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Updated: July 27, 2007

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  Thursday, August 2

8:00 a.m. - 5 p.m.

University Place

Astronomical League Council Meeting

1:00 - 6:00 p.m.

Smith Memorial Student Union

Vendor Setup - 3rd Floor / Ballroom

3:00 - 6:00 p.m.

Smith Memorial Student Union

Registration Open - 3rd Floor / Ballroom

9:00 p.m. - Midnight

University Place

Rick Kang, Pine Mountain Observatory

Tele-Astronomy Remote Viewing Concepts

(Tentative: Remote Observing Session)

 

 

Friday, August 3

All Activities at Smith Memorial Student Union

7:30 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Registration Open - 3rd Floor / Ballroom

8:00 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Vendor Area Open - 3rd Floor / Ballroom

 

All Sessions in Room: 338

8:30 - 8:45 a.m.

Convention Call to Order

Welcome to Portland

8:50 - 9:50 a.m.

Andy Burns

William Herschel

Break

10:00 - 10:50 a.m.

Kelly Beaty

The Sputnik Years

Break

11:00 - 11:50 p.m.

Tim Crawford

Introduction to Visual and CCD Observing of Variable Stars

Lunch (On your own)

Solar observing

1:00 - 1:50 p.m.

Dr. Todd Duncan

Our Cosmic Context

Break

2:00 - 2:50 p.m.

Mel Bartels

The Winds of Change: Amateur Astronomers in the New World

Break

3:00 - 3:50 p.m.

Bob Grossfeld

TBA

Break

4:00 - 4:50 p.m.

Bert Stevens

Asteroid Astronomy, NEO and Far

Native American Potlatch

(Star-B-Que)

Location: The Native American Student and Community Center

(On PSU Campus)

Art Exhibits: 6:30 - 7:00 p.m.

Dinner: 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. (Ticket Required)

Speaker: Andy Burns, Chairman, Wiltshire Astronomical Society

Star Party: 9:00 p.m. - ??

 

Saturday, August 4

All Activities at Smith Memorial Student Union

7:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Registration Open - 3rd Floor / Ballroom

8:00 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Vendor Area Open - 3rd Floor / Ballroom

 

Track 1

Room: 338

Track 2

Room: 333

9:00 - 10:00 a.m.

Future Space Exploration Panel

Timothy Zahn, Richard Berry

open

Break

10:15 - 11:00 a.m.

Dave Powell

How Long is a Second -

A Brief History of Timekeeping

Bob McGown, Richard Bence

Planetary Interiors and

Extrasolar Meteorites

Break

11:30 - 12:30 p.m.

Lunch

 

Break

1:00 - 1:50 p.m.

AL Business Meeting

Richard Berry

Stellar Photometry with CCD Cameras

Break

2:00 - 2:50 p.m.

Irwin Horowitz

Astronomical Spectroscopy -

Where (Most of) the Real Science Gets Done

 

Amateur Telescope Making Roundtable

Dan Gray / Mel Bartels

Break

3:00 - 3:50 p.m.

Leo Cavagnaro

Exploring the Southern Skies

David Haworth

Observing the Universe

With a Camera

Break

4:00 - 4:50 p.m.

AL Youth Award

Winner Presentations

Dr. Greg Bothun

Dark Matter and the Universe

ALCON Banquet and Awards Ceremony

Location: University Place

No Host Bar: 6:00 - 7:00 p.m.

Dinner: 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. (Ticket Required)

Speaker: TBA

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