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AAS Electronic Announcement #199 - August 2009
Mailed 11 August 2009
CONTENTS:
1. 2010 ONLINE RENEWALS BEGIN SEPTEMBER 2009
2. REMINDER FOR AAS PRIZE NOMINATIONS
3. NEW MEMBER BENEFIT FOR JUNIOR & SPS MEMBERS
4. DC PRELIMINARY MEETING INFORMATION IS NOW ONLINE
5. DC MEETING REGISTRATION
6. WASHINGTON DC PRESENTERS SHOULD VERIFY MEMBER STATUS NOW
7. VOLUNTEERS NEEDED TO SORT ABSTRACTS FOR THE DC MEETING
8. SUBMILLIMETER ARRAY CALL FOR PROPOSALS
9. CALL TO JOIN OR FORM LSST COLLABORATION
The Russell Lecturer is normally to be chosen annually on the basis of a lifetime of eminence in astronomical research.
Jack Eddy, who was born 25 March 1931 in Pawnee City in southeastern Nebraska, died after a long battle with cancer in Tucson, Arizona, on 10 June 2009. Best known for his work on the long-term instability of the sun, described in a landmark paper in Science titled “The Maunder Minimum,” he also deserves recognition as one of the triumvirate who founded the Historical Astronomy Division of the AAS.
Harry W.
Chi Yuan graduated from the National Taiwan University in1959, and received his Masters of Science degree from the University of Florida in 1962, and his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Michigan in 1966. He was a postdoctoral fellow with Professor C.C. Lin at MIT for three years, before taking his faculty post at the City College of New York in 1969. He attained full professorship at CCNY in 1981.
Dr. Thomas Charles Van Flandern, an expert in celestial mechanics and cosmology, died January 9, 2009 in Seattle, Washington, of colon cancer. He was 68. Van Flandern was an astronomer at the U.S. Naval Observatory from 1963 to 1983. He developed software to predict and analyze lunar occultations to improve lunar orbital and fundamental star catalog data. In later years he championed increasingly controversial theories.
The astronomical community lost one of its most buoyant and caring individuals when Beth Brown died, unexpectedly, at the age of 39 from a pulmonary embolism.
SPARK publishes original articles on astronomy education about or related to the education programs and activities of the American Astronomical Society and its members. Reading previous issues will give you an idea of the types of articles that appear in the Newsletter. Opinion pieces, reviews, letters to the editor, newsworthy items are all welcome, subject to the guidelines below.
Editor: Judith M. Johnson
Associate Editor: Crystal Tinch
Executive Officer: Kevin B. Marvel
Associate Editor, Letters: Jeffrey Linsky, U. Colorado
The AAS Newsletter is published online in January, March, June, August, October and December.
Some Newsletter back-issues are available in PDF. Since the Newsletter is distributed as a benefit of membership in the AAS, current issues will not be posted.
All AAS members may submit prize nominations and are encouraged to do so. With the exception of the student awards, prize nominations are due in the AAS Secretary's Office by 30 June each year.
Editor: Judith M. Johnson
Associate Editor: Crystal Tinch
AAS Executive Officer: Kevin B. Marvel
Associate Editor, Letters: Jeffrey Linsky, U. Colorado
The AAS Newsletter is published online six times a year.
Deadline: 1 September
The AAS maintains an online Calendar and distributes a printed Membership Calendar. The online Calendar includes important dates, such as proposal and grant deadlines and astronomical meetings. The printed Membership Calendar includes important dates and AAS sponsored meetings.
Sponsors receive selection of a photo layout page, 250 words of text and sponsorship recognition in the calendar front matter. For only $2,250, your institution or department can show support for the whole astronomical community and be featured prominently in astronomers' offices across the country.
Sponsors and potential sponsors for future AAS calendars are reminded that sponsorship space is provided on a first-come, first-served basis. Groups interested in sponsoring a month may contact Crystal Tinch for more information and pricing details. Deadline for sponsorship is 1 September.
Lists all officers and councilors that have served since the AAS was founded in 1899.