235th meeting
Program Highlights
235
235th
meeting of the American Astronomical Society
Honolulu, Hawai‘i
4
–
8 January 2020
AAS 235 offers more than a dozen prize and invited talks by distinguished astronomers.
Kala Baybayan Tanaka
Polynesian Voyaging Society
"He Lani Ko Luna, A Sky Above: In Losing the Sight of Land You Discover the Stars"
Kālepa Baybayan
Polynesian Voyaging Society
"He Lani Ko Luna, A Sky Above: In Losing the Sight of Land You Discover the Stars"
Edwin (Ted) Bergin
Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Dannie Heineman Prize
"Making a Habitable Planet"
Ann Boesgaard
Univ. of Hawaii
Henry Norris Russell Lectureship
"Intriguing Revelations from Lithium, Beryllium, and Boron"
Jo Bovy
Univ. of Toronto
Helen B. Warner Prize
"Not Your Grandparents’ Galaxy: The Milky Way in the Era of Large Surveys"
James De Buizer
SOFIA
"The Future of Infrared Astronomy in the Context of Spitzer, SOFIA, and JWST"
Sheperd Doeleman
Harvard-Smithsonian, CfA
Lancelot M. Berkeley New York Community Trust Prize
"The Event Horizon Telescope: Imaging a Black Hole"
Andrea Dupree
Harvard-Smithsonian, CfA
"Diet of the Stars: Mass Accretion and Mass Loss"
Peter Eisenhardt
JPL
"The Future of Infrared Astronomy in the Context of Spitzer, SOFIA, and JWST"
Suvi Gezari
Univ. of Maryland, College Park
Fred Kavli Plenary Lecture
"Black Holes Snacking on Stars: A Systematic Exploration of Transients in Galaxy Nuclei"
Timothy Heckman
Johns Hopkins Univ.
"The Role of Feedback in the Evolution of Galaxies"
Jason Hessels
ASTRON &
Univ. of Amsterdam
"Fast Radio Bursts"
Amy Kalili
‘Ōiwi TV
"Hawaiian and Astronomical Perspectives on the Stewardship of Maunakea’s Legacy"
Daniel Kasen
Univ. of California, Berkeley
HEAD Rossi Prize
"Kilonovae from Merging Neutron Stars"
Robert Kennicutt
Univ. of Arizona
Texas A&M Univ.
RAS Gold Medal
"Star Formation and Galaxy Evolution Through the Lens of a Scaling Law"
Brian Metzger
Columbia Univ.
HEAD Rossi Prize
"Kilonovae from Merging Neutron Stars"
Robert W. Smith
Univ. of Alberta
HAD Doggett Prize
"From the Invention of Astrophysics to the Space Age: The Transformation of Astronomy 1860-1990"
Jennifer van Saders
Univ. of Hawai'i
"Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Now I Know What You Are"
Daniel R. Weisz
Univ. of California, Berkeley
Newton Lacy Pierce Prize
"Life and Times of the Lowest Mass Galaxies"
