Program News and Announcements

10 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, Wednesday, 10 January 2024:

• 12:45p – 3:30p Central: Habitable Worlds Observatory Splinter Meeting [Room R08 / R09]

Full details on this session can be found on our AAS webpage. In addition, the following sessions may be of special interest to PhysCOS scientists:

• 2p Central: Special Session: 339 – Direct Imaging of Black Holes: Recent Results and Future Prospects [Room 212]
• 3:40p Central: Plenary: 357 – Plenary Lecture: Investigating the Early Universe, Jamie Bock (California Institute of Technology) [Great Hall A]
• 4:40p Central: Plenary: 358 – Newton Lacey Pierce Prize Lecture: Characterizing the Properties of Accreting Neutron Stars through X-ray Observations, Renee Ludlam (Wayne State University) [Great Hall A]

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