NRAO AOC Colloquium Series: Spring 2008

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 2008

18 Jan 2008
11:00am
"Lightning in Thunderstorms and Erupting Volcanoes, Measurements of the LMA and an unforeseen Sea-Surface Interferometer"
Speaker: Ron Thomas, New Mexico Tech
Host: Peter Hofner
25 Jan 2008
11:00am
"Saturn's Stratospheric Acetylene and Ethane
Emission"

Speaker: Brigette Hesman, NRAO
Host: Bryan Butler
01 Feb 2008
11:00am
"The Next Generation Global Geodetic Network"
Speaker: John LaBrecque, NASA Headquarters
Host: Craig Walker
08 Feb 2008
11:00am
"The SKA Science and Technical Goals, Organization, & Plans"
Speaker: Ken Kellermann, NRAO
Host: Rick Perley
15 Feb 2008
11:00am
"Wide-Field Radio Transient Surveys"
Speaker: Geoff Bower, University of California, Berkeley
Host: Jon Romney
22 Feb 2008
11:00am
"Black Holes of All Masses: Understanding the Fundamental Correlations"
Speaker: Karl Gebhardt, University of Texas
Host: Miller Goss
29 Feb 2008
11:00am
"Glimpses of Star-Forming Gas in the Early Universe "
Speaker: Paul Vanden Bout, NRAO
Host: Bob Dickman
07 Mar 2008
11:00am
"Measuring the Milky Way with the VLBA"
Speaker: Mark Reid, CfA
Host: Mark Claussen
14 Mar 2008
11:00am
"Probing the Baryonic Content of Galaxy Groups"
Speaker: Eric Wilcots, University of Wisconsin
Host: Michael Rupen
21Mar 2008
11:00am
NRAO holiday, no colloquium

28 Mar 2008
11:00am
"(Sub)Millimeter Studies of Protoplanetary Disks"
Speaker: David Wilner, CfA
Host: Debra Shepherd
04 Apr 2008
11:00am
"On the origin of OH megamasers "
Speaker: Ylva Pihlstrom, UNM
Host: Amy Mioduszewski
07 Apr 2008
11:00am
"Cosmology from the Stratosphere"
Speaker: Barth Netterfield, Toronto
Host: Steve Myers
18 Apr 2008
11:00am
"HI Cosmology in the Local Universe with ALFALFA"
Speaker: Martha Haynes, Cornell
Host: Dale Frail
25 Apr 2008
11:00am
"Detecting Gravitational Radiation with a Pulsar Timing Array "
Speaker: Paul Demorest, NRAO
Host: TBD
02 May 2008
11:00am
"Galactic jet sources at the highest and lowest resolutions"
Speaker: James Miller-Jones, NRAO
Host: Nissim Kanekar
09 May 2008
11:00am
"Galaxy Evolution and Mechanical Energy "
Speaker: Frazer Owen, NRAO
Host: Chris Carilli
16 May 2008
11:00am
"The Evolution of Galaxies in Different Environments"
Speaker: Jacqueline van Gorkom, Columbia
Host: Emmanuel Momjian
23 May 2008
11:00am
"SiO Masers in AGB Stars Revisted "
Speaker: Malcolm Gray, University of Manchester & NRAO Socorro
Host: Vivek Dhwan

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 onFriday, 26-Sep-2008 11:48:36 MDT by Claire Chandler