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Plenary Sessions

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• Prize Presentations: Megan Donahue (Michigan State University)
• 101: "Fred Kavli Plenary Lecture: Black Holes Snacking on Stars: A Systematic Exploration of Transients in Galaxy Nuclei," Suvi Gezari (University of Maryland, College Park)
• 140: "Plenary Lecture: He Lani Ko Luna, A Sky Above: In Losing the Sight of Land You Discover the Stars," Kala Baybayan Tanaka and Kālepa Baybayan (Polynesian Voyaging Society)
• 143: "NASA Town Hall," Paul Hertz (NASA)
• 165: "HAD LeRoy E. Doggett Prize Lecture: From the Invention of Astrophysics to the Space Age: The Transformation of Astronomy 1860-1990," Robert Smith (University of Alberta)
• 166: "Henry Norris Russell Lecture: Intriguing Revelations from Lithium, Beryllium, and Boron," Ann M. Boesgaard (University of Hawai‘i)

• 201: "Plenary Lecture: The Role of Feedback in the Evolution of Galaxies," Tim Heckman (John Hopkins University)
• 242: "Helen B. Warner Prize: Not Your Grandparents' Galaxy: The Milky Way in the Era of Large Surveys," Jo Bovy (University of Toronto)
• 244: "NSF Town Hall," Ralph Gaume (NSF)
• 267: "Plenary Lecture: The Stewardship of Maunakea's Legacy from the Perspective of the Hawaiian and Astronomical Communities," Amy Kalili (‘Ōiwi TV)
• 268: "HEAD Bruno Rossi Prize: Kilonovae from Merging Neutron Stars," Brian Metzger (Columbia University)
• 268: "HEAD Bruno Rossi Prize: Kilonovae from Merging Neutron Stars," Dan Kasen (University of California, Berkeley)

• 300: "Dannie Heineman Prize: Making a Habitable Planet," Edwin (Ted) Bergin (University of Michigan)
• 340: "Plenary Lecture: Fast Radio Bursts," Jason Hessels (ASTRON & University of Amsterdam)
• 341: "Town Hall: Implementing Astro2020: Status Report"
• 362: "Plenary Prize Lecture: RAS Gold Medal, Star Formation and Galaxy Evolution through the Lens of a Scaling Law," Rob Kennicutt (University of Arizona)
• 363: "Plenary Lecture: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Now I Know What You Are," Jennifer van Saders (University of Hawaiʻi )

• 400: " Plenary Lecture: Diet of the Stars: Mass Accretion and Mass Loss," Andrea Dupree (Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian)
• 410.02: "The Emergence of Low-Earth Orbiting Satellite Constellations and Their Impact on Astronomy ," Patricia Cooper (SpaceX)
• 410.03: " Mega-Constellations of Satellites and Optical Astronomy," Patrick Seitzer (University of Michigan)
• 410.04: "Satellite's Impacts on the General Public," Ruskin Hartley (International Dark-Sky Association)
• 410.05: "Radio Astronomy in a New Era of Radiocommunication," Harvey Liszt (National Radio Astronomy Observatory)
• 404: "Plenary Lecture: The Future of Infrared Astronomy in the Context of Spitzer, SOFIA, and JWST," Peter Eisenhardt (JPL)
• 404: "Plenary Lecture: The Future of Infrared Astronomy in the Context of Spitzer, SOFIA, and JWST," James De Buizer (SOFIA Science Center)
• 448: "Newton Lacy Pierce Prize: Life and Times of the Lowest Mass Galaxies," Daniel R. Weisz, (University of California, Berkeley)
• 449: "Lancelot M. Berkeley Prize: The Event Horizon Telescope: Imaging a Black Hole," Sheperd S. Doeleman (Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian)

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Plenary Sessions

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• 101: "Kavli Foundation Lecture: Key Outstanding Questions in Galaxy Formation and How to Answer Them," Alice Shapely (UCLA)
• 119: "Helen B. Warner Prize Lecture: Hunting for Dark Matter in the Early Universe," Yacine Ali-Haïmoud (New York University)
• 127: "Solar Physics Division Plenary: George Ellery Hale Prize Lecture: Observations about Observations of the Sun," Philip Scherrer (Stanford University)

• 200: "Laboratory Astrophysics Division Plenary Lecture: The Role of Dust in the Molecular Universe," Xander Tielens (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
• 218: "The Tools of Precision Measurements in Exoplanet Discovery and Characterization: Peeking under the Hood of the Instruments," Suvrath Mahadevan (Pennsylvania State University)
• 227: ": Sexual Harassment — Changing the System," Joan Schmelz (USRA)

• 300: "Transiting Exoplanets: Past, Present, & Future," Joshua Winn (Princeton University)
• 312: "Cosmological Inference from Large Galaxy Surveys," Elisabeth Krause (University of Arizona)
• 319: "Karen Harvey Prize Lecture: Where Do Solar Eruptions Come From?," Anthony Yeates (Durham University)

