Socorro Colloquium Schedule - Fall 2014

NRAO Socorro Friday Colloquium Schedule - Fall 2014

Colloquia are held in the auditorium of the Domenici Science Operations Center (DSOC) 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.

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Fall 2014

Friday
12 Sep 2014
11:00 MT
 The Role of Dwarf-Dwarf Interactions in Hierarchical Assembly
Speaker: Sabrina Stierwalt (UVa)
Host: Miller Goss
Friday
19 Sep 2014
11:00 MT
 Toward a New Understanding of Molecular Gas in Galaxies
Speaker: Jason Glenn (Colo., Boulder)
Host: Bryan Butler
Friday
26 Sep 2014
11:00 MT
 ABC's of Supermassive Black Holes: Accretion, Binaries, and Coevolution
Speaker: Kayhan Gültekin (Univ. of Michigan)
Host: Minnie Mao
Friday
3 Oct 2014
11:00 MT		 Protoplanetary disks and the dawn of planets
Speaker: Leonardo Testi (ESO)
Host: Laura Perez
Friday
10 Oct 2014
11:00 MT
 Exploring the Variable Sky:  The Palomar Transient Factory and the Future Zwicky Transient Facility
Speaker: Thomas Prince (Caltech)
Host: Walter Max-Moerbeck
Friday
17 Oct 2014
BOT meeting - no colloquium
Friday
24 Oct 2014
 Data Reduction workshop - no colloquium
Friday
31 Oct 2014
 Data Reduction workshop - no colloquium
Friday
7 Nov 2014
11:00 MT
NM Symposium/Jansky Lecture - no colloquium
Friday
14 Nov 2014
11:00 MT
 The Double Pulsar:  A Decade of Surprises
Speaker: Maura McLaughlin (WVU)
Host: Paul Demorest
Friday
21 Nov 2014
11:00 MT
 Multi-Wavelength Observations of Mixed-Morphology Galactic Supernova Remnants
Speaker: Thomas Pannuti (Morehead State University)
Host: Miller Goss
Friday
28 Nov 2013
 Thanksgiving - no colloquium
Friday
5 Dec 2014
11:00 MT
 Star Formation in the Orion Region
Speaker: Thomas Wilson (NRL)
Host: Claire Chandler
Friday
12 Dec 2014
11:00 MT
 Rescheduled

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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 & Huib Intema. We are always on the lookout for suggestions for future speakers.

 

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