AAS 235th Meeting, Honolulu, Hawai'i : 4-8 January 2020 (THIS SCHEDULE IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE)


1	Friday, 3 January 2020
2	8:30 am	Exoplanet Exploration Program Analysis Group (ExoPAG) 21 (Day 1), 8:30 am–5:30 pm, Hilton Hawaiian Village, Coral Ballroom 1
3		Workshop: JWST Proposal Planning Workshop, 8:30 am–5:00 pm, Room 301 B
4		Workshop: AAS Astronomy Ambassadors Workshop (Day 1), 8:30 am–5:30 pm, Room 303 A
5	9:00 am	Workshop: The 2nd AAS Chandra/CIAO Workshop (Day 1), 9:00 am–6:00 pm, Room 308 A
6		Workshop: LightSound: Learn to Build a Sonification Tool to Make your Classes and Outreach Events More Inclusive (Day 1), 9:00 am–6:00 pm, Room 307 A
7		NSF Postdoctoral Fellows Symposium 2020 (Day 1), 9:00 am–6:00 pm, Room 301 A
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9	Saturday, 4 January 2020
10	8:00 am	Workshop: Introduction to Software Carpentry, 8:00 am–5:00 pm, Room 305A
11	8:30 am	Workshop: AAS Astronomy Ambassadors Workshop (Day 2), 8:30 am–5:30 pm, Room 303 A
12		Workshop: CubeSat Astronomy in the 2020s, 8:30 am–5:30 pm, Room 323 A
13		Exoplanet Exploration Program Analysis Group (ExoPAG) 21 (Day 2), 8:30 am–12:00 pm, Hilton Hawaiian Village, Coral Ballroom 1
14	9:00 am	Workshop: Everything you needed to know about JWST Exoplanet Transit Data : How to Plan, Reduce, and Fit your data with the Exoplanet Characterization Toolkit, 9:00 am–1:00 pm, Room 303 B
15		Workshop: Improving your Teaching: Applications of Evidence Based Practices for Astronomy Education, 9:00 am–4:00 pm, Room 323 C
16		Workshop: Using Python and Astropy for Astronomical Data Analysis, 9:00 am–5:30 pm, Room 301 B
17		Workshop: The 2nd AAS Chandra/CIAO Workshop (Day 2), 9:00 am–5:00 pm, Room 308 A
18		Workshop: LightSound: Learn to Build a Sonification Tool to Make your Classes and Outreach Events More Inclusive (Day 2), 9:00 am–6:00 pm, Room 307 A
19		Exhibitor Move-In, 9:00 am–5:00 pm, Exhibit Hall II/III
20		NSF Postdoctoral Fellows Symposium 2020 (Day 2), 9:00 am–6:00 pm, Room 301 A
21	10:00 am	Workshop: Proposal Writing Workshop: Using ROSES as a Template, 10:00 am–5:00 pm, Room 307 B
22		Workshop: Collective Blueprints for the Ideal Astronomy Mentor, 10:00 am–11:30 am, Room 304 AB
23		NASA COPAG UV-VIS SIG and NASA COPAG Technology Interchange group , 10:00 am–12:00 pm, Hilton Hawaiian Village, Rainbow Room 3
24	12:30 pm	Workshop: Astronomy Communication and Science Engagement with Religious Publics, 12:30 pm–4:00 pm, Room 306 AB
25	1:00 pm	Registration & Badge Pickup, 1:00 pm–8:00 pm, Main Lobby
26	1:00 pm	NASA Joint PAG Session, 1:00 pm–3:00 pm, Hilton Hawaiian Village, Coral Ballroom 1
27	2:00 pm	How Should the AAS Address Climate Change, 2:00 pm–3:30 pm, Room 303 B
28	3:00 pm	Speaker Ready Room, 3:00 pm–7:00 pm, Room 327
29		NASA PCOS & PhysPAG Session, 3:00 pm–5:00 pm, Hilton Hawaiian Village, Rainbow Room 2 & 3
30		NASA COPAG Session, 3:00 pm–6:00 pm, Hilton Hawaiian Village, Coral Ballroom 1
31	3:40 pm	001 (SS) HAD I: Centennial of Eddington's Solar-Eclipse Tests of Einstein's General Relativity, 3:40 pm–4:30 pm, Room 317 A
32	5:30 pm	WGPAH Meeting, 5:30 pm–6:30 pm, Room 305 B
