AAS 195th Meeting, January 2000
Session list
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All findings are embargoed until the time of presentation at the meeting.
red = Invited Talks
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purple = Historical Astronomy Division Sessions
orange = High Energy Astrophysics Division Sessions

Welcoming Address Carl V. Patton, President, Georgia State University
Wednesday, 12 January, 8:15am, Centennial I and II

Session 1. Georgia State's CHARA Array on Mt. Wilson
Invited, Wednesday, 8:30-9:20am, Centennial I and II

Session 2. Young Objects and Disks
Display, Wednesday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Grand Hall

Session 3. Globular Clusters
Display, Wednesday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Grand Hall

Session 4. Stars in the Local Group
Display, Wednesday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Grand Hall

Session 5. Looking Towards The Galactic Center
Display, Wednesday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Grand Hall

Session 6. Early Results from the FUSE Mission
Display, Wednesday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Grand Hall

Session 7. Galaxy Structures and Dynamics: Models and Observations
Display, Wednesday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Grand Hall

Session 8. Dwarf, Irregular and Starburst Galaxies
Display, Wednesday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Grand Hall

Session 9. Evolution of Galaxies, Galaxy Surveys
Display, Wednesday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Grand Hall

Session 10. Multiwavelength Observations of Clusters of Galaxies
Display, Wednesday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Grand Hall

Session 11. Calibrating the Distance Scales
Display, Wednesday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Grand Hall

Session 12. Large-Scale Structure Surveys
Display, Wednesday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Grand Hall

Session 13. Cosmological Simulations
Display, Wednesday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Grand Hall

Session 14. Early Universe and Cosmology
Display, Wednesday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Grand Hall

Session 15. Blazar Variability
Display, Wednesday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Grand Hall

Session 16. Blazar and Quasar Variability
Display, Wednesday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Grand Hall

Session 17. Quasars, QSO's and Their Environments
Display, Wednesday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Grand Hall

Session 18. QSO Absorption Lines
Display, Wednesday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Grand Hall

Session 19. NSF CAREERS Awardees
Display, Wednesday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Grand Hall

Session 20. Chandra Observations of Active Galaxies (and a Cluster Too!)
Oral, Wednesday, 10:00-11:30am, Centennial I and II

Session 21. Galaxies Far and Near
Oral, Wednesday, 10:00-11:30am, Regency VII

Session 22. Neutrinos and Supernova Remnants
Oral, Wednesday, 10:00-11:30am, Centennial III

Session 23. Ground-Based Optical/IR Interferometry
Special Session Oral, Wednesday, 10:00-11:30am, Centennial IV

Session 24. Extrasolar Planets and Substellar Companions
Oral, Wednesday, 10:00-11:30am, Regency VI

Session 25. Stars and Disks
Oral, Wednesday, 10:00-11:30am, Regency V

Session 26. Compact Objects: Old, New and Anomalous Friends
Oral, Wednesday, 10:00-11:30am, Hanover F and G

Session 27. Warner Prize: Gravitational Radiation from Accreting Neutron Stars: Implications for Millisecond Pulsar Formation and LIGO
Invited, Wednesday, 11:40am-12:30pm, Centennial I and II

Session 28. New Nu Observations
Special Session Oral, Wednesday, 2:00-3:30pm, Centennial I and II

Session 29. Gravitational Lensing, Relativistic Astrophysics and Gamma Ray Bursts
Oral, Wednesday, 2:00-3:30pm, Regency VII

Session 30. Finding Clusters of Galaxies: Optical and Radio Indicators
Oral, Wednesday, 2:00-3:30pm, Centennial III

Session 31. Star Formation in Nearby Spirals: Environment and Tracers
Oral, Wednesday, 2:00-3:30pm, Centennial IV

Session 32. Young Stars, Disks and Planets: What Can We Learn from the TW Hydrae Association?
Special Session Oral, Wednesday, 2:00-3:30pm, Regency VI

Session 33. SNRs and Other Stellar Ejecta
Oral, Wednesday, 2:00-3:30pm, Regnecy V

Session 34. Large Scale Surveys
Invited, Wednesday, 3:40-5:10pm, Centennial I and II

Session 35. Rossi Prize Lectures
Invited, Thursday, 8:30-9:20am, Centennial I and II

Session 36. White Dwarfs New and Old
Display, Thursday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Grand Hall

Session 37. Stellar Mass Black Holes
Display, Thursday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Grand Hall

Session 38. Supernovae: Near and Far
Display, Thursday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Grand Hall

Session 39. Neutron Stars with Partners
Display, Thursday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Grand Hall

Session 40. White Dwarfs Cataclysmically Seen
Display, Thursday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Grand Hall

