9 August 2016

Winter Meeting Registration Opens Tuesday, Submit Your Abstract Now

229th AAS Meeting

The 229th meeting of the American Astronomical Society will be here before we know it! Join your colleagues from across the country 3–7 January 2017 in Grapevine, Texas, for an exciting program of plenary talks, sessions, and events. Subjects will range from the origin of our solar system to the origin of the universe, from the first galaxies to light up the universe to the search for life in the galaxy, and from light pollution of our night sky to the solar eclipse of 2017. Some highlights confirmed so far include:

  • Kavli lecture by William Bottke (Southwest Research Institute) - Early Bombardment of the Solar System: Exploring the Echos of Planetary Migration and Lost Ice Giants
  • Sean Carroll (Caltech) - What happened at the Big Bang?
  • Laura Fissel (Northwestern University) - Super-pressure scientific ballooning and polarimetry of the Cosmic Microwave Background
  • Martin Aubé (Université de Sherbrooke) - Light Pollution, LEDs, and Light-at-Night Issues
  • Megan Donahue (Michigan State University) - Galaxy clusters and cosmology
  • Jill Tarter (SETI Institute) - The search for life in the universe
  • Berkeley Prize lecture by Garth Illingworth (UC-Santa Cruz) - The most-distant galaxies viewed by the Hubble Space Telescope
  • Alex Young (NASA GSFC) - The 2017 Solar Eclipse, Heliophysics, and Public Outreach
  • "Racism = Prejudice + Power: A Discussion of Racism in the Field of Astronomy" Town Hall
  • "NASA's 2020 Decadal Studies: An Update" Special Session

Want to join this amazing program? Submit your abstract for an oral or poster presentation in one of over 50 topical categories by 4 October at 9:00 pm ET. Abstracts submitted after 4 October but before the late abstract deadline on 1 December will be scheduled as posters to be displayed on Saturday, 7 January. Find all of the details on the Abstract Information page.

Registration for the meeting will open next Tuesday, 16 August. Until then, you can find available workshops, rates, and all of the details on the Registration page.

Once you’ve registered, don’t forget to book your hotel room. The AAS has reserved a block of rooms at the Gaylord Texan Resort & Convention Center for meeting attendees. Book your hotel room by 5 December to ensure the group rate. If you’re looking for a roommate to share lodging expenses at the meeting, check out the Roommate Search Forum to find a match.

The winter meeting exhibit hall fills up very quickly, so reserve your booth early! Place your booth order by the early deadline of 29 September to save.

After the 227th AAS meeting in Kissimmee, Florida, we asked attendees to complete a post-meeting satisfaction survey and we listened carefully to your feedback. For the upcoming meeting in Grapevine, we are arranging for lower cost “grab & go” lunch items, discounted prices at restaurants, shuttle service to various Grapevine locations, and promotional offers from many Grapevine merchants, restaurants, and attractions. More details will be provided in future meeting announcements.

See you in Grapevine!

Thank you to our Society Partners: IOP Publishing and Warp Speed Technologies

Thank you to the current sponsors of the 229th AAS meeting: SBIG, Associated Universities, Inc., Ball Aerospace, Northrop Grumman, and Astro Haven Enterprises. To become a meeting sponsor, email Debbie Kovalsky, AAS Director of Exhibits & Development, at [email protected] or call 202-328-2010 x110.