Session List

Session 1. HAD I: Special Topics in the History of Astronomy

Special, Sunday, 2:00-6:00pm, East Room (Sheraton)

Welcoming Address

Monday, 8:10-8:30am, 6AB
Craig J. Hogan, Vice Provost for Research, University of Washington
Rachel Webster, IAU Sidney - LOC

Session 2. Well Defined Areas of Doubt and Uncertainty in M Dwarf Astrophysics

Invited, Monday, 8:30-9:20am, 6AB

Session 3. Mass, Temperature and Cooling Flows in Clusters

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

Session 4. Eclipsing and Spectroscopic Binaries

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

Session 5. Galaxy Clusters and Cosmology

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

Session 6. The GOODS and Those HEROs

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

Session 7. Globular Clusters and Their Contents

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

Session 8. Catalogs and Databases

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

Session 9. Virtual Observatories and Online Resources

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

Session 10. Telescopes and Observatories for Education and Outreach

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

Session 11. Seyfert Galaxies and AGNs

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

Session 12. Activity in Cool Stars

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

Session 13. Galaxy - Structure

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

Session 14. Galaxy - Contents

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

Session 15. Black Holes Observed and Modeled

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

Session 16. Stars in SDSS

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

Session 17. Stellar Evolution and Metal-Poor Stars

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

Session 18. Instrumentation for Infrared and Optical Observing

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

Session 19. Interferometer

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

Session 20. Star Formation I

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

Session 21. Planetary Systems: Instrumentation and Surveys

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

Session 22. Highly Structured Outflows from Post MS-Stars

Special, Monday, 10:00-11:30am, 6AB

Session 23. Cosmology: The Fundamental Parameter

Oral, Monday, 10:00-11:30am, 608-609

Session 24. Planetary Systems I

Oral, Monday, 10:00-11:30am, 606-607

Session 25. Circumstellar Material and Mass Loss

Oral, Monday, 10:00-11:30am, 602-604

Session 26. Galaxy Structure and Interactions

Oral, Monday, 10:00-11:30am, 616-617

Session 27. Stars, Gas, and Dust in the Milky Way

Oral, Monday, 10:00-11:30am, 618-619

Session 28. Astronomy Education and Public Outreach

Oral, Monday, 10:00-11:30am, 613-614

Session 29. HAD II: History of IDEAS on Extraterrestrial Life

Special, Monday, 10:00-11:30am, 612

Session 30. Public Policy: A Canadian Vision of International Astronomy and Astrophysics

Invited, Monday, 11:40am-12:30pm, 6AB

Session 31. The Galactic Center and Its Environs

Oral, Monday, 2:00-3:30pm, 6AB

Session 32. Galaxy Evolution and Surveys: ``Far Away"

