While binary neutron star mergers have long been considered the primary site for r-process nucleosynthesis, their inherent delay times challenge our understanding of the rapid heavy-element enrichment observed in some of the earliest stars and galaxies. This discrepancy not only questions the sufficiency of mergers in explaining early cosmic chemical evolution but also underscores the urgent need to investigate alternative cataclysmic events. In particular, magnetorotational supernovae, collapsars, and certain types of gamma-ray bursts offer promising pathways to establish the extreme neutron-rich environments necessary for robust r-process nucleosynthesis on much shorter timescales. These events, despite being rarer than mergers, could potentially provide the rapid enrichment required in the early universe, thereby playing a crucial role in shaping the elemental makeup of ancient stellar populations.

This session aims to bring together experts from observational astronomy, theoretical astrophysics, and nuclear physics to critically examine the viability and implications of these alternative r-process sources. By fostering a multidisciplinary discussion, we hope to highlight recent advances in both simulation and observational data that point toward a more diverse set of r-process contributors. Participants will have the opportunity to explore how these alternative sources can complement the contributions from mergers and what this means for our broader understanding of cosmic chemical evolution. Ultimately, our goal is to spark new collaborations and research initiatives that address one of astrophysics' most pressing questions: what cataclysmic events truly powered the r-process and seeded the early universe with heavy elements?

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NASA’s Pandora SmallSat mission is scheduled to launch in Fall 2025! Pandora was selected in 2021 as part of NASA's Astrophysics Pioneers Program and is a partnership with NASA and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and additional institutions across the United States and Canada. Pandora will use transmission spectroscopy to study the atmospheres of Earth-size to Jupiter-size transiting exoplanets with host stars spanning K and M spectral types. While transmission spectroscopy is a powerful technique, the presence of unocculted star spots affects measurements of the planet’s atmospheric constituents. Recent JWST observations of transiting exoplanets, including GJ 486 b and TRAPPIST-1 b, have especially highlighted the degeneracy that arises when attempting to distinguish atmospheric signatures such as water from the presence of unocculted spots on the host star. Pandora will directly address this problem of stellar contamination by collecting long-baseline observations of transiting exoplanets with simultaneous visible-light photometry (~380-750nm) and near-IR spectroscopy (~850-1620nm with R~130). These Pandora observations will constrain star spot covering fractions of exoplanet host stars, enabling the star and planet signals to be disentangled. Pandora will thus uniquely resolve this planet-star degeneracy and reliably determine exoplanet atmosphere compositions for at least 20 exoplanets, including HST and JWST targets that are impacted by stellar contamination. In this special session, we will present the mission status, give an overview of the prime mission operations and science goals, highlight synergies with other ground- and space-based facilities, and discuss opportunities for community-driven auxiliary science that can be performed with Pandora. With a one year prime mission following launch in Fall 2025, this session will provide a timely opportunity for the community to learn about the Pandora mission and opportunities for engagement.

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When an explosive transient occurs within a dense circumstellar medium (CSM), its ejecta collides with the slower CSM, generating powerful shockwaves that convert kinetic energy into ultraviolet and X-ray radiation. This high-energy radiation ionizes and excites the surrounding gas, producing narrow emission lines.This additional energy source fuels a diverse range of  transients, both terminal and non-terminal, with brightness varying by five orders of magnitude and timescales spanning decades.  

This special session will cover the exciting work that spans the breadth of this exciting, rapidly expanding field, some of these topics are described below:

These so-called interacting transients showcase outstanding shortcomings in our understanding of stellar evolution—what is the cause and effect of this circumstellar material? How, and which stars evolve to explode within a dense CSM? Does this additional CSM cast a veil on stellar properties, hindering pre-SN progenitor observations? While direct progenitor detections are rare, tracing the transient’s evolution can provide valuable insights into stellar mass loss before core collapse, a poorly understood process due to many observational challenges.

The connection between supernova (SN) subtypes and CSM remains unclear, however it spans a range of progenitors and supernova types. While IIn, Ibn, Icn, and Ia-CSM show strong interaction, other types, such as IIP/L and superluminous SNe, may also be influenced to a lesser extent. CSM interaction and dust formation shape SN evolution, alter progenitor appearance, and impact late-time behavior. Recent studies have also searched for surviving progenitors after possible non-terminal eruptions and binary companions post-SN, revealing the disappearance of progenitors (e.g SN2009ip).

