Socorro Wednesday Lunch Schedule - 2025
Wednesday Lunch is an 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 Dillon Dong (username ddong) 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 otherwise indicated. All are welcome.
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01 Jan 2025
Noon MT
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New Year's Day 🎆 |
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08 Jan 2025
Noon MT
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Open science discussion |
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15 Jan 2025
Noon MT
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Bo Huang (Spanish National Research Council): B-field Orion Protostellar Survey: Magnetized Clustered Star Formation in Orion |
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22 Jan 2025
Noon MT
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No talk scheduled |
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[Thurs] 30 Jan 2025
Noon MT
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Kathryn Plant (JPL): Cosmic rays at the extreme limits of Milky Way particle accelerators |
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05 Feb 2025
Noon MT
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No talk scheduled |
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12 Feb 2025
Noon MT
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Julian Ruestig (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München): Strong Lensing Gets Charming: A Bayesian Implementation with Nifty Tools |
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[Thurs] 20 Feb 2025
Noon MT
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Mark Gorski (Northwestern/CIERA): Into the Unfathomable Depths Shrouding Sgr A* |
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26 Feb 2025
Noon MT
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Justin Mathewson (ASU): Low Noise Amplifiers for Radio Astronomy Using Commercial Transistors |
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05 Mar 2025
Noon MT
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Maria Clara Siviero (Brazilian Center of Research in Physics): The Universality of the Dark Matter Density Profile for Milky Way Analog Galaxies |
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12 Mar 2025
Noon MT
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Rescheduled |
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19 Mar 2025
Noon MT
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Arunima Dutta (MPIA): The exotic pulsars in the globular cluster NGC 1851 |
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26 Mar 2025
Noon MT
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Dale Frail (NRAO): A Radio Loud Quiescent K Dwarf |
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02 Apr 2025
Noon MT
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Joana Kramer (LANL): The jet multiverse: Bridging the gap between observations and simulations |
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09 Apr 2025
Noon MT
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John McKean (University of Groningen): Testing models for dark matter with extremely high angular resolution imaging of galaxy-scale gravitational lenses |
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[Mon] 14 Apr 2025
Noon MT
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Allison Costa (NRAO): An Early Look at the Telescope Time Allocation Tools: Software Suite for Proposal Submission and Review |
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23 Apr 2025
Noon MT
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Evan Sheldal (NRAO): Exploring Compact Symmetric Objects Using VLBA and Fermi-LAT |
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30 Apr 2025
Noon MT
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Alejandro Olvera (ASU): Breaking the Gradient: Chemical and Kinematic Transitions in the XUV Disk of NGC 3344 |
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07 May 2025
Noon MT
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Sabrina Berger (University of Melbourne): How biased are JWST high-z quasar host galaxy detections? |
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14 May 2025
Noon MT
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No talk scheduled |
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21 May 2025
Noon MT
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NRAO Postdoc Symposium |
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28 May 2025
Noon MT
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Kierra Weatherhead (U. Calgary): Connecting the Small-Scale Magnetic Field and Galactic Structure with THOR and THOR-GC |
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04 Jun 2025
Noon MT
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Tim Dolch (Hillsdale): Cyclic Spectroscopy, Low-Frequency Pulsar Observations, and Interstellar Medium Bonus Science |
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11 Jun 2025
Noon MT
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Katherine Elder (ASU): Investigating and modeling mutual coupling in phased arrays |
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18 Jun 2025
Noon MT
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No talk scheduled |
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25 Jun 2025
Noon MT
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Nithyanandan Thyagarajan (CSIRO) & Chris Carilli (NRAO): New methods of optical interferometry for micron-scale light source characterization and wavefront sensing |
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02 Jul 2025
Noon MT
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No talk scheduled |
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09 Jul 2025
Noon MT
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No talk scheduled |
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16 Jul 2025
Noon MT
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Sebastiano von Fellenberg (MPIfR): Infrared Observations of the Galactic Center |
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23 Jul 2025
Noon MT
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No talk scheduled |
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30 Jul 2025
Noon MT
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Summer student talks #1 |
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06 Aug 2025
Noon MT
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Summer student talks #2 |
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13 Aug 2025
Noon MT
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Teresa Toscano (IAA): Helical magnetic field structure in 3C 273. A Faraday rotation analysis using multi-frequency polarimetric VLBA data |
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20 Aug 2025
Noon MT
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No talk scheduled |
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27 Aug 2025
Noon MT
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No talk scheduled |
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03 Sep 2025
Noon MT
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No talk scheduled |
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10 Sep 2025
Noon MT
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No talk scheduled |
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17 Sep 2025
Noon MT
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Hendrik Muller (NRAO): Overview of newest EHT results |
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24 Sep 2025
Noon MT
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Doubleheader: Brian Kirk (NRAO): Using the Open Science Grid for High Throughput Computing Dale Frail (NRAO): Status Update on the SKA Project |
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01 Oct 2025
Noon MT
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Auditorium booked |
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08 Oct 2025
Noon MT
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Auditorium booked |
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15 Oct 2025
Noon MT
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No talk scheduled |
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22 Oct 2025
Noon MT
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No talk scheduled |
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29 Oct 2025
Noon MT
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No talk scheduled |
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05 Nov 2025
Noon MT
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No talk scheduled |
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12 Nov 2025
Noon MT
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No talk scheduled |
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19 Nov 2025
Noon MT
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John Tobin (NRAO): Protostellar Multiplicity within 500 pc: Shedding Light on the Formation Mechanisms & What’s New in the VLA Pipeline - 2025 edition |
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26 Nov 2025
Noon MT
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No talk scheduled |
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03 Dec 2025
Noon MT
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No talk scheduled |
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10 Dec 2025
Noon MT
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Thomas Do (MSU): TBD |
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17 Dec 2025
Noon MT
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No talk scheduled |
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24 Dec 2025
Noon MT
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Christmas Eve 🎄 |
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31 Dec 2025
Noon MT
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New Year's Eve 🎆 |
Wednesday Lunch schedules from previous years
Other Astrophysics Colloquia
- NRAO Socorro Colloquia
- NRAO Charlottesville Colloquia
- NRAO Charlottesville Lunch Seminar (TUNA)
- NRAO Green Bank Colloquia
- NMT Physics Dept. Colloquia (Socorro, NM)
- UNM Physics & Astronomy Dept. Colloquia (Albuquerque, NM)
- NMSU Astronomy Dept. Colloquia (Las Cruces, NM)

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