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
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Friday
20 Jan 2012
11:00 MT |
Lyman Alpha and Galaxy Formation: An Observer's Perspective Speaker: Arjun Dey (NOAO) Host: Juergen Ott |
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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 |
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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 |
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Friday
10 Feb 2012
11:00 MT |
New Approaches in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Speaker: Seth Shostak (SETI Institute) Host: Dale Frail |
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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 |
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Friday
24 Feb 2012
11:00 MT | Data Reduction Workshop - no colloquium |
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Friday
2 Mar 2012
11:00 MT |
Formation of Star Clusters Speaker: Bruce G. Elmegreen IBM T. J. Watson Host: Stuartt Corder |
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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 |
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Friday
16 Mar 2012
11:00 MT | Spring Break - no colloquium |
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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 |
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Friday
30 Mar 2012
11:00 MT |
The Milky Way as a Grand Design Spiral Speaker: Thomas Dame CfA Host: Andreas Brunthaler |
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Friday
6 Apr 2012
11:00 MT | NRAO Holiday - no colloquium |
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Friday
13 Apr 2012
11:00 MT |
Exploring the Universe with WISE Speaker: Edward Wright UCLA Host: David Meier |
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Friday
20 Apr 2012
11:00 MT |
The Mass of White Dwarfs in Interacting Binaries Speaker: Koji Mukai NASA Host: Michael Rupen |
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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 |
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Friday
4 May 2012
11:00 MT |
Superluminous Supernovae Speaker: Roger Chevalier University of Virginia Host: Amy Mioduszewski |
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Friday
11 May 2012
11:00 MT |
Observational Evidence for Shearing Spiral Patterns in Galaxies Speaker: Jason Speights NMT Host: Dave Westpfahl |
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Friday
18 May 2012
11:00 MT |
A 64 Element Phased Focal Plane Array for 70-95 GHz Speaker: Neal Erickson Host: Bob Hayward |
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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 |
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Monday
11
June 2012
14:00 MT |
Special Colloquium There is more room sideways |
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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.
Colloquia from Previous Years
Other Astrophysics Colloquia in New Mexico
- NMT Physics Dept. Colloquium Series (Socorro, NM)
- NMSU Astronomy Dept. Colloquium Series (Las Cruces, NM)
- UNM Physics & Astronomy Dept. Colloquium Series (Albuquerque, NM)
- National Solar Observatory Colloquia (Sunspot, NM)
