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September 12-16, 2009
Westin SFO, Millbrae, California

Save the date for the Astronomical Society of the Pacific's 120th Anniversary celebration!

Lodging Notice: We've filled our room block at the conference hotel, the Westin SFO, but the hotel has agreed to add rooms and extend the conference group rate through August 26. So if you haven't yet reserved your room, please check out the lodging page and plan to do so by August 26.

The preliminary meeting schedule can be found on the Meeting Schedule page.

Registration is now open for the 2009 ASP meeting to be held in the San Francisco Bay Area at the Westin San Francisco Airport Hotel, 1 Old Bayshore Highway in Millbrae, California. The theme of the 2009 gathering will be "Science Education and Outreach: Forging a Path to the Future."

Abstract Submission Deadline has passed.

The meeting proper begins on Sunday evening, September 13, with the annual members' meeting and the opening reception. Meeting sessions begin on Monday, September 14, with the annual awards banquet held on Tuesday evening, September 15. The meeting will conclude the early evening of Wednesday, September 16.

In addition, the meeting will be preceded by hands-on workshops scheduled on Saturday and Sunday, September 12-13, for formal and informal educators, with a separate daily workshop registration fee from the meeting registration fee.

Workshop Registration is open. Go to the workshops page for a description of weekend workshops for formal and informal educators and amateur astronomers.

In addition to workshops, the Astronomical Association of Northern California will be meeting on Saturday, September 12; go to the workshops page for information and the registration information page to register; check back for more details as the meeting schedule develops.

Also, Sunday afternoon, September 13, is reserved for a SETI Speaker Series featuring scientists and researchers from the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California. Speakers include Drs. Frank Drake, Seth Shostak, Margaret Race, and John Jenkins. Hear current and mind-expanding discussions on the Drake Equation at 50, what those alien critters might look like and why it's useful to speculate about them, initial results and data from the Kepler Mission to see if we're finding their home worlds yet, and what on Earth we do if we start to actually find them.

We're also planning for a series of provocative plenary discussions during the meeting proper relating to the conference theme strands and designed to get the cerebral juices flowing and discussion ignited. The discussions will be centered on the following questions:

IYA: Can We Keep the Party Going? Year of Science: Will Science "Speciation" Endanger Science Learning or Enhance it? Refining our Practice: Can we Really Make an Impact? The Future is Here: Can EPO Navigate the Digital Age?

Come join in the discussion, and watch for word of the speakers who will lead it.

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Please join us in September in the San Francisco Bay Area, during the International Year of Astronomy, the International Year of Science, and the 120th anniversary of the founding of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, as we look forward and consider how, working together, we can advance a future of science literacy, enlightenment and achievement!

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