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NRAO Socorro Friday Colloquium Schedule - Fall 2012

Colloquia are held in the auditorium of the Domenici Science Operations Center in Socorro, New Mexico. All are welcome, but the talks generally assume a good grounding in research astronomy.

Colloquium talks are usually scheduled for 11am local time on Fridays; those which are not are indicated in green.

Fall 2012

 

 

Friday
14 Sep 2012
11:00 MT
Modes of Mass-loss in Microquasars
Speaker: Katherine Blundell (Oxford)
Host: Amy Mioduszewski
Friday
21 Sep 2012
11:00 MT
Servicing Mission 4 and the Extraordinary Science of the Hubble Space Telescope
Speaker: Jennifer Wiseman (NASA)
Host: Debra Shepherd
Friday
28 Sep 2012
11:00 MT
Feedback Processes in Rapid Star-Forming Galaxies
Speaker: Todd Thompson (Ohio State)
Host: Minnie Mao
Friday
5 Oct 2012
11:00 MT
software training - no colloquium
Friday
12 Oct 2012
11:00 MT
Advances in Digital Technology (with application to radio astronomy)
Speaker: David Hawkins (Caltech/OVRO)
Host: Steve Durand
Friday
19 Oct 2012
11:00 MT
Dynamics of Stellar Jets Revealed Through Phase Space
Speaker: Patrick Hartigan (Rice University)
Host: Huib Intema
Friday
26 Oct 2012
11:00 MT
Steps to the Reionization Epoch
Speaker: Ravi Subrahmanyan (NRAO/RRI)
Host: Rick Perley
Friday
2 Nov 2012
11:00 MT
The Co-Evolution of Galaxies and Black Holes: A Local Perspective
Speaker: Tim Heckman (John Hopkins University)
Host: Chris Carilli
Friday
9 Nov 2012
11:00 MT
Stellar Feedback and the Ecology of the Galactic ISM
Speaker: John Bally (Colorado at Boulder)
Host: Miller Goss
Friday
16 Nov 2012
11:00 MT
Probing planet formation through millimeter-wave observations
Speaker:
Andrea Isella (Caltech)
Host: Claire Chandler
Friday
23 Nov 2012
11:00 MT
NRAO Holiday - no colloquium
Thursday
29 Nov 2012
14:00 MT
The Giant Molecular Clouds in the Magellanic Clouds
Speaker: Yasuo Fukui (Nagoya University)
Host: Juergen Ott
Friday
30 Nov 2012
11:00 MT

New Mexico Symposium - Jansky Lecture

colloquium a day earlier, Thursday 29th

Friday
7 Dec 2012
11:00 MT
Extragalactic Dust Mass Determinations in the Optical and Infrared: Dust Emissivity Variations
Speaker: Karl Gordon (STScI)
Host: Crystal Anderson
Friday
14 Dec 2012
11:00 MT
A New Probe of Dark Matter in Galaxies
Speaker: Sukanya Chakrabarti (Florida Atlantic University)
Host: Ravi Subrahmanyan

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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, currently Juergen Ott & Michael Rupen. We are always on the lookout for suggestions for future speakers.

 

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