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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| Spring 1998 Calendar | |||
January |
just this month | ||
| Time | Event | Location | Details |
| 16th (Friday) 8-10pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 22nd (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Protostellar Outflows and Massive Star Formation Jennifer Wiseman (NRAO) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 27th (Tuesday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Clark Hall, Room 140 | Galaxies and Clusters at z > 1 Dr. Mark Dickinson (STScI) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
February |
just this month | ||
| Time | Event | Location | Details |
| 3rd (Tuesday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Clark Hall, Room 140 | Space Astronomy for the Next Millennium: NASA's New Strategic Plan Dr. Harley Thronson (NASA & U. Wyoming) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 6th (Friday) 8-10pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 12th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Neutral Gas Over Cosmic Time Frank Briggs (Gröningen) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 17th (Tuesday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Clark Hall, Room 140 | Small Comets Revisited Dr. Larry Fredrick (UVa) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 19th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Shock-excited Maser Emission From Supernova Remnants Dale Frail (NRAO) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 20th (Friday) 8-10pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 24th (Tuesday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Clark Hall, Room 140 | Stellar Light Element Abundances:
Implications of Recent Results for Stellar Mixing and Big Bang Nucleosynthesis Dr. Jeremy King (STScI) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 26th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Infall and Disks in High-mass Star Forming Regions Qizhou Zhang (NRAO) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
March |
just this month | ||
| Time | Event | Location | Details |
| 3rd (Tuesday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Clark Hall, Room 140 | Large-Scale Structure in the Las Campanas Redshift Survey Dr. Steve Landy (William & Mary) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 5th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Young Dwarf Galaxies Dr. Trinh Thuan (UVa) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 6th (Friday) 8-10pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 12th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Radio/X-ray Emission in X-ray Bright Galactic Nuclei: Advection-Dominated Accretion Flows and Origin of Radio Activities I. Yi (IAS) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 19th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Kinematics of Protogalaxies Art Wolfe (U. C. San Diego) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 20th (Friday) 8-10pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 24th (Tuesday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Clark Hall, Room 140 | The NRAO VLA Sky Survey Dr. James Condon (NRAO) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 26th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | The COBE Search for the Cosmic Infrared Background Michael G. Hauser (STScI) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 31st (Tuesday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Clark Hall, Room 140 | X-Ray, UV and Radio Emission From Supernova 1993J Dr. Claes Fransson (Stockholm Obs.) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
April |
just this month | ||
| Time | Event | Location | Details |
| 1st (Wednesday) 9am-5pm |
29th Annual DDA Meeting | McCormick Observatory | Reception on 31 March at 6:30pm at McCormick Observatory. The abstract deadline is 23 February 1998. |
| 3rd (Friday) 8-10pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 14th (Tuesday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Clark Hall, Room 140 | Unraveling the Evolution of Galaxies Dr. Andrew Connolly (Hopkins) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 16th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | The Navy Prototype Optical Interferometer Ken Johnston (USNO) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 17th (Friday) 7:30-11pm |
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. |
| 21st (Tuesday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Clark Hall, Room 140 | The Evolution of Clustering in the Universe Dr. Marc Postman (STScI) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 22nd (Wednesday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Relativistic Radio Jets From Galactic X-ray Sources R. M. Hjellming (NRAO) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 23rd (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Cosmological Implications of X-ray Observations of Groups and Clusters Richard Mushotzky (NASA/GSFC) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 28th (Tuesday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Clark Hall, Room 140 | Electromagnetic Extraction of Rotational Energy From Disk-Fed Black Holes Dr. Pranab Ghosh (NASA/GSFC) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 29th (Wednesday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Binary Neutron Star Coalescence: Prospects for Gravitational Wave Detection with LIGO Tom Prince (Caltech) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
May |
just this month | ||
| Time | Event | Location | Details |
| 1st (Friday) 9-11pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 7th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Insights Into Galactic Nuclei From HST Roeland van der Marel (STScI) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 14th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Solar Flares: Hard X-ray and Microwave Timing T. S. Bastian (NRAO) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 15th (Friday) 9-11pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |


