NRAO AOC Colloquium Series: Fall 1996

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.

Upcoming Colloquium Schedule - Fall 1996

1996-07-26
11:00am
Radio Supernovae
Speaker: Marcos Montes, NRL
Host: Dick Sramek
1996-08-29
11:00am
What we have learned from monitoring twisting jets in quasars
with VLBI
Speaker: Anton Zensus, NRAO
Host: Michael Rupen
1996-09-10
11:00am
Optical Interferometry at JPL
Speaker: Michael Shao, JPL
Host: Alan Roy
1996-09-20
11:00am
The Peculiar Velocity Field in the Local Universe
Speaker: Martha Haynes, Cornell
Host: Liese van Zee
1996-09-27
11:00am
X-ray Plasma and H I Gas in the Halo of our Galaxy
Speaker: Ulrich Mebold, MPIfR
Host: Michael Rupen
1996-10-04
11:00am
The Stellar Population, Star-Forming History, and Structure
of the Orion Nebula Cluster

Speaker: Lynne Hillenbrand, Berkeley
Host: Michael Rupen
1996-10-08
11:00am
Water Masers in Star-Forming Regions
Speaker: Moshe Elitzur, Univ. of Kentucky
Host: Athol Kemball
1996-10-11
11:00am
Lines, Lengths, and Lenses: What does it take to measure the Hubble
Constant beyond reasonable doubt?

Speaker: Roger Blandford, Caltech
Host: Michael Rupen
1996-10-25
11:00am
Counting Stars in the LMC: What does it tell us about the star formation
history?

Speaker: Jon Holtzman, NMSU
Host: Michael Rupen
1996-11-08
11:00am
Recent Results from the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory
Speaker: Tom Phillips, Caltech
Host: Michael Rupen
1996-11-15
11:00am
Alignment of Interstellar Grains by Starlight
Speaker: Bruce Draine, Princeton
Host: Michael Rupen
1996-11-22
11:00am
New Insights Into Groups of Galaxies
Speaker: John Mulchaey, Carnegie
Host: Michael Rupen
1996-12-06
11:00am
Counter-rotating Disks in Spiral Galaxies
Speaker: Barbara Ryden, OSU
Host: Michael Rupen

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.

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Modified on Friday, 26-Sep-2008 11:48:35 MDT by Stephan Witz