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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

  • This experience made me develop a higher respect for astronomers and the intensive work they commit themselves to.
  • I realized how much I have actually learned through the program when I was able to explain complicated astronomy to graduate students, professors, and people who work at observatories.
  • [student:] I am extremely glad I participated in this project. The thing that I am most glad that I learned was how we sense objects using telescopes and cameras. This project also solidified my understanding of the electromagnetic spectrum. I had been taught about both of these topics on a few occasions in the past, but I never understood how it all fits together prior to this project.
  • I gained much appreciation for the sheer volume of data processing that goes on in astronomy. I did not realize how quantitative astronomy is. In the classroom, I think that I will be more interested in finding out how the things that we are learning were first discovered.
  • 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.

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AAS - 2013