Session List

Modeling the Universe Educator's Workshop

Saturday, 9:00am-3:00pm, Royal Palm 5/6

College Astronomy Teaching Excellence Workshop

Saturday-Sunday, 9:00am-5:00pm, California

NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellows (AAPF) Symposium

Saturday-Sunday, 1:00-6:00pm and 9:00am-5:00pm, Golden West

NURO

Sunday, 9:00am-4:00pm, Dover

Winning Small Grants to do Education and Public Outreach with NASA Office of Space Science Programs

Sunday, 9:00am-12:00pm, Royal Palm 5/6

Career Workshop

Sunday, 9:00am-12:00pm, 1:00-4:00pm, Royal Palm 1/2

Visit Historic Palomar Observatory

Sunday, 12:30-5:30pm

Session 1. HAD I: Centennial Celebration of the Founding of Mount Wilson Observatory

Special Session, Sunday, 2:00-5:00pm, Sunrise

Session 2. HAD Poster Session I

Poster, Sunday, 2:00-5:00pm, Sunrise

Spitzer Observation Planning Workshop

Sunday, 2:00-6:00pm, Royal Palm 3/4

NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) Mission Education and Outreach E/PO kick-off Meeting

Sunday, 2:00-6:00pm, Garden 2

Speaker Ready Room

Sunday, 2:00-6:00pm, Pacific Salon 4

Astronomy 101: A Continuing Dialogue

Sunday, 2:30-7:00pm, Pacific Salon 1

Undergraduate Orientation

Sunday, 6:00-7:00pm, Terrace Pavillion

Opening Reception

Sunday, 7:00-10:00pm, Town and Country

Welcoming Address

Monday, 8:15-8:30am, Town and Country

Session 3. New Waves: Astronomical Research with Millimeter to Infrared Interferometers

Invited, Monday, 8:30-9:20am, Town and Country

Job Center

Monday-Thursday, 9:20am-5:00pm, Stratford

Cyber Cafe

Monday-Thurdsay, 9:20am-6:30pm, Terrace 2

Gadgets and Gizmos

Monday-Thurdsay, 9:20am-, Terrace 3

Session 4. HAD Poster Session II

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

Session 5. Visible/UV/IR Space Missions and Technology

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

Session 6. X-ray and Gamma Ray Space Missions and Technology

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

Session 7. Laboratory Astrophysics

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

Session 8. Informal Astronomy

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

Session 9. NURO Asteroids and Stars

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

Session 10. Solar Studies

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

Session 11. Brown Dwarfs and Exoplanets

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

Session 12. Stellar Atmospheres

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

Session 13. Stellar Evolution

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

Session 14. Variable Stars and Stellar Oscillations

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

Session 15. Young Stellar Associations

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

Session 16. Ae Be and T Tauri Stars

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

Session 17. Ae Be and Debris Disks: Searches Lead to High Angular Resolution Studies

