Our Stellar Lineup of Plenary Talks at a Glance

• Kavli Foundation Lecture: “The Hubble Deep Field & Its Legacy,” Robert Williams (Space Telescope Science Inst.)
• “Linking Visualization & Understanding in Astronomy,” Alyssa Goodman (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
• Henry Norris Russell Lecture: “New Developments in Galactic Archaeology,” Kenneth Freeman (Australian National Univ.)
• HAD Doggett Prize Lecture: “Applied Historical Astronomy,” F. Richard Stephenson (Durham Univ.)
• “Tales from the Twitterverse & Other Media Excursions,” Neil deGrasse Tyson (American Museum of Natural History)
• “The Thick & Thin Disks in Spiral Galaxies,” Rosemary Wyse (Johns Hopkins Univ.)
• Cannon Award Lecture: “Giant Planets in Dusty Disks,” Sarah Dodson-Robinson (Univ. of Delaware)
• Heineman Prize Lecture: “The Formation of Galaxies & Supermassive Black Holes: Insights & Puzzles,” Rachel Somerville (Rutgers Univ.)
• HEAD Rossi Prize Lecture: “The Amazing Pulsar Machine,” Alice K. Harding (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) & “The Pulsing Gamma-ray Sky,” Roger Romani (Stanford Univ.)
• Pierce Prize Lecture: “Exploring the Stellar Graveyard of the Milky Way,” Jason Kalirai (Space Telescope Science Inst.)
• Warner Prize Lecture: “The Origin of Stellar Masses,” Mark Krumholz (Univ. of Calif., Santa Cruz)
• “Astronomy & Public Policy,” Nicholas Suntzeff (Texas A&M Univ.)
• “ESO: Present & Future,” Tim de Zeeuw (European Southern Obs.)
• RAS Gold Medal Lecture: "Some Puzzles in High-Energy Astrophysics," Roger Blandford (Stanford Univ./KIPAC)
• “Engineering Considerations for Large Astrophysics Projects,” David Hogg (Max-Planck Inst. for Astronomy)
• “An Astronomical Time Machine: Light Echoes from Historic Supernovae & Stellar Eruptions,” Armin Rest (Space Telescope Science Inst.)
• AIP Gemant Award Lecture: “Star Trek: The Search for the First Alleged Crab Supernova Rock Art,” E. C. Krupp (Griffith Obs.)
• Berkeley Prize Lecture: “Using the SDO Atmospheric Imaging Assembly to Study Solar Activity,” James Lemen (Lockheed Martin Solar & Astrophysics Lab)