Blog Hiatus Next Week (June 1-3) To Attend American Astronomical Society 236th Meeting

This is to let blog followers and other readers know there will be a hiatus of 3 days next week, from Monday June 1st, through Wednesday, June 3rd, so that I can attend the 236th meeting of the American Astronomical Society, of which I am an Emeritus member.  As you may know my specialty area is solar physics, and below I give a sample of the sessions I will be attending (the meeting will be conducted in virtual format):

Monday:  11:00 AM - 12:30 PM (EDT)

• 106.01 Electron Acceleration from Expanding Vortices During Reconnection with a Guide FieldHaihong Che, University of Alabama-Huntsville
• 106.02 Hemispherical Asymmetry of Large Scale Plasma FlowsLekshmi Biji, CESSI, IISER Kolkata
• 106.03 Nanoflare Theory and Stochastic ReconnectionAmir Jafari, Johns Hopkins University
• 106.05 The Role of Plasma Oscillation in Solar Nuclear FusionTianxi Zhang, Alabama A&M University
• 106.06 Magnetic Origins of Cool Plasma in the Sun's CoronaEmily Mason, Catholic University of America
• 106.07 Modeling of the Brightness of the Chromospheric Network Based on ALMA High Resolution Observations of the Quiet SunCostas Alissandrakis, University of Ioannina
• 106.08 The Solar Cruiser Mission Concept - Enabling New Vistas for HeliophysicsLes Johnson, NASA
• 106.09 The High Inclination Solar Mission (HISM) mission conceptKen Kobayashi, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center

204. Laboratory Astrophysics Division (LAD) Meeting : Nuclear, Plasma and Particle Astrophysics

Tue, June 02, 11:00 AM
(EDT)

Join

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM (EDT)

Processes in binary neutron star mergers.

• 204.01 LAD Laboratory Astrophysics Prize: Jim Truran's Contributions to Nuclear and Laboratory AstrophysicsJohn Cowan, Univ. of Oklahoma
• 204.02 Evaluating astrophysical nuclear rates and their errors with halo effective field theoryKenneth Nollett, San Diego State University
• 204.03 Performance of the prototype Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope for TeV gamma-ray astronomyJustin Vandenbroucke, University of Wisconsin
• 204.04 Linear polarization measurement of satellite transitions produced in an EBIT Ar plasmaAmy Gall, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

• 300. Solar Physics Division (SPD) Hale Prize Lecture: From Jets to Superflares: Extraordinary Activity of Magnetized Plasmas in the Universe, Kazunari Shibata (Kyoto University)

  Wed, June 03, 10:00 AM
  (EDT)
  

  
  

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  10:00 AM - 10:50 AM (EDT)
  

  • 300.01 From Jets to Superflares: Extraordinary Activity of Magnetized Plasmas in the UniverseKazunari Shibata, Astronomical Observatory, Kyoto University

• 318. Laboratory Astrophysics Division (LAD) Meeting: Planetary Atmospheres, Protoplanetary Disks, and Small Bodies

  Wed, June 03, 2:50 PM
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  2:50 PM - 4:20 PM (EDT)
  
  Laboratory studies, observations, and modeling of protoplanetary disks and the evolution of small bodies.
  
  

  • 318.01 LAD Early Career Award: Planets in a Bottle: Exploring Planetary Atmospheres in the Lab
    Sarah Horst, Johns Hopkins University
  • 318.02 Using Small Solar System Bodies to Trace Processes in the Early Solar System
    Karen Meech, University of Hawaii
  • 318.03 New Near-UV H2O Cross-Sections Dramatically Affect Photochemistry of Anoxic Abiotic Rocky Planet Atmospheres
    Sukrit Ranjan, MIT
  • 318.04 Laboratory study of ammonium cyanide NH₄CN at low temperatures: IR optical properties and sublimation behavior
    Perry Gerakines, NASA GSFC

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  There should be a lot of scintillating presentations and in the days after the meeting I  will share my own insights and also in conjunction with summaries of some of the talks.