Socorro Colloquium Schedule - Fall 2017
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 2017
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Friday
01 Sep 2017
11:00 MT
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The history of the development of Aperture Synthesis in radio astronomy. Speaker: Ron Ekers (CSIRO) Host: Miller Goss |
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Monday
11 Sep 2017
14:00 MT |
Special Colloquium The Evolution of Molecular Gas and Star Formation from z~3 to the Present and an Update from the NOEMA Upgrade [NOTE SPECIAL DATE AND TIME] Speaker: Linda Tacconi (Max Planck Institute) Host: Frank Schinzel |
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Friday
15 Sep 2017
11:00 MT |
Interstellar PAHs: A Combined Laboratory, Radio Astronomical and Modeling Study |
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Friday
22 Sep 2017
11:00 MT |
Finding the Large Reservoirs of Gas Around Galaxies Speaker: Nicolas Lehner (Notre Dame) Host: Dale Frail |
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Friday
29 Sep 2017
11:00 MT |
Cataclysmic Variable Stars: A new class of radio transient Speaker: Deanne Coppejans (Northwestern) Host: Amy Mioduszewski |
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Friday
6 Oct 2017
11:00 MT |
Observations of the central parsec of the Milky Way with NuSTAR and Chandra Speaker: Chuck Hailey (Columbia) Host: Chris Carilli |
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Friday
13 Oct 2017
11:00 MT |
The Resolved Radio Continuum vs. Star Formation Rate in Nearby Dwarf Galaxies Speaker: Luke Hindson (University of Hertfordshire) Host: C. Walker |
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Friday
20 Oct 2017
11:00 MT |
Data Reduction Workshop - no colloquium |
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Friday
27 Oct 2017
11:00 MT |
Data Reduction Workshop - no colloquium |
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Friday
3 Nov 2017
11:00 MT |
33rd NM Symposium Special Speaker: Ruth Howes (Ball State) at 11:00 MT |
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Friday
10 Nov 2017
11:00 MT | Veteran's Day - no colloqium |
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Friday
17 Nov 2017
11:00 MT |
A Modern View of Quasars Speaker: Gordon Richards (Drexel) Host: Amy Kimball |
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Friday
24 Nov 2017
11:00 MT | Thanksgiving - no colloquium |
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Friday
1 Dec 2017
11:00 MT |
New Results on the Galactic Bulge: A Complex Stellar Population Speaker: Mike Rich (UCLA) Host: Mark Claussen |
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Friday
8 Dec 2017
11:00 MT |
New Horizons: Exploration of the Pluto System and the Kuiper Belt Speaker: Alan Stern (SWRI) Host: Bryan Butler |
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Friday
15 Dec 2017
11:00 MT |
Giants all over: The Ubiquity of Mpc-scale Radio Galaxies Speaker: Heinz Andernach (Universidad de Guanajuato) Host:Amy Kimball |
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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 Frank Schinzel & Dale A. Frail. We are always on the lookout for suggestions for future speakers.
Colloquia from Previous Years
Other Astrophysics Colloquia
- NMT Physics Dept. Colloquium Series (Socorro, NM)
- UNM Physics & Astronomy Dept. Colloquium Series (Albuquerque, NM)
- NMSU Astronomy Dept. Colloquium Series (Las Cruces, NM)
- National Solar Observatory Colloquia (Sunspot, NM)
