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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| Fall 1998 Calendar | |||
September |
just this month | ||
| Time | Event | Location | Details |
| 4th (Friday) 9-11pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 9th (Wednesday) 12:05-1:05pm |
WUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 314 | Sailing Through the Ages: From Square Sails To
Wing Sails V. Radhakrishnan (RRI) |
| 11th (Friday) 4-5pm |
Physics Colloquium | Physics, Room 204 | Locomotion: Dealing with Friction V. Radhakrishnan (RRI) |
| 15th (Tuesday) 12:05-1:05pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 314 | The Parsec-scale Environment of AGN As Probed By Faraday Rotation Measure and HI VLBA Observations
Greg Taylor (NRAO-Socorro) |
| 15th (Tuesday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
Star Formation in Normal and Starburst
Galaxies: The Mid-Infrared View Dr. Laurent Vigroux (CEA Saclay) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 17th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Noise and Interferometry V. Radhakrishnan (RRI) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 18th (Friday) 9-11pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 22nd (Tuesday) 12:05-1:05pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 314 | Tidal Dwarf Galaxies John Hibbard (NRAO) |
| 24th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | From Here To Eternity Bill Erickson (U. Maryland) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
October |
just this month | ||
| Time | Event | Location | Details |
| 2nd (Friday) 9-11pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 8th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Unveiling the Envelope and Disk: A Sub-Arcsecond Survey of Young Stellar Systems Leslie Looney (U. Maryland) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 13th (Tuesday) 12:05-1:05pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 314 | On the Axis Ratio of the Stellar Velocity Ellipsoid in Disk Galaxies Richard de Grijs (UVa) |
| 15th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Young Galaxies in the Nearby Universe: Properties of Extreme Late-type Spirals and the Extraordinary Spiral Galaxy UGC7321 Lynn Matthews (NRAO) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 16th (Friday) 7:30-11pm |
Public Night | Fan Mountain Observatory | PLEASE NOTE: There are no more tickets available for Fan Mountain Public Night. The next Fan Mountain Public Night will be in April; tickets will be available after March 1st. Fan Mountain Public Night PO Box 400325 Charlottesville, VA 22904-04325 Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 19th (Monday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
Hot and Cold Galaxies: Starbursts in Small
Disk Galaxies Dr. John Gallagher (U. Wisconsin) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 20th (Tuesday) 9am-4:30pm |
Third Annual NRAO-UVa Jansky Symposium | NRAO Auditorium | 15-minute talks by NRAO and UVa Astronomers |
| 20th (Tuesday) 8-9pm |
Jansky Prize Lecture | Gilmer Hall Auditorium | Radio Telescopes: Reaching for the Astronomical Frontiers Bernie Burke (MIT) |
| 27th (Tuesday) 12:05-1:05pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 314 | The Evolution of Radio Sources From Complete Samples Katherine Blundell (Oxford) |
| 27th (Tuesday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
Extrasolar Planets Dr. Alan Boss (Carnegie Inst.) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 29th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Black Holes and Galaxies David Merritt (Rutgers) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
November |
just this month | ||
| Time | Event | Location | Details |
| 3rd (Tuesday) 12:05-1:05pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 314 | The Star Formation History of the Universe:
the Promise of the Radio Window Eric Richards (UVa & NRAO) |
| 3rd (Tuesday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
Short Period Extrasolar Planets and Tidal Interaction Dr. Caroline Terquem (UCO/Lick) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 4th (Wednesday) 2-3pm |
Physics Colloquium | Physics, Room 204 | Gravitational Tides in Protostellar Disks Dr. Caroline Terquem (UCO/Lick) |
| 5th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | SPECS John Mather (NASA/GSFC) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 6th (Friday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | A Barred Spiral at the Centre of Centaurus A Felix Mirabel (CEA Saclay & IAFE) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 6th (Friday) 8-10pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 10th (Tuesday) 12:05-1:05pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 314 | HCN/CN Morphology in Comet Hale-Bopp Laura Woodney (U. Maryland) |
| 12th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Estimating the Accretion Rate in NGC 4258 Jim Herrnstein (NRAO) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 17th (Tuesday) 12:05-1:05pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 314 | The Origin of the X-ray Cluster
Luminosity-Temperature Relationship Paul Ricker (UVa) |
| 17th (Tuesday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
Scientific Opportunities with the Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF) Dr. Michael Werner (JPL) |
| 19th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | The Faint End of the Tully-Fisher Relation Jeroen Stil (Leiden U.) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 20th (Friday) 8-10pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 24th (Tuesday) 12:05-1:05pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 314 | An Update On the Next Generation Space Telescope and Its Science Massimo Stiavelli (STScI) |
| 24th (Tuesday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
Probing the Formation of Elliptical Galaxies Dr. Massimo Stiavelli (STScI) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
December |
just this month | ||
| Time | Event | Location | Details |
| 1st (Tuesday) 12:05-1:05pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 314 | Diffuse Light in Clusters of Galaxies Juan Uson (NRAO) |
| 4th (Friday) 8-10pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 8th (Tuesday) 12:05-1:05pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 314 | New Photometry and Old Astrometry for the Leo II DSph Mike Siegel (UVa) Results From an Orbital Pole Analysis of the Milky Way Satellite System |
| 8th (Tuesday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
Globular Cluster Orbits and Halo Substructure Dr. Dana Dinescu (UVa) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 10th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Where Are the Obscuring Disks in Active Galaxies? Jack Gallimore (NRAO) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 15th (Tuesday) 12:05-1:05pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 314 | Optical Testing of the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) Primary Mirrors and Predicted On-Orbit Performance
Ray Ohl (UVa & Hopkins) |
| 18th (Friday) 8-10pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 29th (Tuesday) 12:05-1:05pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 314 | FIRST Bent-Double Radio Sources As Tracers of Galaxy Clusters Liz Blanton (Columbia) |


