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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| Summer 2008 Calendar | |||
June |
just this month | ||
| Time | Event | Location | Details |
| 6th (Friday) 9-11pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Museum exhibit: Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 10th (Tuesday) noon-1pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO Auditorium | Movies From the Archives Ellen Bouton (NRAO) |
| 13th (Friday) 12:10-1pm |
FUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 230 | Two "Wicked Cool" New Pulsar Results Scott "Hipster Dude" Ransom (NRAO) |
| 17th (Tuesday) 12:10-1:10pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 230 | High Redshift ULIRGs Uncovered By Spitzer David Frayer (IPAC) |
| 20th (Friday) 9-11pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Museum exhibit: Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 24th (Tuesday) 12:10-1pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 230 | On the Morphological Similarities Between Galactic Neutral Hydrogen Structure and WMAP Data and What They Reveal About Interstellar Physics Gerrit Verschuur (U Mem) |
July |
just this month | ||
| Time | Event | Location | Details |
| 2nd (Wednesday) 12:10-1pm |
WUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 230 | Massive Neutron Stars in Globular Clusters Paulo Freire (NAIC) |
| 8th (Tuesday) 11-11:55am |
Dissertation Presentation | Astronomy Building Conference Room |
Mapping Galactic Halo and Dwarf Spheroidal Structure with Giant Stars Ricardo Munoz (UVa) A brief public question and answer session will follow the talk and precede the closed oral exam with the dissertation committee. |
| 9th (Wednesday) 11:55am-1pm |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | Astronomy Building Conference Room |
Kinematics and Chemistries in the Ultra-Faint Milky Way Dwarf Galaxies Marla Geha (Yale) Coffee will be served at 11:40. |
| 14th (Monday) 12:10-1pm |
MUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO, Room 239 | Long-Term Timing of Milli-Second Pulsars and a Highly Precise Distance To PSR J0437-4715 Joris Verbiest (Swinburne) |
| 18th (Friday) 9-11pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Museum exhibit: Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
August |
just this month | ||
| Time | Event | Location | Details |
| 1st (Friday) 9-11pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Museum exhibit: Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 7th (Thursday) 3-4pm |
Theory Seminar | Astronomy Building Conference Room |
Thermal Emission From Gamma-ray Bursts Asaf Pe'er (STScI) |
| 8th (Friday) 10-11am |
Joint UVA/NRAO Colloquium | NRAO, Room 230 | Current Status of Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences Xiaoyu Hong (SHAO) |
| 15th (Friday) 9-11pm |
Public Night | McCormick Observatory | Museum exhibit: Use of the telescopes is contingent upon clear skies. |
| 19th (Tuesday) 12:10-1pm |
TUNA Lunch Talk | NRAO Auditorium | The Status and Progress of MeerKAT Anita Loots and Bernie Fanaroff (MeerKAT, SKA) |


