Session List

Soudan Mine Tour

Saturday, 8:00am-10:00pm, Meet in Hilton Lobby

College Astronomy Teaching Excellence Workshop

Saturday, 9:00am-5:00pm, Sunday, 9:00am-5:00pm, 203 A/B

Speaker-Ready Room

Sunday, 2:00-6:00pm, 202 A

Registration

Sunday, 2:00-9:00pm

Astro 101 - Should Students Touch the Telescopes?

Sunday, 2:30-5:30pm, 204 A/B

Undergraduate Orientation

Sunday, 6:00-7:00pm, Hilton, Salon E

Opening Reception

Sunday, 7:00-10:00pm, Hilton, Salon ABC

Second AAS Invitational Hockey Game

Sunday, 9:30-11:00pm, Check Message Board for Directions

Welcoming Address

Monday, 8:15-8:30am, Ballroom B

Session 1. Imaging Dark Matter with Gravitational Lensing

Invited, Monday, 8:30-9:20am, Ballroom B

Job Center

Monday, -Wednesday, 9:00am-5:00pm, Thursday 9:00am-12:00noon, Glass Atrium

Cyber Cafe

Monday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Tuesday-Wednesday, 10:00am-7:00pm, Thursday 9:20am-12:00noon, Ballroom A

Session 2. Astronomy 101: something old, something new, something borrowed, something true

Poster, Monday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Tuesday, 10:00am-7:00pm, Ballroom A

Session 3. K-12 Classroom and Students

Poster, Monday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Tuesday, 10:00am-7:00pm, Ballroom A

Session 4. Professional Development for K-12 Teachers

Poster, Monday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Tuesday, 10:00am-7:00pm, Ballroom A

Session 5. Public Observatories and Informal Astronomy

Poster, Monday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Tuesday, 10:00am-7:00pm, Ballroom A

Session 6. Formation and Fate of Stardust

Poster, Monday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Tuesday, 10:00am-7:00pm, Ballroom A

Session 7. Star Formation

Poster, Monday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Tuesday, 10:00am-7:00pm, Ballroom A

Session 8. Circumstellar Shells and Disks

Poster, Monday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Tuesday, 10:00am-7:00pm, Ballroom A

Session 9. Brown Dwarfs and Extrasolar Planets

Poster, Monday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Tuesday, 10:00am-7:00pm, Ballroom A

Session 10. Galaxies, Clusters and Large Scale Structure

Poster, Monday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Tuesday, 10:00am-7:00pm, Ballroom A

Session 11. AGNs, QSOs, Active Galaxies

Poster, Monday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Tuesday, 10:00am-7:00pm, Ballroom A

Session 12. Dwarf Irregular and Starburst Galaxies

Poster, Monday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Tuesday, 10:00am-7:00pm, Ballroom A

Session 13. Spiral Galaxies, Elliptical Galaxies

Poster, Monday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Tuesday, 10:00am-7:00pm, Ballroom A

Session 14. Astrophysics with Optical Interferometry

Poster, Monday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Tuesday, 10:00am-7:00pm, Ballroom A

Session 15. Astronomical Instruments

Poster, Monday, 9:20am-6:30pm, Tuesday, 10:00am-7:00pm, Ballroom A

Session 16. Galaxy Surveys

Oral, Monday, 10:00-11:30am, 102 E

Session 17. Fundamental Physics with Millisecond Pulsars

Special Session, Monday, 10:00-11:30am, 102 C

Session 18. Professional Ethics for Astronomers

Special Session, Monday, 10:00-11:30am, 102 B

Session 19. Follow up to the Workshop for New Faculty

Special Session, Monday, 10:00-11:30am, 102 D

Session 20. Coronal Mass Ejections: the Most Powerful Drivers of the Sun-Earth System

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

NSF Town Meeting

Monday, 1:00-2:00pm, 102 B

Session 21. Galaxies and Cosmology

Oral, Monday, 2:00-3:30pm, 102 E

Session 22. Cool Astronomy for Everyone

Special Session, Monday, 2:00-3:30pm, 102 F

Session 23. Stars and Observing Them

Oral, Monday, 2:00-3:30pm, 102 B

Session 24. History of Astronomy, Surveys, Plate Collections

Oral, Monday, 2:00-3:30pm, 102 D

Session 25. Trails, Tails, Clouds and Shells: Dust from the Spitzer Perspective

Invited, Monday, 3:40-4:30pm, Ballroom B

Session 26. Astronomy Education: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Invited, Monday, 4:30-5:20pm, Ballroom B

Session 27. Asymmetries in Type Ia Supernovae

Topical Session, Tuesday, 8:30-10:00am, 10:45am-12:30pm, 2:30-4:00pm, 4:15-6:00pm, 102 B

