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 2003 Calendar | |||
January |
just this month | ||
| Time | Event | Location | Details |
| 3rd (Friday) 7-9pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 16th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Dust and Gas in Galaxies at z > 2.5 Andrew Baker (MPE) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 17th (Friday) 7-9pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 20th (Monday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Cosmic Rays, Star Formation and Starburst Galaxies Ron Ekers (ATNF) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 21st (Tuesday) 12:15-1pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 311 | 4MASS: The 4 Meter All Sky Survey Aaron Cohen (NRL) |
| 27th (Monday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
X-Ray Synchrotron Radiation From Shell
Supernova Remnants; a Diagnostic of Strong-Shock Physics Dr. Stephen Reynolds (N. C. State) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 28th (Tuesday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | The Structure and Evolution of Dwarf Galaxies - Building Blocks of the Universe Fabian Walter (NRAO-Socorro) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 30th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | The Search for and Study of AGN: An Integrated Approach Travis Rector (NRAO-Socorro) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
February |
just this month | ||
| Time | Event | Location | Details |
| 7th (Friday) 11am-noon |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | An Infrared Telescope at Atacama Riccardo Giovanelli (Cornell) Coffee will be served at 10:45. |
| 7th (Friday) 7-9pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 13th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Results From MAP Ed Wollack (NASA/GSFC) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 21st (Friday) 7-9pm |
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 |
A Spectroscopic Tour of the Solar System with the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer Dr. Paul Feldman (Hopkins) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 25th (Tuesday) 12:15-1pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 311 | The Double Heads of Istrus: An Ancient Astronomical Detective Story William Saslaw (UVa) |
| 27th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | SOFIA: Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy Eric Becklin (UCLA) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
March |
just this month | ||
| Time | Event | Location | Details |
| 4th (Tuesday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | First Results From the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe Lyman Page (Princeton) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 6th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Astrophysical Loss of Magnetic Flux: The Case of Solar Coronal Mass Ejections B. C. Low (HAO) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 7th (Friday) 7-9pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 10th (Monday) 1-4pm |
Seminar | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
SIRTF Proposal Seminar Dan Weedman (SIRTF) |
| 10th (Monday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
Seeking High Redshift Starbursts with SIRTF and Chandra Dr. Dan Weedman (Cornell) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 11th (Tuesday) 12:15-1pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 311 | GBT Spectral Baselines Rick Fisher (NRAO-Green Bank) |
| 13th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | The Galactic Center Black Hole Reinhard Genzel (MPE) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 17th (Monday) 2-3pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Millimeter-Wave MMICs and Multi-Chip Modules at Caltech Matt Morgan (Caltech) Coffee will be served at 1:45. |
| 17th (Monday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
Exploring the Epoch of Reionization Dr. Massimo Stiavelli (STScI) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 18th (Tuesday) 12:15-1pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 311 | Strange Dynamical Happenings in the Core of the Globular Cluster NGC 6752 Robert Rood (UVa) |
| 21st (Friday) 11am-noon |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | From Molecular Cores To Planet-forming Disks with SIRTF Neal Evans (U. Texas) Coffee will be served at 10:45. |
| 21st (Friday) 7-9pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 27th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Planets Around Degenerate Stars Alex Wolszczan (Penn State) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
April |
just this month | ||
| Time | Event | Location | Details |
| 1st (Tuesday) 12:15-1pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 311 | High-velocity Complex H: A Milky Way Satellite in an Inclined, Retrograde Orbit? Jay Lockman (NRAO-Green Bank) |
| 3rd (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Millisecond Pulsars in Globular Clusters: Clocks in the Maelstrom Scott M. Ransom (McGill) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 4th (Friday) 7-11:45pm |
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. |
| 7th (Monday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
The Ages of Early-Type Galaxies Dr. Jim Rose (UNC) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 8th (Tuesday) 12:15-1pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 311 | Jet Collimation in Action: The Case of 3C279 Dan Homan (NRAO) |
| 10th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Neutral Gas in Galaxies Leo Blitz Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 14th (Monday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
"Measuring the Power Spectrum of Sloan Deep Sky Survey Galaxies Dr. Alex Szalay (Hopkins) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 17th (Thursday) 11am-noon |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Electromagnetic Simulations of Very Small and Very Large Objects Weng Chew (UIUC) Coffee will be served at 10:45. |
| 17th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Characterizing Extrasolar Planets Sara Seager (Carnegie Inst.) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 18th (Friday) 9-11pm |
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 |
Weighing Galaxy Clusters with the Cosmic Microwave Background Dr. August Evrard (U. Michigan) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 22nd (Tuesday) 12:15-1pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 311 | Expect the Unexpected: Detection and Characterization of the Extrasolar Cometary System Around IRC+10216 K. E. Saavik Ford (Hopkins) |
| 24th (Thursday) 2-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Brown Farewell Symposium Lockman, Lo, Roberts, Vanden Bout, (NRAO) Coffee will be served at 1:45. |
| 28th (Monday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building, Room 201 |
X-Rays From the Chandra Deep Fields Dr. Franz Bauer (Penn State) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 29th (Tuesday) 12:15-1pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 311 | The Formation of Nuclear Rings in Barred Galaxies Michael Regan (STScI) |
May |
just this month | ||
| Time | Event | Location | Details |
| 1st (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Lives of the Powerful: Links Between AGN and Galaxy Evolution Stefi Baum (STScI) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 2nd (Friday) 9-11pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 6th (Tuesday) 12:15-1pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 311 | He Gamma-Ray Burst - Supernova Connection Roger Chevalier (UVa) |
| 8th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Probing Dust and Dense Gas in High-Mass Protostellar Envelopes Yancy Shirley (NRAO) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 13th (Tuesday) 12:15-1pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 311 | The AGN Fraction in Clusters of Galaxies: Chandra and VLA Results for Abell 2255 Neal Miller (NASA/GSFC) |
| 15th (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | Probing the Cosmic Evolution with the Highest Redshift Quasars Xiaohui Fan (Steward) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| 16th (Friday) 9-11pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 20th (Tuesday) 12:15-1pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 311 | The Adventures of a Congressional Science Fellow On Capitol Hill Jennifer Wiseman (Hopkins) |
| 21st (Wednesday) 2-3pm |
WUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 311 | ZAMS Stars in Our Own Backyard Carol Ambruster (Villanova) |
| 22nd (Thursday) 4-5pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO Auditorium | SOFIA: Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy Eric Becklin (UCLA) Coffee will be served at 3:45. |
| May 31st-Jun 4th (Saturday-Wednesday) All Day |
Conference: The Riddle of Cooling Flows in Galaxies and Clusters of Galaxies | Omni Hotel, Charlottesville | Sponsored by the UVa Department of Astronomy and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory |
