Astronomy and Astrophysics Survey

Panel on Astronomy Education and Policy

The panel will draft a report to the AASC on education and policy issues including demographics, career issues, funding balance, infrastructure.

Andrea Dupree, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Chair dupree@cfa.harvard.edu

R. Bruce Partridge, Haverford College, Vice Chair (Education) bpartrid@haverford.edu

Anneila Sargent, California Institute of Technology, Vice Chair (Policy) afs@astro.caltech.edu

Frank Bash, University of Texas fnb@astro.as.utexas.edu

Gregory Bothun, University of Oregon nuts@moo.uoregon.edu

Suzan Edwards, Smith College sedwards@science.smith.edu

Riccardo Giacconi, European Southern Observatory rgiaccon@eso.org

Peter Gilman, National Center for Atomospheric Research gilman@ucar.edu

Michael Hauser, Space Telescope Science Institute hauser@stsci.edu

Blair Savage, University of Wisconsin savage@astro.wisc.edu

Irwin Shapiro, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics shapiro@cfa.harvard.edu

Frank Shu, University of California at Berkeley fshu@astro.berkeley.edu

Neil de Grasse Tyson, Princeton University Observatory and Hayden Planetarium ndt@astro.princeton.edu

The Panel will meet according to the schedule below (to be periodically updated). The agendas for meetings will be posted on the NRC Current Projects System.

Date	Location	Comments
January 7, 1999	Austin, Texas	Public Session at American Astronomical Society Meeting View Andrea Dupree’s presentation
February 19-21, 1999	Washington, DC	First meeting of the panel
May 9-10, 1999	Washington, DC	Public Session at the AAS Centennial Meeting
June 1, 1999	Chicago, Illinois	Public Session at the AAS Centennial Meeting
July 23-25, 1999	Palo Alto, California	Third and final meeting