Program News and Announcements

9 January 2024

PhysCos at the AAS Meeting 2024

Dear Physics of the Cosmos (PhysCOS) community members

If you’re attending the American Astronomical Society Winter Meeting in New Orleans (AAS 243), please be aware of several PhysCOS-organized or related events today, Tuesday, 9 January 2024:

• 10a – 11:30a Central: Gamma Ray Science Interest Group (GR SIG) [Room 219]
• 2p – 3:30p Central: Gravitational Wave Science Interest Group (GW SIG) [Room 219]

Full details on these sessions, including times, locations, and agendas, can be found on our AAS webpage. In addition, the following sessions may be of special interest to PhysCOS scientists:

• 10a Central: Special Session: 214 – HEAD II – High-Energy observations of Stellar-mass Compact Objects: A Tribute to Tomaso Belloni [Room 212]
• 10a Central: Special Session: 221 – Chandra at 25 [Room 222]
• 11:40a Central: Plenary: 233 – HEAD Bruno Rossi Prize Lecture: Pulsar Magnetosphere: The Incredible Machine, Anatoly Spitkovsky (Princeton University) [Great Hall A]
• 2p Central: Special Session: 220 – NANOGrav: The Dawn of Galaxy-scale Gravitational-wave Astronomy [Room 226]
• 4p Central: Exhibitor Theater: Chandra at Twenty-five: NASA's Flagship X-ray Observatory [Hall B-1 /B-2]
• 4:40p Central: Plenary: 257 – Plenary Lecture: The Precision Frontier of Dark Matter Constraints from Direct Acceleration Measurements, Sukanya Chakrabarti (University of Alabama, Huntsville) [Great Hall A]
• 7:30p Central: Town Hall: 265 – HEAD Social and Business Meeting [Room 225]

Finally, please come by our table at the NASA Science booth in the exhibition hall, to discuss PhysCOS science, and take part in a five-minute formulation activity.

Wishing you the best,

Dr Francesca Civano & Dr Brian Humensky
PhysCOS Chief Scientists, NASA GSFC
Dr Bernard Kelly
PhysCOS Support Scientist, NASA GSFC