Pre-SN activity or ``precursors’’ are a growing focus in the era of large, high-cadence surveys. Many nearby interacting transients show energetic pre-SN activity weeks to years before explosion, suggesting massive progenitors undergo dramatic changes shortly before death. By AAS 246, Vera C. Rubin Observatory will have been operational for six months, making this session timely for discussing pre-SN activity, identification and timely classification, mass loss mechanisms, and how they inform stellar evolution models. As the Legacy Survey of Space and Time approaches commencement, this session will provide a platform to strategize CSM-related SN discovery and follow-up in the era of big data.

Recent advances in pre-SN evolution, mass loss, and CSM interaction modeling make this session an excellent opportunity to unite transient and stellar astronomy. Discussions will explore how SN-CSM interactions shape SN behavior, emission features, and progenitor appearance, as well as the mechanisms behind late-stage mass loss, and tools used to better understand these observations, in lieu of the presence of CSM interaction.

Although SN-focused, this session will also address non-terminal transients such as Luminous Red Novae, Luminous Blue Variable outbursts, and binary interactions. CSM interaction extends beyond transients, influencing stellar evolution, compact remnant formation, and dust processes. Abstracts will be encouraged across observations, modeling, and computational approaches to shock interactions.
In this special session, we will have a ‘past-present-future’ format comprising an expert review, contributed talks, and a discussion panel spanning the field and its future. This is the first dedicated CSM interaction session at a large conference such as AAS, and this special session will lead the way for future collaboration. This special session at AAS 245 will offer a forum for this exciting and rapidly growing field, and facilitate the sharing of ideas and foster collaboration.

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Clouds fundamentally affects the P-T profile, vertical mixing, heat transport and chemistry in brown dwarfs and giant planets. Observations and modeling efforts in the past decade have provided new crucial lessons on clouds, but the fundamental processes governing cloud behavior remain only partially understood. 

Advancement in 1D models have been rapid with increasing complexity spanning the L-T-Y transitions with ever more opacities sources. Similarly, advanced GCMs predicted ubiquitous dynamics and established a strong solar-system synergy. However, new opportunity still exists to fully explain the temporal evolution of atmospheres, the 3D structures of clouds and vertical mixing processes. Till this day, no comprehensive framework exists yet to unify our understanding of clouds from L-T transitional brown dwarfs and down to Y dwarfs and directly imaged planets.

WHY THIS SESSION IS RELEVANT:

The timing of this session is particularly critical. New JWST observations are now emerging, and these datasets are poised to capture cloud evolution and properties in higher fidelity. They also expose complexities beyond the predictive capabilities of current models. Thousands of hours of existing high-precision photometric monitoring of brown dwarfs from HST, TESS and Spitzer also pose puzzling questions: the observed inclination-dependent colors in L-T brown dwarfs, light curve modulations and long-term temporal evolution, or how to infer effective temperatures from different cloud model.

Thus, a new approach is needed to bridge the gap between traditional 1D atmospheric models and 3D dynamical model. Addressing these challenges is essential for interpreting current and future high-precision data from JWST, which will help to provide brand-new insights into clouds chemistry and morphology.

The session aims to convene experts from both observational and theoretical backgrounds, fostering interdisciplinary discussions that could lead to breakthroughs. By focusing on the integration of observational insights with advanced modeling efforts, this session sets the stages for an engaging discussion to better understand clouds in brown dwarfs and ultracool atmospheres.
 

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Astronomy is a very visual science, but it doesn't have to be! At the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP), we have been working with Blind and Low Vision (BLV) audiences for the last few years creating materials and sharing resources. Come see what we have learned, the latest guidelines for how to be welcoming to BLV visitors, and what resources there are in our community to continue your exploration. You may even leave with some materials to take home, based on availability.

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The Sun’s polar regions play a crucial role in shaping the global dynamics of the solar magnetic field, yet they remain some of the least explored and understood areas of the Sun. This session will bring together researchers investigating the complex interactions of magnetic fields, plasma flows, and acoustic waves in the solar interior, surface, and polar atmosphere. We will explore how these dynamics influence solar cycle evolution, the generation and transport of open magnetic flux, and the connection between the solar polar fields, coronal structures, and the interplanetary magnetic field. Additionally, discussions will highlight the importance of direct polar observations, including their impact on resolving long-standing questions, such as the open flux problem. With the Heliophysics Decadal recommendation of a future solar polar mission,new active missions like Solar Orbiter and PUNCH providing unprecedented glimpses into these regions, and communities like COFFIES poised to incorporate data into solar interior models, this session aims to foster collaboration and innovative approaches to understanding the fundamental processes governing the Sun’s polar dynamics and their far-reaching implications for the heliosphere.

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Visualization techniques provide a mechanism to develop human-interpretable insights through a visual medium for multi-dimensional datasets, simulation outputs, and multi-spectral images.  Visualizations can convey abstract representations of connections and patterns between data items, or they may provide more concrete renderings and diagrams of physical structures and objects. Maps, sky charts, scientific drawings, and simple data plots have historically provided a visual means of communication for astronomical datasets.  The advent of modern computers has led to interactive, immersive, and animated visualizations.  

Additionally, visualization systems provide mechanisms to extend human capabilities, such as the use of interactive spaces to expand human working memory when the amount of information necessary to reach a conclusion would otherwise be intractable. Interactive visual exploration of data further supports pattern recognition and inference of relationships in complex data that humans struggle to intuitively understand.  Visualization further supports uncovering relationships that are difficult to draw out through statistical analyses or by manually sifting through raw data.

The current generation of astronomical surveys such as ZTF, LOFAR, MeerKAT, Gaia, and SDSS are paving the way for data-intensive astronomy through discoveries of both known and unknown astronomical objects. The astronomy community has been grappling with challenges of visualizing data volumes of ~tens of PBs over mission lifetimes of these surveys.  Lessons from the application of visualization to these large-scale datasets are destined to be transferred to future surveys such as LSST, SKA, and Euclid.  The tremendous data volumes of future surveys demand the development of effective data visualization that can support rapid analysis at enormous scales.  Addressing these challenges is a crucial step towards maximizing scientific yield from future facilities and missions.

This session proposes to bring together experts in astronomical and astrophysical data visualization, who will present and discuss both recent successes and ongoing challenges in this domain as we look ahead to upcoming missions.  The experts who we plan to invite to speak at this session bring diverse experience and viewpoints to astronomical visualization. We list tentative speakers below. 

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Overview

X-ray polarimetry is transforming our understanding of the universe, and in particular of radio-quiet Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), providing new insights into the geometry and physics of their central engines. In AGN, X-ray emission originates from a hot corona near the supermassive black hole (SMBH), but its structure and precise location remain debated. Additionally, a fraction of the X-ray photons are reprocessed by surrounding structures, including the accretion disk and the parsec-scale dusty torus, affecting the polarization properties of the radiation, and making polarimetry a crucial tool for studying these components.

The Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) has provided the first X-ray polarization measurements of radio-quiet (RQ) AGN, and its synergy with XMM-Newton, NuSTAR, and Chandra telescopes enabled to constrain both the X-ray corona (in Seyfert 1 galaxies) and the parsec-scale torus (in Seyfert 2 galaxies) geometries. These paradigm-shifting observations are revolutionizing our understanding of the inner structures of the AGN and provide better understanding of how matter behaves in the extreme environments around SMBHs.

During this session, we will discuss the latest updates in AGN X-ray spectro-polarimetry, advancements in modeling, and future directions. Serving as a collaborative platform, this session will enable researchers to present and discuss IXPE findings, and shape the future of AGN polarization studies.

Key points
• X-ray spectro-polarimetry and introduction to IXPE;
• Unobscured RQ AGN: Constraining the Coronal Geometry;
• Obscured RQ AGN: Constraining the Torus Geometry;
• Future perspectives: Developments and upcoming polarimetric missions.

