Socorro Wednesday Lunch Schedule - 2016

Wednesday Lunch is a rather informal lunchtime get-together with pizza to hear visitors' results as well as what staff are doing. If you or one of your visitors would like to speak at Wednesday Lunch, please contact Chris Hales (username chales) at username@nrao.edu.

Wednesday Lunch is held in the auditorium of the Domenici Science Operations Center (DSOC) in Socorro, New Mexico from noon until 1:00 PM unless indicated in green. All are welcome.

 

6 Jan 2016
Noon MT

No lunch seminar (AAS Meeting)

13 Jan 2016 
Noon MT

Eileen Meyer (UMBC): Solving the X-ray origin mystery in large-scale quasar jets with VLA, HST, Fermi, and Chandra

20 Jan 2016
Noon MT

Dario Carbone (U. Amsterdam): Exploring the transient sky: From surveys to simulations

Harish Vedanthan (Caltech): Fast radio bursts population statistics

27 Jan 2016
Noon MT

Amy Lovell (Agnes Scott): Thermal emission from asteroids

Nithyanandan Thyagarajan (ASU): Wide-field measurements of EoR power spectrum and implications for instrument design

3 Feb 2016
Noon MT
Steven Durand & Rick Perley (NRAO): Ongoing activities at the VLA
10 Feb 2016
Noon MT

No lunch seminar

17 Feb 2016
Noon MT

Erik Rosolowsky (U. Alberta): (i) Cleaning up the mysteries of star formation with ammonia, (ii) The Cube Analysis and Rendering Tool for Astronomy (CARTA)

Preshanth Jagannathan (UCT/NRAO): Adventures in deep imaging

24 Feb 2016
Noon MT

Dillon Dong (IoA Cambridge): Updates from the Star Formation in Radio Survey (SFRS)

2 Mar 2016
Noon MT

No lunch seminar

9 Mar 2016
Noon MT

Mark Kettenis (JIVE): The SFXC software correlator

16 Mar 2016
Noon MT

No lunch seminar (VLA Data Reduction Workshop)

23 Mar 2016
Noon MT

Brian Svoboda (Steward Observatory): The formation and evolution of protoclusters in the Milky Way

Lisa Locke (NRC Herzberg): NRC CryoPAF4: A cryogenic phased array feed for radio astronomy

30 Mar 2016
Noon MT

Virginie Montes (NMT): The role of clustering in high-mass star formation: A multiwavelength approach

Nimesh Patel (CfA): The Submillimeter Array: Some recent science highlights, and technical upgrades

6 Apr 2016
Noon MT

Walter Brisken (NRAO): The Long Baseline Observatory (LBO)

13 Apr 2016
Noon MT

Lisa Young (NMT): Molecular and PDR gas in nearby galaxies (mostly spirals)

Christopher Hales (NRAO): Interplanetary and ionospheric scintillation

20 Apr 2016
Noon MT

Casey Law (Berkeley): The technology behind realfast

27 Apr 2016
Noon MT

John Cannon (Macalester College): Harvesting ALFALFA: Highlights from VLA follow-up observations

Kathleen Fitzgibbon (Macalester College): The LARS/eLARS HI campaign

4 May 2016
Noon MT

No lunch seminar

11 May 2016
Noon MT

Jayce Dowell (UNM): The sky according to the Long Wavelength Array

18 May 2016
Noon MT
No lunch seminar
25 May 2016
Noon MT

Laura Vega Garcia (MPIfR): Multiband RadioAstron observations of the jet in the quasar 0836+710

Walter Brisken (NRAO): A quick update on LBO

1 Jun 2016
Noon MT

No lunch seminar (Synthesis Imaging Workshop)

8 Jun 2016
Noon MT

No lunch seminar (Synthesis Imaging Workshop)

15 Jun 2016
Noon MT

NRAO Summer Students: Introductions

Anna Ho (Caltech): The Cannon: Data-driven spectral modeling in the era of large stellar surveys

22 Jun 2016
Noon MT

No lunch seminar

29 Jun 2016
Noon MT

Miller Goss (NRAO): Ruby Payne-Scott: the first woman radio astronomer, 1944. Her struggle for equality

6 Jul 2016
Noon MT

Mladen Novak (U. Zagreb): The VLA-COSMOS 3 GHz Large Project: The cosmic star-formation history since z~5

13 Jul 2016
Noon MT

No lunch seminar

20 Jul 2016
Noon MT

Divya Oberoi (NCRA-TIFR): Looking at the Sun with the Murchison Widefield Array

Anuj Sarma (DePaul): Zeeman effects - thermal lines, non thermal lines, and all that jazz

27 Jul 2016
Noon MT

Joe Simon (UW-Mil): Gravitational wave multi-messenger prospects for pulsar timing arrays

