Austin Invited Speakers and Prize Winners

Monday January 9

100 - Welcoming Address
Debra M. Elmegreen, Vassar College
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM

101 - Kavli Lecture: The CMB and Neutrinos
Lyman Page, Princeton
8:30 AM - 9:20 AM

118 - A (Re)introduction to the Milky Way
Robert A. Benjamin, Univ. of Wisconsin,Whitewater
11:40 AM -12:30 PM

138 - The Challenges and Achievements in 50 Years of Human Spaceflight
Steven A. Hawley, University of Kansas
3:40 PM - 4:30 PM

139 - HAD Doggett Prize: Cosmic Noise: The Pioneers of Early Radio Astronomy and Their Discoveries
Woodruff T. Sullivan, III, Univ. of Washington
4:30 PM - 5:20 PM

Tuesday January 10

200 - HEAD Rossi Prize: Science with the Fermi LAT
Peter F. Michelson, Stanford University
W. B. Atwood, UCSC
AAS Prize Presentations: AAS George Van Biesbroeck Prize, Education Prize, Joseph Weber Award for Astronomical Instrumentation, and a certificate of appreciation to Frank Kameny
8:30 AM - 9:45 AM

215 - Cannon Prize: Weak Lensing - Revealing the Dark Side of the Universe
Rachel Mandelbaum, Carnegie Mellon University and Princeton University
11:40 AM -12:30 PM

231 - Pierce Prize: Who is Under the HAT? Small Telescopes Yield Big Science
Gaspar Bakos, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
3:40 PM - 4:30 PM

232 - Catching Up: Theory in a Decade of Transiting Exoplanets
Dimitar D. Sasselov, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA
4:30 PM - 5:20 PM

Wednesday January 11

300 - Heineman Prize: Exploding Stars and the Accelerating Universe
Robert P. Kirshner, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA
8:30 AM - 9:20 AM

315 - Magnetic Fields in the Formation of Stars and Protoplanetary Disks
Susana Lizano, Centro De Radioastronomia Y Astrofisica, Mexico
11:40 AM -12:30 PM

332 - Galaxy Formation Star-by-Star: the View from the Milky Way
Kathryn V. Johnston, Columbia Univ.
3:40 PM - 4:30 PM

333 - Star Formation in Galaxy Clusters Over the Past 10 Billion Years
Kim-Vy Tran, Texas A&M University
4:30 PM - 5:20 PM

Thursday January 12

400 - The Evolving Context for Science and Society
Alan I. Leshner, AAAS
8:30 AM - 9:20 AM

412 - White Dwarf Stars From the Telescope to the Laboratory and Back Again: Exploring Extreme Physics
Donald E. Winget, University of Texas
11:40 AM -12:30 PM

420 - AIP Gemant Award: Tycho to Kepler: Four Centuries and More of Astronomy and the Media
Stephen P. Maran, American Astronomical Society
3:40 PM - 4:30 PM

421 - Berkeley Prize: Mapping the Fuel for Star Formation in Early Universe Galaxies
Linda Tacconi, MPI Fur Extraterr. Physik, Germany
4:30 PM - 5:20 PM