NRAO AOC Colloquium Series: Spring 2010


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 2010

January 22, 2010
11:00 AM
"Global Catastrophes"
Speaker: Mark Boslough
Host: Brigette Hesman
February 5, 2010
11:00 AM
"Old, red and dead galaxies in a lambda CDM Universe"
Speaker: Eric Bell
Host: Chris Carilli
February 12, 2010
11:00 AM
"Probing Black Hole Event Horizons with Millimeter VLBI"
Speaker: Vincent Fish
Host: Dave Meier
February 19, 2010
11:00 AM
"The Virtual Observatory in Transition"
Speaker: Doug Tody
Host: Brian Glendenning
February 26, 2010
11:00 AM
"Probing Exoplanet Atmospheres with Molecular Spectroscopy "
Speaker: Mark Swain
Host: Michelle Creech-Eakman
March 5, 2010
11:00 AM
"Cosmic Upsizing: How and when did the first massive galaxies form?"
Speaker: Peter Capak
Host: Joan Wrobel
March 12, 2010
11:00 AM
"Promoting Access, Retention and Interest in Astronomy Higher Education: Developing the STEM Professionals of Tomorrow in New Mexico"
Speaker: Nicole Vogt
Host: Emmanuel Momjian
March 26, 2010
11:00 AM
"The Lyman-alpha Glow of the High Redshift Intergalactic Medium"
Speaker: Juna Kollmeier
Host: Juergen Ott
April 9, 2010
11:00 AM
"Towards Reionization using Lyman Alpha Galaxies"
Speaker: James Rhoads
Host: Steve Myers
April 16, 2010
11:00 AM
"Submillimeter Astronomy: Looking to the Future "
Speaker: Jonas Zmuidzinas
Host: Robert Hayward
April 23, 2010
11:00 AM
"The ISM in Star-forming Galaxies at z~2-3: Surprising New Insights"
Speaker: Alice Shapley
Host: Maurilio Pannella
April 30, 2010
11:00 AM - 30 minutes
"First Rsults from VLBA Multifield Center Surveying: 600+ Targets in 4 Hours"
Speaker: Adam Deller
April 30, 2010
11:00 AM - 30 minutes
"Probing Jet Acceleration and Collimation in Stellar Mass Compact Objects"
Speaker: James Miller-Jones
May 7, 2010
11:00 AM
"Galaxy Build-up and Evolution at z>=7: Early results from ultra-deep WFC3/IR observations of the HUDF and ERS fields"
Speaker: Rychard Bouwens
Host: Chris Carilli
May 14, 2010
11:00 AM
"The THINGS and HERACLES View of Star Formation and the ISM in Nearby Galaxies"
Speaker: Adam Leroy
Host: Claire Chandler
May 21, 2010
11:00 AM
"Sedna and the Birth of the Solar System"
Speaker: Mike Brown
Host: Bryan Butler
May 28, 2010
11:00 AM
"Reaching for the sky with SDSS and LSST"
Speaker: Zeljko Ivezic
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.

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Other Astrophysics Colloquia in New Mexico

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Modified onMonday, 17-May-2010 13:00:28 MDT by Stephan Witz