| Thursday,
October 16, 2008 |
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8:00 am – 5:00
pm |
Council Meeting
(council members only, includes continental breakfast & lunch) |
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1:00 pm – 5:00
pm |
Registration |
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| Friday,
October 17, 2008 |
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8:30 am |
Continental
breakfast in meeting room, Registration opens for the day |
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9:00 am – 12:00
pm |
Data
Mining Workshop |
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12:00 pm – 2:00
pm |
Lunch
Break |
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2:00 pm – 5:00
pm |
MMO
Session: History and Current Research |
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6:00 pm |
Bus 1
leaves Nantucket Inn for MMO (Vestal
campus) |
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6:30 pm |
Bus 2
leaves Nantucket Inn for MMO
(Vestal campus) |
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6:30 pm – 10:30
pm |
MMO
Open House/Dinner (Vestal
campus) |
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and
Star Party (Loines
Observatory) |
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8:30 pm – 10:30
pm |
Bus
makes trips from Vestal campus to Loines Observatory |
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and
back to Nantucket Inn as needed |
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| Saturday,
October 18, 2008 |
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8:30 am |
Continental
breakfast in meeting room, Registration opens for the day |
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9:00 am – 11:30
pm |
Membership
Meeting |
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11:30 pm – 5:30
pm |
Scientific
Paper Session |
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12:00 pm – 1:30
pm |
Lunch
Break |
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6:30 pm |
Cocktail
Hour (Cheese/Crackers
and Cash Bar) |
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7:30 pm – 10:30
pm |
Dinner,
Awards Presentations, and |
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Keynote
Speaker: Robert Naeye, Editor
of Sky and Telescope magazine speaks
on “Amateur Astronomers and Exoplanets” |
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| Sunday,
October 19, 2008 |
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9:30 am – 11:00
am |
Nantucket
Island Tour (bus
departs from and returns to Nantucket Inn) |
