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