Socorro Colloquium Schedule - Spring 2017
NRAO Socorro Friday Colloquium Schedule - Spring 2017
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 2017
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Friday
6 Jan 2017
11:00 MT |
Importance of Centrifugal Barrier in Physics and Chemistry of Disk Formation Speaker: Nami Sakai (Riken) Host: Claire Chandler |
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Friday
13 Jan 2017
11:00 MT |
Resolving High Energy Universe Using Strong Gravitational Lensing Speaker: Anna Barnacka (CfA) Host: Walter Brisken |
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Friday
20 Jan 2017
11:00 MT |
Digital Instrumentation: Projects at OVRO and the DSN Speaker: Jonathon Kocz (Caltech) Host: Frank Schinzel |
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Friday
27 Jan 2017
11:00 MT |
The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) Speaker: Keith Vanderlinde (Dunlap) Host: Paul Demorest |
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Friday
3 Feb 2017
11:00 MT |
Daniel K. Inouve Solar Telescope: Science Goals & Project Status Speaker: Joseph McMullin (NSO) Host: Dale Frail |
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Friday
10 Feb 2017
11:00 MT |
The Gould's Belt Distances Survey (GOBELINS) Speaker: Laurent Loinard (UNAM) Host: Amy Mioduszewski |
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Friday
17 Feb 2017
11:00 MT |
Modern Radio Continuum Surveys and Data Processing Challenges Speaker: Ian Heywood (CSIRO) Host: Amy Kimball |
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Friday
24 Feb 2017
11:00 MT |
Observations of Solar System Bodies with the VLA and ALMA Speaker: Bryan Butler (NRAO) Host: Emmanuel Momjian |
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Friday
3 Mar 2017
11:00 MT |
Remote sensing of disturbances within the ionosphere and plasmasphere with the Very Large Array Speaker: Joseph Helmboldt (NRL) Host: Frank Schinzel |
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Friday
10 Mar 2017
11:00 MT |
The Physical Properties of Massive Dense Clumps in Different Evolutionary Stages in the Milky Way Speaker: Yancy Shirley (UA) Host: Mark Gorski |
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Friday
17 Mar 2017
11:00 MT |
Searching for New Pulsars for the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves Speaker: Kevin Stovall (NRAO) Host: Miller Goss |
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Friday
24 Mar 2017
11:00 MT |
What Drives Star Formation in the Most Luminous galaxies in the Universe Speaker: Jeyhan Kartaltepe (RIT) Host :Juergen Ott |
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Friday
31 Mar 2017
11:00 MT |
SOFIA's eye is watching the Galactic Center Speaker: Miguel Requena Torres (UMD) Host: Adam Ginsburg |
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Thursday
6 Apr 2017
14:00 MT |
Special Colloquium (AOC Room 317) Using MWA GLEAM to unravel the nature of the low-frequency radio source population Speaker: Thomas Franzen (Curtin/ICRAR) Host: Bryan Butler |
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Friday
7 Apr 2017
11:00 MT |
Exploring the low surface brightness sky with the Dragonfly Telephoto Array Speaker: Pieter van Dokkum (Yale) Host:Lorant Sjouwerman |
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Wednesday
12 Apr 2017
14:00 MT |
Special Colloquium Science with the New-Generation Radio Surveys: AGN, star formation and the evolution of galaxies Speaker: Anna Kapinska (UWA/ICRAR) Host: Emmanuel Momjian |
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Thursday
13 Apr 2017
15:00 MT |
Special Colloquium The Evolutionary Map of the Universe Speaker: Josh Marvil (CSIRO) Host: Bryan Butler |
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Friday
14 Apr 2017
11:00 MT | spring holiday - no colloquium |
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Friday
21 Apr 2017
11:00 MT |
Lessons Learned from the former LSST Data Management Project Manager (What I wish I had done better....) Speaker: Jeff Kantor (LSST) Host: Rob Selina |
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Friday
28 Apr 2017
11:00 MT |
Investigating the early formation and evolution of planetary systems with sub-mm and radio interferometers Speaker: Luca Ricci (Rice) Host: Claire Chandler |
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Friday
5 May 2017
11:00 MT |
A Non-inflationary Signature in CMB Anisotropies Speaker: Fulvio Melia (UA) Host: Steve Myers |
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Friday
12 May 2017
11:00 MT |
no colloquium |
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Friday
19 May 2017
11:00 MT |
Rethinking the Fundamentals of Classical Nova Explosions |
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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 Dale Frail & Frank Schinzel. 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)
