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Deadline for Abstracts is now March 19th
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You are invited to participate in:

"Preparing for the International Year of Astronomy:
A Hands-on Symposium"

June 2 - 4, 2008
St. Louis, Missouri

The 120th Annual Meeting
of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP),
cosponsored with, and part of,
the 2008 Summer Meeting
of the American Astronomical Society (AAS).

The symposium will bring together education and
public outreach professionals, educators in
museums, planetaria, and other informal settings,
college instructors, and scientists and graduate
students who want to become engaged in astronomy
outreach during the International Year of Astronomy
(IYA) in 2009.

IYA celebrates the 400th anniversary of the astronomical
telescope. Activities are being planned in over 100
countries and throughout the U.S.  If you are interested
in planning IYA programs in 2009, this meeting is an
excellent chance to learn more about what various
institutions and organizations are proposing to do, to
coordinate your ideas and activities with colleagues, and
to find out where funding may be available.

For more detailed meeting information, see the ASP meeting
web site:
http://www.astrosociety.org/2008meeting

Presentations during the symposium can be made in the
following formats:

1. Poster papers (for describing local activities or plans
or previewing specific materials)

2. 10-minute oral presentations (for sharing information on
activities, plans, or programs of wider interest)

3. 90-minute interactive presentations (hands-on
program/activity demonstrations or interactive panels,
training on a suite of materials -- typically with
more than one presenter). We only have room for a
limited number of these.

Note that an individual may be a first author/primary
presenter on a maximum of one oral/interactive
presentation and one poster. For the 90-minute
sessions, groups working in the same area are
encouraged to join forces.

Abstract submissions for symposium posters and
presentations should be made via the American
Astronomical Society web pages for their Summer
2008 meeting: http://www.aas.org/meetings/aas212/

Although we welcome a wide range of posters and
presentations, we do ask that each one have an
explicit connection with the goals and programs of
IYA, which are described in more detail on the ASP
meeting web site.  March 19th is the deadline for
all abstracts.

Registration for the meeting is through the
American Astronomical Society.  You may register
and attend whether you present a paper or not. 

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