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 2002 Calendar | |||
January |
just this month | ||
| Time | Event | Location | Details |
| 4th (Friday) 12:15-1pm |
FUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 311 | VLA Low Frequency Observations of the Galactic Center Flanking Fields Crystal Brogan (NRAO-Socorro) |
| 4th (Friday) 6:30-9pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 11th (Friday) 12:15-1pm |
FUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 311 | Preliminary Results From the Chandra Multiwavelength Project (ChaMP): Measuring the X-ray Luminosity Function of Quasars Up To Z~5 John Silverman (UVa & CfA) |
| 17th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Modeling the Submillimeter Dust Continuum Emission From Nearby Low Mass Star Forming Cores Yancy Shirley (U. Texas) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 18th (Friday) 7-9pm |
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 |
Statistics of HI Turbulence Dr. Alex Lazarian (U. Wisconsin) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 28th (Monday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
The Last Gasp: Dynamics of Matter in the Final Stages of Accretion Onto Black Holes Dr. Julian Krolik (Hopkins) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 30th (Wednesday) 12:30-1pm |
Theory Lunch Talk | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
On the Dynamics of Relativistic Magnetized Outflows: Gamma-ray Bursts and Pulsar Winds Maxim Lyutikov (McGill & CITA) |
| 31st (Thursday) 12:30-1pm |
Theory Lunch Talk | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
The Perfect Storm On a Neutron-star Surface During Type-I X-ray Burst Yuri Levin (U. C. Berkeley) |
| 31st (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | The HI Southern Galactic Plane Survey Naomi McClure-Griffiths (ATNF) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
February |
just this month | ||
| Time | Event | Location | Details |
| 1st (Friday) 4-5pm |
Physics Colloquium | Physics, Room 204 | Making Sense of the New Cosmology
Michael Turner (U. Chicago) |
| 1st (Friday) 7-9pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 5th (Tuesday) 12:15-1pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 311 | Cancellation of TV Interference Anish Roshi (NRAO-Green Bank) |
| 7th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | VLA HI Observations of Two Edge-On `Superthin' Spiral Galaxies Lynn Matthews (CfA) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 11th (Monday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
The Large Area Lyman Alpha Survey Dr. James Rhoads (STScI) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 15th (Friday) 7-9pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 25th (Monday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
Cosmological Implications of the Highest-Redshift Supernovae Dr. Adam Riess (STScI) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
March |
just this month | ||
| Time | Event | Location | Details |
| 1st (Friday) 7-9pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 4th (Monday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
Cluster Cooling Flows in the Chandra Era Dr. Brian McNamara (Ohio U.) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 7th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | X-rays and Relativistic Jets in Active Galactic Nuclei Alan Marscher (BU) |
| 8th (Friday) 12:15-1pm |
FUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 311 | The Extremely Superluminal Jets of Gamma-Ray Blazars Svetlana Jorstad (BU) |
| 14th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Infrared Studies of Classical Novae and Their Role in Galactic Chemical Evolution Robert Gehrz (U. Minnesota) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 15th (Friday) 7-9pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 18th (Monday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO | RATAN - 600 Observations of AGN Radio Spectra and Time Variability Yuri Kovalev, Jr. (Astro Space Center, Moscow) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 21st (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
Radar Observations of Saturn's Rings Dr. Philip Nicholson (Cornell) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 22nd (Friday) 11am-noon |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Outflows and the Disk-halo Connection in Galaxies Judith Irwin (Queen's U.) Coffee will be served at 10:45. |
| 22nd (Friday) 1:30-2:30pm |
Informal talk | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
Twelve Newly-Discovered Small Saturnian Satellites Phil Nicholson |
| 25th (Monday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
Searching for Dark Matter Axions Dr. Leslie Rosenberg (MIT) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 26th (Tuesday) 12:15-1pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 311 | Report On the Sardinia Radiotelescope (SRT) Gianni Tofani |
April |
just this month | ||
| Time | Event | Location | Details |
| 2nd (Tuesday) 12:15-1pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 311 | Update On the SKA Ken Kellerman (NRAO) Update On LOFAR |
| 4th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Molecules, Rings, Jets, and Other Features of the Red Giant-White Dwarf Transition Patrick Huggins (NYU) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 5th (Friday) 7pm-midnight |
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. |
| 9th (Tuesday) 12:15-1pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 311 | Conference Report On the "Second Workshop On New Concepts for Far-Infrared and Submillimeter Space Astronomy" and "ALMA Visits Japan" Al Wootten (NRAO) Conference Report On the Terahertz Symposium |
| 15th (Monday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
HI and Near-Infrared Properties of Galaxies in the Local Universe Dr. Stephen Schneider (UMass) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 16th (Tuesday) 12:15-1pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 311 | Titan's Clouds, Rain, and Seas: The Energetics of an Exotic System By Terrestrial Standards Caitlin Griffith (U. Arizona) |
| 18th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Atmospheres of Brown Dwarfs Roger Yelle (U. Arizona) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 19th (Friday) 11am-noon |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Oblique Shocks in Extragalactic Jets Dr. Hugh Aller (U. Michigan) Coffee will be served at 10:45. |
| 19th (Friday) 9-11pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 22nd (Monday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
A Critical Review of the Case for Other Planetary Systems Dr. David Black (USRA) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 23rd (Tuesday) 12:15-1pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 311 | New Insights Into the Global Structure of Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxies From Deep NIR Studies Kai Noeske (U. Gottingen) |
| 29th (Monday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
X-Ray Irradiated Flows in Star Formation Dr. Al Glassgold (U. C. Berkeley) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 30th (Tuesday) 12:15-1pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 311 | Variability Properties of GPS Sources Margo Aller (U. Michigan) |
May |
just this month | ||
| Time | Event | Location | Details |
| 2nd (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Location and Distribution of Radio Emission Regions in Pulsar Magnetospheres Yashwant Gupta (NCRA, India) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 3rd (Friday) 9-11pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 7th (Tuesday) 12:15-1pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 311 | Current Star Formation Rate in the Universe Jim Condon (NRAO) |
| 16th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | The NVSS, the Hard X-ray Background, and the COBE Map: Constraints On an Accelerating Universe Stephen Boughn (Haverford) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 17th (Friday) 9-11pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 21st (Tuesday) 12:15-1pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 311 | 3D Hydrodynamic Simulations of Disk Instabilities in the Kerr Metric Jean-Pierre Devilliers (UVa) The 180 Degree Mis-aligned Radio Jet In
PKS 1510-089 A Brief Reminder of the Proposal Requirements and Deadline for the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory |
| 29th (Wednesday) 11am-noon |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Interstellar Molecules and the Diffuse Interstellar Bands Patrick Thaddeus (CfA) |
| 30th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
Hot Gas in Clusters, Groups, and Galaxies - Mergers, Mixing, and Bubbling Dr. William Forman (CfA) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 31st (Friday) 10-11am |
Dissertation Presentation | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
Thermal and Non-Thermal Effects in Merging Clusters of Galaxies Joshua Kempner (UVa) A brief public question and answer session will follow the talk and precede the closed oral exam with the dissertation committee. |
| 31st (Friday) 2-3pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | AGN and Galaxy Source Populations Detected in the Chandra Deep Field North Survey Franz Bauer (Penn State) |
