239th meeting
Program Highlights
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239th
meeting of the American Astronomical Society
Salt Lake City, UT
9
–
13 January 2022
#AAS239 will offer a rich assortment of prize and invited talks by distinguished astronomers.
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Héctor Arce
Yale University
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Roger D. Blandford
Stanford University
Shaw Prize in Astronomy and Astrophysics
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Jocelyn Bell Burnell
University of Oxford
RAS Lecture
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Jack O. Burns
University of Colorado Boulder
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William Donahue
St. John’s College / Green Lion Press
HAD Doggett Prize
Courtney Dressing
University of California at Berkeley
Newton Lacy Pierce Prize Lecture
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Jane Greaves
Cardiff University
Fred Kavli Plenary Lecturer
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Francis Halzen
University of Wisconsin-Madison
HEAD Bruno Rossi Prize
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Nia Imara
UC Santa Cruz
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Victoria M. Kaspi
McGill University
Berkeley Prize
Shaw Prize in Astronomy and Astrophysics
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Chryssa Kouveliotou
George Washington University
Shaw Prize in Astronomy and Astrophysics
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Laura Kreidberg
Max Planck Institute for Astronomy
Annie Jump Cannon Award Lecture
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Robert Lupton
Princeton University
Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
University of New Hampshire
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Paul Scholz
University of Toronto
Shaw Prize in Astronomy and Astrophysics
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Nicholas Scoville
Caltech
Henry Norris Russell Lectureship
Photo: Robert Paz (Caltech)
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Allison Strom
Princeton University
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Gail Zasowski
University of Utah
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David Weinberg
Ohio State University
Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics
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Thomas Zurbuchen
NASA