Scientific organizers
The organizers are Indrani Pal (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Clemson University, SC USA) and Vittoria Elvezia Gianolli (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Clemson University, SC USA).

Extraordinary moments create extraordinary possibilities — but only if leaders know how to harness them. The AAS Solar Eclipse Task Force successfully prepared millions of people across North America to experience the 2017, 2023, and 2024 solar eclipses, and in so doing became a case study in large-scale community coordination. Across the country, leaders from science, education, government, tourism, and advocacy had to prepare, educate, and collaborate in ways they had never done before. In the process, they built something lasting: new networks of people with widely diverse backgrounds, skills, and resources. This phenomenon — the transformation of a temporary network formed in response to a unique challenge or opportunity into a lasting community — is what we are calling the Eclipse Effect.

The next total solar eclipse to touch U.S. soil occurs on 30 March 2033, when the path of totality crosses Alaska but no other states. That may seem a long way off, but as we learned from the recent eclipses, it’s never too early to start planning. Furthermore, the lessons of the Eclipse Effect go far beyond eclipses. The scientific community is currently experiencing a very different catalyst for organizing: the sudden, sweeping budget cuts and funding freezes from the new administration. Researchers, institutions, and early-career scientists find themselves in a moment of uncertainty, fear, and rapid change. But just as happened with the American solar eclipses, extraordinary moments can be leveraged to create new, powerful collaborations that strengthen the field for the long term. This session will explore how the strategies that helped communities organize for the eclipse can help the astronomical community respond to today’s challenges and those of the future.

This Special Session will feature six speakers, each of whom played a pivotal role in organizing diverse communities for the recent eclipses. Their experiences span astronomy, tourism, accessibility, indigenous outreach, citizen science, and conservation. Each speaker will share key lessons in community-building that apply not only to eclipse organizing but also to the urgent challenges facing the scientific community today.

   •    Debra Ross (Co-Author, The Eclipse Effect; Co-Chair, AAS Solar Eclipse Task Force): How to turn a moment of crisis or opportunity into a long-term gain — why some efforts fade while others create lasting communities.
   •    Rick Fienberg (Project Manager, AAS Solar Eclipse Task Force): The power of cross-disciplinary collaboration — how bringing in partners beyond your immediate field leads to more successful initiatives.
   •    Trish Erzfeld (Director of Tourism, Perry County, MO): Communicating complex topics to the public — how to build trust, interest, and engagement in any large-scale effort.
   •    MaryKay Severino (COO, Eclipse Soundscapes): Inclusion as a strength — how making science accessible to all leads to greater innovation, participation, and success.
   •    Cody Cly (Graduate Student, UT San Antonio; Navajo/Diné Tribe Member): Navigating multiple communities at once — how to bridge cultural, scientific, and institutional divides to build stronger networks.
   •    Dawn Davies (Night Sky Program Manager, Texas Hill Country Alliance): Managing competing interests in public initiatives — how to balance differing priorities while keeping the big picture in focus.

The session will include an interactive Q&A period, giving attendees an opportunity to discuss how these lessons can be applied to their own work and to the challenges facing the astronomy community today.

These ideas will be explored in greater depth in the forthcoming book The Eclipse Effect: How to Seize Extraordinary Moments to Create Strong Communities (Post Hill Press, December 2025) by Jamie Carter and Debra Ross.

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's Wide Field Instrument (WFI) will have a large field of view (0.28 sq deg), Hubble-like sensitivity and resolution, and highly efficient survey operations. Roman's WFI observing program will include both Core Community Surveys and General Astrophysics surveys, defined by a combination of a community-led process and traditional peer-reviewed calls for proposals. The Core Community Surveys will include a High Latitude Wide Area survey, a High Latitude Time Domain survey, and a Galactic Bulge Time Domain survey. In addition to addressing Roman's science requirements related to cosmology and exoplanet demographics, the science community has described an exciting range of science investigations that can be undertaken with data from these surveys, given appropriate observational strategies (https://roman.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/ccs_community_input.html).

