Astronomy Department and NRAO Joint Colloquia are held in the auditorium of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory on Edgemont Road. Usually colloquia are held on Thursdays at 4:00 PM. Coffee and cookies are served 15-20 min before the talks. The schedules for the Tuesday UVa-NRAO Astronomy (TUNA) talks and the NRAO colloquia can be found on the NRAO web site. The Center for Chemistry of the Universe talk schedule is available at the CCU site. All three series of talks are also listed below (as soon as we can update the information), as this site is an attempt to list all of the local NRAO and UVa Astronomy talks. Occasional colloquia and seminars of interest to astronomers that are sponsored by other departments are also listed here, as are other astronomy-related events in the Charlottesville area. Other goings-on around the Astronomy Department can be found on the main page. If you know of any astronomy-related events in the area, please let us know so that we may add them to this list. Other CalendarsThe Observatory Public Night Schedule and the ASTR 121/124 Lab Sign-Up System are maintained separately. For a listing of events elsewhere at the University, visit the UVa Events Calendar. The University Holiday Schedule is maintained by Human Resources. Academic Calendars are maintained by the College of Arts & Sciences and the University Registrar. |
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| Spring 2012 Calendar | |||
February |
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| Time | Event | Location | Details |
| 2nd (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Ultra-Faint Galaxies Around the Milky Way Marla Geha (Yale) Refreshments will be served at 3:45. |
| 3rd (Friday) 12:10-1pm |
FUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 230 | Probing the Age and Helium Abundance of the Galactic Bulge Stellar Population David Nataf (OSU) |
| 3rd (Friday) 7-9pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Please Note: Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 9th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Supernova Remnants Stay in Shape Laura Lopez (MIT) Refreshments will be served at 3:45. |
| 17th (Friday) 7-9pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Please Note: Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 21st (Tuesday) 12:10-1pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 230 | Dynamics in Dusty Rings: Magnetic Field Effects On Orbiting Dust Grains Daniel Jontof-Hutter (U. Maryland) |
| 23rd (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Ivy Road Auditorium |
Triggering of Feedback in Galaxy Cluster Cores Mark Voit (MSU) Refreshments will be served at 3:45. |
March |
just this month | ||
| Time | Event | Location | Details |
| 2nd (Friday) 7-9pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Please Note: Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 3rd (Saturday) 9am-6pm |
Conference: NRAO-NAASC 2012 Workshop Outflows, Winds and Jets: From Young Stars to Supermassive Black Holes | Omni Hotel, Charlottesville |  Event website
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| 4th (Sunday) 9am-5:30pm |
Conference: NRAO-NAASC 2012 Workshop Outflows, Winds and Jets: From Young Stars to Supermassive Black Holes | Omni Hotel, Charlottesville | Event website
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| 5th (Monday) 9am-6pm |
Conference: NRAO-NAASC 2012 Workshop Outflows, Winds and Jets: From Young Stars to Supermassive Black Holes | Omni Hotel, Charlottesville | Event website
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| 6th (Tuesday) 9am-5:30pm |
Conference: NRAO-NAASC 2012 Workshop Outflows, Winds and Jets: From Young Stars to Supermassive Black Holes | Omni Hotel, Charlottesville | Event website
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| 7th (Wednesday) 12:10-1pm |
WUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 230 | Outflows and Excitations in IR-luminous Galaxies and QSOs From Far-Infrared Observations Duncan Farrah (Sussex) |
| 8th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | SOFIA: Current Status and First Results Hans Zinnecker (USRA) Refreshments will be served at 3:45. |
| 9th (Friday) 12:10-1pm |
FUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO Auditorium | TBD Rick Perley (NRAO) |
| 15th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Cosmology On a Moving Mesh Lars Hernquist (Harvard) Refreshments will be served at 3:45. |
| 16th (Friday) 9-11pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Please Note: Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 22nd (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Relativistic Blazar Jets and the Gamma-Ray Sky Matt Lister (Purdue) Refreshments will be served at 3:45. |
| 29th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | The Structure of Circum-nuclear Starbursts Via VLT and Spitzer Bernhard Brandl (Leiden U.) Refreshments will be served at 3:45. |
April |
just this month | ||
| Time | Event | Location | Details |
| 5th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | TBA Qizhou Zhang (CfA) Refreshments will be served at 3:45. |
| 6th (Friday) 9-11pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Please Note: Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 12th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | TBA Suvrath Mahadevan (Penn State) Refreshments will be served at 3:45. |
| 13th (Friday) 7-11:45pm |
Public Night | Fan Mountain Observatory |
There are no more tickets available for this Public Night. The next Fan Public Night will be in April 2012. Please Note: Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 19th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | What Planets Are Teaching Us About Stars John Johnson (Caltech) Refreshments will be served at 3:45. |
| 20th (Friday) 9-11pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Please Note: Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 26th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | X-ray Observations of the Tycho SNR Kris Eriksen (Rutgers) Refreshments will be served at 3:45. |
May |
just this month | ||
| Time | Event | Location | Details |
| 3rd (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | The Radio/Gamma-ray Connection in Blazars and Radio Galaxies Chuck Dermer (NRL) Refreshments will be served at 3:45. |
| 4th (Friday) 9-11pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Please Note: Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 10th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | TBA Nick Scoville (Caltech) Refreshments will be served at 3:45. |
| 18th (Friday) 9-11pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Please Note: Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 24th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | TBA Kaitlin Kratter (CfA) Refreshments will be served at 3:45. |
| 31st (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Eddington, Ryle, and Hoyle: How a Major 20th Century Discovery Was Lost in Noise and Confusion Jasper Wall (U.C British Columbia) Refreshments will be served at 3:45. |