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

Session 18. Eclipsing Binaries and Contact Binaries

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

Session 19. Cataclysmic Variable Stars

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

Session 20. Variability of Eta Carinae

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

Session 21. Stars Throughout the Milky Way

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

Session 22. Open Clusters Young and Old

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

Session 23. Globular Clusters in and around the Milky Way

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

Session 24. Galactic Center

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

Session 25. Galaxy Evolution Explorer Mission

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

Session 26. Starbursts in Galaxies

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

Session 27. Active Galactic Nuclei

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

Session 28. Lensing: Micro, MACHO, Strong, Weak and Wide

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

Session 29. Planetary Systems and Origins of Planetary Bodies

Oral, Monday, 10:00-11:30am, Town and Country

Session 30. Jets and Active Nuclei in Galaxies

Oral, Monday, 10:00-11:30am, Golden Ballroom

Session 31. Evolution of Ellipticals and Dark Matter Halos

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

Session 32. The Galactic Center

Oral, Monday, 10:00-11:30am, Pacific 2/3

Session 33. Instrumentation: Ground-Based and Space-Based

Oral, Monday, 10:00-11:30am, Royal Palm 1-3

Session 34. Stellar Structure and Evolution

Oral, Monday, 10:00-11:30am, Royal Palm 4-6

Session 35. HAD II: Observatories, Toys and Genesis

Oral, Monday, 10:00-11:30am, Pacific Salon 1

Session 36. Uses of Modern Technology in Introductory Astronomy Education

Special Session, Monday, 10:00-11:30am, Sunrise

Session 37. Planetary Rings: Structure, Evolution and Origins

Invited, Monday, 11:40am-12:30pm, Town and Country

NASA Town Meeting

Monday, 1:00-2:00pm, Town and Country

HAD Business Meeting

Monday, 1:00-2:00pm, Pacific Salon 1

Session 38. Cosmic Evolution of Mass and Metallicity

Oral, Monday, 2:00-3:30pm, Town and Country

Session 39. Finding Extrasolar Planets

Oral, Monday, 2:00-3:30pm, Golden Ballroom

Session 40. SNe Observations and GRB Milky Way Effects

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

Session 41. ISM I

Oral, Monday, 2:00-3:30pm, Pacific 2/3

Session 42. GALEX: A Year Exploring the UV Universe

Special Session, Monday, 2:00-3:30pm, Royal Palm 1-3

Session 43. The Sun, Heliosphere and Planets

Oral, Monday, 2:00-3:30pm, Royal Palm 4-6

Session 44. HAD III: Catalogs, Surveys and Ancient Observations

Oral, Monday, 2:00-3:30pm, Pacific Salon 1

Session 45. Cool Astronomy for Everyone

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

Session 46. Origins of Stellar Populations in Spheroids

Invited, Monday, 3:40-5:10pm, Town and Country

NASA's Terrestrial Planet Finder Missions and the Vision for Exploration

Monday, 6:00-7:15pm, Pacific Salon 2/3

Space Interferometry Mission : Opportunities to propose Key Projects

Monday, 7:30-8:45pm, Pacific Salon 2/3

Session 47. Intelligent Design and the Creationism/Evolution Controversy

Invited, Tuesday, 8:30-9:20am, Town and Country

Session 48. Visible-Light Telescopes, Instruments, and Technology

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

Session 49. Radio and IR Observatories and Instruments

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

Session 50. EXIST

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

Session 51. Improving Undergraduate Astronomy through Faculty Professional Development and Education Research

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

Session 52. Stellar Atmospheres, Abundances and Opacities

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

Session 53. Hot Stars, Atmospheres and Winds

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

Session 54. Pulsating Stars: RR Lyraes, Miras, Cepheids, etc.

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

Session 55. M dwarfs, Nearby Stars and High-proper-motion Stars

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

Session 56. Planets and Solar System Objects

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

Session 57. Atomic Abundances in Interstellar Gas

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

Session 58. Dust (and Ice) Gets in Your Eyes

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

Session 59. ISM: Dust and Molecules

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

Session 60. Secular Evolution Potpourri: Star Formation to Galactic Structures

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

Session 61. First Results from HST Cosmic Evolution Survey

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

Session 62. Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey

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

Session 63. Spitzer Views on Galaxy Evolution

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

Session 64. Extragalactic Star Clusters

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

Session 65. SNAP Science

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

Session 66. The SNAP Focal Plane: Spectrograph and Imager

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

Session 67. Calibration of Post Space Missions: MSX and SNAP

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

Session 68. Observations of GRBs and Other Transients

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

Session 69. Cosmology: Population III, Distant SNe, and Dark Energy

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

Session 70. Supernovae and Supernovae Remnants

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

Session 71. Supernovae

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

Session 72. First Results from HST Cosmic Evolution Survey

Special Session, Tuesday, 10:00-11:30am, Town and Country

Session 73. Distances, the CMB and the Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect

Oral, Tuesday, 10:00-11:30am, Golden Ballroom

Session 74. ISM II

Oral, Tuesday, 10:00-11:30am, California

Session 75. Galaxy Clusters and Groups I

Oral, Tuesday, 10:00-11:30am, Pacific 2/3

Session 76. X-Ray Binaries, and Pulsars

Oral, Tuesday, 10:00-11:30am, Royal Palm 1-3

Session 77. Properties of Stars

Oral, Tuesday, 10:00-11:30am, Royal Palm 4-6

Session 78. Galactic Astronomy with the Arecibo L-band Feed Array

Special Session, Tuesday, 10:00-11:30am, Pacific Salon 1

Session 79. Providing Access to U.S. Astronomers for the Next Generation of Large Ground Based OIR Telescopes