• 400.01: "From Native Skywatchers to ASTR 101…New Designs for Interdisciplinary, Multidisciplinary, and Transdisciplinary Engaged Learning Now," Annette Lee (St. Cloud University)
• 400.02: "Cahokia Mounds: America’s First City," Bill Iseminger (Cahokia Mounds Historic Site)
• 404: "The Apollo Lunar Exploration Program: Scientific Impact and the Road Ahead," James Head (Brown University)

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Plenary Sessions

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• 101.01: "Kavli Foundation Lecture: A Color Out of Space: ‘Oumuamua’s Brief and Mysterious Visit to the Solar System," Gregory Laughlin (Yale University)
• 101.02: "Kavli Foundation Lecture: A Color Out of Space: ‘Oumuamua’s Brief and Mysterious Visit to the Solar System," Ka'iu Kimura (‘Imiloa Astronomy Center)
• 118: "Dannie Heineman Prize Lecture: The Dawn of Gravitational Wave Astrophysics," Vicky Kalogera (Northwestern University)
• 138: ""Make No Small Plans" (George Ellery Hale, 1868-1938)," David DeVorkin (Smithsonian Institution) (presented by Marc Rotherberg)
• 139: "Newton Lacy Pierce Prize Lecture: The Obscured Early Universe," Caitlin Casey (University of Texas at Austin)

• 201: "Prize Presentations," Megan Donahue (Michigan State University)
• 201.01: "Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize Lecture: One Large Galaxy with One Small Telescope," Julianne Dalcanton (University of Washington, Seattle)
• 219: "AAS Task Force on Diversity and Inclusion in Astronomy Graduate Education," Alex Rudolph (Cal Poly Pomona), Gibor Basri (UC Berkeley), and members of the Task Force Team
• 240: "RAS Gold Medal Lecture: Ripples from the Dark Side of the Universe," Sir James Hough (University of Glasgow, Scotland)
• 241: "HEAD Bruno Rossi Prize Lecture: Cosmic Rumbles and Fireworks from Merging Neutron Stars," Colleen Wilson-Hodge (NASA/MSFC)

• 300: "The Energetic Universe in Focus: Twenty Years of Science with the Chandra X-Ray Observatory" Ryan Hickox (Dartmouth College)
• 321: "The Climates of Other Worlds: Exoplanet Climatology as a Pathway to Accurate Assessments of Planetary Habitability," Aomawa Shields (UC Irvine)
• 344: "Annie Jump Cannon Award: Tracing the Astrochemical Origins of Familiar and Exotic Planets," L. Ilsedore Cleeves (University of Virginia)
• 345: "Henry Norris Russell Lecture: The Limits of Cosmology," Joseph Silk (Johns Hopkins University, Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, and Oxford University)

• 400: "The Era of Surveys and the Fifth Paradigm of Science," Alexander Szalay (Johns Hopkins University)
• 421: "From Disks to Planets: Observing Planet Formation in Disks Around Young Stars," Catherine Espaillat (Boston University)
• 440: "From Data to Dialogue: Confronting the Challenge of Climate Change," Heidi Roop, (University of Washington)
• 441: "Lancelot M. Berkeley Prize Lecture: The XENON Project: at the Forefront of Dark Matter Direct Detection," Elena Aprile (Columbia University)

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Plenary Sessions

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• 101.01: "Kavli Foundation Lecture: From Extrasolar Planets to Exo-Earths," Debra Fischer (Yale University)
• 108.01: "Heavy Element Synthesis in the Universe," Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz (UCO Lick)
• 116.01: "The Relationship Between Galaxies and the Large-Scale Structure of the Universe," Alison Coil (University of California, San Diego)

• 200.01. "LAD Plenary Lecture: Small Interstellar Molecules and What They Tell Us," David Neufeld (Johns Hopkins University)
• 201.01: "Supermassive Black Hole Fueling and Feedback in Galaxies," Julie Comerford (University of Colorado, Boulder)
• 207.01: "The Dynamics of the Local Group in the Era of Precision Astrometry," Gurtina Besla (University of Arizona)
• 215.01: "An Era of Precision Astrophysics for Exoplanets, Stars, and the Milky Way," Keivan Stassun (Vanderbilt University)

• 300.01: "George Ellery Hale Prize Lecture: Amazing Journeys to the Hearts of Stars," Sarbani Basu (Yale University)
• 316.01: "Status of the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Sun," Valentin Martinez Pillet (NSO)

• 400.01: "Newton Lacy Pierce Prize Lecture: Dwarf Galaxies: Laboratories for Nucleosynthesis and Chemical Evolution," Evan Kirby (Caltech)
• 407.01: "Gaia: Mapping the Milky Way: The Scientific Promise of Gaia DR2," Nicholas Walton (Cambridge)

