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 2003 Calendar | |||
September |
just this month | ||
| Time | Event | Location | Details |
| 4th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Dust Lanes in Edge-On Galaxies: Implications for the Structure of the Cold ISM Julianne Dalcanton (U. Washington) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 5th (Friday) 9-11pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 8th (Monday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
Jet-Gas Interactions in Seyfert Galaxies Dr. Mark Whittle (UVa) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 11th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
Formation of Gas and Ice Giant Planets Alan Boss (Carnegie Inst.) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 15th (Monday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
Magnetically Driven Accretion Into Kerr Black Holes Dr. Jean-Pierre de Villiers (UVa) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 16th (Tuesday) 12:15-1pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO Auditorium | The Antigalactic Center Tidal Stream Helio J. Rocha-Pinto (UVa) |
| 19th (Friday) 9-11pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 29th (Monday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
An Update On the Education and Public Outreach Program in Astronomy at UVA Dr. Edward Murphy (UVa) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 30th (Tuesday) 12:15-1pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 311 | A Basic Review of Important Non-MHD Effects in Collisionless Plasmas Tanim Islam (UVa) |
October |
just this month | ||
| Time | Event | Location | Details |
| 2nd (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
Measuring the Heartbeat of a Molecular Cloud: Infrared Extinction and the Initial Conditions for Star Formation Charlie Lada (SAO) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 3rd (Friday) 12:15-1pm |
FUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 311 | High-Mass Star Formation in a Galaxy with a Redshift of Z=2.6 Paul Vanden Bout (NRAO) |
| 3rd (Friday) 9-11pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 7th (Tuesday) 12:15-1pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 311 | The Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter Mission John Cooper (NASA/GSFC) |
| 9th (Thursday) 2:30-3:30pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
Atom Scale Silicon Electronics John Tucker (UIUC) Coffee will be served at 2:15. |
| 9th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
Molecular Gas and the Host Galaxies of Infrared Excess Quasi-Stellar Objects Aaron Evans (SUNY) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 10th (Friday) 12:15-1pm |
FUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 311 | Meeting Summary: Communicating Astronomy To the Public Chuck Blue, Lee Shapiro, John Hibbard (NRAO) |
| 13th (Monday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
Trouble with Cepheids and the Distance Scale Dr. Gustav Tammann (Uni Basel) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 14th (Tuesday) 12:15-1pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 311 | The Missing Link: Observations of H2 Emission From the Disks of T Tauri Stars Jeffrey Bary (Vanderbilt) |
| 16th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
Cosmic Downsizing Amy Barger (U. Wisconsin) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 17th (Friday) 4-5pm |
Physics Colloquium | Physics, Room 204 | Where Does the Standard Model Come From Qaisar Shafi (Bartol) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 17th (Friday) 9-11pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 20th (Monday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
New Constraints On Radio Galaxy Evolution Dr. Chris O'Dea (STScI) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 21st (Tuesday) 12:15-1pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 311 | Structure Formation in Tidal Tails John Hibbard (NRAO) |
| 22nd (Wednesday) 7:30-8:30pm |
Jansky Prize Lecture | Gilmer Hall | Massive Black Holes, Gravitational Waves, and Pulsars Donald C. Backer (U. C. Berkeley) |
| 23rd (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
Black Holes, Gravitational Waves, and Pulsars Don Backer (U. C. Berkeley) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 24th (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. |
| 28th (Tuesday) 12:15-1pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 311 | IRAS01475-0740 a Radio Loud AGN with a Low Mass Black Hole Henrique Schmitt (NRAO) |
| 30th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
The James Webb Space Telescope: Science and Technology John Mather (NASA) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
November |
just this month | ||
| Time | Event | Location | Details |
| 3rd (Monday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
New Results From Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys Dr. Holland Ford (Hopkins) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 4th (Tuesday) 12:15-1pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 311 | Superwinds in Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies David Rupke (U. Maryland) |
| 6th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
Relativistic Jets Seen Through Hubble and Chandra Teddy Cheung (Brandeis) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 7th (Friday) 7-9pm |
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 |
Formation of Globular Clusters in Hierarchical Cosmology Oleg Gnedin (STScI) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 11th (Tuesday) 12:15-1pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 311 | EVLA-phase II Rick Perley (NRAO-Socorro) |
| 12th (Wednesday) 12:15-1pm |
WUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 311 | Model Detection of Relativistic Jet Emission in Broad Band Spectra of 250 Bright AGN Yuri Kovalev (Astro Space Center, Moscow) |
| 13th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
Nearby Young Stellar Associations As Circumstellar Disk Laboratories Alycia Weinberger (Carnegie Inst.) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 17th (Monday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
Superwinds in 2003: Recent Multi-wavelength Observations of Galactic Winds and Some Implications for Cosmology David Strickland (Hopkins) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 18th (Tuesday) 12:15-1pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 311 | D/H As a Measure of Chemical Inhomogeneity in Our Galaxy Jeff Linsky (U. Colorado & JILA) |
| 20th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
Three Easy Pieces: Examples of Chaos in the Solar System Peter Goldreich (Caltech) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 21st (Friday) 7-9pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 25th (Tuesday) 12:15-1pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 311 | Distant Radio Galaxies As Unique Probes of Massive Galaxy and Cluster Formation George Miley (Leiden U.) |
December |
just this month | ||
| Time | Event | Location | Details |
| 2nd (Tuesday) 12:15-1pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 311 | Magnetic Fields in BL Lacertae Grant Denn (SBC) |
| 4th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
Formation of Giant Molecular Clouds Eve Ostriker (U. Maryland) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 5th (Friday) 7-9pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 9th (Tuesday) 12:15-1pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 311 | Observations of Io's Neutral Features Matthew Burger (UVa) |
| 15th (Monday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
A Tour of Star Formation with Chandra Eric Feigelson (Penn State) |
| 17th (Wednesday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
Gamma-ray Burst Prompt Emission Spectra: Detailed Analysis Asaf Pe'er (Weizmann) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 18th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
Galaxy Formation in Loose Groups D.J. Pisano (ATNF) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 19th (Friday) 7-9pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
