American Astronomical Society
Division on Dynamical Astronomy
Boston, Massachusetts
25 - 29 April 2010

Getting to Boston and Brookline

What Else to Do in Boston, Brookline, and Cambridge

Photos of the Meeting

The annual DDA Meeting brings together top researchers in astronomy, astrophysics, planetary science, and astrodynamics for in-depth and stimulating discussions and talks on all aspects of dynamics in the space sciences. The DDA meeting features invited talks on a range of topics, contributed talks (with no parallel sessions), and posters that can be displayed throughout the entire meeting.

Publication of Papers: The journal "Celestial Mechanics & Dynamical Astronomy" (CM&DA) invites you to submit a manuscript on your DDA presentation for publication in a thematic issue of CM&DA.
Further instructions are available at a website announcing this special issue.

Deadlines Abstracts: 11:59 PM EDT, Monday, March 15, 2010 To give a presentation at the Boston Meeting, you must submit an abstract (300 word limit) through the AAS/OASIS abstract form. You may present two papers as long as one is oral and the other is a poster. Submit the abstract(s) to AAS through this web page. Click on "access DDA abstract form". Posters should be less than 40 inches x 30 inches Online Registration: 11:59 PM EDT, Thursday, April 15, 2010 Early Registration: 11:59 PM EDT, Monday, March 15, 2010 DDA Members: $295 early, $345 online/on-site students and emeritus members $150 early, $175 online/on-site non-members: $345 early, $395 online/on-site The conference banquet will be held on Tuesday night, 27 April 2010. It will cost $55. Click here to find out how to register.

Public Talk Monday, April 26 [PDF flyer] Observatory Tour Monday, April 26

Hotel registration at our discounted rate: 11:59 PM EDT, Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Holiday Inn Boston-Brookline, 1200 Beacon St, Brookline, Massachusetts
Do Not Register online
Call the hotel directly at 1-877-456-7087 (free from US) or 1-617-277-1200, avoid the automated reservations system, get the front desk, and ask for "Sales", and mention that you are with the DDA to get our room rate of $99/night (+tax).
We strongly recommend that you request "tower" rooms as they have good views. If those are no longer available, ask for "Beacon St. side" rooms. "Esplanade" rooms are less preferred.
If you are looking for a roommate, contact Matija Cuk (cuk at eps.harvard.edu).

Student stipend applications: Midnight EST February 28, 2010.
The winners of the 2010 Student Stipend Awards are:

• Adrian Barker (Advisor: Gordon Ogilvie) University of Cambridge
  Internal wave breaking and the fate of planets around solar-type stars
• Tyler Mitchell (Advisor: Glen Stewart) University of Colorado at Boulder
  Evolution of the solar nebula under the influence of photoevaporation
• Justin Comparetta (Advisor: Alice Quillen) University of Rochester
  Instabilities in tidal tails
• Daniel Tamayo (Advisor: Joe Burns) Cornell University
  The exogenous origin of Iapetus' dark material

Sunday, April 25, 2010

3:00 pm - 7:00 pm: Registration (Holiday Inn)

5:00 pm - ?:?? pm: Committee Meeting

6:00 pm - 9:00 pm: Reception (Holiday Inn)

Monday, April 26, 2010

9:00 am - 12:00pm: Binaries and Outer Solar System

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm: Lunch Break

1:00 pm - 3:25 pm: Orbits

4:30 pm - 5:30 pm: Harvard Observatory Tour

5:30 pm - 7:30 pm: Dinner break in Harvard Square

7:30 pm: Public Talk at Harvard's Haller Hall, 26 Oxford St.
Harvard Square restaurants [PDF flyer] [PDF alternate flyer]

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

9:00 am - 12:30pm: Transits and Hot Planets

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm: Lunch Break

1:30 pm - 4:55 pm: Galaxies

5:00 pm - 6:00 pm: Division Business Meeting

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm: Banquet (Holiday Inn)

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

9:00 am -12:05 pm: Cosmic Disasters
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm: Brouwer Award Lecture

2:00 pm - 5:30 pm: Moons and Rotation

5:30 pm - 7:00 pm: Poster viewing

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm: Dinner Break

8:00 pm - ?:?? pm: Pub night at Beacon St. Tavern, Brookline

Thursday, April 29, 2010

9:00 am -12:05 pm: Circumstellar Disks

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm: Rings

Invited Speakers

Brouwer Award Winner: Tim De Zeeuw, ESO

Public Talk: Lisa Kaltenegger, Center for Astrophysics

Zoe Leinhardt, DAMTP Cambridge

Alan W. Harris, Space Science Institute

Matt Holman, CfA

Dave Merritt, Rochester Institute of Technology"

Heidi Newberg, RPI

Program Committee

Local Organizing Committee

Sponsors