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121012-AAS-221 Program-14-ALL, Page 253 @ Preflight 221ST MEETING OF THE AMERICAN ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY 6-10 January 2013 LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA Scientific sessions will be held at the: Long Beach Convention Center 300 E. Ocean Blvd. COUNCIL.......................... 2 Long Beach, CA 90802 AAS Paper Sorters EXHIBITORS..................... 4 Aubra Anthony ATTENDEE Alan Boss SERVICES.......................... 9 Blaise Canzian Joanna Corby SCHEDULE.....................12 Rupert Croft Shantanu Desai SATURDAY.....................28 Rick Fienberg Bernhard Fleck SUNDAY..........................30 Erika Grundstrom Nimish P. Hathi MONDAY........................37 Ann Hornschemeier Suzanne H. Jacoby TUESDAY........................98 Bethany Johns Sebastien Lepine WEDNESDAY.............. 158 Katharina Lodders Kevin Marvel THURSDAY.................. 213 Karen Masters Bryan Miller AUTHOR INDEX ........ 245 Nancy Morrison Judit Ries Michael Rutkowski Allyn Smith Joe Tenn Session Numbering Key 100’s Monday 200’s Tuesday 300’s Wednesday 400’s Thursday Sessions are numbered in the Program Book by day and time. Changes after 27 November 2012 are included only in the online program materials. 1 AAS Officers & Councilors Officers Councilors President (2012-2014) (2009-2012) David J. Helfand Quest Univ. Canada Edward F. Guinan Villanova Univ. [email protected] [email protected] PAST President (2012-2013) Patricia Knezek NOAO/WIYN Observatory Debra Elmegreen Vassar College [email protected] [email protected] Robert Mathieu Univ. of Wisconsin Vice President (2009-2015) [email protected] Paula Szkody University of Washington [email protected] (2011-2014) Bruce Balick Univ. of Washington Vice-President (2010-2013) [email protected] Nicholas B. Suntzeff Texas A&M Univ. suntzeff@aas.org Eileen D. Friel Boston Univ. [email protected] Vice President (2011-2014) Edward B. Churchwell Univ. of Wisconsin Angela Speck Univ. of Missouri [email protected] [email protected] Treasurer (2011-2014) (2012-2015) Hervey (Peter) Stockman STScI Nancy S. Brickhouse Harvard-Smithsonian, CfA [email protected] [email protected] Secretary (2010-2013) Toddy J. Henry Georgia State Univ. G. Fritz Benedict Univ. of Texas, Austin [email protected] [email protected] Steven D. Kawaler Iowa State Univ. Publications Board Chair [email protected] (2012-2014) Anne P. Cowley Arizona State Univ. [email protected] Press officers Education Officer (2012-2015) Press Officer (2010-Present) Edward E. Prather Univ. of Arizona Rick Fienberg AAS [email protected] rick.fi[email protected] Executive Officer Deputy Press Officer Kevin Marvel AAS Inge Heyer Univ. of Wyoming [email protected] Deputy Press Officer Larry Marschall Gettysburg College 2 Sponsors UNDERGRADUATE ORIENTATION SPONSORS American NANOHertz Observatory for University of Arizona Gravitational Waves University of California, San Diego Astrobites University of California, Santa Barbara Boston University University of Colorado at Boulder Brigham Young University University of Denver Caltech University of Iowa Columbia University University of Kansas Fisk-Vanderbilt Masters-to-PhD Bridge University of Maryland Program University of Michigan Georgia State University University of New Mexico Harvard University University of Oklahoma Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of Pennsylvania Mississippi State University University of Texas at Austin National Radio Astronomy Observatory University of Virginia Rutgers University University of Wisconsin, Madison Society of Physics Students, American Institute of Physics University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee The Pennsylvania State University Wesleyan University The University of North Carolina at Yale University Chapel Hill 3 EXHIBITORS 119 American Astronomical Society 341 NASA HAD, HEAD, Journals 431 NASA Lunar Science Institute 400 Apogee Imaging Systems 427 NASA Physics of the Cosmos & 334 Arecibo Observatory Cosmic Origins 314 Asahi Spectra Co., Ltd. 325 NASA Exoplanet Exploration Program 225 Associated Universities Inc. 227 National Science Foundation 308 Astro Haven Enterprises 401 Northrop Grumman 435 ASTRON 219 NRAO 443 Astronomical Consultants & Equipment, Inc. 439 Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array 131 AURA 402 Orbital 413 Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. 421 Oxford University Press 419 Brooks/Cole Cengage Learning 128 Pearson 319 Cambridge University Press 423 PlaneWave Instruments 142 CARMA: Combined Array for 301 Princeton University Press Research in Millimeter-wave 305 Real-time Spectroscopy Astronomy 418 Schott 223 CCAT Observatory 136 SIMBAD 408 Chandra X-ray Center 445 SKA Organisation 140 CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science 213 Sloan Digital Sky Survey 441 CTA - The Cherenkov Telescope 134 Smithsonian/ NASA ADS Array 243 SOFIA 143 Digitalis 322 Space Science Institute 126 e2v aerospace and defense inc. 232 Space Telescope Science Institute 130 Eureka Scientific, Inc. 209 SPIE 237 Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope 409 Springer and Swift 414 Submillimeter Array 315 Finger Lakes Instrumentation 144 Teledyne Imaging Sensors Coffee Galactic Plane Infrared Polarization Break Survey (GPIPS) 415 The National Academies Banner 224 The National Optical Astronomy 125 Gemini Observatory / AURA Observatory 312 Giant Magellan Telescope 332 Thirty Meter Telescope 146 Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias 132 University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy PanSTARRS 417 IOP Publishing 313 University Science Books 333 IPAC 231 Virtual Astronomical Observatory 138 IRAP 310 W.H. 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