Socorro Colloquium Schedule - Spring 2012

NRAO Socorro Friday Colloquium Schedule - Spring 2012

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.

Spring 2012

Friday
20 Jan 2012
11:00 MT
Lyman Alpha and Galaxy Formation: An Observer's Perspective
Speaker: Arjun Dey (NOAO)
Host: Juergen Ott
Friday
27 Jan 2012
11:00 MT
Molecular gas and star formation in early-type galaxies
Speaker: Martin Bureau University of Oxford
Host: Lisa Young
Friday
3 Feb 2012
11:00 MT
Exploring the structure and composition of Io's atmosphere with(sub)mm observations
Speaker: Arielle Moullet (NRAO)
Host: Bryan Butler
Friday
10 Feb 2012
11:00 MT
New Approaches in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Speaker: Seth Shostak (SETI Institute)
Host: Dale Frail
Friday
17 Feb 2012
11:00 MT
Cosmic Rays in Star-Forming Galaxies: Understanding Jansky's Cosmic Noise
Speaker: Brian Lacki (Ohio State)
Host: Walter Brisken
Friday
24 Feb 2012
11:00 MT
Data Reduction Workshop - no colloquium
Friday
2 Mar 2012
11:00 MT
Formation of Star Clusters
Speaker: Bruce G. Elmegreen IBM T. J. Watson
Host: Stuartt Corder
Friday
9 Mar 2012
11:00 MT
The VLA as a Millisecond Transient Survey Machine
Speaker: Casey Law University of California at Berkeley
Host: Michael Rupen
Friday
16 Mar 2012
11:00 MT
Spring Break - no colloquium
Friday
23 Mar 2012
11:00 MT
Star Fomation Rates in Nearby Molecular Clouds and the Nature of the Extragalactic Scaling Relations
Speaker: Charles J. Lada CfA
Host: Claire Chandler
Friday
30 Mar 2012
11:00 MT
The Milky Way as a Grand Design Spiral
Speaker: Thomas Dame CfA
Host: Andreas Brunthaler
Friday
6 Apr 2012
11:00 MT
NRAO Holiday - no colloquium
Friday
13 Apr 2012
11:00 MT
Exploring the Universe with WISE
Speaker: Edward Wright UCLA
Host: David Meier
Friday
20 Apr 2012
11:00 MT
The Mass of White Dwarfs in Interacting Binaries
Speaker: Koji Mukai NASA
Host: Michael Rupen
Friday
27 Apr 2012
11:00 MT
The Fate of Ionizing Radiation from Massive Stars in Star-Forming Galaxies
Speaker: Sally Oey (Michigan)
Host:Crystal Anderson
Friday
4 May 2012
11:00 MT
Superluminous Supernovae
Speaker: Roger Chevalier University of Virginia
Host: Amy Mioduszewski
Friday
11 May 2012
11:00 MT
Observational Evidence for Shearing Spiral Patterns in Galaxies
Speaker: Jason Speights NMT
Host: Dave Westpfahl
Friday
18 May 2012
11:00 MT
A 64 Element Phased Focal Plane Array for 70-95 GHz
Speaker: Neal Erickson
Host: Bob Hayward
Friday
25 May 2012
11:00 MT
A Cloud-Scale View on Molecular Gas and Star Formation in a Grand-Design Spiral Galaxy
Speaker: Eva Schinnerer (MPIA)
Host: Juergen Ott

Monday
11
June 2012
14:00 MT

Special Colloquium

There is more room sideways
Speaker: Shri Kulkarni (Caltech)
Host: Dale Frail

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