Session 28. Formation and Fate of Stardust

Topical Session, Tuesday, 8:30-10:00am, 10:45am-12:30pm, 2:30-4:00pm, 4:15-6:00pm, 102 C

NASA Town Meeting

Tuesday, 1:00-2:00pm, 102 F

Session 29. X-Ray Flashes

Topical Session, Tuesday, 2:30-4:00pm, 4:15-6:00pm, 102 E

Graduate Student - Employer Networking

Tuesday, 7:00-8:00pm, Seasons, 2nd Floor

Public Lecture

Tuesday, 8:00pm, Ballroom B

Session 30. Relativistic Jets

Topical Session, Wednesday, 8:30-10:00am, 10:45am-12:30pm, 2:30-4:00pm, 4:15-6:00pm, 102 B

Session 31. Highlights in Laboratory Astrophysics

Topical Session, Wednesday, 8:30-10:00am, 10:45am-12:30pm, 2:30-4:00pm, 4:15-6:00pm, 102 D

Session 32. Highlights in Laboratory Astrophysics

Poster, Wednesday, 10:00am-7:00pm, Thursday, 9:20am-2:00pm, Ballroom A

Session 33. Relativistic Jets

Poster, Wednesday, 10:00am-7:00pm, Thursday, 9:20am-2:00pm, Ballroom A

Session 34. Sun and Solar System

Poster, Wednesday, 10:00am-7:00pm, Thursday, 9:20am-2:00pm, Ballroom A

Session 35. Stars

Poster, Wednesday, 10:00am-7:00pm, Thursday, 9:20am-2:00pm, Ballroom A

Session 36. Star Clusters

Poster, Wednesday, 10:00am-7:00pm, Thursday, 9:20am-2:00pm, Ballroom A

Session 37. The Milky Way

Poster, Wednesday, 10:00am-7:00pm, Thursday, 9:20am-2:00pm, Ballroom A

Session 38. Interstellar Medium, H II Regions and Molecular Clouds

Poster, Wednesday, 10:00am-7:00pm, Thursday, 9:20am-2:00pm, Ballroom A

Session 39. Planetary and Protoplanetary Nebulae

Poster, Wednesday, 10:00am-7:00pm, Thursday, 9:20am-2:00pm, Ballroom A

Session 40. Binary Stars

Poster, Wednesday, 10:00am-7:00pm, Thursday, 9:20am-2:00pm, Ballroom A

Session 41. Variable Stars

Poster, Wednesday, 10:00am-7:00pm, Thursday, 9:20am-2:00pm, Ballroom A

Session 42. Dwarf Novae and Other Cataclysmic Variables

Poster, Wednesday, 10:00am-7:00pm, Thursday, 9:20am-2:00pm, Ballroom A

Session 43. Pulsars, Neutron Stars and White Dwarfs

Poster, Wednesday, 10:00am-7:00pm, Thursday, 9:20am-2:00pm, Ballroom A

Session 44. Crab Nebula and Other Supernova Remnants

Poster, Wednesday, 10:00am-7:00pm, Thursday, 9:20am-2:00pm, Ballroom A

Session 45. Supernovae Observations and Theory

Poster, Wednesday, 10:00am-7:00pm, Thursday, 9:20am-2:00pm, Ballroom A

Session 46. Black Holes

Poster, Wednesday, 10:00am-7:00pm, Thursday, 9:20am-2:00pm, Ballroom A

Session 47. Gamma Ray Bursts

Poster, Wednesday, 10:00am-7:00pm, Thursday, 9:20am-2:00pm, Ballroom A

Session 48. Surveys: SDSS, 2MASS, ChaMPlane

Poster, Wednesday, 10:00am-7:00pm, Thursday, 9:20am-2:00pm, Ballroom A

Session 49. Dark Matter and Dark Energy

Poster, Wednesday, 10:00am-7:00pm, Thursday, 9:20am-2:00pm, Ballroom A

AAS Annual Members Meeting

Wednesday, 1:30-2:30pm, Ballroom B

Society Banquet

Wednesday, 7:00-10:30pm, Hilton Conference Level Salon ABC

Session 50. Stellar Abundance Observations and Heavy Element Formation

Invited, Thursday, 8:40-9:20am, Ballroom B

Session 51. Supernovae and Supernovae Remnants

Oral, Thursday, 10:00-11:30am, 102 C

Session 52. Demystifying EPO and the Broader Impacts Criteria

Special Session, Thursday, 10:00-11:30am, 102 D

Session 53. Institutional Solutions to the ``Two-Body Problem"

Special Session, Thursday, 10:00-11:30am, 102 B

Session 54. Bubble, Bubble, Boil, and Bubbles

Oral, Thursday, 10:00-11:30am, 102 E

Session 55. Warner Prize Lecture

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

Committee on the Status of Women in Astronomy

Thursday, 1:00-2:00pm, 102 B