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What's New
December, 2001
- Astronomy and Astrophysics in the New Millennium: An Overview is now available on the Web. This booklet is a brief, richly illustrated, non-technical summary of the leading challenges in astronomy identified in the report Astronomy and Astrophysics in the New Millennium. The booklet describes a wealth of intriguing new questions about the universe and its constituent galaxies, stars, and planets and provides large-format pictures of the phenomena and observations that raised these questions. It also gives capsule descriptions of the new initiatives recommended to address the questions, including the Next Generation Space Telescope and the ground-based Giant Segmented Mirror Telescope.
- The December 2001 issue of BPA News, the semiannual newsletter of the Board, is now available. Featured articles include:
- U.S. Astronomy and Astrophysics: Managing an Integrated Program
- Solar Neutrino Deficit Vanishes
- Highlights of the Fall BPA Meeting
September 4, 2001
- COMRAA Report released. The prepublication version is now available in PDF form.
- BPA plans fall meeting. The meeting will be held at the Academies' Beckman Study Center on the UC Irvine campus on November 3-4, 2001. The science topic will be "The Future of High-Energy Physics."
June 22, 2001
June 1, 2001
- The June, 2001 issue of BPA News is now available. Featured articles include:
- Committee on Organization and Management of Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics Formed
- The Next Generation Space Telescope
- The Task Force on Undergraduate Physics
- Highlights of the Washington BPA Meeting
- Block Copolymers: Easy Routes to Nanoscopic Structures
- Committee on Organization and Management of Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics (aka the Blue Ribbon Panel) plans first meeting.
May 18, 2001
- Book party planned to celebrate the formal publication of Physics in a New Era: An Overview. This report is the culmination of a series of studies comprising a new decade-long survey of physics. The event will take place at 10:00 a.m. on June 19, 2001 in Room 104 of the NRC's Green Building at 2001 Wisconsin Avenue. It will be web cast, and there will be a link to the audio stream on the NAS home page on the day of the event. The agenda will include four talks on various aspects of the study.
May 2, 2001
April 18, 2001
April 11, 2001
- NRC agrees to establish Blue Ribbon Panel. The panel will respond to a request from the National Science Foundation and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for a study of federal support and management for the field of astronomy and astrophysics.
April 5, 2001
- Board on Physics and Astronomy will meet in Washington on April 27-28, 2001. The tentative meeting agenda is now available.
March 9, 2001
- Physics in a New Era: An Overview released in prepublication form. The Physics Survey Overview Committee prepared the report. This report is the culmination of a series of studies comprising a comprehensive survey of the field of physics entitled Physics in a New Era.
January 9, 2001
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