Session 41. Isolated Neutron Stars
Display, Thursday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Grand Hall

Session 42. FLASHy Results
Display, Thursday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Grand Hall

Session 43. SN 1987A and Other Supernova Remnants
Display, Thursday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Grand Hall

Session 44. Late Stages of Stellar Evolution
Display, Thursday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Grand Hall

Session 45. Stellar Diameters and Circumstellar Material
Display, Thursday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Grand Hall

Session 46. Space Interferometry Mission
Display, Thursday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Grand Hall

Session 47. Open Clusters, Hot Stars, and Cluster Formation in Tidal Tails
Display, Thursday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Grand Hall

Session 48. Lensing
Display, Thursday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Grand Hall

Session 49. Molecules, Masers, and Star Formation
Display, Thursday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Grand Hall

Session 50. Stellar Atmospheres
Display, Thursday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Grand Hall

Session 51. ISM: Theory and Modelling
Display, Thursday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Grand Hall

Session 52. Absorption in the Intergalactic Medium
Display, Thursday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Grand Hall

Session 53. ISM: Ionized Gas
Display, Thursday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Grand Hall

Session 54. HEAD I: Astrophysical Jets
Special Session Oral, Thursday, 10:00-11:30am, Centennial I and II

Session 55. Cosmological Parameters and the Early Universe
Oral, Thursday, 10:00-11:30am, Regency VII

Session 56. Active Galaxies at Several Wavelengths
Oral, Thursday, 10:00-11:30am, Centennial III

Session 57. Galaxies: Clusters, Lensing, and Absorption Lines
Oral, Thursday, 10:00-11:30am, Centennial IV

Session 58. Solar System
Oral, Thursday, 10:00-11:30am, Regency VI

Session 59. New Results on Stellar Masses
Special Session Oral, Thursday, 10:00-11:30am, Regency V

Session 60. Highlights from ISO
Invited, Thursday, 11:40am-12:30pm, Centennial I and II

Session 61. HEAD II: The Highest Energy Gamma-Rays, Cosmic Rays and Neutrinos
Special Session Oral, Thursday, 2:00-3:30pm, Centennial I and II

Session 62. Sgr A* and Milky Way
Oral, Thursday, 2:00-3:30pm, Regency VII

Session 63. First Year's Results from the Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite
Special Session Oral, Thursday, 2:00-3:30pm, Centennial III

Session 64. Clusters of Galaxies
Oral, Thursday, 2:00-3:30pm, Centennial IV

Session 65. Unification and Temporal Evolution of Active Galaxies
Oral, Thursday, 2:00-3:30pm, Regency VI

Session 66. Young Stars and Clusters
Oral, Thursday, 2:00-3:30pm, Regency V

Session 67. Processes in Galaxies
Invited, Thursday, 3:40-5:10pm, Centennial I and II

Session 68. Pierce Prize Lecture: Drifting Among the Magellanic Clouds
Invited, Friday, 8:30-9:20am, Centennial I and II

Session 69. High Energy Astrophysics
Display, Friday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Grand Hall

Session 70. Elliptical Galaxies and X-Rays
Display, Friday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Grand Hall

Session 71. Gamma Ray Bursts (and the Swift GRB Mission)
Display, Friday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Grand Hall

Session 72. ISM: Neutral Gas
Display, Friday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Grand Hall

Session 73. ISM: Molecular Gas
Display, Friday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Grand Hall

Session 74. ISM: Dust
Display, Friday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Grand Hall

Session 75. Intrinsic Variable Stars
Display, Friday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Grand Hall

Session 76. Geometrically Variable Stars
Display, Friday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Grand Hall

Session 77. Stellar Masses
Display, Friday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Grand Hall

Session 78. Young Stars, Disks and Planets
Display, Friday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Grand Hall

Session 79. Young Stars and Clusters
Display, Friday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Grand Hall

Session 80. Catalogs and Surveys
Display, Friday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Grand Hall

Session 81. Databases and Techniques
Display, Friday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Grand Hall

Session 82. Data Handling
Display, Friday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Grand Hall

Session 83. Radio Observations and Techniques
Display, Friday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Grand Hall

Session 84. Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite
Display, Friday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Grand Hall

Session 85. HST
Display, Friday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Grand Hall

Session 86. NGST
Display, Friday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Grand Hall

Session 87. Ground-Based Observatories and Techniques
Display, Friday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Grand Hall

Session 88. Space Missions and Techniques
Display, Friday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Grand Hall

Session 89. Blazar Variability
Special Session Oral, Friday, 10:00-11:30am, Centennial I and II

Session 90. Gas in Galaxies
Oral, Friday, 10:00-11:30am, Regency VII

Session 91. Drizzling Down the Potential Well: Accreting Compact Objects I
Oral, Friday, 10:00-11:30am, Centennial III

