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 2001 Calendar | |||
September |
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| Time | Event | Location | Details |
| 7th (Friday) 8:30-11pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 10th (Monday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
Planets and Planetary Nebulae Dr. Noam Soker (UVa & U. Haifa) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 11th (Tuesday) 12:15-1pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 311 | Searching for Additional Heating in the Diffuse Ionized Gas in Galaxies Birgit Otte (Hopkins) |
| 17th (Monday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
Gamma-Ray Bursts: Mechanism and Environment Signatures Dr. Peter Meszaros (Penn State) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 21st (Friday) 8:30-11pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 22nd (Saturday) 9am-11pm |
Science Day at UVa | Chemistry Building | Science Day at UVa is a fun-filled day of science demonstrations and talks about physics, chemistry, environmental science, astronomy, and psychology. Event website |
| 27th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Transition Radiation in Natural Plasmas with Random Inhomogeneities Dr. Gregory Fleishman (Ioffe Phys.-Tech. Inst.) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
October |
just this month | ||
| Time | Event | Location | Details |
| 2nd (Tuesday) 12:15-1pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 311 | Ultra-Low-Frequency Background Radiation of the Galaxy Gregory Fleishman (Ioffe Phys.-Tech. Inst.) |
| 4th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | VLBA Monitoring of Blazar Jets: Flux and Polarization Variability Dan Homan (NRAO) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 5th (Friday) 8:30-11pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 9th (Tuesday) 12:15-1pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 311 | Cosmological Implications From the X-Ray Brightest Galaxy Clusters in the Sky Thomas Reiprich (UVa) |
| 11th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Interstellar Scintillation and Intra-Day Variability: The New Paradigm Dave Jauncey (ATNF) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 15th (Monday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
The Asymmetric X-Ray Morphologies of Planetary Nebulae Dr. Joel Kastner (RIT) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 18th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Nested Bars Seppo Laine (STScI) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 19th (Friday) 3:30-4:30pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
The FUSE Observatory: From Circumstellar Disks To Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxies Dr. Alain Lecavelier des Etangs (Inst. Astrophys., Paris) Coffee will be served at 3:15. |
| 19th (Friday) 7pm-midnight |
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. |
| 22nd (Monday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
The SIRTF Wide-Area Infrared Extragalactic Survey Dr. Harding E. Smith (U. C. San Diego) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 23rd (Tuesday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | The Dynamics of the Large Magellanic Cloud From Its Carbon Stars: Kinematical Groups, Comparison with HI Data Eduardo Hardy (NRAO) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 24th (Wednesday) 9am-5pm |
Sixth Annual NRAO-UVa Jansky Symposium | NRAO Auditorium | The Symposium will feature short talks by scientists from NRAO and UVa on a wide variety of astronomical topics. Event website |
| 24th (Wednesday) 7:30-8:30pm |
Jansky Prize Lecture | Gilmer Hall Auditorium | Astronomical Arrays for the Future: Astronomy, SETI, and More Dr. William J. Welch |
| 29th (Monday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
Electron Energization at Collisionless Shocks and the Hard X-Ray Emission From Cassiopeia A Dr. Martin Laming (NRL) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 30th (Tuesday) 12:15-1pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 311 | Radio Emission in Low-Luminosity AGNs: Jets, Accretion Flows, Or Both? Jim Ulvestad (NRAO-Socorro) |
November |
just this month | ||
| Time | Event | Location | Details |
| 1st (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | The Arecibo OH Megamaser Survey Jeremy Darling (Cornell) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 2nd (Friday) 11am-noon |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Scaling Relations for Disk Galaxies and the Application of AO and the Tully-Fisher Relation To Cosmology Riccardo Giovanelli (Cornell) Coffee will be served at 10:45. |
| 2nd (Friday) 6:30-9pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 6th (Tuesday) 12:15-1pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 311 | The Now and Future Deep Space Network Barry Geldzahler (NASA) |
| 8th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Saturn's Rings: Particle Properties and Distributions From Radio Observations Greg Black (NRAO) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 12th (Monday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
From Molecular Cores To Planet-Forming Disks Dr. Neal Evans (U. Texas) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 13th (Tuesday) 12:15-1pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 311 | Radio Halo Formation Through Magneto-Turbulent Particle Acceleration in Clusters of Galaxies Motokazu Takizawa (UVa) |
| 16th (Friday) 11am-noon |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | The Lunatic Experiment: Search for Cerenkov Radio Emission From 1020 EV Neutrinos Impacting the Moon Tim Hankins (New Mexico Tech & NRAO) Coffee will be served at 10:45. |
| 16th (Friday) 6:30-9pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 19th (Monday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
The Properties of Compressible Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence in Molecular Clouds Dr. James Stone (U. Maryland) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
December |
just this month | ||
| Time | Event | Location | Details |
| 3rd (Monday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
The Physics of Jets in the Chandra Era Dr. Rita Sambruna (GMU) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 6th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Properties of the Ensemble of Compact High-Velocity Clouds Butler Burton (Sterr. Leiden) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 7th (Friday) 6:30-9pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 10th (Monday) 10-11am |
Dissertation Presentation | Rotunda | X-Ray and Radio Structures in Cooling Flow Clusters Ping Huang (UVa) A brief public question and answer session will follow the talk and precede the closed oral exam with the dissertation committee. |
| 20th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | H2O Masers in Low-Mass Young Stellar Objects: A Powerful Probe of Protostellar Jets Ray Furuya (Arcetri) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 21st (Friday) 6:30-9pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
