General Program Announcements

Join an online hangout on Thursday, 8 February, at 3:00 pm ET to hear about the new planetary system around the star K2-138.

The Astronomical Society of the Pacific is producing a book to document and celebrate the Great American Eclipse of 2017. Do you have something to contribute? Let the ASP know by 15 February.

Graduate students and postdocs are invited to apply to enhance their careers through hands-on observatory experience, working directly with Keck Observatory scientists in Hawaii.

Guerilla Science is launching a paid artists and scientists residency program in the US. Applications are due by 20 February 2018.

Applications are now open for ComSciCon 2018, the 6th annual Communicating Science workshop for graduate students, to be held in Boston, MA, 14-16 June 2018.

Join an online hangout on Thursday, 25 January, at 3:00 pm ET to hear how future interplanetary missions might use a pulsar-based GPS system to navigate through space.

Individuals at US institutions are welcome to apply for support to attend the August 2018 General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in Vienna, Austria. Deadline: 28 February.

Most AAS members receive the magazine Physics Today as a membership benefit. The latest issue is now en route to subscribers' mailboxes and can be accessed online.

The science community is invited to make comments on the draft solicitation for the next generation of instruments for the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy. Deadline: 12 January.

The National Optical Astronomy Observatory invites you to register and attend the Decadal Survey Community Planning Workshop, 20-21 February 2018, in Tucson, Arizona.