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AAS - 2013

The Winter American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting is the largest meeting of professional astronomers in the world. NITARP educators attend an AAS first to meet their team, then they go home and work remotely for much of the year, and then attend an AAS to present their results.  At any given AAS, then, we could have two NITARP classes attending - those finishing up, and those getting started. Reload to see a different set of quotes.

We were out in force at the AAS 2013 meeting in Long Beach, CA! A record number of NITARP-affiliated people attended, including the 2012 class finishing up and the 2013 class getting going. The 80 or so NITARP-affiliated folks made up about 3% of the AAS attendees.

Special article on AAS attendees!  And don't miss Danielle Miller's blog!

Quotes

  • The most interesting thing I learned about at AAS was how people collaborate in the science world by making connections and sharing research and crossing disciplines, sometimes.
  • This experience did change the way I think about astronomy because I also thought of it as being very vague and non-specific when in reality it is so specific and there's so many different things that can apply, be discovered, and explored.
  • The whole AAS was not what I anticipated, I imagined it to be a lot smaller and more of just a poster presentation solely but it provided so many other opportunities that were really cool to experience.
  • This experience absolutely changed the way I look at the world of astronomy because pre-AAS, I never realized how many different fields of astronomy there actually are.
  • Astronomers, all of whom are scientists, can be personal, funny, and outright social beings. The nature of their work -- retracing their steps for accuracy, being critical of fellow colleagues, and looking to develop the next best project that has not been accomplished already -- requires astronomers to discuss, inquire, and exchange their ideas with one another.

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AAS - 2013