33	5:30 pm	Student Orientation Grad School Fair, 5:30 pm–7:00 pm, Hilton Hawaiian Village, Tapas Ballroom
34	6:30 pm	Royal Astronomical Society showing of The Planets 360, 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM, Bishop Museum (Public Event, admission fee: $10)
35	7:00 pm	AAS Opening Reception, 7:00 pm–8:30 pm, Hilton Hawaiian Village, Mid-Pacific Conference Center, Coral Ballroom
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1	Sunday, 5 January 2020
2	7:30 am	Session Chair Breakfast, 7:30 am–8:00 am (Invitation Only), Room 323 A
3		Speaker Ready Room, 7:30 am–4:00 pm, Room 327
4		Registration & Badge Pickup, 7:30 am–5:00 pm, Main Lobby
5	8:00 am	100 Plenary Lecture: Welcome Address by AAS President Megan Donahue (Michigan State University), 8:00 am–8:10 am, Ballroom AB
6	8:00 am	Interview Room, 8:00 am–7:00 pm, Exhibit Hall II/III
7	8:10 am	101 Plenary Prize Lecture: Fred Kavli Plenary Lecture: Black Holes Snacking on Stars: A Systematic Exploration of Transients in Galaxy Nuclei, Suvi Gezari (University of Maryland), 8:10 am–9:00 am, Ballroom AB
8	8:30 am	Workshop: Effectively Communicating Your Research: A Hands-on Workshop for Scientists and Engineers (Day 1), 8:30 am–12:30 pm, Room 323 C
9	9:00 am	Exhibits, iPoster Theaters, iPosters, Posters, Student Pavilion, Career Center, Internet Café, 9:00 am–6:30 pm, Exhibit Hall II/III
10		Astronomers Turned Data Scientists, 9:00 am–6:30 pm, Room 301 A
11		Morning iPoster Theater, iPoster, Posters, and iPoster Plus Sessions - (Sunday Chambliss Posters), 9:00 am–10:00 am, Exhibit Hall II/III
12		Traditional Poster Sessions
13		102 (SS) New Results From The North American Nanohertz Observatory For Gravitational Waves		107 Multi-Messenger Astronomy and Gravitational waves
14		103 (SS) Gravitational-wave Astronomy: The LIGO-Virgo Third Observing Run and Plans for the Future		108 Cosmology
15		104 Astronomy Education at, with, and by Observatory Facilities		109 Computation, Data Handling, Image Analysis
16		105 White Dwarf		110 Stellar Evolution, Stellar Population
17		106 Pulsating Variable Stars		111 Starburst Galaxies
18		iPoster Sessions
19		112 HAD IV		115 Extrasolar Planets
20		113 Mapping the Multiphase Space, Beyond Galaxies		116 Extrasolar Planets: Transits
21		114 Binar Stellar Systems
22		iPoster-Plus Sessions
23		117 - iPoster Theater I: Astronomy College Education and the Benefits of Astronomy to Society		118 - iPoster Theater II: Instrumentation & HAD IV
24		Coffee Break, 9:00 am–10:00 am, Exhibit Hall II/III
25		Workshop: Using Python to Search NASA's Astrophysics Archives, 9:00 am–11:00 am, Room 304 AB
26		Workshop: Teaching for Equity, 9:00 am–1:00 pm, Room 301 B
27		Workshop: One-on-One Career Consultations / CV Review, 9:00 am–6:30 pm, Exhibit Hall II/III
28	9:30 am	The Astroinformatics and Astrostatistics Working Group into the 2020s, 9:30 am–11:30 am, Room 303 B
29		JWST Proposing Open House Part 1 - Integral Field Unit Observing, 9:30 am–11:30 am, Room 307 B
30		NASA Great Observatories SAG, 9:30 am–11:30 am, Room 323 A
31	10:00 am	Oral and Special Sessions 119–139, 10:00 am–11:30 am
