235th meeting

Program Highlights

235
Honolulu, Hawai‘i
235th meeting of the American Astronomical Society
Honolulu, Hawai‘i
4 – 8 January 2020

AAS 235 offers more than a dozen prize and invited talks by distinguished astronomers.

Kala Baybayan Tanaka

Polynesian Voyaging Society
"He Lani Ko Luna, A Sky Above: In Losing the Sight of Land You Discover the Stars"

Kālepa Baybayan

Polynesian Voyaging Society
"He Lani Ko Luna, A Sky Above: In Losing the Sight of Land You Discover the Stars"

Edwin (Ted) Bergin

Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Dannie Heineman Prize
"Making a Habitable Planet"

Ann Boesgaard

Univ. of Hawaii
Henry Norris Russell Lectureship
"Intriguing Revelations from Lithium, Beryllium, and Boron"

Jo Bovy

Univ. of Toronto
Helen B. Warner Prize
"Not Your Grandparents’ Galaxy: The Milky Way in the Era of Large Surveys"

James De Buizer

SOFIA
"The Future of Infrared Astronomy in the Context of Spitzer, SOFIA, and JWST"

Sheperd Doeleman

Harvard-Smithsonian, CfA
Lancelot M. Berkeley New York Community Trust Prize
"The Event Horizon Telescope: Imaging a Black Hole"

Andrea Dupree

Harvard-Smithsonian, CfA
"Diet of the Stars: Mass Accretion and Mass Loss"

Peter Eisenhardt

JPL
"The Future of Infrared Astronomy in the Context of Spitzer, SOFIA, and JWST"

Suvi Gezari

Univ. of Maryland, College Park
Fred Kavli Plenary Lecture
"Black Holes Snacking on Stars: A Systematic Exploration of Transients in Galaxy Nuclei"

Timothy Heckman

Johns Hopkins Univ.
"The Role of Feedback in the Evolution of Galaxies"

Jason Hessels

ASTRON &
Univ. of Amsterdam
"Fast Radio Bursts"

Amy Kalili

‘Ōiwi TV
"Hawaiian and Astronomical Perspectives on the Stewardship of Maunakea’s Legacy"

Daniel Kasen

Univ. of California, Berkeley
HEAD Rossi Prize
"Kilonovae from Merging Neutron Stars"

Robert Kennicutt

Univ. of Arizona
Texas A&M Univ.
RAS Gold Medal
"Star Formation and Galaxy Evolution Through the Lens of a Scaling Law"

Brian Metzger

Columbia Univ.
HEAD Rossi Prize
"Kilonovae from Merging Neutron Stars"

Robert W. Smith

Univ. of Alberta
HAD Doggett Prize
"From the Invention of Astrophysics to the Space Age: The Transformation of Astronomy 1860-1990"

Jennifer van Saders

Univ. of Hawai'i
"Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Now I Know What You Are"

Daniel R. Weisz

Univ. of California, Berkeley
Newton Lacy Pierce Prize
"Life and Times of the Lowest Mass Galaxies"

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