NRAO AOC Colloquium Series: Spring 2012


Colloquia are held in the auditorium of the Array Operations Center in Socorro, New Mexico. All are welcome, but the talks generally assume a good grounding in research astronomy.

Talks are usually scheduled for 11am local time on Fridays; those which are not are indicated in red.

Current Colloquium Schedule - Spring 2012

Friday 20 Jan 2012
11:00am MT
Lyman Alpha and Galaxy Formation: An Observer's Perspective
Speaker: Arjun Dey    (NOAO)
Host:  Juergen Ott
Friday 27 Jan 2012
11:00am MT
Molecular gas and star formation in early-type galaxies
Speaker:  Martin Bureau  University of Oxford
Host: Lisa Young
Friday 3 Feb 2012
11:00am MT
Exploring the structure and composition of Io's atmosphere with (sub)mm observations
Speaker:   Arielle Moullet  (NRAO)
Host: Brian Butler
Friday 10 Feb 2012
11:00am MT
New Approaches in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Speaker: Seth Shostak  (SETI Institute)
Host: Dale Frail
Friday 17 Feb 2012
11:00am MT
Cosmic Rays in Star-Forming Galaxies: Understanding Jansky's Cosmic Noise
Speaker: Brian Lacki    (Ohio State)
Host: Walter Brisken
Friday  24  Feb 2012
Data Reduction Workshop-- no colloquium
Friday 2 Mar 2012
11:00am MT
Formation of Star Clusters
Speaker:  Bruce G. Elmegreen   IBM T. J. Watson
Host: 
Friday 9 Mar  2012
11:00am MT
The VLA as a Millisecond Transient Survey Machine 
Speaker:  Casey Law   University of Berkeley
Host: Miller Goss
Friday 16 Mar  2012
11:00am MT
Superluminous Supernovae
Speaker:  Roger Chevalier    University of Virginia
Host: 
Friday 23 Mar 2012
11:00am MT
The Milky Way as a Grand Design Spiral
Speaker: Thomas Dame   (CfA)
Host: Andres Brunthaler
Friday 30 Mar  2012
11:00am MT
"Title"
Speaker: To be annoounced 
Host: 
Friday  6 Apr  2012
NRAO Holiday---no colloquium
Friday 13 Apr 2012
11:00am MT
Exploring the Universe with WISE
Speaker: Edward Wright    UCLA
Host:  Dave Meier
Friday 20  Apr 2012
11:00am MT
"Title"
Speaker: To be annoounced 
Host: 
Friday 27 Apr 2012
11:00am MT
"Title"
Speaker: To be annoounced 
Host: 
Friday 4 May 2012
11:00am MT
"Title"
Speaker: To be annoounced 
Host: 
Friday 11 May 2012
11:00am MT
"Title"
Speaker: To be annoounced 
Host: 
Friday 18 May  2012
11:00am MT
"Title"
Speaker: To be annoounced 
Host: 
Friday 25 May  2012
11:00am MT
"Title"
Speaker: Todd Thompson
Host: 

If you would like to talk with the speaker, send email to the local host. If you are the speaker, and need to talk to someone, try either your local host or one of the current colloquium chairs. We are always on the lookout for suggestions for future speakers.

Previous Colloquium Series

Previous colloquia are available:

Other Astrophysics Colloquia in New Mexico

Colloquia at Other NRAO Sites


Modified onMonday, 30-Jan-2012 09:24:31 MST by Stephan Witz