8-12 January, 2012Austin Convention Center500 E. Cesar Chavez Street Austin, TX 78701 |
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Click here for more information about The 2011 AAS Spring/Summer Campaign "There are people in our community who in various ways quietly help others to succeed. One way that I like to recognize people who have been particularly helpful or supportive in my career is to make a donation to the AAS in their honor or their memory." - Lee Anne Willson Join the ranks of Givers and donate to The Power of Giving. If you donate $250 to any AAS program, you will have access to the Donors Lounge at the winter and summer meeting. Members who donate $50 or more will receive an invitation to our 4th Annual Donor's Reception at the 2012 Austin meeting. |
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Oct. 4, 2011: Three members of the American Astronomical Society have been named recipients of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced today that half of the SEK 10 million ($1.44 million) award will go to Saul Perlmutter (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory & University of California, Berkeley) and half will be shared by Brian P. Schmidt (Australian National University) and Adam G. Riess (Johns Hopkins University & Space Telescope Science Institute). The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics is being given “for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe through observations of distant supernovae.” |
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Editor-in-Chief Thomas Hockey credits AER’s success to the wisdom of the founding editors. “Andrew Fraknoi and Sidney Wolff saw astronomy educators laboring in splendid isolation and decided that a research journal would unite the field,” he says. “They were right.” AER now publishes the overwhelming majority of peer-reviewed research papers about astronomy teaching and learning, by authors from around the world. |
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Astronomy Education Review (AER)
10-14 June, 2012Dena'ina Civic and Convention Center600 W. Seventh Avenue Anchorage, AK 99501 William A. Egan Civic & Convention Center 555 W. Fifth Avenue Anchorage, AK 99501
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The AAS Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS), the world's largest organization of professional planetary scientists, issued a statement on 12 September 2011 highlighting the discoveries of highly successful planetary missions over the last decade and the importance of supporting ongoing and future missions in light of recent budgetary discussions within NASA. |
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Many AAS members appropriately asked, "What can we do now?" following the shocking and disappointing recommendation by the U.S. House's Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies (CJS) Appropriations Subcommittee to zero out funding for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) in the FY 2012 budget. The answer is, "A lot" — using a well-conceived plan with community input and public support to counter the House's action. The AAS has been pursuing an active strategic course, but we continue to need your help and advice as we navigate the long road ahead towards reinstating funding for the JWST. |
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Beginning with the 2009 edition, the AAS annual report is published separately from the Bulletin of the AAS, as directed by the Publications Board, and focuses on summarizing the activities of the Society instead of presenting a comprehensive reporting of them all. We hope this will make the report more readable and more widely read. Although the report will be printed in limited quantity, we expect most AAS members to download it here in digital format. |
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When astronomer John P. Huchra passed away in October 2010, his friends and colleagues at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA), where he was an esteemed professor, and the American Astronomical Society (AAS), where he was past-president, sought a way to honor his research and teaching legacies. One way has been the creation of a new interactive WorldWide Telescope (WWT) tour, “John Huchra’s Universe,” which was unveiled at the 217th AAS meeting in Seattle, Washington, on January 11, 2011, and is now available online. WWT is a free and very powerful interactive astronomy program from Microsoft Research. |
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The AAS Council adopted a Resolution on the 2010 Decadal Survey Report on August 13, 2010: "The American Astronomical Society enthusiastically endorses the Astro2010 Decadal Survey: New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Given recent advances in technology and understanding, this is a time of extraordinary opportunity for research in astronomy and astrophysics. This report is based on a comprehensive community-driven process, and presents exciting yet realistic recommendations for the next decade. The AAS urges the astronomical community to support the report and its priorities." The Astro2010 report, New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics, was publically released in pre-publication form on August 13, 2010, via the National Academies Press website and an eTownHall webcast live from the Keck Center of the National Academies in Washington, DC. The webcast featured a summary of the report and its recommendations from chair Roger Blandford (Stanford University) followed by a brief question-and-answer session. It is available as an archived flash video linked from the main Astro2010 website; also available is a PDF of Blandford's presentation slides. An informational e-mail with more details has been sent to AAS members. |
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