32		119 (SS) Gravitational-wave Astronomy: The LIGO-Virgo Third Observing Run and Plans for the Future, Room 310	124 Evolution of Galaxies I, Room 313 C	129 AGN and Quasars I, Room 316 C	134 (SS) AAS Astronomy Ambassadors: A Professional Learning Community, Moving Forward, Ballroom C
33		120 Extrasolar Planet and Disk Formation I, Room 311	125 AGN and Quasars: Obscured AGN I, Room 314	130 Instrumentation: Space Missions I , Room 308 B	135 Astronomy Education Research, Room 321 A
34		121 Exoplanets: Populations and Occurrence Rates, Room 312	126 Exoplanets: Current and Future Space Missions I, Room 315	131 Stellar Evolution, Stellar Populations I, Room 317 B	136 Computation, Data Handling, Image Analysis, Room 322 AB
35		122 Exoplanets: Various Topics, Room 313 A	127 Galaxy Clusters, Room 316 A	132 Stars, Cool Dwarfs, Brown Dwarfs I, 318 A	137 Dust I, Room 323 B
36		123 Extreme Star Formation, Room 313 B	128 (SS) Innovative Collaborations of Integrity with the Hawaiian Community, Room 316 B	133 Dark Matter & Dark Energy, Room 318 B	138 (SS) Celebrating 20 Years of XMM-Newton Discoveries, Room 324
37		123 Extreme Star Formation, Room 313 B		133 Dark Matter & Dark Energy, Room 318 B	139 HAD II: Traditional History and Philosophy, Room 317 A
38		Workshop: Self Care as an Act of Resistance for People of Color, 10:00 am–11:30 am, Room 303 A
39		Oral History Interviews, 10:00 am–8:00 pm, Room 305 A
40		Intro to Career Services Resources with a Smoothie Bar, 10:00am–11:30 am, Exhibit Hall II/III Career Center
41	10:15 am	Press Conference, 10:15 am–11:15 am, Room 325 AB
42	10:30 am	Astro-Career Hour with Alaina Levine, 10:30 am–11:30 am, iPoster Theater I, Exhibit Hall II/III
43	11:40 am	140 Plenary Lecture: He Lani Ko Luna, A Sky Above: In Losing the Sight of Land You Discover the Stars, Kala Baybayan Tanaka and Kālepa Baybayan (Polynesian Voyaging Society), 11:40 am–12:30 pm, Ballroom AB
44	12:45 pm	141 Town Hall: NSF’s National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory, 12:45 pm–1:45 pm, Room 313 A
45		142 Town Hall: HAD Town Hall, 12:45 pm–1:45 pm, Room 313 B
46		143 Town Hall: NASA Town Hall, 12:45 pm–1:45 pm, Ballroom AB
47	1:00 pm	Workshop: Making the Most of the AAS WorldWide Telescope, 1:00 pm–2:00 pm, Room 307 B
48	1:00 pm	Lynx X-ray Observatory, 1:00 pm–3:00 pm, Room 303 A
49	1:30 pm	Astro-Career Hour with Alaina Levine, 1:30 pm–2:30 pm, iPoster Theater I, Exhibit Hall II/III
50	1:55 pm	Imaging Habitable Exoplanets: Are We Ready?, 1:55 pm–3:30 pm, Room 306 AB
51	2:00 pm	Oral and Special Sessions 144–164, 2:00 pm–3:30 pm
52		144 Galaxy Clusters II, Room 310	149 (SS) NASA's Parker Solar Probe: First Encounters with the Sun, Room 313 C	154 Surveys and Large Programs I, Room 316 C	159 Black Holes I, Ballroom C
53		145 Evolution of Galaxies II, Room 311	150 Instrumentation: Space Missions II, Room 314	155 Dwarf and Irregular Galaxies I, Room 308 B	160 Astronomy Education in Hawai‘i, Room 321 A
54		146 AGN and Quasars: Obscured AGN II, Room 312	151 AGN and Quasars II, Room 315	156 Star Associations, Clusters - Formation Issues, Room 317 B	161 Circumstellar Disks: Variability, Room 322 AB
