229th meeting
Schedule & Speakers
229
229th
meeting of the American Astronomical Society
Grapevine, Texas
3
–
7 January 2017
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Martin Aubé
Cégep de Sherbrooke
"The LED Outdoor Lighting Revolution: Opportunities, Threats and Mitigation"
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William Bottke
SwRI
Fred Kavli Foundation Plenary Lecture: Early Solar System Bombardment: Exploring the Echos of Planetary Migration and Lost Ice Giants
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Niel Brandt
Penn. State University
HEAD Bruno Rossi Prize Lecture: "A Good Hard Look at Growing Supermassive Black Holes in the Distant Universe"
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Sean Carroll
Caltech
"What We Don't Know About the Beginning of the Universe"
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Megan Donahue
Michigan State University
"How Supermassive Black Hole Feedback Might Work"
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Laura Fissel
Northwestern University
"Astronomy from the Upper Stratosphere: Key Discoveries and New Opportunities from High Altitude Scientific Balloons"
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Terry Forbes
University of New Hampshire
SPD George Ellery Hale Prize Lecture: "Magnetic Energy Release in Solar Flares"
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Wendy Freedman
University of Chicago
Dannie Heineman Prize Lecture: "Increasing Accuracy and Increasing Tension in Ho"
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Philip Hopkins
Caltech
Helen B. Warner Prize Lecture: "Feedback: Now With Physics"
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Garth Illingworth
UC Santa Cruz
Berkeley Prize Lecture: "Exploring for Galaxies in the First Billion Years with Hubble and Spitzer – Pathfinding for JWST"
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Laura Lopez
Ohio State
Annie Jump Cannon Award Lecture: "The Tumultuous Lives and Deaths of Stars"
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Christopher McKee
UC Berkeley
Henry Norris Russell Lecture: "How Stars Form"
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Karin Öberg
Harvard-Smithsonian CfA
Newton Lacy Pierce Prize Lecture: "The Chemistry of Planet Formation"
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Jill Tarter
SETI Institute
"The 21st Century: The Century of Biology on Earth and Beyond"
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Alex Young
NASA GSFC
"The 2017 Solar Eclipse: Through the Eyes of NASA"
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