NRAO AOC Colloquium Series: Fall 2006

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 - Fall 2006

01 Sep 2006
11:00am
"Searching for Low Frequency Radio Transients"
Speaker: Steve Ellingson, Virginia Tech
Host: Rick Perley
08 Sep 2006
11:00am
No Colloquium
15 Sep 2006
11:00am
"Resolving the Submm Extragalactic Background Light"
Speaker: Wei-Hao Wang, NRAO
Host: Dale Frail
22 Sep 2006
11:00am
"Cassini-VIMS Observations of Saturn's Rings"
Speaker: Phil Nicholson, Cornell
Host: Bryan Butler
29 Sep 2006
11:00am
Cancelled
06 Oct 2006
11:00am
No Colloquium
NM Symposium
12 Oct 2006
1:15pm
"Recent Results from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe"
Speaker: Lyman Page, U. Princeton
Host: Ethan Schreier
13 Oct 2006
11:00am
"Simulating the Universe: Giant Light Cones And Cool Cores"
Speaker: Jack Burns, U. Colorado
Host: Jim Ulvestad
17 Oct 2006
4:00pm
"The Space Interferometer Mission: Parallaxes, Planets and More"
Speaker: Shri Kulkarni, CalTech
Host: Dale Frail
20 Oct 2006
11:00am
"Massive And Evolved Galaxies At z>5: Should They Really Be There?
Speaker: Tommy Wiklind, Space Telescope Science Institute
Host: Nissim Kanekar
27 Oct 2006
11:00am
"Obscured Quasars in 3CR FR-II Radio Galaxies...Performing AGN Statistics of a Higher Moral Character"
Speaker: David Whysong, NRAO
Host: Michael Rupen
03 Nov 2006
11:00am
"Relativistic Iron Lines in Accreting Black Holes"
Speaker: Jon Miller, Univ. of Michigan
Host: Michael Rupen
10 Nov 2006
No Colloquium
Veteran's Day
17 Nov 2006
11:00am
"Winds in Collision: High Energy Particles in Massive Binary Systems "
Speaker: Sean Dougherty, HIA/DRAO
Host: Mark Claussen
24 Nov 2006
No Colloquium
Thanksgiving
01 Dec 2006
11:00am
"Probing the Life Cycle of the Interstellar Medium at Far-IR and Submillimeter-wavelengths"
Speaker: Chris Walker, University of Arizona
Host: Bob Hayward
08 Dec 2006
11:00am
"Gamma-Ray Bursts: Progress and Unanswered Questions "
Speaker: Dale Frail, NRAO
Host: None
15 Dec 2006
11:00am
"The Zpectrometer at the GBT: Progress and Prospects for High-Redshift Science"
Speaker: Andrew Baker, Rutgers
Host: Claire Chandler

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 on Friday, 26-Sep-2008 11:48:35 MDT by Claire Chandler