[NRAO] [UVa Astronomy] Joint Colloquia Calendar for 2018-2019
NRAO and U.Va. Department of Astronomy

This page is used for scheduling of Charlottesville astronomy/astrophysics colloquia by Scott Ransom, Aaron Evans, Loreto Barcos, and Shane Davis.


Usually colloquia are Thursdays at 3:30 PM in NRAO's Edgemont Rd auditorium.  However, other days of the week (especially Mondays) at 3:30 PM are possible as well. 

Coffee and cookies are served 15-20 min before the talks.
 
Dates in red are at special times or locations.
Open dates, with speakers to be determined, are in green.
Dates with no planned talks are in blue.

If the hosting institution is listed as CCU, that is the new joint Center for Chemistry of the Universe.

Date
Time/Location
Host
Name/Institution
Title
Thur, Sep 6, 2018 3:30 PM NRAO Aud NRAO
Zaven Arzoumanian, NASA GSFC
A NICER View: Astrophysics and Exploration from the International Space Station
Thur, Sep 13, 2018 3:30 PM NRAO Aud UVA
Justin Spilker, U. Texas
Running on Empty:  Connecting Molecular Gas and Galaxy Quenching Through Cosmic History
Thur, Sep 20, 2018 3:30 PM NRAO Aud NRAO
Claire Murray, STScI
Bob Brown Thesis Award:  Unveiling the diffuse, neutral interstellar medium with the VLA
Thur, Sep 27, 2018 3:30 PM NRAO Aud NRAO
Dominic Benford, NASA
NASA's Next Major Mission: the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST)
Thur, Oct 4, 2018 3:30 PM NRAO Aud NRAO
Victoria Jaggard, National Geographic
Ethics in Science Journalism: How Trust, Transparency, and Diversity Are Shaping Modern Media
Thur, Oct 11, 2018 3:30 PM NRAO Aud UVA
Jonathan Ramsey, UVA
POSTPONED:  Will be scheduled in the winter/spring
Thur, Oct 18, 2018 3:30 PM NRAO Aud NRAO
Amy Kimball, NRAO POSTPONED:  Will be scheduled in the winter/spring
Thur, Oct 25, 2018 3:30 PM NRAO Aud NRAO
Nienke van der Marel, NRC Herzberg
TBD: re planet formation in planetary disks
Mon, Oct 29, 2018 3:30 PM NRAO Aud NRAO Roger Blandford, Stanford
Fast Radio Bursts from Distant Magnetars
Tues, Oct 30, 2018 7:00 PM Nau Hall
NRAO Roger Blandford, Stanford
Jansky Lecture:  The Radio Harvest
Thur, Nov 1, 2018 3:30 PM NRAO Aud UVA
Chris Fragile, College of Charleston
Positive Feedback from AGN Jets:  A Case Study
Thur, Nov 8, 2018 3:30 PM NRAO Aud NRAO
Cynthia Chiang, McGill
Searching for Cosmic Dawn from the sub-Antarctic with PRIZM
Thur, Nov 15, 2018 3:30 PM NRAO Aud NRAO
Mike McCarthy, Harvard
Exotic Molecules in Space: From Ions to Aromatics
Thur, Nov 22, 2018 No Colloquium: U.S. Thanksgiving
Thur, Nov 29, 2018 3:30 PM NRAO Aud NRAO
Marcel Agueros, Columbia
The evolution of cool dwarf spin rates: Data, models, and tensions
Thur, Dec 6, 2018 3:30 PM NRAO Aud UVA
Anna Kapinska, NRAO
The neighborhoods and lifecycles of radio galaxies
Thur, Dec 13, 2018 3:30 PM NRAO Aud NRAO
Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, UCSC
TBD: re R-process and explosions
Thur, Dec 20, 2018 No Colloquium: Holiday break
Thur, Dec 27, 2018 No Colloquium: Holiday break
Thur, Jan 3, 2019 No Colloquium: Holiday break
