Program Scheduling

The scheduling of the activities of the Annual Meeting is the responsibility of the ASA Executive Office. The tentative schedule of general ASA activities and plenary sessions for 2006 is as follows. No other activities may be held during the plenary times noted below.

Due to the complexities of scheduling a program with nearly 600 sessions and more than 4,000 participants, it is not possible to avoid all conflicts of individual obligations. Participants with multiple commitments may contact their session organizers or ASA Meeting Services staff anytime before March 15, 2006 and request scheduling consideration. Meeting Services staff will try to accommodate reasonable requests, but no guarantees can be given. Information on the program schedule in general will not be available before May 15.

Section Scheduling. Section activities are pre-assigned to specific days following a four-year rotation schedule. Section session times on those days will not be finalized until the overall program schedule is completed. The rotation schedule for Section activities in 2006 results in the groupings on assigned days shown below.
All Section program sessions and Council/Business meetings will be scheduled on the assigned days. Those Sections whose programs are larger than the time slots available on their days will have sessions scheduled on adjacent days, as noted below.
Section Council/Business meetings must be held on the assigned days.

    *one session must be scheduled on the following day
   **two sessions must be scheduled on the following day
  ***three sessions must be scheduled on the following day
    ~one session must be scheduled on the preceding day
  ~~two sessions must be scheduled on the preceding day
~~~three sessions must be scheduled on the preceding day
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Section Receptions. Receptions sponsored by ASA Section may be held on the first and third evenings of the meeting. For 2006, sections whose assigned program day is August 11 or 12 will have access to reception space at 6:30 p.m. on the evening of August 11. Sections that meet on August 13 or 14 will have reception space made available at 6:30 p.m. on the evening of August 13.
Requests from Section Chairs for reception space at the ASA hotels are due in the ASA Executive Office by March 1, 2006.