The American Astronomical Society (AAS) will hold its biannual (Summer) meeting in Anchorage, Alaska this week. Even though this “general” meeting includes the sub-meetings of the Laboratory Astrophysics Division and Solar Physics Division, there’s still relevant content here for the blog. Per the meeting program (https://aas.org/meetings/aas246/program):
Monday, June 9, 2025
Preparing for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s First Call for Proposals
NOIRLab Town Hall
Polarimeter to UNify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH): Mission Overview and First Light
ALMA Imaging of Sungrazing Comet D/2024 G3 (ATLAS)
Lifting the Veil: GPU-Accelerated Discovery of Hidden Solar System Populations with Next-Generation
Observatories
An Extremely Deep Rubin Survey to Explore the Extended Kuiper Belt
Tuesday, June 10, 2025
Modeling Disk-Integrated Solar Phase Curves of Airless Planetary Bodies with Sparse, Non-Uniform
Sampling
Initial Performance of the SPHEREx Mission
First Light with the SPHEREx Observatory
Initial Assessment of the SPHEREx Focal Plane Assemblies in Flight
Stardust and Organics in Asteroid (101955) Bennu
Integrated laboratory, modeling, and observational investigations of the origins of Pluto’s surface dark
materials
Quantifying Nightly Occultation Rates from a Single Telescope
Introduction to the Rubin Science Platform
Plenary Lecture: The Missing Link: Planet Formation from Millions to Billions of Years
NSF Update Town Hall
STScI Town Hall
The absolute flux calibration of the JWST NIRSpec instrument
Development, Planning, and Operational Success of Lucy Mission Encounters
NASA’s Pandora SmallSat Mission: Multiwavelength Characterization of Exoplanets and their Host Stars
Transformative Career Development Through the Rubin DP0 Program: From Hands-On Research to
Professional Growth
Wednesday, June 11, 2025
How to Combat Misinformation and Disinformation in Astro 101
Rubin Observatory’s Education Resources: Bringing the Night Sky to Classrooms Worldwide
Visualizing Large-Scale Astronomical Data
Planning Your Rubin Undergraduate Research
Rubin Observatory Town Hall
Vera Rubin Celebration Town Hall
Thursday, June 12, 2025
The Pan-STARRS Reference Catalog
The Roman Telescope Proposal System
Plenary: Public Policy Plenary: The Current Landscape for Science Policy and How YOU Can Make a
Difference
The Roman Research Nexus: Enabling Low-Barrier Access and Collaboration in the Cloud
Overview of the Astronomer’s Proposal Tool for the Roman Space Telescope
Desktop-based Simulation Tools for the Roman Space Telescope