Saturday, 9:20am-4:00pm, Exhibit Hall 1

Session 101. Cataclysmic Variables and Novae

Display, Saturday, 9:20am-4:00pm, Exhibit Hall 1

Session 102. Binary Stars

Display, Saturday, 9:20am-4:00pm, Exhibit Hall 1

Session 103. EUVE Observations and Modeling of X-Ray Sources

Display, Saturday, 9:20am-4:00pm, Exhibit Hall 1

Session 104. The Galactic Center

Display, Saturday, 9:20am-4:00pm, Exhibit Hall 1

Session 105. Galaxy Kinematics and Dynamics

Display, Saturday, 9:20am-4:00pm, Exhibit Hall 1

Session 106. Distance Scale

Display, Saturday, 9:20am-4:00pm, Exhibit Hall 1

Session 107. (Quasars and Blazars-) High Luminosity AGN and their Environments

Display, Saturday, 9:20am-4:00pm, Exhibit Hall 1

Session 108. Gravitational Lensing

Display, Saturday, 9:20am-4:00pm, Exhibit Hall 1

Session 109. Cosmology / Large Scale Structure II

Oral, Saturday, 10:00-11:30am, Ballroom A

Session 110. Jets in Quasars and Radio Galaxies

Oral, Saturday, 10:00-11:30am, Ballroom B

Session 111. Supernovae and Atmospheric Phenomena in Binaries

Oral, Saturday, 10:00-11:30am, Room 6 (A and B)

Session 112. Pulsars II

Oral, Saturday, 10:00-11:30am, Room 8 (A,B,C)

Session 113. New Science Prospects with 100-Day Ballooning

Special, Oral, Saturday, 10:00-11:30am, Room 9 (C)

Session 114. Funding of Educational Initiatives in Astronomy and Space Science

Special, Oral, Saturday, 10:00-11:30am, Room 9 (A and B)

Session 115. Heineman Prize Lecture: Blandford

Invited, Saturday, 11:40am-12:30pm, Ballroom A
Sessions 86 and 115 have switched presentation times,
Blandford will speak on Friday and Colwell on Saturday.

Session 116. The Solar System and Extra-Solar Planets

Oral, Saturday, 2:00-3:30pm, Ballroom A

Session 117. Gravitational Lensing

Oral, Saturday, 2:00-3:30pm, Ballroom B

Session 118. Star Formation

Oral, Saturday, 2:00-3:30pm, Room 6 (A and B)

Session 119. Low-Luminoisty AGN and Black Holes

Oral, Saturday, 2:00-3:30pm, Room 8 (A,B,C)

Session 120. Computational Techniques, Catalogs and Literature

Oral, Saturday, 2:00-3:30pm, Room 9 (C)