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 2005 Calendar | |||
September |
just this month | ||
| Time | Event | Location | Details |
| 2nd (Friday) 9-11pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 12th (Monday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building Conference Room |
The Red Rectangle: Bizarro Star Or Rosetto Stone for Cosmic Chemistry? Michael Sitko (U. Cincinnati & SSI) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 15th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Dead Stars Do Tell Tales: Chandra Observations of Dense Stellar Systems Mike Muno (UCLA) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 16th (Friday) 9-11pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 19th (Monday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building Conference Room |
Spinning Stellar Winds Winds Down Stellar Spinning Sean Matt (UVa) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 20th (Tuesday) 12:15-1pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 230 | Monolithic Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Integrated Circuits H. Wang (NTU) |
| 23rd (Friday) 4-5pm |
Physics Colloquium | Physics, Room 204 | The Chemistry of the Universe William Klemperer (Harvard) |
| 26th (Monday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building Conference Room |
Stellar Halos and Satellite Systems in a Lambda CDM Universe Kathryn Johnston (Wesleyan) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 27th (Tuesday) 12:15-1pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 230 | A2111: What Free Data Can Do for Me (and You?) N. Miller (Hopkins) |
October |
just this month | ||
| Time | Event | Location | Details |
| 6th (Thursday) 2-3pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | The Evolution of Submillimeter-luminous Galaxies Scott Chapman (Caltech) |
| 7th (Friday) 9-11pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 10th (Monday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building Conference Room |
Chemical Diversity Among Comets: Implications for Delivery of Water and Pre-biotic Organics To Early Earth Michael Mumma (NASA/GSFC) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 13th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | X-ray Binaries in the Globuar Cluster Terzan 5 Craig Heinke (NWU) |
| 17th (Monday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building Conference Room |
Walter Sydney Adams and the Early Years of Mount Wilson Observatory Ronald Brashear (Smithsonian Instituion) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 20th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | GLAST: The Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope Mission Peter Michelson (Stanford) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 21st (Friday) 2:30-3:30pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | The Hard X-ray Sky R. Sunyayev (Russian Acad. Sci. & MPA) Coffee will be served at 2:15. |
| 21st (Friday) 8-11pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Museum exhibit: X-ray Astronomy Research at the University of Virginia Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 23rd (Sunday) 5-6pm |
Jansky Prize Lecture | Gilmer Hall Auditorium | Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation, Clusters of Galaxies and Cosmology Dr. Rashid Sunyaev (Russian Acad. Sci. & MPA) |
| 24th (Monday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building Conference Room |
Observational Signatures of Brown Dwarf Formation John Gizis (U. Delaware) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 27th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | VLA IDV Observations Dave Jauncey (ATNF) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 28th (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. |
| 31st (Monday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building Conference Room |
Light Echoes: The Cosmic Stealth Radar Ben Sugerman (STScI) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
November |
just this month | ||
| Time | Event | Location | Details |
| 1st (Tuesday) 12:15-1pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | Astronomy Building, Room 230 |
Near-UV Merger Signatures in Early-Type Galaxies Jodie Martin (UVa) |
| 3rd (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | A Deep Infrared Survey of Merger Remnants: Emerging Kinematic and Photometric Correlations Barry Rothberg (STScI) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 4th (Friday) 7-9pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 7th (Monday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building Conference Room |
Origins of Stellar Masses: the IMF From
The Solar Neighborhood To the Local Group Michael Meyer (U. Arizona) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 10th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | New Results From the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) Susan Neff (NASA) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 14th (Monday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building Conference Room |
AGN in Clusters of Galaxies Paul Martini (OSU) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 17th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Circumstellar Interaction of Young Supernovae: Inputs From Radio and X-ray Wave Bands Poonam Chandra (UVa & NRAO) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 18th (Friday) 7-9pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 28th (Monday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building Conference Room |
Elemental Abundance Ratios in Stars of the Outer Galactic Disk David Yong (UNC) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
December |
just this month | ||
| Time | Event | Location | Details |
| 1st (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Steps To Exploring the High Redshift Molecular Universe Andrew Harris (U. Maryland) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 2nd (Friday) 7-9pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 5th (Monday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building Conference Room |
the Evolution of Protoplanetary Disks: Boundary Conditions for Planet
Formation Inga Kamp (STScI) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 8th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | GLIMPSE Results Remy Indebetouw (UVa) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 13th (Tuesday) 12:15-1pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 230 | Connections Between Internal Galaxy Kinematics, HI Line Widths, and the Cosmic Distance Scale Alok Singhal (UVa & NRAO) |
| 16th (Friday) 7-9pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 22nd (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | A Bursting Radio Transient Near the Galactic Center Paul Ray (NRL) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |


