NRAO AOC Colloquium Series: Fall 2011


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 2011

Friday 7 Oct 2011
11:00am MT
Testing the No Hair Theorem with the Black Hole in the Center of the Milky Way
Speaker: Dimitrios Psaltis (University of Arizona)
Host: Joan Wrobel
Friday 14 Oct 2011
11:00am MT
New Mexico Symposium 

Friday 21 Oct  2011
11:00am MT
Recent Results from the Megamaser Cosmology Project
Speaker: Jim Braatz  (NRAO/Charlottesville)
Host: Vivek Dhawan
Monday 24 Oct 2011
11:00am MT
GAMA: from little blue fuzzies to massive red monsters and beyond
Speaker: Sarah Brough   (AAO)
Host: Nuria Lorente
Friday 4 Nov 2011
11:00am MT
Optical Astrometry in the Next Decade
Speaker: David Monet (USNO Flagstaff Station)
Host: Amy Mioduszewski
Friday 11 Nov 2011
HOLIDAY -- no colloquium
Friday 18 Nov 2011
11:00am MT
"Black Hole Exhaust: An Environmental Impact Study of Microquasars"
Speaker: Sebastian Heinz (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Host: Michael Rupen
Friday 25 Nov 2011
HOLIDAY -- no colloquium
Friday 2 Dec 2011
11:00am MT
"The Transition from the Dark Ages to Reionization"
Speaker: Lincoln Greenhill  (CfA)
Host: Mark Claussen
Friday 9 Dec 2011
11:00am MT
"Warm H2 Emission in Compact Groups of Galaxies: A New insight into Group
Evolution to the Red Sequence"
Speaker: Philip Appleton (NASA Herschel Science Center, Caltech)
Host: Gustaaf Van Moorsel
Friday 16 Dec 2011
11:00am MT
"The role of magnetic fields in molecular clouds and star formation"
Speaker: Tom Troland (University of Kentucky)
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

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Other Astrophysics Colloquia in New Mexico

Colloquia at Other NRAO Sites


Modified onMonday, 30-Jul-2012 14:04:04 MDT by Stephan Witz