NRAO AOC Colloquium Series: Spring 2009

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 2009

January 16,2009
11:00 AM
"Planetary Systems in the Stellar Graveyard"
Speaker: Dean Hines
Host: Jean Eilek
January 23,2009
11:00 AM
"Resolving the Highest Redshift Quasars: The Power of VLBI "
Speaker: Emmanuel Momjian
Host: Jeff Wagg
January 30,2009
11:00 AM
"VLBI astrometry in the Southern Hemisphere with the LBA"
Speaker: Adam Deller
Host: Jon Romney
February 6,2009
11:00 AM
"The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array: A New View of the High Energy Sky"
Speaker: Fiona Harrison
Host: Dale Frail
February 13,2009
11:00 AM
"High redshift ULIRGs with Spitzer and WISE, and future prospects with Herschel, ALMA, EVLA and JWST"
Speaker: Carol Londsdale
Host: Frazer Owen
February 20,2009
11:00 AM
"Cosmic Noise: The Early Years of Radio Astronomy"
Speaker: W. T. Sullivan
Host: Miller Goss
February 27,2009
11:00 AM
"Submillimeter Galaxies at High and Low Redshifts"
Speaker: Wei Hao Wang
Host: Adam Deller
March 06,2009
11:00 AM
"NGC 2623 and the Great Observatories All-sky LIRG Survey"
Speaker: Aaron Evans
Host: Chris Carilli
March 13,2009
11:00 AM
"Massive Quiescent Galaxies in the Early Universe"
Speaker: Elizabeth McGrath
Host: Brigette Hesman
March 20,2009
11:00 AM
"A Multiwavelength Exploration of Galaxy Mass Distributions "
Speaker: Chris Fassnacht
Host: Kumar Golap
March 27,2009
11:00 AM
"Masers and Massive Star Formation: Results, Controversies, and Prospects"
Speaker: Esteban D. Araya
Host: Peter Hofner
April 3,2009
11:00 AM
"Applications of array signal processing to radio astronomy"
Speaker: Amir Leshem
Host: Sanjay Bhatnagar
April 17,2009
11:00 AM
"Extragalactic HI Surveys: Current Status and Future Prospects "
Speaker: Trish Henning
Host: Emmanuel Momjian
April 24,2009
11:00 AM
"Statistical Studies of Radio Quasars and Radio Galaxies using Large Surveys "
Speaker: Amy Kimball
Host: Aeree Chung
May 1,2009
11:00 AM
"The Dynamic Orion Nebula"
Speaker: Robert Odell
Host: Miller Goss
May 8,2009
11:00 AM
"The deep VLA survey in the SWIRE Lockman Hole: an optical perspective on faint radio populations"
Speaker: Veronica Strazzullo
Host: Frazer Owen
May 15,2009
11:00 AM
"Protoplanetary Disks at High Angular Resolution: Disk Structure, Evolution, and A Glimpse at the Planet Formation Process"
Speaker: Sean Andrews
Host: Claire Chandler
May 22,2009
11:00 AM
"Measuring the Biggest Stars: The Physical Properties of Red Supergiants "
Speaker: Philip Massey
Host: Michael Rupen
May 29,2009
11:00 AM
"Star Formation in W49A: A State of the Region Report"
Speaker: Chris De Pree
Host: Miller Goss
June 5,2009
11:00 AM
"Gas Chemistry as a Probe of Starburst Evolution in Galaxies "
Speaker: Dave Meier
Host: Joan Wrobel
June 26,2009
11:00 AM
"The GMRT: Results, upgrade, spinoffs"
Speaker: Rajaram Nityananda
Host: Sanjay Bhatnagar & Miller Goss

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, 19-Jun-2009 09:27:41 MDT by Stephan Witz