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 2004 Calendar | |||
September |
just this month | ||
| Time | Event | Location | Details |
| 3rd (Friday) 9-11pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 13th (Monday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
The Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey: Overview and Recent Highlights Dr. Rachel Somerville (STScI) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 14th (Tuesday) 3-4pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
Bar-driven Evolution and Instability of Self-gravitating Gaseous Disks Chi Yuan (Inst. Astron. & Astrophys., Academia) Coffee will be served at 2:45. |
| 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 |
The Cosmic Microwave Background After WMAP Dr. Edward Bunn (U. Richmond) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 21st (Tuesday) 12:15-1pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 311 | The Square Kilometre Array: Why, How, Where, When, Who, How Much? Ken Kellerman (NRAO) |
| 23rd (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
Space-based Far-IR/Submillimeter Imaging Interferometry: The SPIRIT and SPECS Missions David Leisawitz (NASA/GSFC) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 28th (Tuesday) 12:15-1pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 311 | Detecting Blue Horizontal Branch Stars in Globular Clusters Without Color-Magnitude Diagrams Ricardo Schiavon (UVa) |
| 28th (Tuesday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
Gas and Ice in Protoplanetary Disks Ewine van Dishoeck (Leiden U.) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
October |
just this month | ||
| Time | Event | Location | Details |
| 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 311 | A Short History of Extremely Low-Noise Amplification with Cryogenic FET's and HFET's: 1970-2004 Where Do We Go From Here? Marian Pospieszalski (NRAO) |
| 5th (Tuesday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
A Radio View On Star Formation in Galaxy Clusters Neal Miller (Hopkins & NRAO) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 7th (Thursday) 11am-noon |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
Total Intensity and Polarization Observations with the Cosmic
Background Imager Anthony Readhead (Caltech) |
| 7th (Thursday) 2-3pm |
UVA SAS | Astronomy Building R 201 |
Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). Pulling Signals Out of Cosmic Noise Dr. Jill C. Tarter (SETI Institute) |
| 8th (Friday) 7:30-11:30pm |
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. |
| 12th (Tuesday) 12:15-1pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | ER Conference Room 311 |
Latest News From 3C120 and M87 Jets Dan Harris (CfA) |
| 14th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
Competitive Accretion Versus Core Accretion: Two Theories for the Origin of the IMF Mark Krumholz (U. C. Berkeley) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 15th (Friday) 12:15-1pm |
FUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 311 | Data To Pictures: Imaging for Astronomy Outreach Zoltan Levay (STScI) |
| 15th (Friday) 9-11pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 19th (Tuesday) 12:15-1pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 311 | Growing IMBHs in Globular Clusters Kayhan Gultekin (U. Maryland) |
| 21st (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
The MESSENGER Mission To Mercury: Seeking Clues To the Formation and Evolution of the Inner Solar System Sean C. Solomon (Carnegie Inst.) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 25th (Monday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
Core Issues in the Cassiopeia a Supernova Remnant Dr. Una Hwang (NASA/GSFC) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 26th (Tuesday) 12:15-1pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | ER Conference Room 311 |
What Are Radio Sources Made Of? Craig Sarazin (UVa) |
| 28th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
Opening a New Window On the Universe with the Long-Wavelength Array Namir Kassim (NRL) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |