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 1999 Calendar | |||
September |
just this month | ||
| Time | Event | Location | Details |
| 2nd (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Box- And Peanut-Shaped Bulges Ralf-Juergen Dettmar (Ruhr-University) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 3rd (Friday) 9-11pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 7th (Tuesday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
The Atacama Large Millimeter Array: Imaging
Cosmic Dawn Dr. Al Wootten (NRAO) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 14th (Tuesday) 12:15-1pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 314 | N Body Simulations of the Antennae Chris Powers (NRAO) |
| 14th (Tuesday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
Future Directions in Simulations of Core Collapse Supernovae Dr. Anthony Mezzacappa (Oak Ridge) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 16th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Globular Cluster Systems of Early Type Galaxies: New Insights From an HST Study of 60 Galaxies Dr. Arunav Kundu (UVa) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 17th (Friday) 9-11pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 21st (Tuesday) 12:15-1pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 314 | Chemistry of Simple Molecules of the CNO Families Valery Shematovich (Russian Acad. Sci.) |
| 21st (Tuesday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
Soft Gamma-Ray Repeaters: Recent Developments Dr. Christopher Thompson (UNC) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 23rd (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | The Size, Mass and Shape of the Milky Way Dr. Rob Olling (Rutgers) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 25th (Saturday) 3-5pm |
Astronomy Department Open House | Astronomy Building | See our gallery of astronomical pictures and chat with faculty, staff, and graduate students about astronomy. Event website |
| 25th (Saturday) 7-9pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 28th (Tuesday) 12:15-1pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 314 | Report On the Millenium Morphology Conference (Johannesburg, South Africa) Michele Thornley (NRAO) |
| 28th (Tuesday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
Strong Gravity and Ultradense Matter:
Implications of Kilohertz Brightness Oscillations Dr. Coleman Miller (U. Maryland) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 30th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | High-Velocity Clouds: Tidal Debris Or Baby Galaxies? Mary Putnam (Mt. Stromlo) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
October |
just this month | ||
| Time | Event | Location | Details |
| 1st (Friday) 3-4pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
The Lowell 4-m Telescope Project Dr. Robert Millis (Lowell Obs.) Coffee will be served at 2:45. |
| 1st (Friday) 9-11pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 5th (Tuesday) 12:15-1pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 314 | Molecular Gas in the "Interaction Zone": The Disk-Disk Overlap Region Yu Gao (IPAC) |
| 5th (Tuesday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
X-Rays From TeV Electrons in Supernova Remnant Shocks Dr. Robert Petre (NASA/GSFC) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 8th (Friday) 4-5pm |
Physics Colloquium | Physics, Room 204 | Brane World: Large Extra Dimensions and Low Scale Gravity Henry Tye (Cornell) |
| 12th (Tuesday) 11am-noon |
Other Colloquium | NRAO Ivy Road Conference Room |
NANTEN 4-m Radio Telescope and the Southern CO Survey at Nagoya University Prof. Akira Mizuno (Nagoya U.) |
| 12th (Tuesday) 12:15-1pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 314 | Outflow Evolution in Low-Mass Young Stellar Objects Jeff Mangum (NRAO-Tucson) |
| 13th (Wednesday) 12:15-1pm |
WUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 314 | Discrete Backgrounds in Radio, Sub-mm, and X-ray: The Inverse-Compton Connection Eric Richards (ASU) |
| 15th (Friday) 11am-noon |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Starbursts: A Cosmological Perspective Dr. Tim Heckman (Hopkins) Coffee will be served at 10:45. |
| 15th (Friday) 4-5pm |
Physics Colloquium | Physics, Room 204 | Neutrinos Have Mass! Vernon Barger (U. Wisconsin) |
| 15th (Friday) 7-11pm |
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 (Tuesday) 12:15-1pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 314 | Cold Clouds & Hot Stars in the Thick Disks of Spiral Galaxies J. Chris Howk (Hopkins) |
| 19th (Tuesday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
Time Reversal Violation: New Results From the KTeV Experiment and Their Consequences Dr. Brad Cox (UVa Physics) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 21st (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Evolved Super Star Clusters in M82 Dr. Richard de Grijs (UVa) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 22nd (Friday) 11am-noon |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Radio-Targeted Submillimeter Observations of Distant Ultraluminous Galaxies Amy Barger (IfA) Coffee will be served at 10:45. |
| 22nd (Friday) 12:15-1pm |
FUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 314 | Massive Star Formation in Early-type (Sa-Sab) Spiral Galaxies Salman Hameed (N. M. State) |
| 26th (Tuesday) 9:10am-4:15pm |
Fourth Annual NRAO-UVa Jansky Symposium | NRAO Auditorium | A series of short talks by astronomers from the Charlottesville area on their fields of expertise. Event website |
| 26th (Tuesday) 8-9pm |
Jansky Prize Lecture | Charlottesville Performing Arts Center |
Progress in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Dr. Frank Drake (SETI Institute & U. C. Santa Cruz) |
| 28th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Faint Gigahertz Sources and the Giga-gigahertz Background Edward Moran (U. C. Berkeley) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
November |
just this month | ||
| Time | Event | Location | Details |
| 2nd (Tuesday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
The Dark Matter Content of Disk Galaxies Dr. Jerry Sellwood (Rutgers) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 4th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Satellites for Personal Communications John V. Evans (COMSAT Corp.) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 4th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Special Seminar, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Physics | Mechanical Engineering Building, Room 341 |
The Hidden Ocean of Europa Robert T. Pappalardo (Brown) refreshments at 3:30 in room 305 |
| 5th (Friday) 4-5pm |
Physics Colloquium | Physics, Room 204 | Cosmic Microwave Background Fluctuations: A Probe of Cosmology David Spergel (Princeton) |
| 5th (Friday) 8-10pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 9th (Tuesday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
The Origin of Cosmic Rays: Shock Acceleration of ISM Gas and Dust Dr. Don Ellison (N. C. State) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 10th (Wednesday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
The FAME Project Ken Seidelmann (USNO) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 11th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Heavy Metal From Ancient Superstars Caty Pilachowski (NOAO) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 16th (Tuesday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
Condensation of Dust Within Supernova
Interiors Dr. Donald Clayton (Clemson) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 19th (Friday) 11am-noon |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | The Nature of Nuclear Star Clusters in Late-Type Spirals Torsten Boeker (ESA & STScI) Coffee will be served at 10:45. |
| 19th (Friday) 4-5pm |
Physics Colloquium | Physics, Room 204 | Neutrino Mass--Experimental Results From Super-Kamiokande Jim Stone (BU & DOE) |
| 19th (Friday) 8-10pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 23rd (Tuesday) 12:15-1pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 314 | OH Zeeman Magnetic Field Detections
Toward Galactic SNRs Crystal Brogan (U. Kentucky) |
| 30th (Tuesday) 12:15-1pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 314 | Central Engines and Accretion Mechanisms in Low-Luminosity AGN Neil Nagar (U. Maryland) |
| 30th (Tuesday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
Gamma-Ray Bursts, Their Hosts and High Redshift Galaxies Dr. Andrew Fruchter (STScI) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
December |
just this month | ||
| Time | Event | Location | Details |
| 2nd (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Formation of Dwarf Galaxies and Globular
Clusters in the Tidal Debris From Galaxy Interactions Jane Charlton (Penn State) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 3rd (Friday) 8-10pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 6th (Monday) 12:15-1pm |
MUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 314 | SRT: The Sardinia Radio Telescope Gavril Grueff (CNR, Bologna) |
| 7th (Tuesday) 12:15-1pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 314 | The BSC/NVSS Survey Franz Bauer (UVa & NRAO) |
| 7th (Tuesday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
Gamma Rays From Supernova Remnants:
Clues To Cosmic Ray Origin? Dr. Matthew Baring (NASA/GSFC) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 14th (Tuesday) 12:15-1pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 314 | Star Formation and Chemistry in NGC 1333 IRAS 4 Ronak Shah (UVa & NRAO) |
| 17th (Friday) 8-10pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