Session 92. Missions: From Stonehenge to HST
Oral, Friday, 10:00-11:30am, Centennial IV

Session 93. Keck Adaptive Optics
Oral, Friday, 10:00-11:30am, Regency VI

Session 94. NASA's Space Science Education and Public Outreach Program
Oral, Friday, 10:00-11:30am, Regency V

Session 95. Public Policy Talk
Invited, Friday, 11:40am-12:30pm, Centennial I and II

Session 96. First Results from the Chandra X-ray Observatory [WEBCAST]
Special Session Oral, Friday, 2:00-3:30pm, Centennial I and II

Session 97. Gas and Stars In and Near Galaxies
Oral, Friday, 2:00-3:30pm, Regency VII

Session 98. Quasars and Their Cousins
Oral, Friday, 2:00-3:30pm, Centennial III

Session 99. Early-type Galaxies
Oral, Friday, 2:00-3:30pm, Centennial IV

Session 100. Electronic Publishing
Oral, Friday, 2:00-3:30pm, Regency VI

Session 101. Astronomy Education
Oral, Friday, 2:00-3:30pm, Regency V

Session 102. Galaxies Near and Far
Invited (including Heineman Prize Lecture), Friday, 3:40-5:10pm, Centennial I and II

Session 103. The Importance of Comet Hale-Bopp: An Astronomical Perspective [WEBCAST]
Invited, Saturday, 8:30-9:20am, Centennial I and II
 

Session 104. Dust and Star Formation in Galaxies
Display, Saturday, 9:20am-4:00pm, Grand Hall

Session 105. Observations, Outreach and Public Opinion
Display, Saturday, 9:20am-4:00pm, Grand Hall

Session 106. Education
Display, Saturday, 9:20am-4:00pm, Grand Hall

Session 107. The Sun
Display, Saturday, 9:20am-4:00pm, Grand Hall

Session 108. Asteroids, etc.
Display, Saturday, 9:20am-4:00pm, Grand Hall

Session 109. Extrasolar Planets and Low Mass Objects
Display, Saturday, 9:20am-4:00pm, Grand Hall

Session 110. Planetary Nebulae
Display, Saturday, 9:20am-4:00pm, Grand Hall

Session 111. Eta Carinae
Display, Saturday, 9:20am-4:00pm, Grand Hall

Session 112. Chandra
Display, Saturday, 9:20am-4:00pm, Grand Hall

Session 113. Ground-Based Optical/IR Interferometry
Display, Saturday, 9:20am-4:00pm, Grand Hall

Session 114. Robotic Telescopes
Display, Saturday, 9:20am-4:00pm, Grand Hall

Session 115. Seyferts and Other Mildly Active Galaxies
Display, Saturday, 9:20am-4:00pm, Grand Hall

Session 116. Radio Galaxies and Their Jets
Display, Saturday, 9:20am-4:00pm, Grand Hall

Session 117. Active Galactic Nuclei: Modelling and Theory
Display, Saturday, 9:20am-4:00pm, Grand Hall

Session 118. Supermassive Black Holes
Oral, Saturday, 10:00-11:30am, Centennial I and II

Session 119. The SIRTF Legacy Science Program
Oral, Saturday, 10:00-11:30am, Regency VII

Session 120. Clusters of Galaxies and Their Contents
Oral, Saturday, 10:00-11:30am, Centennial III

Session 121. The Status of Women in Astronomy
Special Session Oral, Saturday, 10:00-11:30am, Centennial IV

Session 122. Small, Networked and Robotic Telescopes
Special Session Oral, Saturday, 10:00-11:30am, Regency VI

Session 123. HAD: Doggett, Copernicus and the Documentation of Astronomy
Oral (including Doggett Prize Lecture), Saturday, 10:00-11:30am, Regency V

Session 124. MACHOS and Other Dark Subjects: What Has Been Learned Using Gravitational Lensing
Invited, Saturday, 11:40am-12:30pm, Centennial I and II

Session 125. Cosmology and Large-Scale Structure
Oral, Saturday, 2:00-3:30pm, Centennial I and II

Session 126. Drizzling Down the Potential Well: Accreting Compact Objects II
Oral, Saturday, 2:00-3:30pm, Regency VII

Session 127. Variable Stars
Oral, Saturday, 2:00-3:30pm, Centennial III

Session 128. Molecular Clouds and Star Formation
Oral, Saturday, 2:00-3:30pm, Centennial IV

Session 129. Formation and Distribution of Galaxies
Oral, Saturday, 2:00-3:30pm, Regency VI

Session 130. HAD: The Papers of the Century
Special Session Oral, Saturday, 2:00-5:00pm, Regency V

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