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237th meeting of the American Astronomical Society

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10 – 15 January 2021

Press Registration

The AAS offers complimentary meeting registration to bona fide working journalists and public-information officers (PIOs). To request press registration, first check our eligibility criteria, then contact AAS Press Officer Dr. Rick Fienberg with your name and media affiliation (or “freelance” if applicable). Upon confirming your eligibility, he’ll email you a special promotional code that you can use to register the same way regular attendees do, i.e., via the AAS 237 registration page. This is a change from how we used to handle press registration, so please follow the instructions carefully. Advance press registration deadline: Wednesday, 6 January 2021. If you wait till the workshops and science sessions are under way, we may not be able to process your registration in time for you to attend that day’s events.

Press registrants as of 15 January 2021

Press Registration Instructions

Once you’ve received your promo code, go to the AAS 237 registration page and click the “Register for AAS 237” button. This will take you to our “members only” website, where you can sign in if you already have AAS credentials, which is likely if you’ve attended a recent AAS meeting, even if you’re not a member of the Society. If you’re not sure, or if you’ve forgotten your AAS credentials, click the “Forgot username?” or “Forgot password?” link and follow the instructions that pop up, or email [email protected] for assistance. Otherwise you can create a new account (again, you don’t have to be a member of the AAS to do so).

After you sign in, click the “Register Myself” button. You will see several options at different prices. Click the radio button labeled “Press Registration,” shown with a $473 fee. Don’t panic! Your promo code will reduce the fee to $0 during checkout. After answering a few questions to confirm that you understand and agree to our meeting policies, click the “Save Responses” button. Next set the “Select programs by” pulldown menu to “View all.” This will open a pane listing all the professional development workshops being offered at the meeting. If you’re interested in attending the media workshop described below, scroll down toward the end of the list and click the “Add” button next to the workshop title, “Media Workshop on Multimessenger & Time Domain Astronomy.” If you’re interested in any of the other workshops being offered on 7 or 8 January, you are welcome to add those too, but you will have to pay their associated fees — your promo code covers only your press registration and, if you opt for it, the media workshop.

Once you’ve answered the questions and added (or decided not to add) the workshop(s), click the “Proceed to Checkout” button. You’ll see “AAS 237 Virtual Meeting” listed with a charge that includes the $473 registration fee and any workshop fees you agreed to pay; the workshops won’t be itemized separately on this screen. Enter your promo code in the “Promotional Code” box and click the “Apply” button; you should now see the $473 registration fee wiped out. Click the “Submit Order” button to complete your registration; unless you opted to attend a paid workshop, you won’t have to pay anything, and the next screen will confirm your registration — and will list any workshop(s) you signed up for. You should soon receive two emails: an order confirmation/receipt from the addresses [email protected] and virtual meeting instructions from the address [email protected]. If you don’t see these emails within 24 hours, check your junk/spam folder.

If you encounter any problems during the registration process, email [email protected] or AAS Press Officer Rick Fienberg.

USRA Logo Since we will not be meeting in person, there will be no physical press office, press conference room, or press interview room. A very special “Thank you!” goes out to the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) for generously sponsoring the AAS 237 virtual press office!

Press Contacts:

Rick Fienberg, AAS Press Officer, +1 857-891-5649 (cell)
Tarini Konchady, AAS Media Fellow, +1 202-328-2010 x130
Susanna Kohler, Editor, AAS Nova, +1 202-328-2010 x127

Media Workshop on Multimessenger & Time Domain Astronomy

On Friday, 8 January 2021, from 12 noon to 4 pm Eastern time (17:00 to 21:00 UTC), the international Gemini Observatory, a program of NSF’s NOIRLab, will present a virtual media workshop. Its objective is to inform science writers — both journalists and public-information officers (PIOs) — about multimessenger astronomy (MMA, combining electromagnetic, gravitational, and particle observations) and time domain astronomy (TDA, the study of celestial transients) and to provide a glimpse into the likely future of these rapidly advancing fields. The workshop will consist of a panel of scientists from leading MMA/TDA research facilities who will share their views on the state of each field and their vision for the future of MMA/TDA science and technology. A panel discussion and Q&A on MMA/TDA and on communications in the context of large scientific collaborations will round out the event, which will be recorded and made publicly accessible afterward.

There is no charge for this workshop, but it is available only to press registrants, and if you wish to participate you must sign up for the workshop when you register; see the instructions above.

For more information, including the speaker lineup, see the workshop page.

Press Conferences

During the week of 11-15 January 2021, daily press conferences will be conducted via Zoom for press registrants and any other meeting registrants wishing to attend. They’ll also be live-streamed on the AAS Press Office YouTube channel for others who are interested — but not interested enough to register. You will not be able to ask questions via YouTube; to do that, you’ll need to register for the meeting and join the briefings via Zoom. Recordings will be archived on the AAS Press Office YouTube channel afterward.

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