RAS Gold Medal Lecture: Carlos Frenk

In a new arrangement between the AAS and the UK Royal Astronomical Society, the winner of the RAS Gold Medal will speak at an AAS meeting, and the winner of the AAS Henry Norris Russell Lectureship will speak at an RAS meeting. Carlos Frenk (University of Durham) gave his RAS Gold Medal Lecture, "Looking for the Identity of Dark Matter in and Around the Milky Way" in Seattle. AAS President Meg Urry (Yale University) chaired the special Wednesday-evening plenary session.