Socorro Colloquium Schedule - Spring 2014

Socorro Friday Colloquium Schedule - Spring 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.

Spring 2014

Friday 17 Jan 2014	NM Symposium / Jansky Lecture - no colloquium
Friday 24 Jan 2014 11:00 MT	Breaking Cosmic Dawn: Studying z~7 Galaxies with Cluster Lenses as Comic Telescopes Speaker: Marusa Bradac (University of Calif., Davis) Host: Chris Carilli
Friday 31 Jan 2014 11:00 MT	Powerful Atomic and Molecular Galactic Winds and Their Cosmological Implications Speaker: Sylvain Veilleux (University of Maryland) Host: Claire Chandler
Friday 7 Feb 2014 11:00 MT	Maser Emission in the Galaxy and M31: Proper Motion, Maser Host Properties, and Magnetic Fields Speaker: Nikta Amiri (University of Colorado) Host: Mark Claussen
Friday 14 Feb 2014 11:00 MT	The Lifecycle of carbon dust in our Galaxy: From molecular clouds to planetary nebulae Speaker: Paolo Pilleri (LANL) Host: Betsy Mills
Friday 21 Feb 2014 11:00 MT	Dispersion measures from continuous sources? Speaker: Christopher Hirata (Caltech) Host: Walter Max-Moerbeck/Chris Hales
Tue 25 Feb 2014 14:00 MT	Special Colloquium Mega-maser Cosmology Project: Ho, M-σ relationship and Accretion Disk Speaker: Fred Lo (NRAO-CV) Host: Mark Claussen
Friday 28 Feb 2014 11:00 MT	To Build an Elliptical Galaxy Speaker: Jenny Greene (Princeton) Host: Joan Wrobel
Friday 7 Mar 2014 11:00 MT	Star Formation, Black Holes, and Feedback in Galaxy Formation Speaker: Philip Hopkins (Caltech) Host: Minnie Mao
Friday 14 Mar 2014 11:00 MT	A Sampling of Exoplanet Results from the Kepler Mission Speaker: William Borucki (NASA) Host: Laura Perez
Friday 21 Mar 2014 11:00 MT	Catastrophic Disruption of Comets Speaker: Michal Drahus (Caltech) Host: Miller Goss
Friday 28 Mar 2014	Simulations of black hole accretion and jets Speaker: Alexander Tchekhovskoy (Berkeley) Host: Craig Walker
Friday 4 Apr 2014 11:00 MT	*A gas cloud on its way toward the Galactic Center black hole Sgr A? Speaker: Stefan Gillessen** (MPE) Host: Juergen Ott
Friday 11 Apr 2014 11:00 MT	The Connection between Star Formation and the Cold Interstellar Medium in Nearby Galaxies Speaker: Karin Sandstrom (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy) Host: Emmanuel Momjian
Friday 18 Apr 2014 11:00 MT	NRAO spring holiday - no colloquium
Friday 25 Apr 2014 11:00 MT	Visiting Committee - no colloquium
Tue 29 Apr 2014 14:00 MT	Special Colloquium Multi-Face Unity Speaker: Leonid Matveyenko (Institute for Space Research, Moscow) Host: Leonia Kogan
Friday 2 May 2014 11:00 MT	The Voyager Journey to Interstellar Space Speaker: Edward Stone (Caltech) Host: Walter Brisken
Friday 9 May 2014 11:00 MT	Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flashes, Lightning, and Radio Signals Speaker: Valerie Connaughton (NASA) Host: Dale Frail
Friday 16 May 2014 11:00 MT	NRAO Synthesis Imaging workshop - no colloquium
Friday 23 May 2014 11:00 MT	Building HERA from PAPERclips and Supercomputers Speaker: Aaron Parsons (Berkeley) Host: Rick Perley
Friday 30 May 2014 11:00 MT	Broadband Components for the Q-band receiver Speaker: Sivasankaran Srikanth (NRAO) Host: Steve Durand
Thursday 26 June 2014 14:00 MT	Special Colloquium SKA: The future of radio astronomy has begun... Speaker: Phil Diamond (SKA) Host: Tony Beasley

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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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