Live Blogging from the AAS Meeting in DC

Wednesday, January 4th, 2006 at 10:41 PM by Juan

Next week the American Astronomical Society will hold its 207^th Meeting in Washington, DC. Usually at least a half dozen to dozen astronomical discoveries manage to make it out of these meetings into the “general” press. This is only a small fraction of the research being presented. Well over 2000 astronomers will be there and as the list of “sessions” reveals, the range of research being presented is huge.

Since I am currently searching for that elusive tenure-track teaching position, I will be taking advantage of this meeting to do a little job hunting and networking with other astronomers. On Tuesday, I present research done with some of my summer students measuring the effects of dust in galaxies on their appearance (abstract). On Monday another SCSU Astronomer, David Williams, will be presenting his research into using peer instruction techniques in the introductory astronomy classroom (abstract).

Both Dave and I are bringing laptops and assuming the wireless access doesn’t become spotty like this past summer’s meeting, we hope to be live blogging about the astronomical discoveries announced during at the meeting as well as some of the more social aspects of these meetings.

Posted in Astronomy News, SCSU Research

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