Title: APOGEE's plans for exploring the bulge

Abstract: APOGEE is nearing the end of its 10 year, high resolution, infrared spectroscopic survey of 
stellar chemical abundances and kinematics. The Galactic bulge is a primary focus of APOGEE’s 
goal to probe all parts of the Milky Way, and this region of the Galaxy will be probed both with giant 
stars and RR Lyrae stars. The latter target class provide a kinematic census of the old bulge, while 
the former enables the Metallicity Distribution Function and detailed chemical abundance patterns of 
the bulge to be derived. The status of the APOGEE exploitation of the bulge will be discussed.