===== AAS 215th Meeting =====

**Washington, DC:  2010 January 3-7**

The AAS winter meeting is the largest gathering of U.S. astronomers every year, and this year's meeting is anticipated to be the largest AAS meeting to date.



=== Berkeley attendees presenting work ===

//Undergraduates// are italicized, graduated students have their current affiliation in parentheses.

__Monday, January 4__

Posters:
    * Peter Williams - 403.03 - The ATA Galactic Center Survey: Slow Radio Transients
    * Charles Hull - 403.05 -  Primary Beam Shape Calibration from Mosaicked Observations
    * //Allison Merritt// - 404.09 - Historical Light Curves of Candidate Tidal Disruption Events: AGN or Not?
    * Daniel Perley - 405.09 - Host Galaxies of the Darkest Gamma-Ray Bursts: Evidence for Dust Obscuration
    * Joshua Peek (Columbia) - 413.04 - Galaxies as Standard Crayons: Measuring Galactic Reddening with Background Passive Galaxies
    * //Ingrid Beerer// - 414.02 - A Spitzer View of Star Formation in Cygnus-X North
    * Stella Offner (CfA) - 414.33 - The Protostellar Mass Function: Implications for Star Formation Models and the Protostellar Luminosity Problem 
    * //Anna Rosen// - 415.21 - Molecular Line Studies of Ballistic Stellar Interlopers Burrowing through Dense Interstellar Clouds 

Galaxy Simulations and Models (10:00 - 11:30 AM):
    * Andrew Wetzel - 302.06D - Satellite Galaxies in LCDM: Orbits, Merging and Disruption 

Gamma Ray Bursts I (10:00 - 11:30 AM):
    * Brian Metzger (Princeton) - 303.07 - The Central Engines of Short-Duration Gamma-Ray Bursts 

The Milky Way, The Galactic Center I (10:00 - 11:30 AM)
    * Katie Peek (NYU Journalism) - 310.02D - The r-Process in the Galaxy: Europium Abundances in 1070 Field Stars and 9 Open Clusters

Evolution of Galaxies I (2:00 - 3:30 PM):
    * Kristen Shapiro - 314.05D - Galaxy Assembly at z~2: Insights from Integral-Field Spectroscopy 

__Tuesday, January 5__

Posters:
    * //Kimberly Aller// - 423.09 - The Stellar Mass-Exoplanet Correlation
    * //Christopher Griffith// - 430.07 - Principle Component Analysis Decomposition of Core Collapse Supernova Gravitational Waveforms
    * //Michelle Kislak// - 430.32 - The Nearby Plateau Supernova Infrared (NeaPSI) Survey: Preliminary Results

AGN Surveys II (10:00 - 11:30 AM):
    * Renbin Yan (University of Toronto) - 323.06 - AEGIS: Disentangle AGN and Star Formation at High Redshift

Cosmology II (10:00 - 11:30 AM):
    * Roland de Putter - 325.04D - Weak Gravitational Lensing of the CMB: Bringing Dark Energy and Neutrino Masses into Focus

Supernovae (10:00 - 11:30 AM):
    * Adam Miller - 333.04 - Tales of the Lazy SN: SN 2008iy and the Connection to Very Luminous SNe 

__Wednesday, January 6__

Posters:
    * Julia Kregenow (Penn State University) - 466.02 - Is There a "Back" of the Room When the Teacher is in the Middle?

Circumstellar Disks II (2:00 - 3:30 PM):
    * Holly Maness - 361.04 - Debris Disk Erosion by the ISM: The Case of HD 61005

Planetary Formation and Migration (2:00 - 3:30 PM)
    * John Johnson (Caltech) - 367.01 - The Metal-Richness of M Dwarfs With Planets
    * Jason Wright (Penn State University) - 367.02 - Observational Constraints on Theories of Planet Migration and Dynamical Evolution

__Thursday, January 7__

Posters:
    * Joseph Converse - 478.03 - The Past and Future of the Pleiades: Binaries in Action
    * Eric Huff - 603.02 - Cosmic Shear in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
    * //Etsuko Mieda// - 606.11 - Optical to Near-Infrared Imaging Observations and Modeling of the AU Mic Debris Disk
    * Karin Sandstrom (Max Planck IfA) - 606.35 - The Abundance and Physical State of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in the Small Magellanic Cloud