Session List

College Astronomy Teaching Workshop

Education, Saturday, 9:00am-5:00pm, Mt. Evans A, Hyatt Hotel

Mt. Evans Observatory Tour/Open House

Special Event, Sunday, 9:00am-4:00pm, Tour vans leave from convention hotels

SPD Hike, NCAR to Woods Quarry

Special Event, Sunday, noon, Busses provided

Deep Impact (DI) Professional Collaborators' Workshop

Sunday, 12:30-6:00pm, Mt. Evans B, Hyatt Hotel

Astro 101 - The Graduate Instructor and Undergraduate Preceptor

Education, Sunday, 2:30-5:30pm, Denver Ballroom III, Marriott Hotel

Undergraduate Orientation

Student Event, Sunday, 6:00-7:00pm, 707/709

Opening Reception

Social Event, Sunday, 7:00-10:00pm, Ballroom Pre-Functon Area

Welcoming Address

Dr. Jack Burns, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Research, University of Colorado, Monday, 8:15-8:30am, 603/605/607

Session 1. Formation and Migration of Extrasolar Planets

Invited, Monday, 8:30-9:20am, 603/605/607

Job Center

Career, Monday, 9:00am-5:00pm, Ballroom

Cyber Cafe

Monday, Ballroom

Session 2. When the Sun Went Wild

SPD Topical Related Poster, Monday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Ballroom

Session 3. Stellar-Solar Connection

SPD Poster, Monday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Ballroom

Session 4. Plasma Astrophysics of Coronae

Poster, Monday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Ballroom

Session 5. Eclipsing Binaries and Friends

Poster, Monday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Ballroom

Session 6. Stars: Winkin' and Blinkin'

Poster, Monday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Ballroom

Session 7. A Walk Through the HR Diagram

Poster, Monday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Ballroom

Session 8. UV/Optical Universe at Ultra-High Angular Resolution

Topical Realted Poster, Monday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Ballroom

Session 9. Clusters of Galaxies

Poster, Monday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Ballroom

Session 10. Instrumentation, Ground-based

Poster, Monday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Ballroom

Session 11. Instrumentation, Space Missions

Poster, Monday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Ballroom

Session 12. Undergraduate Astronomy Curriculum

Poster, Monday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Ballroom

Session 13. RFI Mitigation and Light Pollution Issues

Poster, Monday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Ballroom

Session 14. Multi-wavelength Astronomy and SDSS

Special Session, Monday, 10:00-11:30am, 603/605/607

Session 15. Diffuse Media Galactic and Intergalactic

Oral, Monday, 10:00-11:30am, 601

Session 16. Interactive Education and Peer Instruction in Introductory Courses

Special Session, Monday, 10:00-11:30am, 707/709

Session 17. Galaxies Including Our Own

Oral, Monday, 10:00-11:30am, 710/712

Session 18. Coronal Mass Ejections

SPD Oral, Monday, 10:00-11:30am, 704

Session 19. Astronomy Education

Oral, Monday, 10:00-11:30am, 706

Session 20. Magnetic Fields

SPD Oral, Monday, 10:00-11:30am, 702

Session 21. Moon, Mercury, Vesta and Late Stellar Evolution

Oral, Monday, 10:00-11:30am, 610/612

Session 22. Pierce Prize Lecture: X-raying Active Galaxies

Invited, Monday, 11:40am-12:30pm, 603/605/607

SPD Women's Lunch

Monday, 12:30-1:45pm, 708

National Science Foundation

Town Meeting, Monday, 1:00-2:00pm, 710/712

Session 23. Radio and X-ray Studies of AGN

Oral, Monday, 2:00-3:30pm, 603/605/607

Session 24. Protoplanetary Disks and the Brown Dwarf Desert

Oral, Monday, 2:00-3:30pm, 601

Session 25. The UV/Optical Universe at Ulta-High Angular Resolution

Special Session, Monday, 2:00-3:30pm, 707/709

Session 26. Followup to Workshop for New Faculty in Physics and Astronomy

Special Session, Monday, 2:00-3:30pm, 710/712

Session 27. Magnetic Reconnection Flares and CMEs

SPD Oral, Monday, 2:00-3:30pm, 704

Session 28. The Reference System Resolutions of the IAU

Special Session, Monday, 2:00-3:30pm, 706

Session 29. The Solar Corona and Beyond

SPD Oral, Monday, 2:00-3:30pm, 702

Session 30. Radio Frequency Interference

Special Session, Monday, 2:00-3:30pm, 610/612

Session 31. Hale Prize Lecture: The High Energy Sun

Invited, Monday, 3:40-4:30pm, 603/605/607

Session 32. The Sun's Control of Earth's Astronomical Neighborhood

Invited, Monday, 4:30-5:20pm, 603/605/607

Chamberlin Observatory Reception

Special Event, Monday, 7:00-10:00pm, Busses leave from conventions hotels

Session 33. Early Science Results from the Spitzer Space Telescope

Topical Session, Tuesday, 8:30-10:00am, 10:45am-12:30pm, 2:30-4:00pm, 4:15-6:00pm, 601

