Developing the AAAS Annual Meeting
The Annual Meeting event lasts 5 days, but AAAS staff, the program committee, disciplinary sections, a local committee, and others work hard all year to put on the best event we can! Make sure you don’t miss a deadline—see what’s happening to develop the Annual Meeting all year round.
Major Milestones
- 2018 Annual Meeting held in Austin
- February 15–19, 2018
- 2019 Advance Registration and housing opens
- August 2018
- Online program released
- Early October 2018
- Advance registration closes
- Late January 2019
- 2019 Annual Meeting held in Washington DC
- February 14–18, 2019
Scientific Sessions and Workshop Proposals and Program Notifications
- Submission website for
scientific session proposals opens - January 31, 2018
- Deadline for submitting scientific session and career development workshop proposals
- April 19, 2018
- Notification to organizers of scientific sessions proposal acceptance
- July 10, 2018
- Notification to coordinators of career workshop acceptance
- July 17, 2018
Poster Session Abstracts and Program Notification
- Poster submission website opens:
General Poster Session and
Student Poster Competition - July 24, 2018
- Deadline for poster submission
- October 18, 2018
- Notification of poster session acceptance
- Early November 2018