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• 101.01: "Kavli Foundation Lecture: The New Jupiter: Results from the Juno Mission," Scott Bolton (Southwest Research Institute)
• 134.01: "HAD LeRoy E. Doggett Prize for Historical Astronomy: Tangible Things of American Astronomy," Sara Schechner (Harvard University)

• 201.01: "Unveiling the Low Surface Brightness Stellar Peripheries of Galaxies," Annette Ferguson (University of Edinburgh)
• 217.01: "The Stormy Life of Galaxy Clusters," Larry Rudnick (Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics)
• 235.01: "Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics: The Value of Change: Surprises and Insights in Stellar Evolution," Lars Bildsten (University of California, Santa Barbara)
• 236.01: "HEAD Bruno Rossi Prize: Gravitational Waves Astrophysics," Gabriela Gonzalez (Louisiana State University for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration)

• 300.01: "Venus: Our Misunderstood Sister," Darby Dyar (Planetary Science Institute)
• 317.01: "Astro Data Science: The Next Generation," Chris Mentzel (Moore Foundation)
• 336.01: "Helen B. Warner Prize: The Evolution of Stars & Galaxies," Charlie Conroy (Harvard University)
• 337.01: "Henry Norris Russell Lectureship: Fifty-four Years of Adventures in Infrared Astronomy," Erick Becklin (University of California, Los Angeles)

• 400.01: "Illuminating Gravitational Waves," Mansi Kasliwal (California Institute of Technology)
• 433.01: "Lancelot M. Berkeley Prize: The Instruments that Launched Gravitational-wave Astronomy," Peter Fritschel (MIT Kavli Institute for LIGO)

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• 100.00: Welcome Address by AAS President Christine Jones (Harvard-Smithsonian, CfA)
• 101.01: "Dark Matter in the Universe," Katherine Freese (University of Michigan)
• 106.01: "Origins of Inner Solar Systems," Rebekah Dawson (Penn State University)
• 107.01: NSF Town Hall: Chair: James Ulvestad (National Science Foundation)
• 112.01: "The Universe's Most Extreme Star-forming Galaxies," Caitlin Casey (University of Texas, Austin)
• 113.01: "Science Highlights from SOFIA," Erick Young (USRA)

• 205.01: "Our Future in Space," Christopher Impey (University of Arizona)
• 212.01: "Flows and Flares Around the Nearest Supermassive Black Hole — Sgr A*," Daniel Wang (University of Massachusetts)

• 305.01: "CANDELS: A Cosmic Quest for Distant Galaxies Offering Live Views of Galaxy Evolution," David Koo (University of California, Santa Cruz)
• 306.01: NASA Town Hall, Chair: Paul Hertz (NASA Headquarters)
• 311.01: "On the Explosion Geometry of Red Supergiant Stars," Doug Leonard (San Diego State University)

• 400.01: "Space Weather: Linking Stellar Explosions to the Human Endeavor," Delores Knipp (University of Colorado)
• 404.01: "Growth of Astronomy Education in Chile: a late but successful story," Hernán Quintana (Pontificia Universidad Catolica)

Extras

• AAS HQ 2017-2018: What is Happening? Kevin Marvel (CEO)
• AAS Treasurer's Report, Nancy Morrison (Treasurer)
• The New AAS Governance Model: Town Hall (audio only), David Helfand

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• AAS 229 (Grapevine, TX, Jan. 2017) Recap & Invitation to AAS 230 (Austin, TX, June 2017): This 2-minute video features highlights from the 229th meeting in Grapevine and an invitation from AAS President Christine Jones to return to the Lone Star State for the 230th meeting in Austin. It was produced by AAS photographers Todd Buchanan and Phil McCarten of Corporate Event Images.

• 101.01: Kavli Foundation Lecture: "Early Solar System Bombardment: Exploring the Echoes of Planetary Migration and Lost Ice Giants," William Bottke (Southwest Research Institute)
• 117.01: Annie Jump Cannon Award Lecture: "The Tumultuous Lives and Deaths of Stars," Laura Lopez (Ohio State University)
• 135.01: Henry Norris Russell Lecture: "How Stars Form," Christopher McKee (University of California, Berkeley)

• 217.01: Invited Talk: "What We Don't Know About the Beginning of the Universe," Sean Carroll (Caltech)
• 234.01: Dannie Heineman Prize Lecture: "Increasing Accuracy and Increasing Tension in H₀," Wendy Freedman (University of Chicago)
• 235.01: HEAD Bruno Rossi Prize Lecture: "A Good Hard Look at Growing Supermassive Black Holes in the Distant Universe," Niel Brandt (Pennsylvania State University)

• 300.01: SPD George Ellery Hale Prize Lecture: "Magnetic Energy Release in Solar Flares," Terry Forbes (University of New Hampshire)
• 315.01: Newton Lacy Pierce Prize Lecture: "The Chemistry of Planet Formation," Karin Öberg (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
• 331.01: Invited Talk: "Feedback: Now with Physics," Philip F. Hopkins (Caltech)
• 332.01: Invited Talk: "Astronomy from the Upper Stratosphere: Key Discoveries and New Opportunities from High-Altitude Scientific Balloons," Laura Fissel (Northwestern University)

