Thoughts about Astronomy

Every January, the American Astronomical Society organizes a conference for all astronomy-related activities. It's considered the biggest and broadest astronomical conference around. Being in Long Beach this year, I spent 4 days there listening to talks and helping man the LISA booth.

The AAS meetings are primarily based on research posters, although some people are invited to give oral talks as well. Along with the posters are a large number of booths from missions, contractors, and publishers. Among these was the new LISA booth that I helped design and a full-size replica of the LISA spacecraft. We had one of the best mission booths there, and the laser pointers we gave out were some of the best giveaways (possibly eclipsed only by SIM's flash drives). I've posted some of my photographs of the exhibits.