November 2007
Nov 1 Start preparing Y9 Calendar
Nov 1-4 2007 CfAO Fall Retreat UCLA Lake Arrowhead Conference Center: Lake Arrowhead, California
Nov 12 Holiday: Veterans Day (Observed)
Nov 16 Re-Thinking Science Learning & Teaching (Re-SLT) Workshop Maui, Hawaii
Nov 21 4th Financial Quarterly Report: Aug, Sept, Oct, 2007 and Final report due for completed projects
Nov 22-23 Holiday: Thanksgiving
Nov 30 Re-Thinking Science Learning & Teaching (Re-SLT) Workshop Santa Cruz, California
December 2007
Dec 4-7 SPIE Microelectronics, MEMS, & Nanotechnology Canberra, ACT, Australia
Dec 5 Chanukah begins at sunset (Religious Holiday)
Dec 10-14 American Geophysical Union Meeting The Moscone Center: San Francisco, California
Dec 20 CfAO Holiday Party CfAO Building: UC Santa Cruz
Dec 24-Jan 2 CfAO Winter Break
January 2008
Jan 1 Holiday: News Year's Day
Jan 7-11 American Astronomical Society (AAS) 211th Meeting Austin Convention Center: Austin, Texas
Jan 16-18 Surveys & Simulations of Large-Scale Structure: A Celebration of Marc Davis' 60th Birthday Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory: Berkeley, California
Jan 19-24 SPIE Photonics West San Jose Convention Center: San Jose, California
Jan 21 Holiday: Martin Luther King Day
February 2008
Feb 14 Valentine's Day
Feb 14 Akamai Internship Applications Due
Feb 14-17 Wavefront Congress: Premier Meeting on Wavefront Sensing & Presbyopic Refractive Corrections Argonaut Hotel, San Francisco, California
Feb 16-21 SPIE Medical Imaging Town & Country Resort & Convention Center: San Diego, California
Feb 18-29 Physics and Astrophysics of Planetary Systems: Les Houches School 2008 Ecole de Physique: Les Houches, France
Feb 18 Holiday: President's Day
Feb 20 1st Quarterly Report Due: November, December 2007, January 2008
Feb 25-27 Nuclear Star Clusters across the Hubble Sequence Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany
March 2008
Mar 10 Templates for Annual Report and Y10 Proposal sent to PIs
Mar 13-17 Professional Development Workshop Maui, Hawaii
Mar 14 Keck Proposals Due for 2008B
Mar 16-20 Galactic & Stellar Dynamics in the Era of High Resolution Surveys University Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France
Mar 17-20 SPIE Defense + Security Orlando, Florida
Mar 23 Easter Sunday
Mar 24-26 Second Workshop: Titan – Observations, Experiments, Computations & Modeling Miami, Florida
Mar 28 Holiday: Administrative Holiday at UCSC UC Santa Cruz
TBA Lick Proposals Due
April 2008
Apr 4-9 American Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgery (ASCRS) Symposium Chicago, Illinois
Apr 14-17 AbSciCon 2008: The Fifth Astrobiology Science Conference Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, California
Apr 20 First day of Passover
Apr 21-25 The Universe under the Microscope – Astronomy at High Angular Resolution Physikzentrum Bad Honnef (Köln/Bonn, Germany)
Apr 25 Y10 Proposals/Y10 Annual Report Due to Theme Leaders and Central Office. (Note: 2nd Financial Quarter Report for Feb-Apr 2008 will be part of this A.R.)
