Past Tuesday UVa / NRAO Astronomy (TUNA) Lunch Talks

A series of informal, brown-bag, lunchtime seminars for the discussion of current projects and astronomical news

Upcoming Talks

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The schedule

Click on talk titles to get the abstract and location.

April 2014
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Kinsuk Acharyya, University of Virginia: How Molecules Form in Star Forming Regions

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Megan DeCesar, UW Milwaukee: A Highly Eccentric Binary Millisecond Pulsar in the Gamma-ray-Detected Globular Cluster NGC 6652

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John ZuHone, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center: Simulating Radio Minihalos in the Sloshing Cool Cores of Galaxy Clusters

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Adam Ginsburg, ESO: The formation of young massive clusters and a case study in W51 with the GBT, VLA, and Arecibo

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Amy Stutz, Max Planck Institute for Astronomy: Connecting diverse molecular cloud environments with nascent protostars in Orion

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Deborah Barry, Curry School of Education (UVA): Influences to Post-graduation Career Aspirations and Attainment in STEM Doctoral Candidates and Recipients

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May 2014
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Rudolf Dvorak, University of Vienna: Water transport in the early planetary system

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Gerrit Schellenberger, Angelander-Institut fur Astronomie: X-ray Cross Calibration and Cosmology Using HIFLUGCS Galaxy Clusters

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Roger Deane, University of Cape Town: A triple supermassive black hole system at a cosmologically significant distance

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Lory Wingate, NRAO: Experiences from an 8-month Backpacking Adventure Across the United States

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Timothy J. Rodigas, Carnegie Department of Terrestrial Magnetism: Imaging Planets and Disks with an Eye on the Future

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June 2014
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Y-C Wang, Berkeley: Plasma-induced Heating and Loss of Mars Atmosphere Preparation for MAVEN's Arrival in 2015

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Ellen Bouton, NRAO: Archival NRAO movies

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Antony Schinckel, CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science: The Australian SKA Pathfinder - precursor to SKA1 Survey

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Scott Schnee, Fred Lo, Brian Mason, Al Wootten, NRAO: Filaments in Milky Way molecular clouds, recent results and an NRAO-sponsored conference on this topic

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Ellen Bouton, NRAO: Archival NRAO movies

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Marsha J. Bishop, NRAO: Page Charges; The Implications and Impacts

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James Higdon, Georgia Southern University: The Atomic & Molecular ISM in Starburst Rings

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July 2014
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Christophe Jacques, NRAO: Photonics and the ALMA Project

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August 2014
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Andrea Morandi, The University of Alabama: Understanding the physics of galaxy clusters

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Julie Wardlow, Dark Cosmology Centre, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen: A far-infrared view of high-redshift star-formation

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Roberto Decarli, Max Planck Institute for Astronomy: A radio/mm interferometric struggle against noise, in two acts

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September 2014
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Andrea Lommen, Franklin and Marshall College: Pulsar Timing Arrays: No longer a blunt instrument for Gravitational Wave Detection

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