55		147 Extreme Star Formation and Reionization, Room 313 A	152 Planetary Nebulae, Supernova Remnants, and Winds, Room 316 A	157 (SS) Transient Science with TESS, Room 318 A	162 (SS) New Results From The North American Nanohertz Observatory For Gravitational Waves, Room 323 B
56		148 Stars, Cool Dwarfs, Brown Dwarfs II, Room 313 B	153 Cosmology, Room 316 B	158 The Milky Way, The Galactic Center I, Room 318 B	163 Dust II, Room 324
57		148 Stars, Cool Dwarfs, Brown Dwarfs II, Room 313 B	153 Cosmology, Room 316 B	158 The Milky Way, The Galactic Center I, Room 318 B	164 HAD III: Research in the 20th and 21st Centuries, Room 317 A
58		The Future and Future Governance of the Astrophysics Source Code Library, 2:00 pm–3:30 pm, Room 301 B
59		So You Think You Want to be a NASA Mission Principal Investigator?, 2:00 pm–3:30 pm, Room 323 A
60		New Results From The North American Nanohertz Observatory For Gravitational Waves, Room 323 B
61		Exploring the Infrared Universe, 2:00 pm–3:30 pm, Room 323 C
62	2:15 pm	Press Conference, 2:15 pm–3:15 pm, Room 325 AB
63	3:40 pm	165 Plenary Prize Lecture: HAD LeRoy E. Doggett Prize Lecture: From the Invention of Astrophysics to the Space Age: The Transformation of Astronomy 1860-1990, Robert W. Smith (University of Alberta), 3:40 pm–4:30 pm, Ballroom AB
64	4:40 pm	166 Plenary Prize Lecture: Henry Norris Russell Lecture: Intriguing Revelations from Lithium, Beryllium, and Boron, Ann M. Boesgaard (University of Hawaii), 4:40 pm–5:30 pm, Ballroom AB
65	5:30 pm	Evening iPoster Theater, iPoster, Posters, and iPoster Plus Sessions - (Sunday Chambliss Posters), 5:30 pm–6:30 pm, Exhibit Hall II/III
66		Traditional Poster Sessions
67		167 Spiral Galaxies		172 HAD IV
68		168 Dwarf and Irregular Galaxies		173 Extrasolar Planets: Atmospheres
69		169 Laboratory Astrophysics and Astrobiology		174 Extrasolar Planets: Transits
70		170 Binary Stellar Systems		175 Instrumentation: Ground-based or Airborne
71		171 Decadal Flagship Mission Concept
72		iPoster Sessions
73		176 College Astronomy: Mentoring, Departmental Change, Education Research, and Instructional Materials		179 Dark Matter & Dark Energy
74		177 Cosmology		180 Laboratory Astrophysics
75		178 Star Clusters and Associations
76		iPoster-Plus Sessions
77		181 - iPoster Theater I: HAD IV		182 - iPoster Theater II: Evolution of Galaxies & Lens Searches
78		AEON: Progress in Networking Observatories and Tools for Follow-up in the ZTF/LSST Era, 5:30 pm–6:30 pm, Room 306 AB
79	6:30 pm	183 Town Hall: JWST, 6:30 pm–8:00 pm, Room 313 A
80		Society of Physics Students Meet and Greet, 6:30 pm–8:00 pm, Room 301 B
81		SGMA Meet & Greet for LGBTQIA Members and Students, 6:30 pm–7:30 pm, Room 323 A
82		AAS 40 + E, Donor and Sponsor Reception, 6:30 pm–7:30 pm, Ala Wai Terrace
83	7:00 pm	184 Town Hall: DKIST Commissioning and Start of Operations, 7:00 pm–8:00 pm, Room 313 B
84	7:00 pm	Public Event: Stargazing Party, 7:00 pm–9:00 pm, Ala Moana Beach Park
85	7:30 pm	US ELT Program Open House, 7:30 pm–9:00 pm, Room 306AB
86	8.00 pm	Invitation Only - HAD Mini Banquet, 8:00 pm–10:00 pm, Rocky Japanese Restaurant (HHV)
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