Contact: News from across the universe, from near-Earth space to the most distant galaxies and beyond, will be featured in 11 press conferences at the 217th meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS), to be held 9-13 January 2011 at the Washington State Convention & Trade Center in Seattle. Gathering with the AAS are its Historical Astronomy Division (HAD) and High Energy Astrophysics Division (HEAD). More than 2,700 astronomers, planetary scientists, exhibitors, and journalists are expected to attend. AAS, HAD, and HEAD science sessions will run Monday-Thursday, January 10-13, preceded by special HAD sessions on Sunday, January 9. Press conferences will be held several times each day Monday-Thursday, January 10-13. A preliminary list of briefing topics and speakers appears below; additional details will be included in a subsequent media advisory. Meeting links:
Complimentary Press RegistrationThe AAS offers complimentary press registration to bona fide working journalists, as described on our press-credentials page. To request complimentary press registration, send an e-mail message to AAS Press Officer Dr. Rick Fienberg with your name and media affiliation (or "freelance" if applicable). Upon confirming your eligibility, he'll send you the URL of an online registration form and the required press-registration code. Although press registration will be available on site at the meeting, we strongly advise you register in advance to avoid lines at the registration booth. Please send your e-mail request for press registration as soon as you know you're coming to the meeting. A list of current press registrants appears at the end of this release; if you’re not on it and should be, please contact Rick Fienberg at your earliest convenience. Press ArrangementsThe AAS will operate a press office in the Washington State Convention & Trade Center, Level Three, Room 310, with working space, telephones, fax, photocopier, printer, power strips, and Internet connectivity for reporters. Each registered journalist will have a mailbox there to receive all press releases distributed as hard copies at the meeting (most releases will be distributed only electronically). Press conferences will be held down the hall from the press office in Rooms 307/308, which will be equipped with a sound system, mult-box, and Internet connectivity. If you need TV/video lights, please bring your own. Briefing audio, slides, and video will be available live via webcast to accredited journalists unable to attend in person; online participants will be able to ask questions of the presenters via text chat with an on-site press officer. Details appear below. Room 309, also on the Convention Center's 3rd level, will provide quiet space for one-on-one interviews. Preference will be given to broadcast media and to journalists recording/editing podcasts. Contact InfoAAS Press Officer Dr. Rick Fienberg: AAS Press Office Press ConferencesBriefings are scheduled in Rooms 307/308 (Convention Center Level Three) at these dates and times:
All times are Pacific Standard Time (PST); 10 a.m. PST = 1 p.m. EST = 18:00 GMT. Following are the press-conference topics and speakers. Some remain tentative, and others may be added. In [square brackets] under each speaker's name are the paper numbers on which the presentations are based, where applicable. All findings are embargoed until the time of presentation at the meeting. "Time of presentation" means the start time of the Oral or Poster paper session in which the paper will be given, or the time of the corresponding press conference (if any), whichever comes first. MONDAY, JANUARY 1010:00 a.m.: Exoplanets & Their Host Stars Confirming Sub-Neptunian Transiting Exoplanets with Kepler The Shrinking Orbit of the Transiting Hot Jupiter HD 189733b Optical Flares on Dwarf Stars: Implications for Exoplanet Habitability Exoplanets: Misaligned, Migratory, Metallic, and Mini 12:45 p.m.: Active Galactic Nuclei & Their Hosts HST Observations of Hanny's Voorwerp and IC 2497 The Sudden Death of the Nearest Quasar Molecular Gas, AGN Feedback, and the Unusual Case of NGC 1266 A Supermassive Black Hole in the Dwarf Starburst Galaxy Henize 2-10 2:30 p.m.: Fermi and the Gamma-Ray Sky Numerous findings from NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope are being presented in Seattle, mainly in various HEAD sessions. One particularly interesting result will be featured in a NASA media teleconference to be held at this time and to which we’ll “tune in” from the AAS briefing room. Details will follow when they become available. TUESDAY, JANUARY 11Note the back-to-back briefings in the morning. This will allow reporters interested in the report “New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics” to attend the Astro2010 Decadal Survey Town Hall at 12:45 p.m. in Ballroom 6A (see the meeting program for details). 