Special Session, Tuesday, 10:00-11:30am, Sunrise

Session 80. Russell Prize Lecture: Scanning Cosmological Horizons

Invited, Tuesday, 11:40am-12:30pm, Town and Country

Structures to Facilitate Networking among Teachers of Introductory Astronomy

Tuesday, 1:00-2:00pm, Pacific Salon 2/3

Committee on the Status of Minorities in Astronomy

Tuesday, 1:00-2:00pm, Pacific Salon 1

ALMA Town Meeting

Tuesday, 1:00-2:00pm, Royal Palm 1-3

Session 81. Mapping the Universe

Oral, Tuesday, 2:00-3:30pm, Town and Country

Session 82. Dark Matter, Weak and Strong Lensing

Oral, Tuesday, 2:00-3:30pm, Golden Ballroom

Session 83. Neutron Stars and Pulsars

Oral, Tuesday, 2:00-3:30pm, California

Session 84. ISM III, SNe and Stirring the Soup

Oral, Tuesday, 2:00-3:30pm, Pacific 2/3

Session 85. Star Clusters and Associations

Oral, Tuesday, 2:00-3:30pm, Royal Palm 1-3

Session 86. Comparing Career Options: Academic, Science Centers, and Industry

Special Session, Tuesday, 2:00-3:30pm, Royal Palm 4-6

Session 87. Use of Modern Technology in Introductory Astronomy Education

Oral, Tuesday, 2:00-3:30pm, Pacific Salon 1

Session 88. EXIST

Oral, Tuesday, 2:00-3:30pm, Sunrise

Session 89. Galaxy and Structure Formation

Invited, Tuesday, 3:40-5:10pm, Town and Country

Astronomy, Space Science and the New NASA

Tuesday, 6:00-7:30pm, Golden Ballroom

Graduate Student - Employer Networking

Tuesday, 7:00-8:00pm, Terrace Pavillion

Session 90. Rossi Prize Lecture: Perspectives of the Chandra X-ray Observatory

Invited, Wednesday, 8:30-9:20am, Town and Country

Session 91. Surveys and Catalogs

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

Session 92. Ellipticals and Early Types

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

Session 93. Dwarf Galaxies

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

Session 94. From Protogalaxies to Large Surveys: Tracing the Galaxy Evolution

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

Session 95. Technology in Astronomy Education

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

Session 96. Astronomy Education: K-12

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

Session 97. Communicating Astronomy

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

Session 98. High Mass Star Formation and Deeply Embedded Star Formation

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

Session 99. The Extragalactic ISM

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

Session 100. Origins Probes

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

Session 101. SNR in the LMC, SMC and Andromeda Galaxy

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

Session 102. Neutron Stars

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

Session 103. White Dwarfs

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

Session 104. Black Holes

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

Session 105. Triggered Star Formation and the Orion Protostellar Population

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

Session 106. SNRs and Loops

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

Session 107. Binary Stars Including Theory and Activity

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

Session 108. LSST

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

Session 109. Surveys for Young Stars Down to the Brown Dwarf Limit

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

Session 110. Active Galaxies

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

Session 111. Radio Pulsars

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

Session 112. Astronomy Teaching Through Humanities

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

Session 113. Research with the Virtual Observatory

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

Session 114. Studies of Variable and Moving Objects with the SDSS

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

Session 115. SWIFT

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

Session 116. HEAD I: SWIFT

Special Session, Wednesday, 10:00-11:30am, Town and Country

Session 117. Star Formation, Embedded Young Stars and Their Disks

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

Session 118. Activity in the Nuclei of Galaxies

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

Session 119. Galaxy Clusters and Groups II

Oral, Wednesday, 10:00-11:30am, Pacific 2/3

Session 120. Studies of Variable and Moving Objects with the SDSS

Special Session, Wednesday, 10:00-11:30am, Royal Palm 1-3

Session 121. G-waves: Gamma Rays and Gravity

Oral, Wednesday, 10:00-11:30am, Royal Palm 4-6

Session 122. HI and Galactic Disks

Oral, Wednesday, 10:00-11:30am, Pacific Salon 1

Session 123. Matter on the Largest Scales

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

Session 124. Astronomy Teaching through Humanities: Poetry, Fiction, the Visual Arts and More

