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 2002 Calendar | |||
September |
just this month | ||
| Time | Event | Location | Details |
| 3rd (Tuesday) 12:15-1pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 311 | Does the Outflow of M 82 Rotate? (Observations at Optical and Radio Mm Wavelengths) Albert Greve (IRAM) |
| 6th (Friday) 11am-noon |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Finding the Baryons: Massive Low Surface Brightness Galaxies in the Z<0.1 Universe Karen O'Neil (Arecibo) Coffee will be served at 10:45. |
| 6th (Friday) 9-11pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 10th (Tuesday) 12:15-1pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 311 | Update On the SKA Ken Kellermann (NRAO) |
| 17th (Tuesday) 12:15-1pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 311 | HST Photometry of Saturnian Satellites Anne Verbiscer (UVa) |
| 19th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | New Horizons in Microwave Background Research-- The Move To High Resolution and Measurements of the Polarized Anisotropy Brian Mason (NRAO-Green Bank) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 20th (Friday) 9-11pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 23rd (Monday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
Using Research On Student Difficulties To Develop Effective Approaches To Teaching Introductory Astronomy for Non-science Majors Tim Slater (U. Arizona) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 26th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Radio and X-Ray Emission From Stars: Progress in the Last Decade Stephen Drake (NASA/GSFC) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 30th (Monday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
The Ionization and Composition of the Intergalactic Medium Gerard Kriss (STScI) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
October |
just this month | ||
| Time | Event | Location | Details |
| 1st (Tuesday) 12:15-1pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 311 | Update On Radioastron Ed Fomalont (NRAO) |
| 4th (Friday) 7-11:45pm |
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. |
| 9th (Wednesday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Large-Scale Structure As Revealed By the NRAO VLA Sky Survey Jasper Wall (Oxford) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 10th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
X-Ray From Solar System Bodies Dr. Anil Bhardwaj (SPL, VSSC) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 11th (Friday) 2-3pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 265 |
X-Ray Galaxy Clusters As Cosmological Probes and Astrophysical Laboratories Dr. Hans Boehringer (MPE) Coffee will be served at 1:45. |
| 14th (Monday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
The Atmospheric Circulation of Extrasolar Giant Planets Kristen Menou (UVa) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 15th (Tuesday) 12:15-1pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 311 | Update On ALMA Al Wooten (NRAO) |
| 18th (Friday) 8-9pm |
Jansky Prize Lecture | Gilmer Hall Auditorium | The Brightest Explosions in the Universe Shrinivas Kulkarni (Caltech) |
| 18th (Friday) 9-11pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 24th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | It's All in the Timing Zaven Arzoumanian (NASA/GSFC) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 28th (Monday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
New Results On Clusters of Galaxies with XMM-Newton Doris Neumann (CEA Saclay) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 30th (Wednesday) 12:15-1pm |
WUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 311 | A Large-Scale Search for Dark-Matter Axions Dr. Karl Van Bibber (LLNL) |
| 31st (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Multi-wavelength Observations of Stellar Flares Rachel Osten (NRAO) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
November |
just this month | ||
| Time | Event | Location | Details |
| 1st (Friday) 7-9pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 7th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Observations of the Sun with the Meter Wavelength Heliograph at Gauribidanur, India Chellury Sastry (IIAp) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 11th (Monday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
The Search for Red AGN with 2MASS Roc Cutri (IPAC) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 13th (Wednesday) 12:15-1pm |
WUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 311 | Measuring the Speed of Gravity Using the Sept 8 Jupiter-quasar Passage Ed Fomalont (NRAO) |
| 14th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Black-hole Event Horizons: Observational Evidence Jean-Pierra Lasota (Inst. Astrophys., Paris) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 15th (Friday) 12:15-1pm |
FUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 311 | The Sloan Digital Sky Survey and H-I Rich Galaxies Andrew West (U. Washington) |
| 15th (Friday) 7-9pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 18th (Monday) 3-4pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
X-ray Measurement of Dark Matter 'temperature' Profile InA1795 and Testing Dark Matter Halo Dr. Yasushi Ikebe (NASA/GSFC) Coffee will be served at 2:45. |
| 19th (Tuesday) 12:15-1pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 311 | H-I Observations of UGC 7321 Juan Uson (NRAO) |
| 21st (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
Discovery of a New Population of Clouds in the Galactic Halo Dr. Jay Lockman (NRAO) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
December |
just this month | ||
| Time | Event | Location | Details |
| 2nd (Monday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
Structure and Kinematics of the Large Magellanic Cloud Dr. Roeland van der Marel (STScI) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 3rd (Tuesday) 12:15-1pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 311 | Radiometer Noise and What You Can Do About It H. S. Liszt (NRAO) |
| 6th (Friday) 7-9pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Public night is cancelled today due to severe weather. Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 12th (Thursday) 4-6pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | FASR Tim Bastian (NRAO) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 20th (Friday) 7-9pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
