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President: Dr. Frank Shu
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The American Astronomical Society (AAS) is the major professional organization in North America for astronomers and other scientists and individuals interested in astronomy. Please direct questions to the AAS Executive Office at aas@aas.org or to individual staff members.
AAS meetings
The AAS holds two
meetings per year, in January and in June.
Information on the
current meeting is available here.
Information regarding the guidelines for Invited Speakers can be found here.
AAS Job Register
The AAS Job Register can be browsed on-line.
This month's job postings
The AAS publishes three peer reviewed journals - they are The Astronomical Journal, The Astrophysical Journal and The Astrophysical Journal Letters. The Society also publishes the Bulletin of the AAS, the AAS Membership Directory and the AAS Newsletter. Authors submitting manuscripts to one of the peer reviewed Journals are encouraged to submit their manuscripts electronically. Advance notice of articles scheduled to appear in North American astronomy journals are available through the AAS Yellow Pages listing.
More information on the Society's Electronic Publications is also available through these pages. Click here to browse through a demonstration of the Electronic Astrophysical Journal Letters project.
Tabular material from the Society's refereed journals is published twice yearly, and made available to subscribers on CD-ROM.
The services of the AAS are geared toward the professional astronomer. Information on membership is available on line.
The AAS is a member society of the American Institute of Physics.
To further international contacts, the Society provides the mechanism by which the United States adheres to the IAU. International Astronomical Union
You can explore the AAS FTP archive if you are interested in the holdings at the Executive Office. The AAS will continue to expand the information available over the network from the Executive Office.
You can browse a compendium of WWW and other Internet services of interest to astronomers by looking at the Astronomical Internet Resources listing maintained at STScI.
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