Special Session, Wednesday, 10:00-11:30am, Pacific 6-7

Session 125. Science Results from the Mars Exploration Rover Mission

Invited, Wednesday, 11:40am-12:30pm, Town and Country

HEAD Business Meeting

Wednesday, 1:00-2:00pm, Town and Country

NSF Town Meeting

Wednesday, 1:00-2:00pm, California

Session 126. HEAD II: High Energy Astrophysics and the NASA Roadmap

Special Session, Wednesday, 2:00-3:30pm, Town and Country

Session 127. Circumstellar Disks and the Origin of the Solar System

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

Session 128. The Buildup of Galaxy Disks - Star Formation History

Oral, Wednesday, 2:00-3:30pm, California

Session 129. Absorptions and The Intergalactic Medium

Oral, Wednesday, 2:00-3:30pm, Pacific 2/3

Session 130. Astronomical Research with the Virtual Observatory

Special Session, Wednesday, 2:00-3:30pm, Royal Palm 1-3

Session 131. The Deep Dark Universe

Oral, Wednesday, 2:00-3:30pm, Royal Palm 4-6

Session 132. Astronomy in the K-12 Classroom

Oral, Wednesday, 2:00-3:30pm, Pacific Salon 1

Session 133. Cosmology with Large-Area Surveys

Invited, Wednesday, 3:40-5:10pm, Town and Country

Society Banquet

Wednesday, 7:15pm, Golden Ballroom

Session 134. A Suitcase Full of Astrophysics: The First Year of Ultraprecise Photometry from the MOST Space Mission

Invited, Thursday, 8:30-9:20am, Town and Country

Session 135. Finding and Measuring Exoplanets

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

Session 136. Classy I and II Protostars

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

Session 137. GLIMPSE: First Results

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

Session 138. Planetary and Reflection Nebulae and WR Bubbles

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

Session 139. The Ionized ISM: Observations and Theory

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

Session 140. Cold Gas and Molecular Clouds

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

Session 141. Our Friendly Neighbors: M31 and M33

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

Session 142. Galactic Structure, Halo and High Velocity

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

Session 143. Quasars

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

Session 144. Jets from Radio Galaxies

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

Session 145. Intergalactic Media

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

Session 146. Intracluster Material within Galaxy Clusters

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

Session 147. Groups and Clusters of Galaxies

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

Session 148. Large Scale Structure

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

Session 149. Gravitational Wave Astronomy

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

Session 150. Science with Small Telescope from SMARTS

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

Session 151. Instruments for Small College Observatories

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

Session 152. Astronomy Research in Undergraduate Classes

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

Session 153. Computation, Data Handling, Image Analysis

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

Session 154. The Planck Mission

Special Session, Thursday, 10:00-11:30am, Town and Country

Session 155. X-ray Sources

Oral, Thursday, 10:00-11:30am, Golden Ballroom

Session 156. T Tauri Stars and Their Disks

Oral, Thursday, 10:00-11:30am, California

Session 157. Cluster of Galaxies and Dark Matter

Oral, Thursday, 10:00-11:30am, Pacific 2/3

Session 158. Gravitational Wave Astronomy

Special Session, Thursday, 10:00-11:30am, Royal Palm 1-3

Session 159. Novae, CVs, Blue Stragglers, and GRB Cosmography

Oral, Thursday, 10:00-11:30am, Royal Palm 4-6

Session 160. GRBs: Observatories and Observations

Oral, Thursday, 10:00-11:30am, Pacific Salon 1

Session 161. Cluster Evolution and Large Scale Structure

Oral, Thursday, 10:00-11:30am, Sunrise

Modern Universe Space Telescope Open House

Thursday, 10:00am-12:00noon, Pacific 6/7

Session 162. Heineman Prize Lecture: Interstellar Dust

Invited, Thursday, 11:40am-12:30pm, Town and Country

Committee on the Status of Women in Astronomy

Thursday, 1:00-2:00pm, California

JWST Town Meeting

Thursday, 1:00-2:00pm, Pacific Salon 2/3

Session 163. New Results from the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey

Special Session, Thursday, 2:00-3:30pm, Town and Country

Session 164. Neutrinos, SNe, GRBs, Acceleration, Nucleosynthesis

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

Session 165. Science with Small Telescopes from SMARTS

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

Session 166. Massive Embedded Stars Forming

Oral, Thursday, 2:00-3:30pm, Pacific 2/3

Session 167. Quasars and Blazars

Oral, Thursday, 2:00-3:30pm, Royal Palm 1-3

Session 168. Instrumentation and Telescopes for Small College Observatories

Special Session, Thursday, 2:00-3:30pm, Royal Palm 4-6

Session 169. Dwarf Galaxies Near and Far and Some Starbursts

Oral, Thursday, 2:00-3:30pm, Pacific Salon 1

Session 170. White Dwarfs and Hot Subdwarfs

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