NASA Events at 2013 AAS Winter Meeting, Long Beach, CA

07-Jan-2013 through 10-Jan-2013

NASA will hold five "Town Hall" meetings as part of the 2013 American Astronomical Society's (AAS's) winter meeting, which is being held in Long Beach, CA from January 6-10, 2013.   The NASA Town Halls will be on January 7, 8 and 9 and are listed below.  In addition, there are six press briefings on specific topics held on January 7, 8 and 10, also listed below.    All will be held at the Long Beach Convention Center where the AAS conference is being held.

More information is on NASA's AAS website.  All times are Pacific Standard Time (PST) -- add three to get Eastern Standard Time.   These will not be aired on NASA TV, but the Town Hall meetings will be streamed on the AAS conference website for registered journalists.

Town Hall Meetings

• January 7 (Monday)
  • NASA Physics of the Cosmos (PCOS) Gravitational Wave and X-ray Astronomy Town Hall, 12:45 pm PST
  • NASA Kepler Town Hall, 6:30 pm PST
• January 8 (Tuesday)
  • NASA Town Hall, 12:45 pm PST
• January 9 (Wednesday)
  • NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Town Hall, 12:45 pm PST
  • NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) Town Hall, 12:45 pm PST

Press Briefings

• January 7 (Monday)
  • Exoplanets Coming and Going Everywhere, 10:30 am PST
  • The Hubble Ultra Deep Field Gets Deeper, 12:45 pm PST
  • A High-Energy Astrophysics Extravaganza, 2:30 pm PST
• January 8 (Tuesday)
  • Journey to the Center of the Galaxy, 12:45 pm PST
  • Exoplanets from Dust Grains to Brown Dwarfs, 2:30 pm PST
• January 10 (Thursday)
  • Galaxies in the Extreme, 12:45 pm PST

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