The community-led effort to define Roman's Core Community Surveys, and the Roman Galactic Plane General Astrophysics Survey will be completed this Spring. The Roman Observations Time Allocation Committee have reviewed the survey implementation reports from the committees tasked with defining community-defined surveys, and will provide a recommendation on the implementation of each survey. The purpose of this session is to give attendees an overview of the recommended survey strategy for Roman for each of the core community surveys and for the Galactic Plane Survey, and provide an opportunity for detailed discussion of the associated science capabilities.

The AAS Committee for the Protection of Astronomy and the Space Environment (COMPASSE) in collaboration with the AAS Sustainability Committee propose a special session to provide an overview and discussion of the broad issues and increasing impacts of human-led activities in space as an environment. These include the effects on astronomical observations from escalating light pollution and electromagnetic interference from the proliferation of commercial satellites in low earth orbit (LEO), as well as increasing environmental degradation of the Earth-space environments. Atmospheric metal deposition and ozone depletion from increased rocket launches and satellite deorbiting  is beginning to reach concerning levels, a trend that will only increase with the end-of-life atmospheric ablation from proliferating satellites with planned 5-year operational lifetimes. A Kessler scenario, with potential runaway cascades of collisions and debris generation, is of increasing concern in a historically crowded LEO. This would impact a number of disciplines beyond astronomy and risks future access to the skies and orbital space for scientific, commercial, military and community stakeholders.

We review recent statements and AAS resolutions on these issues led by COMPASSE members, as well as educational materials. We highlight steps astronomers can take to raise awareness of these issues, invite partnership from institutional and community organizations, and share advocacy strategies for better regulation/oversight and more sustainable models of LEO and space initiatives.

The Parker Solar Probe mission orbits the Sun in a structured sequence of aphelia and progressively closer perihelia, after implementing successive Venus Gravity Assists. Following the latest Venus encounter on November 6, 2024, the PSP spacecraft was poised to implement Orbit 22 toward the first ever encounter with a perihelion below 10 solar radii (Rs), which the mission implemented successfully on December 24, 2024. Downlinking of the data gathered during Encounters 22 and 23 of December 2024 and March 2025, respectively, has been complete by April 2025. To the heliophysics community, mission data from all instruments look as pristine as they are unique. We propose this special session devoted to (1) conveying to the solar physics community some of PSP’s key results, both in-situ and remote-sensing, covering both earlier and the latest encounters; (2) assessing how results from earlier, farther perihelia compare to findings from the latest perihelia; and (3) offering a vision for the future of PSP scientific data analysis. 

The session will comprise six (6) contributed oral presentations of 15 minutes each (12 min + 3 min Q&A) attempting a representative blend of the mission’s most exciting findings. More session abstracts are welcome as poster presentations. The session will further focus on future analyses and a meaningful and systematic utilization of archived mission data, as well as on novel and powerful capabilities for interpretation, enabled by synergies between the PSP mission and other ground- and space-based observatories. 

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Saturday, 7 June & Sunday, 8 June
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NSF NOIRLab is the US national center for ground-based, nighttime optical astronomy, providing the community with cutting-edge facilities and infrastructure for astronomical discovery. This town hall will discuss NSF’s ongoing Portfolio Prioritization Process (P3), through which the entirety of the NOIRLab portfolio is being evaluated on a holistic basis. We will leave ample time for community input and questions. We will also report on NOIRLab’s plans to respond to an uncertain federal funding landscape, as well as updates on the Rubin Observatory’s start of operations. 

The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) serves the astronomical community through the operation of multiple NASA flagship missions including the Hubble, Webb, and Roman Space Telescopes, the development of advanced data and science archives, including Kepler and TESS, and the dissemination of astronomical information to the broadest public audiences.  Offering this breadth of resources to help the scientific community advance, STScI provides support and the primary user interface for Hubble, Webb and Roman. STScI will contribute to a wide range of workshops, science sessions, splinter meetings, and exhibits throughout the meeting.  

The STScI Town Hall will serve as the center piece for our AAS 246 presence. We will report on the status of our existing and upcoming missions and describe new opportunities designed to advance astrophysics into the 2020s. In particular, we will present updates on Hubble and Webb operations in light of the current budget constraints. We will describe the science opportunities afforded by Roman, with the first Call for Proposals released in October. We will include a progress report on the JWST/HST Rocky Worlds Director’s Discretionary Time program and highlight synergies with the upcoming Habitable Worlds Observatory.The presenters will include the STScI Director and mission heads. We will include time for discussion to receive community input regarding new capabilities and to answer questions about our activities in the coming year.

