Socorro Colloquium Schedule - Spring 2015
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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Spring 2015
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Friday
16 Jan 2015
11:00 MT |
Hidden Galaxies and Common Sense Speaker: Michael Disney (Cardiff) Host: Juergen Ott |
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Friday
23 Jan 2015
11:00 MT |
The Young and the Restless Stars Speaker: Lynne Hillenbrand (Caltech) Host: Steve Myers |
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Friday
30 Jan 2015
11:00 MT |
News from ASTRON Speaker: Michael Garrett (ASTRON/Leiden) Host: Joan Wrobel |
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Friday
6 Feb 2015
11:00 MT |
The discovery of Cosmic Microwave Background B-mode polarization Speaker: Brian Keating (UC San Diego) Host: Chris Carilli |
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Friday
13 Feb 2015
11:00 MT |
From protoplanetary disks to galaxy clusters: studying the role of magnetic fields in star formation across ~10 orders of magnitude Speaker: Chat Hull (NRAO/CfA) Host: Betsy Mills |
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Friday
20 Feb 2015
11:00 MT |
Exploring Mars with Curiosity Speaker: Roger Wiens (LANL) Host: Laura Perez |
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Friday
27 Feb 2015
11:00 MT |
The Environment of an Unusual Starless Galactic Center Molecular Cloud Speaker: Elizabeth Mills (NRAO) Host: Minnie Mao |
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Friday
6 Mar 2015
11:00 MT |
Jet Evolution in Active Galactic Nuclei Speaker: Matt Lister (Purdue) Host: Walter Max-Moerbeck |
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Friday
13 Mar 2015
11:00 MT |
Gemini Observatory - How a massive budget cut led to innovative ideas Speaker: Markus Kissler-Patig (Gemini) Host: Dale Frail |
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Friday
20 Mar 2015
11:00 MT |
The ASKAP PAF design Speaker: Ron Beresford (ATNF) Host: Steve Durand |
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Friday
27 Mar 2015
11:00 MT |
Radio loud and radio quiet quasars Speaker: Ken Kellermann (NRAO CV) Host: Rick Perley |
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Friday
3 Apr 2015
11:00 MT | Spring Holiday - no colloquium |
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Friday
10 Apr 2015
11:00 MT |
Physics of intracluster medium from high angular resolution X-ray studies Speaker: Maxim Markevitch (JSI) Host: Huib Intema |
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Monday
13 Apr 2015
14:00 MT |
Special Colloquium Delivering SKA Science |
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Friday
17 Apr 2015
11:00 MT |
Follow the chirp: seeing and listening to the transient universe Speaker: Samaya Nissanke (Radboud University Nijmegen) Host: Dale Frail |
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Friday
24 Apr 2015
11:00 MT |
Millisecond radio transients: a hot topic Speaker: Sarah Burke-Spolaor (NRAO-Soc) Host: Juergen Ott |
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Friday
1 May 2015
11:00 MT |
Revealing the gas-star formation connection over cosmic time Speaker: Jackie Hodge (NRAO CV) Host: Chris Carilli |
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Friday
8 May 2015
11:00 MT |
Title: ALMA Update and Science Speaker: John Hibbard (NRAO-CV) Host: Claire Chandler |
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Friday
15 May 2015
11:00 MT |
The AAS, Public Policy and you Speaker: Kevin Marvel (AAS) Host: Dale Frail |
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Friday
22 May 2015
11:00 MT |
Physical Models of Galaxy Formation in a Cosmological Framework: a Status Report Speaker: Rachel Somerville (Rutgers) Host: Emmanuel Momjian |
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Friday
29 May 2015
11:00 MT |
The Astronomy of Chaco Canyon: A Thousand Years of tradition Speaker: GB Cornucopia (NPS/Chaco Culture) Host:Miller Goss |
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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.
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)
