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an informal brown-bag
lunchtime seminar for the discussion of current
projects or astronomical news |
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The current TUNA info page | ||
Spring/Summer 2002 | ||
Date | Speaker | Topic |
Friday, January 4 NOTE:Special Day |
Crystal Brogan
NRAO-SC |
VLA Low Frequency Observations of the Galactic Center Flanking Fields |
Friday, January 11 NOTE:Special Day |
John Silverman
Harvard |
Preliminary results from the Chandra Multiwavelength project (ChaMP): Measuring the X-ray luminosity function of quasars up to z~5. |
Tuesday, February 5 | Anish Roshi
NRAO-GB |
"Cancellation of TV interference" |
Friday, March 8 NOTE:Special Day | Svetlana Jorstad
Boston University |
"The Extremely Superluminal Jets of Gamma-Ray Blazars" |
Tuesday, March 26 | Gianni Tofani
|
Report on the Sardinia Radiotelescope (SRT) |
Tuesday, April 2 | Short Talks by Local Staff and
Students at
NRAO/UVa |
Updates on: SKA - Ken Kellermann LOFAR - Bill Cotton |
Tuesday, April 9 | Short Talks by Local Staff and
Students at
NRAO/UVa |
First Speaker: Al Wooten
on the "Second Workshop on New Concepts for Far-Infrared and Submillimeter Space
Astronomy" and "ALMA visits Japan" Second Speaker: Tony Kerr, "Conference Report on the Terahertz Symposium". |
Tuesday, April 16 | Caitlin Griffith
University of Arizona |
Titan's clouds, rain and seas: The energetics of an exotic system by terrestrial standards. |
Tuesday, April 23 | Kai Noeske
University of Gottingen |
"New Insights into the Global Structure of Blue Compact Dwarf galaxies from deep NIR studies" |
Tuesday, April 30 | Margo Aller
University of Michigan |
"Variability Properties of GPS Sources" |
Tuesday, May 7 | Jim Condon
NRAO |
Current Star Formation Rate in the Universe |
Tuesday, May 21 | Short Talks by Local Staff and
Students at
NRAO/UVa |
First Speaker: Jean-Pierre
Devilliers (UVa) on "3D Hydrodynamic Simulations of Disk Instabilities in the Kerr
Metric" Second Speaker: Dan Homan (NRAO) on "The 180 Degree Mis-aligned Radio Jet in PKS 1510-089". Third Speaker: Al Wooten (NRAO) with a brief reminder of the proposal requirements and deadline for the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory. |
Tuesday, June 11 | John Webber
NRAO-CV |
"Recent Developments at the CDL" |
Tuesday, June 25 | Matt Lister
NRAO-CV |
"High-Fidelity Space-VLBI Imaging at Last? (or, how to get two satellites for the price of one)" |
Tuesday, August 6 | Summer Student Researchers
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First Talk:
"Measuring Frequency Dependent Core Positions in VLBI Jets",
Matt Strait,
NRAO and Carleton College
Second Talk: "Summer Internship at the CDL", Clay Sheaff, NRAO and University of Nebraska Third Talk: "Circuit Design and Hardware Construction for a SIS Mixer Test System?", Tim Thacker, NRAO and Virginia Tech Fourth Talk: "Tools for Analyzing Router Statistics", Tony Kom, NRAO and University of Idaho Fifth Talk: "Development of an "Era of Reionization" search instrument?", Michelle Casey, NRAO and Smith College |
organized by Dan Homan, e-mail: tuna@nrao.edu |
Other Schedules | Past Tuna Schedules |
NRAO Colloquium Schedule |
Fall 2001 |
UVa Colloquium Schedule | Spring 2001 |
Fall 2000 | |
Summer 2000 | |
Spring 2000 | |
Fall 1999 |