Socorro Colloquium Schedule - Spring 2016
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 2016
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Friday
22 Jan 2016
11:00 MT |
Opportunities to Advance visualization capabilities for ALMA Data Cubes through Toplogical Data Analysis Speaker: Paul Rosen (U Utah) Host: Jeff Kern |
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Friday
29 Jan 2016
11:00 MT |
E-field Parallel Imaging Correlator: An Ultra-efficient Architecture for Modern Radio Interferometers Speaker: Nithyanandan Thyagarajan (ASU) Host: Sanjay Bhatnagar |
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Friday
5 Feb 2016
11:00 MT |
Cold Gas and the Evolution of Early-Type Galaxies Speaker: Lisa Young (NMT) Host: Gustaaf van Moorsel |
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Friday
12 Feb 2016
11:00 MT |
Discussion of Dish Antenna Mechanical Designs in consideration of NGVLA needs Speaker: Matt Fleming Host: Steven Durand |
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Friday
19 Feb 2016
11:00 MT |
Planetary Radio Interferometry and Doppler Experiments (PRIDE): a multidisciplinary enhancement of space science missions Speaker: Dimitry Duev (Caltech) Host: Paul Demorest |
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Friday
26 Feb 2016
11:00 MT |
Compact binaries in globular clusters Speaker: Tom Maccarone (Texas Tech University) Host: Gustaaf van Moorsel |
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Friday
4 Mar 2016
11:00 MT |
The Exploits of Aging Stars as Revealed by Radio Wavelength Observations Speaker: Lynn Matthews (MIT/Haystack) Host: Mark Claussen |
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Monday
7 Mar 2016
2:00 MT
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Special Colloquium The I/O stack in High Performance Computing |
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Friday
11 Mar 2016
11:00 MT | Data reduction workshop - no colloquium |
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Friday
18 Mar 2016
11:00 MT | Data reduction workshop - no colloquium |
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Friday
25 Mar 2016
11:00 MT | Spring Holiday - no colloquium |
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Friday
1 Apr 2016
11:00 MT |
Radio Polarimetry and Cosmic Magnetism Speaker: Bryan Gaensler (Dunlap Institute/U Toronto) Host: Mark McKinnon |
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Friday
8 Apr 2016
11:00 MT |
A Zoo of Tidal Disruption Flares Speaker: Brian Metzger (Columbia U) Host: Amy Mioduszewski |
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Friday
15 Apr 2016
11:00 MT |
NRAO Observations of the First Submillimeter Galaxy and the Status of ARGUS on the GBT Speaker: David Frayer (NRAO GB) Host: Amy Kimball |
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Friday
22 Apr 2016
11:00 MT |
Studying the Biggest Objects in the Universe Undergoing the Biggest Collisions in the Universe with the World's Biggest (moveable) Telescope Speaker: Mark Devlin (U Penn) Host: Steve Myers |
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Friday
29 Apr 2016
11:00 MT |
AGN Triggering in Galaxy Mergers as Traced by Dual AGN and Offset AGN Speaker: Julie Comerford (U Boulder) Host: Sarah Burke-Spolaor |
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Friday
6 May 2016
11:00 MT |
How to Make Massive Stars Speaker: Qizhou Zhang (CfA) Host: Vivianna Rosero |
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Friday
13 May 2016
11:00 MT |
The Intricate Role of Cold Gas and Dust in Galaxy Evolution at Early Cosmic Epochs Speaker: Dominik Riechers (Cornell) Host: Chris Carilli |
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Friday
20 May 2016
11:00 MT |
The Milky Way as a Laboratory for Galaxy Evolution Speaker: Naomi McClure-Griffiths (ANU) Host: Juergen Ott |
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Friday
27 May 2016
11:00 MT |
RFI mitigation for array radio telescopes: solutions and limitations Speaker: Gregory Hellbourg (CSIRO) Host: Rick Perley |
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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 & Sarah Burke-Spolaor. 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)