Thur, Jan 10, 2019 No Colloquium:  AAS Meeting
Thur, Jan 17, 2019 3:30 PM NRAO Aud UVA
Kengo Tomida, Osaka
Formation and Evolution of Circumstellar Disks
Thur, Jan 31, 2019 3:30 PM NRAO Aud NRAO
Evan Scannapieco, ASU
The Rise and Fall of Galaxies
Thur, Feb 7, 2019 3:30 PM NRAO Aud UVA
Johanna Teske, Carnegie Obs
A Southern Hemisphere RV Follow-up Program for TESS with Magellan/PFS
Tues, Feb 26, 2019
3:30 PM NRAO Aud UVA
Sagi Ben-Ami, CfA
Searching for Earth 2.0 - A Practical Approach
Tues, Mar 5, 2019
3:30 PM NRAO Aud UVA Laura Fissel, NRAO
Studying Star Formation from the Stratosphere
Thur, Mar 7, 2019 3:30 PM NRAO Aud UVA
Jordan Stone, Arizona
Characterizing Planets and Planetary Systems
Fri, Mar 8, 2019 3:30 PM NRAO Aud NRAO
Yuri Kovalev, Lebedev Physical Inst
The Russian Space VLBI Mission, RadioAstron
Thur, Mar 14, 2019 No Colloquium; Spring Break
Tues, Mar 19, 2019
3:30 PM NRAO Aud UVA
Johanna Nagy, Dunlap/Toronto
Measuring CMB Polarization from the Stratosphere and the Ground
Thur, Mar 21, 2019
11:00 AM NRAO Aud
UVA
Bradley Johnson, Columbia
Looking Beyond the Horizon of our Universe
Thur, Mar 21, 2019 3:30 PM NRAO Aud NRAO
Erin G. Cox, Northwestern
Robert L. Brown Award Talk:  Probing Protoplanetary Disks: From Birth to Protoplanets
Tues, Mar 26, 2019
3:30 PM NRAO Aud
UVA Michael Bottom, JPL
New directions in Direct Imaging
Thur, Mar 28, 2019 3:30 PM NRAO Aud NRAO
Melodie Kao, Arizona State Univ
A Window into Planetary Magnetism with Brown Dwarfs
Thur, Apr 4, 2019 3:30 PM NRAO Aud NRAO
Andra Stroe, CfA
When Galaxy Clusters Collide: Shocking Takes of structure formation
Thur, Apr 11, 2019 No Colloquium; NRAO Postdoc Symposium
Thur, Apr 18, 2019 3:30 PM NRAO Aud NRAO
Kazunori Akiyama, MIT
Horizon Scale Observations of a Supermassive Black Hole with the Event Horizon Telescope
Thur, Apr 25, 2019 3:30 PM NRAO Aud NRAO
Antonio Hales, ALMA
ALMA Studies of Young Eruptive Stars
Fri, Apr 26, 2019 3:30 PM, Physics 204
UVA Phys
Andrew Steiner, U. Tenn.
From Multimessenger Astronomy to Neutrinos and Protons
Thur, May 2, 2019 3:30 PM NRAO Aud UVA
Andrew Wetzel, UC Davis
Simulating the Milky Way
Tues, May 7, 2019 3:30 PM NRAO Aud UVA
Maryam Modjaz, NYU
Stellar Forensics with the Most Powerful Explosions in the Universe
Wed, May 8, 2019
3:30 PM NRAO Aud NRAO
David McConnell, CSIRO
ASKAP and its early scientific results
Thur, May 9, 2019 3:30 PM NRAO Aud NRAO
Lisa Kaltenegger, Cornell
Characterizing small planets and the promise of cool stars

Other Schedules

All NRAO Colloquia
TUNA Lunch
U.Va. Astronomy Calendar
NRAO Charlottesville Visitors (internal)
All NRAO Site Calendars (staff only)
Colloquia for 2017-2018
Colloquia for 2016-2017
Colloquia for 2015-2016
Colloquia for 2014-2015
Colloquia for 2013-2014
Colloquia for 2012-2013
Colloquia for 2011-2012
Colloquia for 2010-2011
Colloquia for 2009-2010
Colloquia for 2008-2009
Colloquia for 2007-2008


Modified on 13 July 2018 by Scott Ransom; Markup and dead links fixed by Pat murphy on May 5, 2015