Oral, Monday, 2:00-3:30pm, 608-609

Session 33. Stars Dead or Alive

Oral, Monday, 2:00-3:30pm, 606-607

Session 34. ISM: Dust and Molecular Clouds

Oral, Monday, 2:00-3:30pm, 602-604

Session 35. Undergraduate Research

Special, Monday, 2:00-3:30pm, 616-617

Session 36. Committee on the Status of Minorities in Astronomy

Special, Monday, 2:00-3:30pm, 618-619

Session 37. HAD III: Biography of 19th and 20th Century Astronomers

Oral, Monday, 2:00-3:30pm, 613-614

Session 38. Solar Systems: Ours and Theirs

Invited, Monday, 3:40-5:10pm, 6AB

Session 39. Warner Prize Lecture

Invited, Tuesday, 8:30-9:20am, 6AB

Session 40. Normal and Dwarf Novae

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

Session 41. ACS, FAME, FUSE, SIM, and Swift

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

Session 42. Galaxies and Clusters

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

Session 43. Forming and Probing Large Scale Structure

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

Session 44. Galactic Open Clusters and Their Contents

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

Session 45. The Solar System

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

Session 46. Planetary Systems: Observations and Models

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

Session 47. The Interstellar Medium I

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

Session 48. Blazars and AGNs

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

Session 49. Eta Carinae, LBVs, and Circumstellar Disks

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

Session 50. The Milky Way: From Center to Halo

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

Session 51. Galaxy Evolution and Surveys: Modeling and Theory

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

Session 52. Galaxy Evolution and Surveys: Observations and Interpretation

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

Session 53. K-12 Astronomy Education and Public Outreach

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

Session 54. Compact X-Ray Sources

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

Session 55. Instrumental Calibration and Data Analysis Techniques

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

Session 56. Supernovae Potpourri

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

Session 57. Stellar Black Holes

Oral, Tuesday, 10:00-11:30am, 6AB

Session 58. Clusters of Galaxies at Many Wavelengths

Oral, Tuesday, 10:00-11:30am, 608-609

Session 59. Structure in and at Clusters of Galaxies

Oral, Tuesday, 10:00-11:30am, 606-607

Session 60. Star Formation I

Oral, Tuesday, 10:00-11:30am, 602-604

Session 61. Pluto-Occultation Studies

Oral, Tuesday, 10:00-11:30am, 616-617

Session 62. The Biology of Astrobiology for Astronomers I

Special, Tuesday, 10:00-11:30am, 618-619

Session 63. Making it Work: Principled ``Model Free Deconvolution" via Multiscale Methods

Special, Tuesday, 10:00-11:30am, 613-614

Session 64. Russell Prize Lecture

Invited, Tuesday, 11:40am-12:30pm, 6AB

Session 65. Stars and Galactic Structure in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Special, Tuesday, 2:00-3:30pm, 6AB