• 400.01: Lancelot M. Berkeley Prize Lecture: "Exploring for Galaxies in the First Billion Years with Hubble and Spitzer — Pathfinding for JWST," Garth Illingworth (University of California, Santa Cruz)
• 412.01: Invited Talk: "The 21st Century: The Century of Biology on Earth and Beyond," Jill Tarter (SETI Institute)
• 422.01: Invited Talk: "The 2017 Total Solar Eclipse: Through the Eyes of NASA," Alex Young (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
• 423.01: Invited Talk: "How Supermassive Black Hole Feedback Might Work," Megan Donahue (Michigan State University)

Extras

• AAS 229 Talent Show

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• 101.01: Plenary Talk: The Ocean World Enceladus, Christopher Glein
• 104.01: IR Laboratory Astrophysics at Forty: Some Highlights and a Look to the Future, Louis J. Allamandola
• 107.01: Plenary Talk: From Space Archeology to Serving the World Today: A 20-Year Journey from the Jungles of Guatemala to a Network of Satellite Remote Sensing Facilities Around the World, Daniel Irwin (NASA)
• 114.01: Plenary Talk:The Brightest Pulses in the Universe, Maura McLaughlin (WVU)
• 115.01: Plenary Talk: The Galaxy Zoo, Kevin Schawinski (ETH Zurich)

• 200.01: Plenary Talk: X-ray Spectra and Photoionized Plasmas, Tim Kallman (NASA GSFC)
• 203.01: On the importance of having accurate data for astrophysical modelling, François Lique
• 206.01: Plenary Talk: APOGEE: The New View of the Milky Way -- Large Scale Galactic Structure, Jo Bovy (University of Toronto)
• 212.01: Plenary Talk: Things That Go Bump in the Night: The Transient Radio Sky, Dale Frail (NRAO)
• 213.01: Plenary Talk: MAVEN Observations of Atmospheric Loss at Mars, Shannon Curry (UC Berkeley)

• 300.01: 2015 Newton Lacy Pierce Prize Lecture: The Elephant in the Room: Effects of Distant, Massive Companions on Planetary System Architectures, Heather Knutson (CIT)
• 305.01: Kavli Foundation Lecture: Observation of Gravitational Waves, Gabriela Gonzalez
• 309.01: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory "Laboratory Astrophysics in Support of High-Resolution X-ray Astronomy" 2016 Laboratory Astrophysics Prize, Peter Beiersdorfer
• 312.01: Plenary Talk: From the First Stars and Galaxies to the Epoch of Reionization: 20 Years of Computational Progress, Michael Norman (UC San Diego)

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• 115.01: On the Dynamics of Planets, Stars and Black Holes - New Insights from Triples, Smadar Naoz
• 200.01: Black Hole Physics with the Event Horizon Telescope, Feryal Ozel
• 215.01: Science to Action: Thoughts on Convincing a Skeptical Public, William Press
• 230.01: From “~” to Precision Science: Cosmology from 1995 to 2025, Marc Kamionkowski
• 231.01: A New View of the High Energy Universe with NuSTAR, Fiona Harrison

• 300.01: Viewing the Universe with Infrared Eyes: The Spitzer Space Telescope, Giovanni G. Fazio
• 314.01: The Zwicky Transient Facility, Shrinivas R. Kulkarni
• 329.01: The Past, Present, and Future of Statistical Cosmology, Christopher M. Hirata
• 330.01: Observing the Non-Thermal Universe with the Highest Energy Photons, em>Brenda L. Dingus
• 400.01: Origins of Structure in Planetary Systems, Ruth Murray-Clay

• 414.01: The Jansky VLA: Rebuilt for 21st Century Astronomy, Gregg Hallinan
• 428.01: News on the Search for Milky Way Satellite Galaxies, Keith Bechtol
• 429.01: Latest results from Planck, Jan Tauber

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• 134.01: Back to the Beginning: The Rosetta Mission at Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, Paul Weissman

• 200.01: Gaia - ESA's Galactic Census mission, Gerard Gilmore
• 217.01: New Frontiers in Stellar Astrophysics: Massive Stars as Cosmological Tools, Emily Levesque
• 234.01: The Dark and Light Side of Galaxy Formation, Piero Madau

• 300.01: The Interactions of Exoplanets with their Parent Stars, Katja Poppenhaeger
• 333.01: Bringing the High Energy Universe into Focus: Science Highlights from the NuSTAR Mission, Fiona Harrison

• 430.01: Henry Norris Russell Lecture: A Historical and Scientific Perspective on Harvard College Observatory and CfA, George Field
• 431.01: Cosmological Highlights from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, David Weinberg

