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 2000 Calendar | |||
January |
just this month | ||
| Time | Event | Location | Details |
| 7th (Friday) 8-10pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 18th (Tuesday) 12:15-1pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 314 | A Connection Between V/R and Polarization in Be Stars David McDavid (Limber Obs.) |
| 19th (Wednesday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | CS and HNCO Surveys of Massive Dense Cores Igor Zinchenko (Inst. Appl. Phys.) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 21st (Friday) 8-10pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 31st (Monday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
Observations of 20 Millisecond Pulsars in the Globular Cluster 47 Tucanae Dr. Duncan R. Lorimer (Arecibo) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
February |
just this month | ||
| Time | Event | Location | Details |
| 3rd (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Galaxy Evolution From the Dark Side Chris Churchill (Penn State) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 4th (Friday) 8-10pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Cancelled due to icy conditions! Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 7th (Monday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
The Evolution of Dust Around Main Sequence Stars Dr. Michael Jura (UCLA) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 14th (Monday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
What Are These Blue Metal Poor Stars, Anyway? Dr. George Preston (OCIW) |
| 15th (Tuesday) 12:15-1pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 314 | A Study of Low-Density Ionized Gas in the Galaxy Dr. Anish Roshi (NRAO-Green Bank) |
| 16th (Wednesday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | HI in Elliptical Galaxies Thijs van der Hulst (Kapteyn Inst.) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 18th (Friday) 8-10pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 21st (Monday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
Implications of Abundance Gradients in Intracluster Gas Dr. Raymond E. White, III (U. Alabama) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 24th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Dark Matter in Dwarf and Low Surface Brightness Galaxies Rob Swaters (OCIW) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 29th (Tuesday) 12:15-1pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 314 | Driving Outflows From Young Stars Using Internal Disk Magnetic Fields Neal Turner (U. Maryland) |
March |
just this month | ||
| Time | Event | Location | Details |
| 3rd (Friday) 8-10pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 6th (Monday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
First Scientific Results From the FUSE Mission Dr. George Sonneborn (NASA/GSFC) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 7th (Tuesday) 12:15-1pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 314 | Imaging the Galactic Center Black Hole Eric Agol (Hopkins) |
| 8th (Wednesday) 12:15-1pm |
WUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 314 | Observing Conditions at the ALMA Site On Chajnantor Simon Radford (NRAO-Tucson) |
| 17th (Friday) 8-10pm |
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 |
Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies and the Origin of Nuclear Activity in Galaxies Dr. Sylvain Veilleux (U. Maryland) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 22nd (Wednesday) 12:15-1pm |
AIPS++ Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 314 | DISH: Single Dish Analysis in AIPS++ Joe McMullin (NRAO) |
| 28th (Tuesday) 12:15-1pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 314 | The Nearest Microquasar and the Problem of Fast, Brief Jet Ejection Robert Hjellming (NRAO-Socorro) |
| 30th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Hot Dust in Interacting Galaxies: From ISO To SIRTF Vassilis Charmandaris (Cornell) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
April |
just this month | ||
| Time | Event | Location | Details |
| 3rd (Monday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
Surface Composition and Processes On the Galilean Satellites Dr. Robert Carlson (JPL) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 6th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | What Astronomers Can Learn From the Solar Wind Steve Spangler (U. Iowa) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 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, Room 201 |
The Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite Dr. David A. Neufeld (Hopkins) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 13th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | The Extended HI Environment of Galaxies Eric Wilcots (U. Wisconsin) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 14th (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. |
| 17th (Monday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
X-ray Absorption in Radio-Quiet Quasi-Stellar Objects Dr. Neil Brandt (Penn State) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 18th (Tuesday) 12:15-1pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 314 | Measuring the Galactic Abundance Gradient Robert Ryans (Queen's Belfast) |
| 20th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Radio Observations of Early Phases of High-Mass Star-Forming Regions Friedrich Wyrowski (U. Maryland) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 21st (Friday) 9-11pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 24th (Monday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
Extrasolar Planets Dr. Paul Butler (Carnegie Inst.) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 26th (Wednesday) 12:15-1pm |
WUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 314 | The Unification of Radio Galaxies Marshall Cohen (Caltech) |
| 27th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Analyzing Jet-Cloud Collisions - Do They Tell Us About Jets Or Clouds? Sue Simkin (NSF) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
May |
just this month | ||
| Time | Event | Location | Details |
| 5th (Friday) 9-11pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 8th (Monday) 12:15-1pm |
MUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 314 | SIRTF Lee Armus (Caltech) |
| 11th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | An HI Study of the Ursa Major Cluster Marc Verheijen (NRAO-Socorro) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 16th (Tuesday) 12:15-1pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 314 | Kinematic & Morphological Lopsidedness in the HI Distributions of Spiral Galaxies Bikram Phookun (RRI & St. Stephen's, Delhi) |
| 18th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Probing the Depths with 2MASS, HST and SDSS Neill Reid (U. Penn) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 19th (Friday) 9-11pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