Session 66. Star Formation II

Oral, Tuesday, 2:00-3:30pm, 608-609

Session 67. Cosmic Gas: Long Ago and Far Away

Oral, Tuesday, 2:00-3:30pm, 606-607

Session 68. Structure of Galaxies with Central Masses

Oral, Tuesday, 2:00-3:30pm, 602-604

Session 69. Gamma Ray Observations

Oral, Tuesday, 2:00-3:30pm, 616-617

Session 70. The Biology of Astrobiology for Astronomers II

Special, Tuesday, 2:00-3:30pm, 618-619

Session 71. High Energy Astro and Neutron Stars

Oral, Tuesday, 2:00-3:30pm, 613-614

Session 72. Physical Worlds, Biological Worlds, and Virtual Worlds

Invited, Tuesday, 3:40-5:10pm, 6AB

Session 73. Rossi Prize Lecture

Invited, Wednesday, 8:30-9:20am, 6AB

Session 74. Stars: Observational Programs

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

Session 75. Binaries and Friends

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

Session 76. Astronomers and Their Tools

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

Session 77. The Interstellar Medium II

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

Session 78. NOAO Survey Programs

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

Session 79. Intergalactic Material: Its Structure and Composition

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

Session 80. Gravitational Lenses

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

Session 81. Extragalactic Star Clusters

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

Session 82. Planning for Future Missions: Radio to X-Ray

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

Session 83. Solar Activity

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

Session 84. Gamma Ray Observations

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

Session 85. X-Rays

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

Session 86. Radio Galaxies and Jets

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

Session 87. Radio and X-Ray SNRs

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

Session 88. Undergraduate Astronomy Instruction, Labs and Research

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

Session 89. Planetary Nebulae and Dusty Clouds

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

Session 90. HST Instruments

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

Session 91. Computational Techniques and Tools

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

Session 92. The SNAP Observatory

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

Session 93. Star Formation II

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

Session 94. HEAD I: Cosmic Ray Physics in the 21st Century

Special, Wednesday, 10:00-11:30am, 6AB

Session 95. How NSF Works

Special, Wednesday, 10:00-11:30am, 608-609

Session 96. Planetary Systems II

Oral, Wednesday, 10:00-11:30am, 606-607

Session 97. Probing Dark Energy with SNAP

Oral, Wednesday, 10:00-11:30am, 602-604

Session 98. AGNs, Black Holes, and Quasars

Oral, Wednesday, 10:00-11:30am, 616-617

Session 99. Supernovae, SNRs, and Our Atmosphere

Oral, Wednesday, 10:00-11:30am, 618-619

Session 100. Galaxy Evolution and Surveys: Miscellaneous

Oral, Wednesday, 10:00-11:30am, 613-614

Session 101. Cosmology and Gravitation

Oral, Wednesday, 10:00-11:30am, 612

Session 102. Pierce Prize Lecture

Invited, Wednesday, 11:40am-12:30pm, 6AB

Session 103. HEAD II: New Directions in X-Ray Astronomy

Special, Wednesday, 2:00-3:30pm, 6AB

Session 104. NOAO Survey Programs

Special, Wednesday, 2:00-3:30pm, 608-609

Session 105. Mapping the Cosmos: A Variety of Surveys

Oral, Wednesday, 2:00-3:30pm, 606-607

Session 106. Alternative Careers for Astronomers

Special, Wednesday, 2:00-3:30pm, 602-604

Session 107. AGN

Oral, Wednesday, 2:00-3:30pm, 616-617

Session 108. Old Stellar Populations

Oral, Wednesday, 2:00-3:30pm, 618-619

Session 109. Fine Structure in Galaxies

Oral, Wednesday, 2:00-3:30pm, 613-614

Session 110. Unraveling the Physics of Cataclysmic Variables and Accretion Disks

Invited, Wednesday, 3:40-5:10pm, 6AB

Session 111. Super Machos and Supernovae: Astrophysics in the Time Domain

Invited, Thursday, 8:30-9:20am, 6AB

Session 112. The ISM: Clouds and Regions

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

Session 113. Massive Star Winds and Atmospheres

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

Session 114. Quasars

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

Session 115. Cool Star Atmospheres and Envelopes

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

Session 116. Galaxies - Activating

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

Session 117. Delta Scuti and Pulsating Friends

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

Session 118. Rotation-Powered Pulsars

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

Session 119. White Dwarfs

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

Session 120. Cataclysmic Variables

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

Session 121. From Microns to Meters: Radio Wavelength Miscellany

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

Session 122. Instruments for Observing Transient Events

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

Session 123. Supernovae and Other Distance Indicators

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

Session 124. WIYN Open Cluster Study

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

Session 125. Quasars

Oral, Thursday, 10:00-11:30am, 6AB

Session 126. SNAP

Special, Thursday, 10:00-11:30am, 608-609

Session 127. Interstellar Medium: Hot and Cold

Oral, Thursday, 10:00-11:30am, 606-607

Session 128. Galaxy Evolution and Surveys" ``Nearby"

Oral, Thursday, 10:00-11:30am, 602-604

Session 129. LMXB's and Transient Sky

Oral, Thursday, 10:00-11:30am, 616-617

Session 130. The Sun and Solar System Studies

Oral, Thursday, 10:00-11:30am, 618-619

Session 131. Astronomical Instrumentation and Data Handling

Oral, Thursday, 10:00-11:30am, 613-614

Session 132. Innovations in Graduate Education in Astronomy

Special, Thursday, 10:00-11:30am, 612

Session 133. Stars, Gas, and Dust in the Universe

Invited, Thursday, 11:40am-12:30pm, 6AB

Session 134. LSST

Oral, Thursday, 2:00-3:30pm, 6AB

Session 135. How to Write Winning E/PO Proposals for NASA Space Science Research Awards

Special, Thursday, 2:00-3:30pm, 608-609

Session 136. Star Formation Young Stars

Oral, Thursday, 2:00-3:30pm, 606-607

Session 137. DEEP2 Survey

Oral, Thursday, 2:00-3:30pm, 602-604

Session 138. X-Ray Observations of Quasars and AGNs

Oral, Thursday, 2:00-3:30pm, 616-617

Session 139. Pulsars: Blowing in the Wind

Oral, Thursday, 2:00-3:30pm, 618-619

Session 140. Cosmology: CMB and Reionization

Oral, Thursday, 2:00-3:30pm, 613-614