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• 116.01: Gas and Galaxy Evolution: From Voids to Clusters, Jacqueline Van Gorkom

• 200.01: Mapping the Nearest Stars for Exotic Habitable Worlds, Sara Seager
• 207.01: Citizen Science in the Age of Surveys, Arne Henden
• 216.01: Probing the Origin of the Slow Solar Wind, Coronal Mass Ejections, and Solar Energetic Particles by Combining Solar and Heliospheric Imagery with In-situ Measurements, Alexis Rouillard

• 317.01: Star Formation in the Gould Belt: Star Formation Rates, Evolutionary Timescales, and Implications for Star Formation Theories, Neal Evans

• 406.01: The Kepler Mission's "Other" Legacy: The Coming of Age of Space-based Asteroseismology, Steven Kawaler

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• 119.01: Linking Visualization and Understanding in Astronomy, Alyssa Goodman
• 143.01: HAD Doggett Prize Lecture: Applied Historical Astronomy, F. Richard Stephenson

• 219.01: Cannon Award Lecture: Giant Planets in Dusty Disks, Sarah Dodson-Robinson 
• 240.01: HEAD Rossi Prize Lecture I: The Amazing Pulsar Machine, Alice K. Harding 
• 240.02: HEAD Rossi Prize Lecture II: The Pulsing Gamma-ray Sky, Roger Romani

• 300.01: Pierce Prize Lecture: Exploring the Stellar Graveyard of the Milky Way, Jason Kalirai
• 318.01: Warner Prize Lecture: The Origin of Stellar Masses, Mark Krumholz

• 418.01: An Astronomical Time Machine: Light Echoes from Historic Supernovae and Stellar Eruptions, Armin Rest
• 437.01: AIP Gemant Award Lecture: Star Trek: The Search for the First Alleged Crab Supernova Rock Art, E. C. Krupp
• 460.01: Berkeley Prize Lecture: Using the SDO Atmospheric Imaging Assembly to Study Solar Activity, James Lemen

Plenary Sessions

• 101: Kavli Foundation Lectureship: The Search for Habitable Worlds
• 106: SPD Hale Prize Lecture: Twisting and Writhing with George Ellery Hale
• 200: SPD Harvey Prize Lecture: Modeling Solar Eruptions: Where Do We Stand?
• 400: Current Perspectives on the Spiral Structure of the Milky Way
• 404: The Bridged Gap: Transients in the Local Universe, Mansi Kasliwal (Carnegie Institution for Science)

Oral/Special/Meeting-in-a-Meeting Sessions

• 104: University of Arizona Astronomy Club
• 105: WIYN Observatory - Building on the Past, Looking to the Future: Groundbreaking Science and Education
• 110: Interstellar Medium, Dust, Etc.
• 203: Outer Limits of the Milky Way I: Overview and Theories of Galactic Structure
• 211: Outer Limits of the Milky Way II: Star Formation
• 217: Extrasolar Planets & Tools
• 301: Bridging Laboratory and Astrophysics: Planetary
• 303: Outer Limits of the Milky Way III: Mapping Galactic Structure in Stars and Dust
• 304: Stars, Cool Dwarfs, and Brown Dwarfs
• 308: Bridging Laboratory & Astrophysics: Nuclear
• 310: Young Stellar Objects, Star Formation and Star Clusters
• 401: Bridging Laboratory and Astrophysics: Particles
• 402: Instrumentation, Data Handling, Surveys
• 403: Stellar Evolution and Binary Stars

Town Hall

• 107: NSF Town Hall
• 207: CSWA Town Hall: Unconscious Bias, Stereotype Threat, and Imposter Syndrome
• 306: LAD Business Meeting
• 307: New Strategic Framework: NOAO (Audio Only)

LAD Sessions

• 114: Laboratory Astrophysics

Press Conferences

• The Solar System & Its Neighbors
• The Milky Way & Its Neighbors
• Stellar Explosions & Their Echoes
• Exoplanets & Their Host Stars
• Glimpsing Star Formation in Action

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Long Beach Highlights

• AAS 221 Long Beach Meeting Hightlights

Plenary Sessions

• 101: Kavli Lecture: The Spitzer Space Telescope: Science Return and Impact
• 118: Galaxy Clusters in the Golden Age of High-Energy Astrophysics
• 200: Finding the Next Earth
• 217: Cannon Award: Exploring the Diversity of Exoplanetary Atmospheres
• 236: Newton Lacy Pierce Prize: Hot on the Trail of Warm Planets Orbiting Cool M Dwarfs
• 237: HEAD Rossi Prize: The Flaring Crab Nebula: Surprises and Challenges
• 317: Warner Prize: A New View on Planetary Orbital Dynamics
• 336: The Elemental Compositions of Extrasolar Planetesimals from Spectroscopy of Polluted White Dwarfs
• 337: Computational Cosmology
• 400: New Insights of Comets from the EPOXI Mission
• 416: The Hubble Constant in the Era of Precision Cosmology
• 428: Gas Flows and Galaxy Evolution
• 429: Lancelot M. Berkeley Prize: Results from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP)

