===== AAS 211th Meeting =====

**Austin, TX:  2008 January 7-11**

This is the largest gathering of U.S. astronomers every year, and is a great place to learn about the latest results in the general field.  Especially recommended this for first-years:  you have your first-year discretionary cash to spend and this is a great way to find out what kind of science really grabs your attention.  But even for older students, this is a good opportunity to see what's happening outside your research specialty.  Plus, it's a chance to do some travel and always a lot of fun hanging out with other Berkeley (and non-Berkeley) students there.

If you want to actually present something, the primary abstract deadline has passed, but you can still submit a late abstract with no real penalty (other than that it will only appear in the supplement booklet.)  But, there's no pressure to present anything at all; it's great to just go and learn about stuff.  More details are at [[http://www.aas.org/meetings/aas211/]] if you need them.



=== List of Attendees Presenting work ===

A **bold** number indicates a talk.  Others are posters.

== Undergrads ==

  * Yvonne Kemper - 003.39 - Supersoft Sources: An X-tra Galactic Study in M31
  * Ferah Munshi - 055.10 - Tip of the Red Giant Branch Distance of Satellite Dwarfs as a Secondary Distance Indicator to NGC4258
  * Nicholas Lee - 095.31 - Presentation of Results From the Study of Radio Properties of Lyman Break Galaxies in the COSMOS Field
  * Megan Reiter - 104.01 - A Spitzer/IRAC Characterization of AGB Stars

== Grad Students ==

(Tuesday)
  * Daniel Perley - 010.10 - Keck Observations of Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Host Galaxies: Early Results
  * Josh Peek - 014.08 - Hidden Galactic Accretion: The Discovery of Low-Velocity Halo Clouds
(Wednesday)
  * Louie Desroches - 046.09 - AGN Fraction in Late-type Galaxies
  * Julia Comerford - 052.01 - Dual Supermassive Black Holes in Galaxy Merger Remnants in DEEP2
  * Eric Huff - 55.06 - Weak Lensing in the Sloan Southern Stripe
(Thursday)
  * Katie Peek - 103.16 - r-Process Elements in the Milky Way
  * Ryan Chornock - **107.03** - Spectropolarimetry of Core-Collapse Supernovae
  * Ryan Foley - **107.05D** - Constraining SN Ia Evolution
(Friday)
  * Peter Williams - 133.08 - Broadband Spectra with the Allen Telescope Array
  * Jeffrey Silverman - 161.06 - On the Most Massive Known Stellar-Mass Black Hole
  * Joe Converse - 162.11 - High Binarity and Mass Segregation in the Pleiades

== Postdocs ==

  * Dan Kocevski - **018.01** - GRB Energetics in the Swift Era
  * Andrew West - **021.06** - The Active Lives of M Dwarfs: The Activity, Dynamical and Metallicity Evolution of Most Milky Way Stars
  * Matthew K. Browning - 103.09 - Rotation and Magnetic Activity in Simulations of Fully Convective Stars
  * Nathan Smith - 105.20 - Recent Results On A Few Extraordinary Supernovae