Session 34. Detecting the First Stars and AGN

Topical Session, Tuesday, 8:30-10:00am, 10:45am-12:30pm, 2:30-4:00pm, 4:15-6:00pm, 707/709

Session 35. Professional-Amateur Collaboration for Enhanced Research

Topical Session, Tuesday, 8:30-10:00am, 10:45am-12:30pm, 710/712

Session 36. Stellar-Solar Connection: What the Stars Teach Us about Our Sun

SPD Topical Session, Tuesday, 8:30-10:00am, 10:45am-12:30pm, 702/704/706

Session 37. Solar Magnetic Fields and the Photosphere

SPD Poster, Tuesday, 10:00am-7:00pm, Ballroom

Session 38. Coronal Mass Ejections

SPD Poster, Tuesday, 10:00am-7:00pm, Ballroom

Session 39. Solar Magnetic Fields and Activity

SPD Poster, Tuesday, 10:00am-7:00pm, Ballroom

Session 40. Galaxies

Poster, Tuesday, 10:00am-7:00pm, Ballroom

Session 41. Spitzer Space Telescope

Topical Related Poster, Tuesday, 10:00am-7:00pm, Ballroom

Session 42. Cosmology and Lensing

Poster, Tuesday, 10:00am-7:00pm, Ballroom

Session 43. Galaxy Surveys and Galaxy Clusters

Poster, Tuesday, 10:00am-7:00pm, Ballroom

Session 44. Active Galaxies

Poster, Tuesday, 10:00am-7:00pm, Ballroom

Session 45. The Galaxy and The Magellanic Clouds

Poster, Tuesday, 10:00am-7:00pm, Ballroom

Special Address by Sean O'Keefe, NASA Administrator

Town Meeting, Tuesday, 1:00-2:00pm, 603/605/607

Session 46. Plasma Astrophysics of Coronae: Solar, Stellar and Accretion Disk

Topical Session, Tuesday, 2:30-4:00pm, 4:15-6:00pm, 710/712

Session 47. When the Sun Went Wild

Topical Session, Tuesday, 2:30-4:00pm, 4:15-6:00pm, 702/704/706

Graduate Student -- Employer Networking

Career, Tuesday, 7:00-8:00pm, Lobby C

SPD Membership Meeting

Tuesday, 7:00-10:00pm, Room TBA

Session 48. Galaxy Evolution and Galaxy Clustering in the NDWFS' Bootes Field

Topical Session, Wednesday, 8:30-10:00am, 10:45am-12:30pm, 603/605/607

Session 49. X-ray Binary and ULX Populations in Nearby Galaxies

Topical Session, Wednesday, 8:30-10:00am, 10:45am-12:30pm, 2:30-4:00pm, 4:15-6:00pm, 601

