AAS Electronic Notification Service - Announcement #27
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CONTENTS
Toronto Meeting Abstract Deadline
HST & Beyond Report On-Line
NSF Division of Astronomical Science Program Deadlines
ASCA Guest Observer Program Cycle 5, NRA 96-ASCA-05
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1. Toronto Meeting Abstract Deadline
Wednesday, 23 October, 9pm
The deadline for submission of electronic abstracts for the Toronto, January 1997 meeting is Wednesday, 23 October 1996 at 9pm EDT. Note this deadline is on a Wednesday for the first time and happens to fall during the DPS Tucson meeting. The Preliminary Meeting Announcement with abstract instructions will be available in September.
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2. HST & Beyond Report On-Line
The "HST and Beyond: Exploration and the Search for Origins" report is now ready for downloading via the SSO/ExInEd World Wide Web Page. The page can be accessed with the following URL:
The report is published in Adobe Acrobat format. Links to specific Acrobat Reader versions for Macintosh, Windows, DOS, and UNIX are also available from our WWW Site.
If you would like to download the HST & Beyond Report directly via FTP without going through our WWW Site, the full FTP path is as follows:
ftp://ftp.stsci.edu/ExInEd/electronic_reports_folder/HST_Beyond.PDF
If you have any problems downloading or viewing the HST and Beyond report, please send email to clallo@stsci.edu
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3. NSF Division of Astronomical Science Program Deadlines FY 1997
EXTRAGALACTIC ASTRONOMY AND COSMOLOGY (EXC)
2 AUGUST 1996
703-306-1826 (PROGRAM DIRECTOR NUMBER TO CALL)
STELLAR ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS (SAA)
23 AUGUST 1996
703-306-1827
ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES AND INSTRUMENTATION (ATI)
30 AUGUST 1996
703-306-1828
GALACTIC ASTRONOMY (GAL) - 13 SEPTEMBER 1996
703-306-1826
PLANETARY ASTRONOMY (PLA) - 13 SEPTEMBER 1996
703-306-1826
RESEARCH EXPERIENCES FOR UNDERGRADUATES (REU)
SITES - 15 SEPTEMBER 1996
SUPPLEMENTS - ANYTIME - REQUEST EARLY
703-306-1819
RESEARCH AT UNDERGRADUATE INSTITUTIONS (RUI)
USE DISCIPLINARY DEADLINES ABOVE
703-306-1819
FACULTY EARLY CAREER DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM (CAREER)
DEADLINE - 17 OCTOBER 1996
703-306-1819 (CALL PROGRAM DIRECTOR)
WOMEN AND UNDERREPRESENTED MINORITIES PROGRAMS
RESEARCH PLANNING GRANTS (RPG)- ANYTIME
CAREER ADVANCEMENT AWARDS (CAA) - ANYTIME
703-306-1819 (CALL PROGRAM DIRECTOR)
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4. ASCA Guest Observer Program Cycle 5
NRA 96-ASCA-05
NASA solicits basic research proposals for program analysis of scientific data from ASCA. Proposals are due 6 August 1996. The NRA and its appendices are available electronically at: