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 1999 Calendar | |||
January |
just this month | ||
| Time | Event | Location | Details |
| 14th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | The BIMA Survey of CO in Nearby Spiral Galaxies: An Introduction Michelle Thornley (NRAO) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 15th (Friday) 8-10pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 19th (Tuesday) 12:05-1:05pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 314 | 74 MHz VLA Update Namir Kassim (NRL) |
| 26th (Tuesday) 12:05-1:05pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 314 | Circular Polarization in Extragalactic Sources and Scintillation Through the Magnetized ISM Jean-Pierre Macquart (Sydney U.) |
| 26th (Tuesday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
Probingthe Dusty Nuclei of IR-Bright Galaxies with Far-Infrared Spectroscopy Dr. Jacqueline Fischer (NRL) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
February |
just this month | ||
| Time | Event | Location | Details |
| 2nd (Tuesday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
Building Up the Stellar Halo of the Galaxy Amina Helmi (Sterr. Leiden) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 4th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Observational Study of Gravitational Lenses Alok Patnaik (MPIfR) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 5th (Friday) 8-10pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 9th (Tuesday) 12:05-1:05pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 314 | The Stellar Populations of the Fornax Dwarf
Spheroidal Galaxy: A View From Space Eduardo Hardy (NRAO) |
| 16th (Tuesday) 10-11am |
Demonstration of AIPS++ | NRAO, Room 314 | Tim Cornwell (NRAO-Socorro) |
| 16th (Tuesday) 12:05-1:05pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 314 | Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxies: Laboratories for Galaxy Formation and Evolution Studies Trinh Thuan (UVa) |
| 16th (Tuesday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
Probing the History and Geography of Galaxies Using Their Globular Cluster Systems Dr. Arunav Kundu (STScI & U. Maryland) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 17th (Wednesday) 12:05-1:05pm |
WUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 314 | ARISE: Advanced Radio Interferometer Between Space and Earth Jim Ulvestad (NRAO-Socorro) |
| 18th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | VLBA Imaging of Parsec-Scale Gas in Weak AGNs Jim Ulvestad (NRAO-Socorro) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 19th (Friday) 8-10pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 23rd (Tuesday) 12:05-1:05pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 314 | Recent Progress in the Development of Adaptive Interference Canceling for Radio Astronomy Rich Bradley (NRAO) |
| 25th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Formation and Rapid Variability of Radio Hot Spots in Sco X-1 Ed Fomalont (NRAO) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
March |
just this month | ||
| Time | Event | Location | Details |
| 1st (Monday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
Can the Universe Create Itself? Dr. J. Richard Gott (Princeton Obs.) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 2nd (Tuesday) 12:05-1:05pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 314 | SCUBA - A Revolution in Submillimeter Astronomy Ian Robinson (JCMT) |
| 5th (Friday) 3-4pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | VLBA Monitoring of Blazars at 43 GHz: A
Rapidly Changing Field Alan Marscher (BU) Coffee will be served at 2:45. |
| 5th (Friday) 8-10pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 9th (Tuesday) 12:05-1:05pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 314 | Astronomy Survey Committee: Radio Panel Activities Ken Kellerman (NRAO) |
| 10th (Wednesday) 12:05-1:05pm |
WUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 314 | Massively Parallel Computing Greg Lindahl (UVa CS) |
| 11th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | The New Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) of India S. Ananthakrishnan (Tata Inst.) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 16th (Tuesday) 12:05-1:05pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 314 | HST Observations of Globular Cluster Stars Bob Rood (UVa) |
| 19th (Friday) 3-4pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Scaling the Universe: CLASS, Gravitational Lenses, the Hubble Constant, and Cosmology Steven T. Myers (U. Penn) Coffee will be served at 2:45. |
| 19th (Friday) 8-10pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 23rd (Tuesday) 12:05-1:05pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 314 | Supernova Shocks and Gamma-ray Bursts Roger Chevalier (UVa) |
| 23rd (Tuesday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
Shocks and Photoionization in Active Galaxies Dr. Mark G. Allen (STScI) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 25th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | The Solar Wind Expansion: A Multimoment and Multispecies Model François Leblanc (UVa) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 30th (Tuesday) 12:05-1:05pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 314 | Shocks in the Intracluster Medium Craig Sarazin (UVa) |
| 30th (Tuesday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
Are High Redshift Galaxies Red? Results From Infrared Surveys of the HDF and Other Fields Dr. Peter Eisenhardt (JPL) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
April |
just this month | ||
| Time | Event | Location | Details |
| 1st (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | The Nature of Organic Molecules in the Interstellar Medium Greg Sloan (Virginia Tech) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 2nd (Friday) 8-11pm |
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. |
| 6th (Tuesday) 12:05-1:05pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 314 | High-z Galaxy Clustering and Omega-nought William Saslaw (UVa) |
| 6th (Tuesday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
Dwarf Galaxies, Dark Matter and Hierarchical Clustering Dr. Rosemary Wyse (Hopkins) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 13th (Tuesday) 12:05-1:05pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 314 | Online Mathematics By an Astronomer Eric Weisstein (UVa) |
| 13th (Tuesday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
Radio, Optical and X-Ray Radiation From Radio Jets and Lobes Dr. Philippe Crane (Dartmouth) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 15th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Evolution of Galaxy Mergers: Lessons From HI Mapping Studies John Hibbard (NRAO) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 16th (Friday) 8-10pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 19th (Monday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | X-ray Transient Events and the Modeling Of
Their Radio Light Curves Robert M. Hjellming (NRAO) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 20th (Tuesday) 12:05-1:05pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 314 | Getting Silicon Off of Grains Malcolm Walmsley (Arcetri) |
| 20th (Tuesday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
NGC 5253: The Starburst Benchmark Dr. Daniela Calzetti (STScI) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 27th (Tuesday) 12:05-1:05pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 314 | HI in NGC 1058: Linewidths and the Universal Profile Michael Rupen (NRAO-Socorro) |
| 27th (Tuesday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
Our Violent Universe: The Story of High-Energy Gamma-Rays Dr. Don Kniffen (Hampden-Sydney) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 29th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Kinematic Decoupling in Normal Sa Galaxies Martha Haynes (Cornell) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
May |
just this month | ||
| Time | Event | Location | Details |
| 4th (Tuesday) 12:05-1:05pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 314 | The Parkes Multibeam Pulsar Survey Jon Bell (ATNF) |
| 6th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Carbon Chains and the Diffuse Interstellar Bands Patrick Thaddeus (Harvard) |
| 7th (Friday) 9-11pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 11th (Tuesday) 12:05-1:05pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 314 | Interaction of Type Ia Supernovae with the Surrounding Medium Vikram Dwarkadas (Sydney U.) |
| 14th (Friday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | The Nature of Radio Emission From Distant
Galaxies (Ph.D. Thesis) Eric Richards (UVa & NRAO) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 19th (Wednesday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Unified Models and Cosmic Evolution Jasper Wall (Oxford) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 20th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Infall and Outflow in Molecular Clouds Jonathan Williams (NRAO-Tucson) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 21st (Friday) 9-11pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 25th (Tuesday) 12:05-1:05pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 314 | Hydrogen Content of Abell 2029 Juan Uson (NRAO) |
| 27th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | (Sub)mm Continuum - Our Gateway To Star Formation Goran Sandell (NRAO-Green Bank) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