Oral Sessions

• 105: Cosmic Microwave Background I
• 124: Cosmic Microwave Background II
• 138: Henry Norris Russell Lecture: Thinking and Computing
• 139: From Gas to Stars Over Cosmic Time
• 206: Galaxies I
• 224: Exoplanet Atmospheres
• 314: The Solar System
• 407: Kepler Exoplanets

Town Hall

• 218: Nasa Town Hall

HAD/HEAD Joint Session

• 113: HAD/HEAD Fifty Years of Celestial X-Ray Astronomy Part I
• 113: HAD/HEAD Fifty Years of Celestial X-Ray Astronomy Part II
• 113: HAD/HEAD Fifty Years of Celestial X-Ray Astronomy Part III
• 113: HAD/HEAD Fifty Years of Celestial X-Ray Astronomy Part IV

Press Conferences

• Exoplanets Coming & Going Everywhere
• The Hubble Ultra Deep Field Gets Deeper
• A High-Energy Astrophysics Extravaganza
• Exoplanet Systems from Birth to Death
• Journey to the Center of the Galaxy
• Exoplanets from Dust Grains to Brown Dwarfs
• Exploding Stars & Dark Energy
• Precision Cosmology & Particle Astrophysics
• Improving the Census of the Milky Way Galaxy
• Galaxies in the Extreme

Invited Sessions

• 100: Welcoming Address by UAA Chancellor Tom Case; AAS Welcomes New Division (Audio Only)
• 101: Kavil Prize: Laboratory Astrophysics as Key to Understanding the Universe
• 112: SPD Hale Prize: The Two Sources of Solar Energetic Particles
• 126: Exploring the Planet Mercury: One Year of MESSENGER Orbital Observations
• 127: Transits of Venus and Mercury: Exoplanet Analogs in Our Solar System
• 300: SPD Harvey Prize: The Solar Cycle: From Understanding to Forecasting
• 311: Russell Prize: The Cold Dark Matter Theory of Galaxy Formation: A Status Report
• 325: The Plasma Physics of Cosmic Rays
• 327: Public Talk: The Accelerating Universe
• 400: SPD Parker Lecture: How to Observe (Rather Than Model) The Interiors of Stars
• 412: Warner Prize: Bubble, Bubble, Toil, And Trouble: A Theorist's Romp Through The Cosmic Dawn
• 425: Under the Radar: The First Woman in Radio Astronomy, Ruby Payne-Scott
• 426: SkyMapper: Surveying the Southern Sky
• 500: SPD Parker Lecture: Solar Twins and Stellar Maunder Minima
• 510: Yup'ik Understandings of the Environment: "The World is Changing Following Its People"
• 519: Mix One-Part Astronomy Education Research with One-Part General Education Astronomy Course and You Get a Very Potent Science Literacy Transformation Cocktail
• 520: AIP Germant Award: Tycho to Kepler: Four Centuries and More of Astronomy and the Media

Press Conferences

• What's New Under the Sun
• Galaxies Bright, Faint, Near & Far
• A Matter of Some Gravity
• Stars & Stellar Systems
• Exoplanets & Brown Dwarfs
• Small Round (& Not-So-Round) Things

Invited Sessions

• 101: Kavli Lecture: The CMB and Neutrinos
• 138: The Challenges and Achievements in 50 Years of Human Spaceflight
• 139: HAD Doggett Prize: Cosmic Noise: The Pioneers of Early Radio Astronomy and Their Discoveries
• 200: HEAD Rossi Prize: Science with the Fermi LAT
• 300: Heineman Prize: Exploding Stars and the Accelerating Universe
• 315: Magnetic Fields in the Formation of Stars and Protoplanetary Disks
• 332: Galaxy Formation Star-by-Star: The View from the Milky Way
• 333: Star Formation in Galaxy Clusters Over the Past 10 Billion Years
• 400: The Evolving Context for Science and Society
• 412: White Dwarf Stars From the Telescope to the Laboratory and Back Again: Exploring Extreme Physics
• 421: Berkeley Prize: Mapping the Fuel for Star Formation in Early Universe Galaxies

Oral Session

• 118: A (Re)introduction to the Milky Way

Special Session

• 215: The BigBOSS Multi-Object Spectrograph on the Mayall Telescope

Press Conferences

• Through a Lens Darkly
• How to Build a Milky Way
• Science So Far from LOFAR
• Galaxy Clusters Across the Cosmos
• The Universe at Very High Energies
• An Infrared Extravaganza
• The Nearest & Dearest Spiral Galaxies
• Supernovae Near & Far, Far Away
• Extraordinary Exoplanets

