Socorro Wednesday Lunch Schedule - 2017

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 Adam Ginsburg (username aginsbur) 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.

 

4 Jan 2017
Noon MT

No lunch seminar (AAS Meeting)

11 Jan 2017
Noon MT

Joanna Rankin (University of Vermont): Observing the plasma-physical processes of pulsar radio emission

18 Jan 2017
Noon MT

Eric Murphy (NRAO): 10 GHz observations of GOODS North

Russ Taylor (University of Cape Town): MeerKAT: What's happening in South Africa?

25 Jan 2017
Noon MT

No lunch seminar

1 Feb 2017
Noon MT

 Preshanth Jagannathan (NRAO): TBD

8 Feb 2017
Noon MT

No lunch seminar

15 Feb 2017
Noon MT

Jason Kooi (NRL): Radio Remote Sensing of Magnetic Fields in Coronal Mass Ejections

Ian Heywood (CSIRO): ASKAP update

22 Feb 2017
Noon MT

Tracy Clarke (NRL): TBD

Hiroko Shinnaga (Kagoshima University): Magnetic field generated by the extreme oxygen-rich red supergiant

1 Mar 2017
Noon MT

 Melodie Kao (CalTech): Testing Magnetic Dynamo Models with Brown Dwarf Radio Aurorae

8 Mar 2017
Noon MT

 Tim Bastian (NRAO): Solar Observing with ALMA

15 Mar 2017
Noon MT

 Chat Hull (CfA): Unveiling the role of the magnetic field at the smallest scales of star formation

22 Mar 2017
Noon MT

 

29 Mar 2017
Noon MT

 Minnie Mao (Manchester): Spiral DRAGNs, Green Cones, and a quick P-band RSRO Update

5 Apr 2017
Noon MT

 Jackie Villadsen (NRAO): Stellar Radio Bursts and the search for Coronal Mass Ejections

12 Apr 2017
Noon MT

 Juergen Ott (NRAO): The ISM in Extreme Environments

19 Apr 2017
Noon MT

(in room 317 instead of the auditorium, and on Tuesday instead of Wednesday)

 Erik Rosolowsky (U. Alberta): TBD

* NO WEDNESDAY LUNCH TALK *

 

26 Apr 2017
Noon MT

 Adam Ginsburg (NRAO): An intro to astropy

3 May 2017
Noon MT

 Philip Engelke (Johns Hopkins): The Structure of "Dark" Gas in Star-Forming Regions: OH as an Alternate Molecular Tracer

 Dale Frail (NRAO): An update on MEERKAT

10 May 2017
Noon MT

 Claire Chandler (NRAO): Update on the VLASS

17 May 2017
Noon MT

 Paul Demorest (NRAO): An update on REALFAST & FRBs

24 May 2017
Noon MT

 Nithyanandan Thyagarajan (ASU): Expanding Science Frontiers at Low Frequencies

31 May 2017
Noon MT

 Chris Carilli (NRAO): Update on HERA

7 Jun 2017
Noon MT

 Rick Perley (NRAO): Cygnus A

14 Jun 2017
Noon MT

 

21 Jun 2017
Noon MT
No Lunch Seminar 
28 Jun 2017
Noon MT

No Lunch Seminar - NGVLA meeting

5 Jul 2017
Noon MT

 

12 Jul 2017
Noon MT

 Summer Student Talk

Nikhil Naik: A joint deconvolution algorithm to combine single dish and interferometer data for wideband (multi-term) imaging.

19 Jul 2017
Noon MT
Discussion

 

26 Jul 2017
Noon MT

 Summer Student Talk - Brian Eisner: Surveying Radio Line Spectra of Nearby Galaxies

2 Aug 2017
Noon MT

 Dave Roberts (Brandeis): What Are 'X-Shaped' Radio Galaxies Telling Us?

 Tom Troland (University of Kentucky): The Role of Magnetic Fields in Diffuse and Molecular Clouds:  Zeeman Effect Observations 

4 Aug 2017 FRIDAY
11 am MT

 *Special Friday session*

Summer Student Talks:

Tiffany Christian
Michael Lambert
Terry Melo
Virginie Montes

9 Aug 2017
Noon MT

David Nice (Lafayette): A NANOGrav Grab-bag

Summer Student Talks - Amber Moore & Steven Stetzler

16 Aug 2017
Noon MT

 Huib Intema (Leiden): An update on the 150 MHz GMRT sky survey (TGSS)

Summer Student Talk - Sydney Anderson, Ajay Gill

23 Aug 2017
Noon MT

Eclipse - No Seminar 

30 Aug 2017
Noon MT

 Dale Frail (NRAO Socorro): Fracking for Pulsars

6 Sep 2017
Noon MT

 Fanyi Meng (U. Köln): The Newly Discovered Ionized Gas in the Envelope of Sagittarius B2

 Carlos Roman-Zuniga (UNAM): Young and Restless? Investigating kinematics of young stars with SDSS APOGEE-2

13 Sep 2017
Noon MT

No Lunch Seminar - All-Hands Meeting

20 Sep 2017
Noon MT

Dana Simard (U. Toronto): Predictive Modelling of Pulsar Scintillation

27 Sep 2017
Noon MT

Luke Hindson (U. Hertfordshire): The GaLactic and Extragalactic All-sky MWA Survey

4 Oct 2017
Noon MT

No Lunch Seminar 

11 Oct 2017
Noon MT

 Mark Gorski (UNM): Thesis

18 Oct 2017
Noon MT

 HERA meeting

25 Oct 2017
Noon MT

 No lunch talk - Data Reduction Workshop

31 Oct 2017
Noon MT

 Marko Krco (NAOC): FAST status, plans, commensality, and the upcoming CRAFT survey

1 Nov 2017
Noon MT

 No lunch talk - Wellness Clinic

8 Nov 2017
Noon MT

 Megan Johnson (USNO): Understanding the Jet Structure in CHANG-ES Galaxies

 Lucas Hunt (USNO): Observing Neutral Hydrogen Beyond z=0.2 with the Green Bank Telescope and the Very Large Array

 Nicole Geiger (USNO): Mismatched AGN: Uncovering the nature of theOptical-Radio Misalignment

 Christopher Dieck (USNO): Uncovering AGN in Dwarf Galaxies with Nuclear Radio Emission

15 Nov 2017
Noon MT

 Phil Diamond (SKA)

20 Nov 2017 (Monday)
Noon MT

 Shri Kulkarni (CalTech): The Zwicky Transient Facility Opens Its Eyes

22 Nov 2017
Noon MT

Thanksgiving.  All pizza will be turkey.

29 Nov 2017
Noon MT

 Kevin Stovall (NRAO): A relativistic binary pulsar

 Mike Rich (UCLA): The Halos and Environments of Nearby Galaxies survey

6 Dec 2017
Noon MT

 Sanjay Bhatnagar (NRAO)The Pointing Selfcal algorithm

 Natalie Butterfield (U. Iowa / NRAO): Kinematics in a Galactic Center cloud

13 Dec 2017
Noon MT

 Heinz Andernach (U. Guanajuato):  Galactic Stars with Double Radio Lobes: A New Species or Chance Alignments ?

20 Dec 2017
Noon MT

 Maybe winter break?

27 Dec 2017
Noon MT

 Winter break

 

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