NRAO AOC Colloquium Series: Spring 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 - Spring 2006

06 Jan 2006
11:00am
"Planetesimal Disks"
Speaker: Dave Koerner, Northern Arizona University
Host: Debra Shepherd
13 Jan 2006
No Colloquium
AAS Meeting: Jan 8-12, Washington DC
17 Jan 2006
4:00pm
"Astronomy at 100 MHz: Hi-Z versus ZZ Top"
Speaker: Frank Briggs, ATNF/Australian National University
Host: Nissim Kanekar
20 Jan 2006
11:00am
"Observations of the 327 MHz line of Deuterium"
Speaker: Alan Rogers, MIT
Host: Pat Palmer
27 Jan 2006
11:00am
"A 4.8- and 8.6-GHz Continuum Survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud"
Speaker: John Dickel, UNM
Host: Dave Meier
03 Feb 2006
11:00am
"Protostellar jets and a Universal Picture of Star Formation"
Speaker: Ralph Pudritz, McMaster
Host: Debra Shepherd
10 Feb 2006
11:00am
"The Chemical Structure of Nearby Starburst Galaxies"
Speaker: Dave Meier, NRAO
Host: J.P. Macquart
14 Feb 2006
4:00pm
"The ISM as a Probe of Galaxy Evolution"
Speaker: Marco Spaans, Kapteyn Astronomical Institute
Host: J-P Macquart
17 Feb 2006
11:00am
"Galaxy Clustering Properties at z=1: Results From the DEEP2 Survey"
Speaker: Alison Coil, U. Arizona
Host: Miller Goss
24 Feb 2006
11:00am
"A Radiation Transfer Tool to Analyze Star Formation Data"
Speaker: Barbara Whitney, Space Science Institute
Host: Debra Shepherd
28 Feb 2006
4:00pm
"Damped Lyman Alpha Systems: Neutral Gas Reservoirs for Star Formation at High Redshift"
Speaker: Art Wolfe, UCSD
Host: Nissim Kanekar
03 Mar 2006
11:00am
"Gamma-Ray Burst Physics in the Swift Era"
Speaker: Bing Zhang, UNLV
Host: Dale Frail
10 Mar 2006
11:00am
"Searching Between the Galaxies: Missing Baryons in the Intergalactic Medium"
Speaker: Mike Shull, University of Colorado
Host: Dale Frail
17 Mar 2006
11:00am
No Colloquium
SKA Meeting: March 14-17
24 Mar 2006
11:00am
"Chemistry in Protoplanetary Disks Similar to the Pre-Solar Nebula"
Speaker: Andrew Markwick-Kemper, University of Virginia
Host: Vincent Fish
31 Mar 2006
11:00am
"Eclipses and Orbital Modulation in Binary Pulsar PSR J0737-3039A/B"
Speaker: Maxim Lyutikov, University of British Columbia
Host: J-P Macquart
07 Apr 2006
11:00am
"Water, Water, Everywhere, but Nary a Drop to Drink: Submillimeter Studies of the Venus Atmosphere"
Speaker: Mark A. Gurwell, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Host: Bryan Butler
14 Apr 2006
11:00am
"Recent Progress on Seyfert Galaxies: Examining the Role of Star Formation and the AGN"
Speaker: Stefi Baum, Rochester Institute of Technology
Host: Joan Wrobel
21 Apr 2006
11:00am
"Simulations of Galaxy Formation in the Reionization Epoch"
Speaker: Romeel Dave, University of Arizona
Host: Chris Carilli
28 Apr 2006
11:00am
"Detailed Tracing of Population Flow in Astrophysical Masers"
Speaker: Malcolm Gray, UMIST
Host: Vincent Fish
05 May 2006
11:00am
"The Space Distribution of High-Luminosity AGNs and Friends"
Speaker: Jasper Wall, University of British Columbia
Host: Miller Goss
16 May 2006
4:00pm
"Peeking in Ancient Holes and Seeking the Holy Grail"
Speaker: Amber Miller, Columbia University
Host: Michael Rupen
19 May 2006
11:00am
"Double Exponential Disks and Star Formation in Dwarf Galaxies"
Speaker: Deidre Hunter, Lowell Observatory
Host: Miller Goss
26 May 2006
11:00am
"Populations of Candidate AGN at Redshift 6 - 7 or Above"
Speaker: Anton Koekemoer, STScI
Host: Jim Ulvestad
30 May 2006
4:00 pm
CANCELLED
Speaker: Ger de Bruyn, Kapteyn Astronomical Institute
Host: Jean-Pierre Macquart

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