Dear Colleague:

The American Astronomical Society (AAS) Working Group on Laboratory
Astrophysics (WGLA) would like to ask you to circulate the following
announcement to all your group members, colleagues, professional
societies, listservs, and any groups who you think would be interested
in this AAS Topical Session.  Apologies if you receive duplicate
emailings of the announcement, but we are trying to reach as many as
possible who are involved with the broad field of laboratory
astrophysics and its use.

Thank you for your help on this.

Respectfully,

The AAS WGLA (www.aas.org/labastro/lawg_charter.php)
Nancy Brickhouse (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
John Cowan (University of Oklahoma)
Paul Drake (University of Michigan)
Steven Federman (University of Toledo)
Gary Ferland (University of Kentucky)
Adam Frank (University of Rochester)
Paul Goldsmith (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
Wick Haxton (University of Washington)
Eric Herbst (Ohio State University)
Keith Olive (University of Minnesota)
Farid Salama (NASA/Ames)
Daniel Wolf Savin (Columbia University)

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                         SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT

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Bridging Laboratory and Astrophysics
St. Louis, MO
June 2-4, 2008

This three day series of talks and posters, part of the 212th meeting of
the American Astronomical Society (AAS), will be devoted to the
interplay between astrophysics and laboratory astrophysics, the Rosetta
Stone that enables astronomers to interpret the cosmos.  The
astrophysics areas to be covered include atoms, molecules/chemistry,
solids, plasmas, nuclear, and particles.  In each of these six areas,
there will be a keynote talk focusing on major astrophysical discoveries
and the underlying laboratory astrophysics that enabled the discoveries,
presentations on the current work going on in laboratory astrophysics,
and a concluding astrophysics talks presenting a hot topic and
illustrating the important role of laboratory astrophysics for
astronomy.  There will also be a town hall meeting moderated by the
members of the AAS Working Group on Laboratory Astrophysics (WGLA).
Input will be solicited from the community as to how the WGLA can help
to address their needs.  Additionally, there will be NASA and NSF town
hall meetings which will provide opportunities for the laboratory
astrophysics community to ask questions of these agencies.

Detailed information about registration, accommodations, invited
speakers, and deadlines is now available at the AAS meeting website
http://www.aas.org/meetings/aas212/

Abstract Submission Deadline    9:00 pm EDT, Wednesday, 19 March 2008
Late Abstracts Deadline         9:00 pm EDT, Wednesday, 30 April 2008

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