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.

01 Jan 2025
Noon MT

New Year's Day 🎆

08 Jan 2025
Noon MT

Open science discussion

15 Jan 2025
Noon MT
Bo Huang (Spanish National Research Council): B-field Orion Protostellar Survey: Magnetized Clustered Star Formation in Orion
22 Jan 2025
Noon MT
No talk scheduled
[Thurs] 30 Jan 2025
Noon MT
Kathryn Plant (JPL): Cosmic rays at the extreme limits of Milky Way particle accelerators
05 Feb 2025
Noon MT
No talk scheduled
12 Feb 2025
Noon MT
Julian Ruestig (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München): Strong Lensing Gets Charming: A Bayesian Implementation with Nifty Tools
[Thurs] 20 Feb 2025
Noon MT
Mark Gorski (Northwestern/CIERA): Into the Unfathomable Depths Shrouding Sgr A*
26 Feb 2025
Noon MT
Justin Mathewson (ASU): Low Noise Amplifiers for Radio Astronomy Using Commercial Transistors
05 Mar 2025
Noon MT
Maria Clara Siviero (Brazilian Center of Research in Physics): The Universality of the Dark Matter Density Profile for Milky Way Analog Galaxies
12 Mar 2025
Noon MT
Rescheduled
19 Mar 2025
Noon MT
Arunima Dutta (MPIA): The exotic pulsars in the globular cluster NGC 1851
26 Mar 2025
Noon MT
Dale Frail (NRAO): A Radio Loud Quiescent K Dwarf
02 Apr 2025
Noon MT
Joana Kramer (LANL): The jet multiverse: Bridging the gap between observations and simulations
09 Apr 2025
Noon MT
John McKean (University of Groningen): Testing models for dark matter with extremely high angular resolution imaging of galaxy-scale gravitational lenses
[Mon] 14 Apr 2025
Noon MT
Allison Costa (NRAO): An Early Look at the Telescope Time Allocation Tools: Software Suite for Proposal Submission and Review
23 Apr 2025
Noon MT
Evan Sheldal (NRAO): Exploring Compact Symmetric Objects Using VLBA and Fermi-LAT
30 Apr 2025
Noon MT
Alejandro Olvera (ASU): Breaking the Gradient: Chemical and Kinematic Transitions in the XUV Disk of NGC 3344
07 May 2025
Noon MT
Sabrina Berger (University of Melbourne): How biased are JWST high-z quasar host galaxy detections?
14 May 2025
Noon MT
No talk scheduled
21 May 2025
Noon MT
NRAO Postdoc Symposium
28 May 2025
Noon MT
Kierra Weatherhead (U. Calgary): Connecting the Small-Scale Magnetic Field and Galactic Structure with THOR and THOR-GC
04 Jun 2025
Noon MT
Tim Dolch (Hillsdale): Cyclic Spectroscopy, Low-Frequency Pulsar Observations, and Interstellar Medium Bonus Science
11 Jun 2025
Noon MT
Katherine Elder (ASU): Investigating and modeling mutual coupling in phased arrays
18 Jun 2025
Noon MT
No talk scheduled
25 Jun 2025
Noon MT
Nithyanandan Thyagarajan (CSIRO) & Chris Carilli (NRAO): New methods of optical interferometry for micron-scale light source characterization and wavefront sensing
02 Jul 2025
Noon MT
No talk scheduled
09 Jul 2025
Noon MT
No talk scheduled
16 Jul 2025
Noon MT
Sebastiano von Fellenberg (MPIfR): Infrared Observations of the Galactic Center
23 Jul 2025
Noon MT
No talk scheduled
30 Jul 2025
Noon MT
Summer student talks #1
06 Aug 2025
Noon MT
Summer student talks #2
13 Aug 2025
Noon MT
Teresa Toscano (IAA): Helical magnetic field structure in 3C 273. A Faraday rotation analysis using multi-frequency polarimetric VLBA data
20 Aug 2025
Noon MT
No talk scheduled
27 Aug 2025
Noon MT
No talk scheduled
03 Sep 2025
Noon MT
No talk scheduled
10 Sep 2025
Noon MT
No talk scheduled
17 Sep 2025
Noon MT
Hendrik Muller (NRAO): Overview of newest EHT results 
24 Sep 2025
Noon MT

Doubleheader:

Brian Kirk (NRAO): Using the Open Science Grid for High Throughput Computing

Dale Frail (NRAO): Status Update on the SKA Project

01 Oct 2025
Noon MT
Auditorium booked
08 Oct 2025
Noon MT
Auditorium booked
15 Oct 2025
Noon MT
No talk scheduled
22 Oct 2025
Noon MT
No talk scheduled
29 Oct 2025
Noon MT
No talk scheduled
05 Nov 2025
Noon MT
No talk scheduled
12 Nov 2025
Noon MT
No talk scheduled
19 Nov 2025
Noon MT
John Tobin (NRAO): Protostellar Multiplicity within 500 pc:   Shedding Light on the Formation Mechanisms



What’s New in the VLA Pipeline - 2025 edition
26 Nov 2025
Noon MT
No talk scheduled
03 Dec 2025
Noon MT
No talk scheduled
10 Dec 2025
Noon MT
Thomas Do (MSU): TBD
17 Dec 2025
Noon MT
No talk scheduled
24 Dec 2025
Noon MT

Christmas Eve 🎄

31 Dec 2025
Noon MT

New Year's Eve 🎆

 

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