NRAO Summer Student Talks:

Karthik Garimella (Hendrix College): Automated approach to RFI flagging

Thu 28 Jul 2016
10-11:30 MT

NRAO NINE Program Participant Talks:

Anya Raj (U. Washington, NAC participant): Utilizing project management methodology in building a decametric radio telescope

Linnea Saby (Piedmont Virginia CC, NINE Lead, NAC Site Coordinator): Adding interferometer restoration and upgrade: Application of project management and lessons learned

Gcobisa Fadana (SKA Cape Town): The Importance of a project management office in an organization

Al Amin Kabir (Hampton U.): Designing a course plan using project management knowledge

Rosalynn Daka (SKA Johannesburg): Finding my north star: From building a Radio Jove to realizing a plan for a visitor's center experience

3 Aug 2016
Noon MT

NRAO Summer Student Talks:

Deven Bhakta (TTU): Steep spectrum pulsar candidates near Sgr A*

Jaquelin Erazo (CUNY Hunter, NAC participant): Calculating the flux density decay of Cas A with LWA

Anna Schonwald (Earlham): Studying atmospheric dynamics on Uranus

10 Aug 2016
Noon MT

NRAO Summer Student Talks:

Amy Cavanaugh (West Chester U.): VLASS test and pilot observations

Bridget Andersen (UVA): Realfast: FRB localization with the VLA

17 Aug 2016
Noon MT

NRAO Summer Student Talks:

Kelsey Lund (UCSD, NAC participant): Probing magnetized turbulence in the Fermi bubbles

Bruno Martins (UNISUL, UVA): Automated tuning of RFI identification and flagging

Justin Potvin (DePaul): Zeeman observations of 36 GHz class I methanol masers toward the Galactic center

Isaiah Santistevan (UNM): Analysis of infrared SEDs for giant branch stars

Fri 19 Aug 2016
11-noon MT

Jackie Champagne-Bradli (UT Austin): Molecular gas content of dusty star-forming galaxies in a z=2.47 starbursting protocluster

Ray Furuya (Tokushima U.): BISTRO (B-fields In STar forming Region Observations): A JCMT Large Program with the POL-2 and SCUBA-2 system

24 Aug 2016
Noon MT

Nico Krieger (MPIA): Molecular clouds in the Galactic center - First results from the Survey of Water and Ammonia in the Galactic center (SWAG)

31 Aug 2016
Noon MT

No lunch seminar

7 Sep 2016
Noon MT

Steven Durand (NRAO): Update on FAST

Robert Fugate (Breakthrough Starshot): Breakthrough Starshot: Technology challenge for the 21st century

Thu 8 Sep 2016
11-noon MT

Antonio Chrysostomou (SKAO): Overview of the Square Kilometre Array telescope

14 Sep 2016
Noon MT

No lunch seminar

21 Sep 2016
Noon MT

No lunch seminar

28 Sep 2016
Noon MT

Megan DeCesar (Lafayette College): Timing a highly eccentric binary millisecond pulsar in a globular cluster

Jan Forbrich (U. Vienna, CfA): Extreme radio variability of X-ray sources in the Orion Nebula Cluster

5 Oct 2016
Noon MT

Robert Laing (ESO): Relativistic flow on 100-kpc scales: Jansky VLA observations and modelling of jets in radio galaxies

Hiroko Shinnaga (Kagoshima U.): Innermost envelope of a peculiar red supergiant: Views with the VLA, SMA and ALMA part I

12 Oct 2016
Noon MT

No lunch seminar (CALIM 2016 Workshop)

19 Oct 2016
Noon MT

No lunch seminar (RFI 2016 Workshop)

26 Oct 2016
Noon MT

Claire Murray (UW-Mad): 21-SPONGE and artificial intelligence team up to decode the neutral ISM

Laura Shishkovsky (MSU): A radio continuum search for black holes in the Milky Way globular cluster M10

2 Nov 2016
Noon MT

No lunch seminar

9 Nov 2016
Noon MT

Dale Frail (NRAO): The GMRT Sky Survey - Early science results from the TGSS ADR1 (bring your laptop!)

16 Nov 2016
Noon MT

Alison Crocker (Reed College): Neutral carbon emission from galaxies: Which ISM phase do the [CI] lines trace?

23 Nov 2016
Noon MT

No lunch seminar

30 Nov 2016
Noon MT

No lunch seminar

7 Dec 2016
Noon MT

Edward Ajhar (NSF): Meet the NSF Program Officer for the LBO

14 Dec 2016
Noon MT

Anna Kapinska (UWA): The lives and power of radio galaxies

Walter Brisken (LBO): VLBA/LBO update

21 Dec 2016
Noon MT

No lunch seminar

28 Dec 2016
Noon MT

No lunch seminar

 

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