Updates of interest to the astronomical community will be presented by NSF/AST staff members.  We will encourage and respond to questions from the AAS Meeting attendees.

Rubin Observatory’s First Light is Here—And LSST is About to Begin! 
The wait is almost over! The NSF-DOE Rubin Observatory is in the final phase of commissioning and will soon begin the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST)! Join us as we celebrate this milestone, get ready to complete construction, and gear up for full operations.

At this Town Hall, you’ll get the latest updates on construction progress, including the installation of the LSST Camera on the Simonyi Survey Telescope. The Operations team will share details on upcoming data previews and ways to get involved with Rubin. You’ll also hear about new initiatives from the LSST Discovery Alliance, designed to help the science community make the most of Rubin and LSST.

Come be part of this exciting moment in astronomical history—the future of discovery starts now!
 

The NASA Town Hall session will provide an opportunity for the Astrophysics science community to interact with members of the leadership team and staff of the Astrophysics Division (APD) of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. A presentation on the state of APD will precede an opportunity for audience questions. Topics to be addressed in the Town Hall session include scientific accomplishments, current programmatic milestones and direction, and NASA’s progress towards implementing the recommendations identified in the Astro2020 Decadal Survey: Pathways to Discovery in Astronomy and Astrophysics for the 2020s.

Come join us in celebrating the groundbreaking scientific achievements and enduring legacy of Dr. Vera Rubin, whose work provided the first compelling evidence for dark matter, fundamentally altering our understanding of the universe.  Vera Rubin was a leading figure in observational cosmology whose critical observations of galaxy rotation curves led to one of the most profound discoveries in modern astrophysics, reshaped our understanding of galactic dynamics and laid the foundation for research that continues today, including the first direct evidence of dark matter from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and now, new studies at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. Rubin was a lifelong advocate as well, mentoring generations of astronomers and advocating for greater participation in the field.  In this one-hour panel discussion, we will honor Vera Rubin’s scientific contributions and advocacy, highlight ongoing research with missions and scientists that build on her discoveries, and foster dialogue on science, history, and public engagement.  The U.S. Mint will showcase newly released Vera Rubin coins with giveaways for the audience attendees.

Hosted by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory/Chandra X-ray Observatory, U.S. Mint, National Women’s History Museum, and AAS Committee on the Status of Women in Astronomy.
 

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is a NASA flagship mission planned for launch no later than May 2027. The Roman Space Telescope will perform breakthrough science in dark energy cosmology, exoplanet microlensing, and NIR sky surveys with its Wide Field Instrument. Roman will also feature the Coronagraph Instrument (CGI), a technology demonstration that will directly image and take spectra of exoplanetary systems using several novel technologies together for the first time in space. This session will cover the status of the project and upcoming opportunities for community involvement in planning and executing the science and technology demonstration aspects of Roman.

The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) mission has been making rapid progress recently, with the establishment of a Project Office, the assembly of a number of science cases, and work on maturing the mission architecture and the technology maturation plan. This Town Hall will provide a progress update from the project office and NASA HQ.  Speakers will describe the next steps for developing the mission science and technology, along with opportunities for community involvement in the mission.  After the talks, there will be a Q&A session, followed by an “open house” format where members of the mission team will be available for individual or group discussions on HWO topics.

Join the National Solar Observatory (NSO) team to discuss ongoing and prospective efforts and help NSO to develop a vision for the future that addresses the needs of our solar and space science community and a strategy to address the NSF’s Portfolio Prioritization Process (P3).

NSO team members will outline the plans for a fully operational NSF Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, as the world’s largest solar telescope transitions out of its operations commissioning phase; the next steps to implement ngGONG, the top-ranked project for MREFC funding in the recent Heliophysics Decadal Survey; and NSO’s renewed efforts to engage with its users community to shape our future capabilities.

Come hear from us, and share your invaluable thoughts on how NSO can best support your research and ideas, both now and in the future.