[Aavso-photometry] {SAS, MPML} Society for Astronomical Sciences/AAVSO Joint Meeting: Call for Abstracts II

[Brian D. Warner]

Hi Everyone,

The joint meeting of the Society for Astronomical Sciences and 
AAVSO will be held May 19-21, 2009 at Big Bear, CA. This is the
week before U.S. Memorial Day weekend and the annual RTMC 
Astronomy Expo held just a few miles from Big Bear.

Abstracts from professionals and amateurs are now being accepted 
for proposed oral and poster presentations at the SAS/AAVSO meeting. 
Talks - for now - are scheduled to be be 20 minutes, including Q&A. 
We will have PowerPoint facilities (no overhead projectors, however). 
We prefer that files be pre-loaded onto our computer to minimize
switch-over problems. The files can be loaded the day of the
presentation, so you don't have to worry about having your
presentation done in days in advance (does _anybody_ really 
do that?).

Topics can be on anything of general interest to the SAS and/or 
AAVSO membership regarding observing, research, and pro-am
collaborations. These include, but are not limited to, variable 
star observations (CCD/visual) and modeling, spectroscopy, asteroid 
photometry and modeling, general photometry, observing techniques, 
equipment, data reduction and analysis, and so on. 

The presentations _must_ be non-commercial in nature. 

We are hoping to stream audio and PowerPoint slides in real time.
Those details are still being worked out and so there is no guarantee
at this time.

The deadline for submitting abstracts is March 13, 2009. The deadline
for final papers is May 3, 2009.

If you have any questions or would like to submit an abstract, please
send an email to 

  program_at_SocAstroSci_dot_org

This email address sends the message to the entire program committee
and assures that you will get a response.

Abstracts can be in simple text as part of an email or a text/MS Word 
attachment. Do not include any graphics, tables, etc. There is no
limit on the abstract save what common sense would dictate. However,
brevity is not the name of the game, either, since the hand out at
this year's meeting will be only the abstracts with the full papers
provided as PDFs on a CD. It would be good, if reporting results of
analysis or research, to include some highlights of those in the 
abstract. 

Please make sure that you use an email address that is "open", i.e., 
one to which we can reply without having to join buddy lists, wait for 
approval, etc., and is one that that you check frequently.

We will be posting registration information, workshop topics and times,
and more details on submitting final papers on the SAS web site shortly. 
I will send an email when that information is available.

Finally, if you are part of other lists or organizations where this
meeting would be of some interest, please pass it along. In particular,
we would like to see a good representation from the professional 
community.


Clear Skies,
Brian D. Warner
Palmer Divide Observatory
Program Committee, Society for Astronomical Sciences