9:30 a.m.: Early Astrophysics from Planck The Planck Early Release Compact Source Catalog Clusters of Galaxies Detected by the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect Galactic Cold Cores Note that posters in session P243 will be on display near the Planck booth in the Exhibit Hall. 10:30 a.m.: No Sign of Sloan Down Various sessions at the meeting feature results from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and its successors. Four speakers will mark the occasion of SDSS-III Data Release 8 with presentations on interesting findings from SDSS-III, the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS), the Multi-object Apache point observatory Radial Velocity Exoplanet Large-area Survey (MARVELS), and the Sloan Extension for Galactic Understanding and Exploration (SEGUE). Details to come. 2:30 p.m.: Outer Limits of the Solar System The Pan-STARRS-1 Outer Solar System Pipeline Inventorying the Solar System with LSST A Clear Yet Distant Echo WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1210:00 a.m.: Not-So-Standard Candles The Delta Cephei Infrared Nebula Possible Real-Time Evolution of a Classical Cepheid AGILE Discovery of Gamma-Ray Flares from the Crab Nebula When a Standard Candle Flickers Fermi-LAT Observations of Gamma-Ray Flares from the Crab 12:45 p.m.: The High-Redshift Universe What Will Limit Deep JWST Surveys of the First-Light Epoch? Extreme Activity in a Massive Protocluster of Galaxies at z = 5.3 2:30 p.m.: Extreme Black Holes The Black Hole Mass in M87 from Gemini/AO Observations Galaxy Kinematics with VIRUS-P: The Dark Matter Halo of M87 Taking the Pulse of the Black Hole GRS 1915+105 Observing the Hierarchical Assembly of Supermassive Black Holes THURSDAY, JANUARY 139:00 a.m.: The Dark Side of Astronomy Finding Dark Galaxies from Their Tidal Imprints Dark Matter Determinations from Quadruply Lensed Quasars The Color of Type Ia Supernovae Depends on Ejecta Velocity The Dark Energy Survey 12:45 p.m.: M Is for Messier The Structure of Dust Extinction in M51 The New Chandra View of X-ray Sources in M82 WISE-ing Up to M81 and M82 Remote Access to Press ConferencesJournalists unable to attend the meeting in person may tune in to our briefings streamed live on the Web. Since the webcast includes audio, video, and PowerPoint slides, you must have a broadband (high-speed) Internet connection to watch and listen. Also, your Web browser must have the free Adobe Flash plug-in. The webcast also includes a chat window whereby remote participants may ask questions. We can't guarantee that all questions received from webcast viewers will be asked aloud -- it depends on how much time we have and how many questions we're getting from on-site reporters. AAS Press Conference webcasts:
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AAS on TwitterDuring the meeting, AAS Press Officer Rick Fienberg will post announcements of interest to reporters on Twitter at http://twitter.com/AAS_Press. Journalists tweeting from the meeting are encouraged to use the hashtag #aas217. Press DinnerThe long-lost AAS Press Dinner returns on Tuesday, January 11th, at 7:30 p.m. PST. Join your colleagues for dinner, drinks, and billiards at the Tap House Grill, 1506 Sixth Ave., a short walk from the Convention Center. Estimated cost per person: $50. Special thanks to Seattle journalist Greg Scheiderer for recommending the venue. And to welcome the AAS Press Dinner back from wherever it’s been, Johns Hopkins University researcher Dr. Adam Ruben will entertain us with his unique brand of science-flavored stand-up comedy! Press RegistrantsThe following individuals have registered as press as of December 30, 2010. If you’re not on this list and think you should be, please send an e-mail message to rick.fienberg@aas.org. David Aguilar, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA AAS Press-Release-Distribution ServiceIf you don’t already receive astronomy-related press releases forwarded by e-mail from the AAS Press Office, you should sign up now to guarantee that you receive future meeting advisories as well as electronic copies of all press releases issued during the meeting. To sign up for the AAS press-release-distribution service, for which there is no charge, please send an e-mail to Rick Fienberg with your name, media affiliation, mailing address, and phone, fax, and mobile numbers. Only accredited journalists and public information officers are eligible to receive press releases forwarded by the AAS.
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