Session list

Welcoming Address 

Monday, 8:15-8:30am, International Ballroom Center

Session 1. HAD I: New Views of Historical Research in the 21st Century

Special Session Oral, Sunday, 2:00-4:00pm, Caucus

Session 2. Why Study Nearby Galaxies?

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

Session 3. Exoplanets, Dynamics and Earth

Display, Monday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Monroe/Lincoln

Session 4. Star-Forming Environments

Display, Monday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Monroe/Lincoln

Session 5. Stellar and Intermediate Mass Black Holes

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

Session 6. Binary Stars

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

Session 7. Galaxies - Surveys I

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

Session 8. Instruments for HST and NGST

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

Session 9. Space Interferometry and Planet Finders

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

Session 10. Data Centers, NVO and Catalogs

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

Session 11. Interstellar Medium - I

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

Session 12. Gamma Ray Bursts

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

Session 13. FUSE and Friends: New Results

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

Session 14. Star Clusters in External Galaxies

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

Session 15. HAD IV: New Views of Historical Topics

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

Session 16. Cosmology and Lensing

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

Session 17. Pulsars, White Dwarfs and Galactic Gamma Ray Sources

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

Session 18. High Velocity Clouds and The Intergalactic Medium

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

Session 19. Chandra Observations of Nearby Galaxies

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

Session 20. Elliptical Galaxies

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

Session 21. Dwarf Galaxies

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

Session 22. Astronomy Education Resources

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

Session 23. Astronomy Education

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

Session 24. Cosmology

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

Session 25. Black Holes, Dark Matter and X-ray Sources in Extragalactic Systems

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

Session 26. Gamma Ray Bursts

Oral, Monday, 10:00-11:30am, International Ballroom West

Session 27. White Dwarfs and Neutron Stars

Oral, Monday, 10:00-11:30am, Jefferson West

Session 28. Solar System: Dynamics and Collisions

Oral, Monday, 10:00-11:30am, Jefferson East

Session 29. Intergalactic Medium and QSO Absorption Line Systems

Oral, Monday, 10:00-11:30am, Georgetown West

Session 30. Recommendations of ``Enhancing the Postdoctoral Experience for Scientists and Engineers"

Special Session Oral, Monday, 10:00-11:30am, Georgetown East

Session 31. HAD II: The Development of American Astrophysics: Ideas, Instruments, Observatories and Astronomers

Special Session Oral, Monday, 10:30-12:00noon 10:00-11:30am, State

Session 32. Russell Lecture

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

Session 33. Extra-Solar Planets

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

Session 34. Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropy and Dark Matter

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

Session 35. Galaxies I

Oral, Monday, 2:00-3:30pm, International Ballroom West

Session 36. Some Impacts of Solar Irradiance Variation on Terrestrial Climate

Special Session Oral, Monday, 2:00-3:30pm, Jefferson West

Session 37. From Cloud Cores to Star Clusters

Oral, Monday, 2:00-3:30pm, Jefferson East

Session 38. How NSF Works

Special Session Oral, Monday, 2:00-3:30pm, Georgetown West

Session 39. Stellar Remnants and Cataclysmic Variables

Oral, Monday, 2:00-3:30pm, Georgetown East

Session 40. HAD III: Some Controversies in the History of Astronomy

Special Session Oral, Monday, 2:00-3:30pm, State

Session 41. New Views of Galactic Nucleosynthesis and Supernova Remnants

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

Session 42. Heineman Prize Lecture

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

Session 43. AGN - IR and Starbursts

Display, Tuesday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Monroe/Lincoln

Session 44. SIRTF and Infrared Space Instruments

Display, Tuesday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Monroe/Lincoln

Session 45. Instrumentation for Space Observations

Display, Tuesday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Monroe/Lincoln

Session 46. M-31: A Multiwavelength Look

Display, Tuesday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Monroe/Lincoln

Session 47. Type IA Supernovae

Display, Tuesday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Monroe/Lincoln

Session 48. Public Outreach and Astronomy Resources

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

Session 49. Starburst Galaxies

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

Session 50. Seyfert Galaxies

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

Session 51. Radio Galaxies

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

Session 52. Structure and Kinematics of Spiral Galaxies

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

Session 53. Galaxies - Evolution

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

Session 54. Galaxies - Various

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

Session 55. Galaxies - Surveys II

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

Session 56. Globular Clusters

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

Session 57. Open Clusters

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

Session 58. Interstellar Medium - II

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

Session 59. Dust

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

Session 60. Star Formation - Accretion and Outflow

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

Session 61. Stars: Dwarfs and Companions

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

Session 62. Dwarf Novae and Other Cataclysmic Variables

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

Session 63. Solar System

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

Session 64. Overview of The Supernova/Acceleration Probe

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

Session 65. FUSE Only

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

Session 66. Extra-Solar Planets and Vega

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

Session 67. Supernovae

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

Session 68. AGN

Oral, Tuesday, 10:00-11:30am, International Ballroom West

Session 69. Clusters of Galaxies - I

Oral, Tuesday, 10:00-11:30am, Jefferson West

Session 70. Goals and Strategies for Astronomy 101

Special Session Oral, Tuesday, 10:00-11:30am, Jefferson East

Session 71. Committee on the Status of Minorities in Astronomy

Special Session Oral, Tuesday, 10:00-11:30am, Georgetown West

Session 72. Properties and Structure of Extragalactic Systems

Oral, Tuesday, 10:00-11:30am, Georgetown East

Session 73. Square Kilometer Array

Special Session Oral, Tuesday, 10:00-11:30am, State

Session 74. Public Policy

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

Session 75. Gravitational Lensing and Cosmic Distances

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

Session 76. Disks and Outflows of Young Stellar Objects

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

Session 77. QSOs

Oral, Tuesday, 2:00-3:30pm, International Ballroom West

Session 78. Surveys and Evolution of Nearby Galaxies

Oral, Tuesday, 2:00-3:30pm, Jefferson West

Session 79. Star Clusters

Oral, Tuesday, 2:00-3:30pm, Jefferson East

Session 80. The Astronomy Diagnostic Test: Development, Results and Applications

Special Session Oral, Tuesday, 2:00-3:30pm, Georgetown West

Session 81. High Angular Resolution: Low Frequency Radio Astronomy

Special Session Oral, Tuesday, 2:00-3:30pm, Georgetown East

Session 82. Astrobiology - The Search for Life Beyond Earth

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

Session 83. Rossi Prize Lectures

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

Session 84. Supernovae Surveys

Display, Wednesday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Monroe/Lincoln

Session 85. The Galactic Center

Display, Wednesday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Monroe/Lincoln

Session 86. Extra-Solar Planet Astronomy from the Present to TPF

Display, Wednesday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Monroe/Lincoln

Session 87. Interacting Galaxies

Display, Wednesday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Monroe/Lincoln

Session 88. Our Favorite Star

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

Session 89. Young Stars - Surveys, Associations and Binaries

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

Session 90. $\delta$ Scuti and Mira Variables

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

Session 91. Stellar Populations and Galactic Structure

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

Session 92. Circumstellar Material and Atmospheres: Cooler

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

Session 93. Data Analysis Challenges in Solar Stellar Astrophysics

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

Session 94. Type II Supernovae

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

Session 95. Accreting Neutron Stars

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

Session 96. Associations, Young Massive Clusters

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

Session 97. Interstellar Medium - III

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

Session 98. Blazars and Other AGN Jets

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

Session 99. AGN - Narrow Line and Broad Line

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

Session 100. Galaxy Clusters and Mergers

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

Session 101. DPOSS, LONEOS, LSST and DLS: New Survey Results

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

Session 102. Instrumentation for the Optical and Infrared

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

Session 103. Instrumentation for Radio Wavelengths

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

Session 104. Light Pollution Issues

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

Session 105. HEAD I: Measuring Neutron Star Radii vi Thermal Emission: Constraining the Nuclear Equation of State

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

Session 106. Deep-Fields and High-Z Galaxies

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

Session 107. Policy Insider Panel

Special Session Oral, Wednesday, 10:00-11:30am, International Ballroom West

Session 108. Black Holes

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

Session 109. Galactic Center and Milky Way Formation

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

Session 110. Nucleosynthesis and Dust Formation

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

Session 111. Science with Wide Field Imaging in Space

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

Session 112. Data Analysis Challenges in Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

Special Session Oral, Wednesday, 10:00-11:30am, State

Session 113. Pierce Prize Lecture

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

Session 114. HEAD II: Gravitational Wave and High Energy Astrophysics

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

Session 115. Extra-Solar Planet Astronomy from the Present to TPF

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

Session 116. Cosmology with SNAP

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

Session 117. Star Formation and the ISM at Galactic Scales

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

Session 118. Galaxies II

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

Session 119. Magnetars and Pulsars

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

Session 120. Protecting Local Dark-Sky Areas and Sky Brightness as a Part of Education in Astronomy

Special Session Oral, Wednesday, 2:00-3:30pm, Georgetown East

Session 121. Frontiers in High Energy Astrophysics

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

Session 122. Warner Prize Lecture

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

Session 123. NOAO Deep Wide Field Survey

Display, Thursday, 9:20am-4:00pm, Monroe/Lincoln

Session 124. H II Regions

Display, Thursday, 9:20am-4:00pm, Monroe/Lincoln

Session 125. Dark Matter

Display, Thursday, 9:20am-4:00pm, Monroe/Lincoln

Session 126. Supernova Remnants

Display, Thursday, 9:20am-4:00pm, Monroe/Lincoln

Session 127. The In Focus Telescope

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

Session 128. ISO Spectra

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

Session 129. Astrometric Surveys

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

Session 130. Surveys, Surveys

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

Session 131. QSO Absorption Lines

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

Session 132. AGN - Modeling

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

Session 133. Variable Stars: Searchers, Data, Analysis

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

Session 134. Formation of Massive Stars

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

Session 135. Circumstellar Material and Atmospheres: Hotter

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

Session 136. Planetary Nebulae

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

Session 137. Topics in Stellar Evolution

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

Session 138. AGN - Surveys

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

Session 139. Distance Scale

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

Session 140. Recent Results from Chandra Deep Surveys - I

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

Session 141. AGN and non-AGN Populations and Unification

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

Session 142. Clusters of Galaxies - II

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

Session 143. Stellar Spectroscopy

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

Session 144. Government Relations Issues Panel

Special Session Oral, Thursday, 10:00-11:30am, Jefferson East

Session 145. Astronomical Instruments and Analytical Tools

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

Session 146. Our Favorite Star

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

Session 147. New Perspectives on Cosmological Structure Formation

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

Session 148. Recent Results from Chandra Deep Surveys - II

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

Session 149. Molecular Clouds, Cloud Cores, and Their Magnetic Fields

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

Session 150. Particular AGNs and Seyferts

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

Session 151. Structure and Composition of The ISM

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

Session 152. Variable Stars

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

Session 153. Stellar Populations and Dynamics in Extragalactic Systems

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

Session 154. The Undergraduate Astronomy Major: What and Why?

Special Session Oral, Thursday, 2:00-3:30pm, Georgetown East