Invited Sessions

• 100: Welcoming Address (Audio Only)
• 101: Kavli Lecture: The 2050 Decadal Survey of Astronomy and Astrophysics (Audio Only)
• 109: Stars Planets and The Weather If You Don't Like It Wait 5 Billion Years (Audio Only)
• 200: The Pan-STARRS Wide-Field Imaging Survey
• 208: Russell Prize: Mapping the Universe with Redshift Surveys and Weak Lensing
• 216: Early Science with the Expanded Very Large Array
• 300: Demographics in Astronomy and Astrophysics
• 308: From Hot Jupiters to Habitable Worlds
• 400: The Least Luminous Galaxies in the Universe

Press Conferences

• NASA's Kepler Mission: A Progress Report
• The Most Important Object in the History of Cosmology
• Once & Future Supernovae
• First Results from the Expanded Very Large Array
• An Astronomical Assortment
• Galaxies Near And Very, Very Far

Invited Sessions

• 218: Early Astrophysics Results from Planck
• 235: Warner Prize: Millisecond Pulsars: The Gifts that Keep on Giving
• 236: A New View of the High Energy Gamma-Ray Sky with the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope
• 300: The First Supermassive Black Holes
• 314: Heineman Prize: The Inner Space/Outer Space Connections: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, Inflation and All That
• 329: Cannon Prize: Stellar Archaeology: New Science with Old Stars
• 330: Rossi Prize: Exploring the Very High Energy Sky with H.E.S.S.
• 400: Exoplanets: New Approaches to their Discovery and Characterization
• 414: Addressing Unconscious Bias: Steps toward an Inclusive Scientific Culture
• 428: Berkeley Prize: Kepler: Opening New Doors in Astronomy

Press Conferences

• Active Galactic Nuclei and their Hosts
• Early Astrophysics Results from Planck
• Finding Dark Galaxies from their Tidal Imprints
• GBM Trigger Rate Since Launch
• Gravitational Lensing Distorts Measurements of Very High Redshift Galaxies
• Inventorying the Solar System
• M is for Messier
• Not-So-Standard Candles
• Outer Limits of the Solar System
• Sloan Digital Sky Survey III
• The Biggest Blackhole in the Nearby Universe
• Transit Yields Planet Radius
• Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)

Invited Sessions

• 103: Invited: Cosmic Microwave Background Results and Future Prospects
• 104: Invited: WISE, the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer
• 105: Recent Progress in Modeling Stellar Populations Near and Far
• 106: Fundamental Solar Physics Results from Hinode and the Solar Dynamics Observatory
• 107: Highlights of the CoRoT Mission: Extrasolar Planets, Stellar Structure and Activity
• 108: Planet Formation: Lessons from Extrasolar Planets
• 109: Harvey Prize: Beyond Black & White: What Photospheric Magnetograms Can Teach Us About Solar
• 110: The Formation of Brown Dwarfs and Wide Planetary Companions
• 111: The Cool Universe: Herschel's First Results
• 112: Revealing Black Hole Spin in X-rays
• 113: AIP Gemant Award
• 114: Fluid/Kinetic: Investigations of the Dynamic Solar Wind
• 115: A Guided Tour of Globular Clusters in the Local Group

Oral Sessions

• 304: Models and Multiwavelength Data of AGN
• 307: Galaxies: How Star Formation Changes Galaxies and Clusters of Galaxies
• 311: Extrasolar Planets
• 315: Circumstellar Disks, Variable Stars and Pulsars

Town Hall

• 203: NSF Townhall (Monday)
• 220: AAS Members Meeting

Public Lecture Events

• 500: The Solar Dynamics Observatory: Your Eye on the Sun — by Deab Pesnell) (Monday)
• 501: Avoiding Armageddon: Diverting Asteroids with Nuclear Explosives — by Dave Dearborn (Tuesday)

Press Conferences

• Getting WISE to the Infrared Universe
• Everything About Exoplanets
• Solar Dynamics Observatory Early Science
• Big Black Holes
• Milky Way Forecast: Cloudy
• Here Comes the Sun, at Last

Invited Sessions

• 101: Kepler Planet Detection Mission: Introduction and First Results
• 102: Russell Lectureship: RR Lyrae Atmospheres: Wrinkles Old and New
• 103: Pierce Prize: Finding Utility in the Diverse Origins of Gamma-Ray Bursts
• 104: LeRoy Doggett Prize: History of the Extraterrestrial Life Debate
• 106: Invited Session: The Evolving View of Water on Mars
• 107: Policy Talk: Charles Bolden
• 109: Galaxy Clusters and Black Holes: Cooling Versus Heating
• 110: John Grunsfeld, Shuttle Atlantis
• 111: Heinemann Prize: The High-Redshift Galaxy Jigsaw Puzzle
• 113: Rossi Prize: Strong Gravity and the Masses of Stellar Black Holes
• 115: Formation of Massive Black Hole Seeds in the First Galaxies

