Dear SPD Members,

Planning for the AAS/SPD joint meeting in Boston,June 1-5 2014

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hasbegun in earnest.  The Science Organizing Committee consists of

Carrie Black, Stephen Bradshaw and David Alexander.  information on the

proposed sessions can be found at

http://aas.org/aas-224th-meeting/224th-meeting-solar-physics-division-sessions

A few of things to note.

*Early registration ends February 13.**

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We had a number of requests for joint sessions from other divisions and

we have factored some of those into the structure of the meeting.

Please consider proposing a paper to one of these sessions.

 Joint session with the History of Astronomy Division (POC:  Jay

Pasachoff (Jay.M.Pasachoff@williams.edu

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 Special Chromospheric session focusing on IRIS: please focus any

abstracts submitted to this session on IRIS results and studies

 Two joint sessions with the newly established Laboratory Astrophysics

Division and the Topical Group on Plasma Astrophysics of the American

Physical Society. “Bridging Laboratory and Solar Plasma Studies” on

Thursday, June 5th. <x-apple-data-detectors://7>  This joint meeting

between the solar physics,

laboratory astrophysics, and plasma astrophysics communities presents a

great opportunity to broaden our perspective and to reach out to other

like-minded research communities.

A description of LAD sessions can be found at

http://aas.org/aas-224th-meeting/224th-meeting-laboratory-astrophysics-division-sessions

Please ensure that you select the correct session for your abstract.

Details on registration and abstract submission can be found a the AAS

meeting website.  Meeting Registration instructions can be found at

http://aas.org/meetings/aas224/registration. The Abstract Submission for

the meeting opens on February 3rd:

http://aas.org/meetings/aas224/abstracts. All abstracts must be complete

and submitted by 9 pm ET, Monday, 3 March 2014

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Details on other activities (SPD memners meeting, agency lunch, banquet)

will be forthcoming.

Cheers - David