Apr 27-30 2008 ARVO Annual Meeting Fort Lauderdale, Florida
May 2008
May 4-9 CLEO/QELS 2008 Technical Conference San Jose, California
May 9-14 Vision Sciences Society 8th Annual Meeting Naples, Florida
May 11 Mothers' Day
May 21 2nd Quarterly Report Due: February, March, April 2008--Please be prompt as this will be part of the NSF Annual Report
May 25-30 Maui Akamai Internship Program Short Course Maui Community College, Maui
May 26 Holiday: Memorial Day
TBA GPI Critical Design Review (Bruce Macintosh)
TBA Facilitating Learners Engaged in Inquiry Workshop Santa Cruz, California & Maui, Hawaii
June 2008
Jun 1-5 American Astronomical Society (AAS) 212th Meeting St. Louis, Missouri
Jun 1-6 Hawaii Island Observatory Short Course Hawaii Island, Hawaii
Jun 2-Jul 18 Akamai Maui Interns at Internship Sites Various Sites
Jun 9-Jul 23 Hawaii Island Interns at Internship Sites Various Sites
Jun 10-13 Gas & Stars in Galaxies: A Multi-Wavelength 3D Perspective ESO, Garching, Germany
Jun 15 Fathers' Day
Jun 16-17 Proposal Review Committee CfAO, Santa Cruz
Jun 18 Program Advisory Committee CfAO, Santa Cruz
Jun 23-28 SPIE Astronomical Telescopes & Instrumentation 2008 Marseille, France
Jun 28-Jul 2 World Ophthalmology Congress Hong Kong, China
Jun 29-Jul 26 Cosmos: Stars, Sight & Science UC Santa Cruz
TBA Final CfAO Budget Ready
TBA Announcement of Y7 CfAO Subcontracts
July 2008
Jul 1 Cost Share Reports, NSF 1030s, Annual Expenditures, Fac. Support Info. Center Support Info, Site Personnel data, Theme Leader Reports
Jul 4 Holiday: Independence Day
Jul 6-11 Astronomical Polarimetry 2008 – Science from Small to Large Telescopes Fairmont Le Manoir Richelieu, La Malbaie, Quéc, Canada
Jul 14-18 Asteroids, Comets, Meteors Baltimore, Maryland
Jul 22 Maui Akamai Intern Symposium Maui, Hawaii
Jul 25 Hawaii Island Akamai Intern Symposium Hawaii Island, Hawaii
August 2008
Aug 1 NSF Annual Report Due
Aug 4-8 Star Cluster Formation: From Taurus to the Antennae University of Sheffield, UK
Aug 3-8 Summer School on Adaptive Optics UC Santa Cruz
Aug 10-14 SPIE Optics & Photonics San Diego, California
Aug 20 3rd Financial Quarterly Report Due: May-July 2008
September 2008
Sept 1 Holiday: Labor Day
Sept 8-12 Future Ground based Solar System Research: Synergies with Space Probes & Space Telescope Portoferraio, Isola d'Elba, Livorno, Italy
Sept 8-19 Probing Stellar Populations out to the Distant Universe Cefalu' (Sicily), Italy
Sept 12 Keck Proposals Due for 2009A
Sept 15-19 2008 AMOS Conference Maui, Hawaii
Sept 22-24 NSF Site Visit UC Santa Cruz
Sept 29 - Oct 2 400 Years of Astronomical Telescopes—A Review of History, Science & Technology ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
TBA (Don Gavel) LAO Yearly Report
TBA Lick Proposals Due
TBA STC Directors Meeting Univ. Illinois Urbanan Champaign
October 2008
Oct 9 Yom Kippur
Oct 9-12 SACNAS Conference Salt Lake City, Utah
Oct 11-15 40th Annual Meeting of the DPS of the American Astronomical Society Ithaca, New York
Oct 19-23 Frontiers in Optics: The 92nd OSA Annual Meeting & Exhibit Rochester, New York
Oct 22-25 American Academy of Optometry: Academy 2008 Anaheim Anaheim, California
Oct 24-26 OSA Fall Vision Meeting Rochester, New York
Oct 31 Halloween
TBA International Laser Guide Star AO Meeting (no 2008 location yet)
November 2008
Nov 1 Start Preparing Y10 Calendar
Nov 6-9 Fall Science and Education Retreat Lake Arrowhead, CA
Nov 11 Veteran's Day
Nov 19 4th Quarterly Report: August, September, October, 2008
Nov 27 Holiday: Thanksgiving
December 2008
Dec 10 - 14 American Geophysical Union Meeting San Francisco, CA