IYA2009 Sessions at the D.C. AAS Meeting

25 November 2009

Information is current as of 11 November 2009, but could change. All times are Eastern Time.

 

--- Sunday, 3 January ---

 

- 9:00 - noon, workshop Building on IYA: The Galileoscope Program

 

- 1:00 - 5:00, workshop Building on IYA: The Dark Skies Awareness Program

 

--- Monday, 4 January ---

 

- TBA, requested time to hold a Monday IYA press conference

 

--- Tuesday, 5 January -IYA Sessions ---

 

- 9:30 am and all day, IYA poster papers

 

- 10:00 am, IYA2009 and Beyond: Global Overview and Cornerstone Projects

  Galileoscope (Stephen Pompea)

  Dark-Skies Awareness (Connie Walker)

  From Earth to the Universe (Kimberly Kowal Arcand and Megan Watzke)

  New Media (Pamela Gay)

  Canadian IYA Programs (Jim Hesser)

  Puerto Rico IYA Programs (Carmen Pantoja)

  Global Programs, Galilean Nights (Lars Lindberg Christensen and Pedro Russo)

  Closing statement (Doug Isbell)

 

- 2:00 pm, IYA2009 and Beyond: Outreach and Citizen Science Programs

  NASA IYA Programs (Hashima Hasan)

  Astronomical Society of the Pacific IYA Programs (Jim Manning)

  IYA In NYC: Urban Outreach In A Diverse Community (Jason Kendall)

  Citizen Sky, IYA 2009 and What's To Come (Rebecca Turner, A. Price, A. Henden)

  IYA in Atlanta (Chris De Pree)

  The Mauna Kea Observatories Outreach Committee Brings Astronomy To The Hawaiian Public (Ingeborg Heyer)

 

- 3:30 pm, splinter session on Beyond IYA planning with IYA leaders and working group chairs

 

- 6:30 - 8:00 pm, Hubble's Diverse Universe screening and panel discussion

Panelists will include Dara Norman and Marcel Agüeros

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BLAST! will be showing at the AAS DC Meeting on Wednesday, January 6th at 7pm in the Wardman Hotel's Thurgood Marshall Hall North. There will be a Q&A after the screening with Director Paul Devlin and BLAST! Team Member Matthew Truch

 


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