Oral Sessions

• 305: Kepler Mission: Characterization of the Instrument, Data and Host Stars
• 317: Kepler Mission: Follow-Up Observations and New Results
• 339: Extrasolar Rocky Planets and More
• 349: Extrasolar Planets: Tides, Transits and Magnetospheric Interactions
• 377: Extrasolar Planets: Direct Detection

Invited Sessions

• 101: Cassini at Saturn
• 102: Simulating Black Holes, Disks, and Jets
• 103: How Spitzer is Changing Our View of Star Formation
• 104: New Views of Old Galaxies
• 105: Supernova Surveys and Cosmology
• 106: Probing the Birth of Super Star Clusters
• 107: Hale Prize: Remote — Sensing Observations of the Corona and Solar Wind
• 108: Jets and Disks in Young Stellar Objects
• 109: Delivering the Starry Message
• 110: Stories from the Outer Solar System
• 111: Galaxy Collisions: A Factory for Ellipticals, Quasars, Feedback, and Disks?
• 112: History of Astronomy at the Huntington Library
• 113: Cosmic Evolution of Accretion and Fusion Power
• 114: Formation of the Galactic Halo

Special Sessions

• 201: Follow-up Observations of Exoplanet Transit
• 217: Astronomy with WISE
• 228: IYA2009 Cornerstone Projects
• 237: Planet Classification in the 21st Century
• 238: New Media in the International Year of Astronomy
• 248: IYA2009 Outreach: Reports from the Field
• 256: IYA2009 Citizen Science Programs

Invited Sessions

• 101: Extrasolar Planets: New Insights from New Data
• 102: Russell Lectureship: The Richness and Beauty of the Physics of Cosmological Recombination
• 103: Pierce Prize: Spectral Diagnostics and Galaxy Evolution
• 104: HAD-Donald Osterbrock Memorial Lecture: Tales of Astronomy in Art, History, and Literature
• 105: Astro2010 Progress Report
• 106: Science, the Sky, and Society: A View from an Astronomer in the Antipodes
• 107: New Forms of Convection in Galaxy Cluster Plasmas
• 108: Bringing our Galaxy's Supermassive Black Hole and its Environs into Focus with Adaptive Optics
• 109: Large Astronomy Facilities in China Current Status and Future Projects
• 110: Black Holes at Work
• 111: Building Black Holes and Bulges
• 112: Galaxy Clusters in X-rays: Physics and Cosmology
• 113: Fermi at Six Months
• 114: Phoenix in Wonderland

Town Hall

• 206: NASA Astrophysics Town Hall
• 215: NASA R&A and E/PO Town Hall
• 228: NSF Town Hall

Oral Sessions

• 300: Extrasolar Planets, Substellar CompanionsI: SIM Lite Planets Searches

Special Sessions

• 208: Proposing for SOFIA Basic Science Observations
• 213: Astronomy and Astrophysics Survey 2010 Launch
• 217: X-ray Missions under NASA-Supported Study for Upcoming Decadal Survey
• 229: International Year of Astronomy 2009 Programs
• 234: NASA's Exoplanet Exploration Program

Invited Sessions

• 02: What the Most Metal-Poor Stars Tell Us About the Early Universe
• 45: International Year of Astronomy 2009
• 54: The Era of Comparative Exoplanetology
• 55: The Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey
• 56: Imaging with the CHARA Interferometer
• 65: SPD Hale Prize Lecture — How Solar Flares Work
• 74: Planet Forming Disks
• 79: JWST's Near-Infrared Camera
• 80: Astrometry with the Hubble Space Telescope
• 89: Reionization and the Dark Ages
• 93: AGN with Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics
• 94: The Origin of The Universe and the Arrow of Time

Special Sessions

• 51: My Space Your Space and Virtual Space New Media E/PO

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Invited Sessions

• 02: The Search for Extrasolar Earths
• 27: Long Ago in a Galaxy Far, Far Away
• 38: New Horizons at Jupiter
• 39: Exoplanets: Interiors, Atmospheres, and the Search for Habitable Worlds
• 40: LeRoy E. Doggett Prize Lecture for Historical Astronomy: Astronomy and its History on the National Mall
• 41: AIP Andrew Gemant Award Lecture: Astronomy and Popular Culture
• 43: Micro-Arcsecond Astrometry with the VLBA
• 74: Henry Norris Russell Prize Lectureship: A Half-Century of Spectroscopic Astrophysics
• 86: Astronomy and Astrophysics 2010: A New Survey of the Field
• 87: Cultural Prospectives on the New Astronomy
• 88: Evolution of Disk Galaxies
• 117: Heineman Prize: Star Formation in the Cosmological Context
• 128: Emerging Principles on Galaxy Formation
• 129: Bruno Rossi Prize Lecture: GRB Discoveries with the Swift
• 130: Star Formation Histories in the Andromeda Galaxy
• 149: Searching for the Secrets of Massive Star Birth