AAS Closing Thoughts

By Michael on January 12, 2007 at 4:58 pm | In Blog Posts |

You’ve probably heard enough about AAS for now, but besides all of the interesting astronomy and science that goes on, the real point of meetings like AAS are for making connections with people. You see people all over the place at the meeting — huddled in pairs over plots of data, making jokes over lunch, grabbing old friends as they walk by. The fun stuff is not tacked to the poster boards or delivered orally at special sessions, its in the hall ways, the hotel lobbies and the pubs.

The sheer volume of science is overwhelming, like a huge buffet with much more than you could ever eat. You have to fill your plate carefully. But the people stuff, the conversations and connections with the varied personalities in astronomy, there you can eat your fill.

It was a hell of a lot of fun to cover the AAS meeting with my fellow slackers, Aaron, Travis and Doug. Special thanks, too, to our guests, Ryan, Tanya and many others who graced our microphones and video cameras.

Still more to come from our vast archives of material from the meeting. Thanks for tuning in.

-Michael