For many members, this list contains e-mail addresses that are more up to date than found in the AAS Membership Directory. We also have an e-mail exploder for announcements of general interest to HEAD members. If you have an item that you would like to announce in this way, please contact me and I will send you the e-mail address of the exploder. I was sorry to learn of the recent death of Bud Jacobson, who suffered a fatal heart attack. HEAD holds its own meeting once every 1.5 years, with the next one only 5 months away, in Estes Park, Colorado.
Information is given below.
They will be active with press releases at the Estes Park meeting. General Assembly of the IAU, Kyoto, Japan, August 18-30, 1997. A Joint Discussion on High Energy Transients will be part of the program, as well as a symposium on hot astrophysical plasmas, five other symposia, and about 15 joint discussions, on a wide range of astronomical topics. The May 1997 NASA Strategic Planning Retreat is now behind us. The meeting took place at Breckenridge, Colorado, and involved some 75 scientists, science communication experts, and Administration officials.