Session 50. AGN Mass Ejection and X-ray/UV Connection

Topical Session, Wednesday, 8:30-10:00am, 10:45am-12:30pm, 707/709

Session 51. Improving Our Understanding of Solar and Stellar Coronae

SPD Topical Session, Wednesday, 8:30-10:00am, 704/706

Session 52. Virtual Observations in Solar Physics

SPD Topical Session, Wednesday, 10:45am-12:30pm, 704/706

Session 53. Solar Interior

SPD Poster, Wednesday, 10:00am-7:00pm, Ballroom

Session 54. Solar Flares

SPD Poster, Wednesday, 10:00am-7:00pm, Ballroom

Session 55. Prominences

SPD Poster, Wednesday, 10:00am-7:00pm, Ballroom

Session 56. Solar Active Regions and Coronal Heating

SPD Poster, Wednesday, 10:00am-7:00pm, Ballroom

Session 57. Historical Astronomy

Poster, Wednesday, 10:00am-7:00pm, Ballroom

Session 58. Astronomy Education Research

Poster, Wednesday, 10:00am-7:00pm, Ballroom

Session 59. Galactic Center

Poster, Wednesday, 10:00am-7:00pm, Ballroom

Session 60. Quasars

Poster, Wednesday, 10:00am-7:00pm, Ballroom

Session 61. Structures in the Interstellar Medium

Poster, Wednesday, 10:00am-7:00pm, Ballroom

Session 62. Protoplanets, Star Formation and Debris Disks

Poster, Wednesday, 10:00am-7:00pm, Ballroom

Session 63. Exploding Stars

Poster, Wednesday, 10:00am-7:00pm, Ballroom

Session 64. The Hazardous Solar System and Other Objects

Poster, Wednesday, 10:00am-7:00pm, Ballroom

ATST Lunch

Wednesday, 12:30-1:30pm, 612

AAS Members Meeting

Annual Event, Wednesday, 1:30-2:30pm, 707/709

Session 65. Galaxy Structure and its Evolution

Topical Session, Wednesday, 2:30-4:00pm, 4:15-6:00pm, 603/605/607

Session 66. Mars Down to Earth

Topical Session, Wednesday, 2:30-4:00pm, 4:15-6:00pm, 707/709

Session 67. Solar Input to the Heliosphere

SPD Topical Session, Wednesday, 2:30-4:00pm, 4:15-6:00pm, 704/706

Society Banquet

Special Event, Wednesday, 7:00-10:30pm, Denver Museum of Nature and Science

Session 68. Hidden Losses

Invited, Thursday, 8:30-9:20am, 603/605/607

Session 69. New Solar Instrumentation

SPD Poster, Thursday, 9:20am-4:00pm, Ballroom

Session 70. Virtual Solar Observatory

SPD Topical Related Poster, Thursday, 9:20am-4:00pm, Ballroom

Session 71. Large-Scale Features of the Solar Corona

SPD Poster, Thursday, 9:20am-4:00pm, Ballroom

Session 72. Solar Input to the Heliosphere

SPD Poster, Thursday, 9:20am-4:00pm, Ballroom

Session 73. Solar and Stellar Coronae

SPD Poster, Thursday, 9:20am-4:00pm, Ballroom

Session 74. Stellar Leftovers

Poster, Thursday, 9:20am-4:00pm, Ballroom

Session 75. Surveys, Catalogs and Databases

Poster, Thursday, 9:20am-4:00pm, Ballroom

Session 76. Data Handling, Computation

Poster, Thursday, 9:20am-4:00pm, Ballroom

Session 77. Astronomy for K-12

Poster, Thursday, 9:20am-4:00pm, Ballroom

Session 78. Informal Astronomy Programs

Poster, Thursday, 9:20am-4:00pm, Ballroom

Session 79. Intergalactic Gas

Poster, Thursday, 9:20am-4:00pm, Ballroom

Session 80. Nearby Galaxies

Poster, Thursday, 9:20am-4:00pm, Ballroom

Session 81. Herschel FIR/Sub-mm Astronomy Mission

Special Session Related Poster, Thursday, 9:20am-4:00pm, Ballroom

Session 82. Star Formation and Early Results from Spitzer

Oral, Thursday, 10:00-11:30am, 603/605/607

Session 83. The Astronomy Workforce

Special Session, Thursday, 10:00-11:30am, 601

Session 84. New Ways of Teaching College Astronomy -- Practical Advice and Results

Special Session, Thursday, 10:00-11:30am, 707/709

Session 85. What's New with Old Variable Stars?

Special Session, Thursday, 10:00-11:30am, 710/712

Session 86. Harvey Prize

SPD Invited, Thursday, 10:00-10:30am, 704/706

Session 87. Flares

SPD Oral, Thursday, 10:30-11:30am, 704/706

Session 88. Solar Photosphere and Below

SPD Oral, Thursday, 10:30-11:30am, 702

Session 89. Obtrusive Nighttime Lighting

Special Session, Thursday, 10:00-11:30am, 2:00-3:30pm, 610/612

Session 90. Cosmological Parameters and Beyond

Invited, Thursday, 11:40am-12:30pm, 603/605/607

Status of Women in Astronomy

Committee, Thursday, 1:00-2:00pm, 601

Session 91. Young Galaxies and Evolution in the Early Universe

Oral, Thursday, 2:00-3:30pm, 603/605/607

Session 92. Diagnosing AGN

Oral, Thursday, 2:00-3:30pm, 601

Session 93. The Herschel Far-Infrared Submillimeter Astronomy Mission

Special Session, Thursday, 2:00-3:30pm, 707/709

Session 94. Cool Astronomy for Everyone

Special Session, Thursday, 2:00-3:30pm, 710/712

Session 95. Coronal Heating Theory and Observations

SPD Oral, Thursday, 2:00-3:30pm, 704

Session 96. Teaching Astronomy to Impact World Views

Special Session, Thursday, 2:00-3:30pm, 706

Session 97. Instrumentation, Ground-based and Space-based Gamma Ray Bursts

Oral, Thursday, 2:00-3:30pm, 702

NASA Origins Missions \& Astrobiology

Education, Thursday, 3:45-5:45pm, 710/712

When We Were Young: Early Life on Venus, Earth and Mars

Public Lecture, Thursday, 7:30-9:00pm, 603/605/607