Our normal colloquium time is Fridays at 3:15 in BX102 with refreshments at 3:00pm in the Astronomy Conference Room (ASTR 119).

Laura Mayorga NMSU
Probing Exoplanet Atmospheric Properties from Phase Variations and Polarization.
August 28
Miguel Angel Aragon-Calvo UCSC
Galaxy formation in the Cosmic Web
September, 25
Rodolfo Montez Jr. Vanderbilt University
Insights into Binary Stars, Stellar Winds, and Astrophysical Plasmas from X-ray Observations of Planetary Nebulae
October, 2
Ben Weiner Steward Observatory, Tuscon
Searching for Dwarf Satellites around Milky Way Analog Galaxies.
October, 9
Doug Biesecker Boulder, Colorado
Space Weather at L1
October, 16
Sergio Rodriguez UAM, Madrid, Berkeley
BOSS: clustering of galaxies
October, 30
John Wisniewski
Diagnosing the SEEDS of Planet Formation University of Oklahoma
November, 6
Brian Jackson Boise State University
Exoplanets with Orbital Periods Shorter Than a Peter Jackson Movie
December, 4



Spring 2016

Rich Zurek JPL
Planets
January 22
Kathlryn Steakley NMSU
Exploring Impact Heating of the Early Martian Climate
January 29
Lauren Woolsey CfA
Magnetic Influences on Coronal Heating and the Solar Wind
February 12
Gail Zasowski Johns Hopkins
Galactic Archeology with the Milky Way
March 4
Hwihyun Kim UT Austin/Daejeon, South Korea
ISM
April 1
Meredith Rawls NMSU
Red Giants in Eclipsing Binaries as a Benchmark for Asteroseismology
April 8
Paul Abell NASA Johnson Space Center
Asteroid Exploration
April 22
Betsy Mills UA
Densities of Galactic Center Clouds
April 29


Spring 2015

Sam Schonfeld NMSU
Identifying the Sources of Solar F10.7 Emission with Imaging and Differential Emission Measures.
January 23
Brian Hynek CU Boulder
Inhabitality of early Mars
February 11 (Gardiner Hall, 4pm)
John Stocke University of Colorado at Boulder
LATEST RESULTS FROM THE COSMIC ORIGINS SPECTROGRAPH on GASEOUS GALAXY HALOS
February 20
Nicholas Ule NMSU
Quantifying Differential Rotation Across the Stellar Main Sequence
February 24
Teresa Ross NMSU
Exploring Dwarf Galaxy Evolution through Metallicity Distributions
March 20
Nikki Nielsen NMSU
Tracing Galaxy Evolution Through Spatial and Kinematic Probes of the MgII Circumgalactic Medium
March 31
Kyle deGrave NMSU
SUN
April 8
Chip Kobulnicky University of Wyoming
ISM
April 10
Arif Babul UVic
Clusters of Galaxies: Where Cosmology and Astrophysics Collide
April 17
Jane Charlton Penn State
ISM in nearby galaxies
April 24
Carlos Vargas NMSU
TBD
May 1


Fall 2014
Florentin Millour Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur, Nice, France
Pushing the limiting magnitude of optical interferometry: a case study
September 5
Nicholas Nelson LANL
How Stars Get Their Spots: Generating Buoyant Magnetic Loops in Global Dynamo Models
September 26
David Lee Nidever, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
Examining Galaxy Formation and Evolution with the Milky Way and its Massive Satellites
October 3
John Wilson, NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Lab, Princeton University
Martian Atmospheric Thermal Tides
October 10
Robert Edmonds, NMSU
Mars Atmosphere
October 16
Gary Zank Huntsville, ALABAMA
Sun
October 17
Miller Goss NRAO
Under the Radar, the First Woman in Radio Astronomy, Ruby Payne-Scott
October 24
Chris Sneden UT Austin
October 31
Matthew Francis
Gravity: a Love Story
November 21
Gordon MacDonald NMSU
PhD thesis proposal
December 5

Spring 2014

Meredith Rawls NMSU
February 14
Hal Levison Southwest Research Institute, Boulder
Growing Planets from Meter-Sized Bodies
February 21
Kevin McGouldrick LASP
Clouds on Venus
February 28
Volker Bromm UT Austin
First Stars and Galaxies
March 7
Joel Primack UCSC
ΛCDM cosmology: successes, challenges, possible detection of dark matter, opportunities for progress
March 14
Nigel Mathes
MgII absorption in QSO spectra
April 4
Nadine Nettelmann UCSC
Current prospects and limitations in our understanding of the giant planets in our Solar system
April 11
Jonathan Bird Vanderbilt
Disk of Milky Way
April 17
Adam Leroy
Gas in galaxies
April 25
Jacob VanderVliet NMSU
CGM
May 2
Jason Tumlinson StSci
The COS-Halos Survey
May 9

Fall 2013

Gary J. Ferland University of Kentucky
What Powers the Optical Filaments in Cool Core Clusters of Galaxies?
September 13
Oleg Gnedin University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
Golbular Clusters as Tracers of Galaxy Assembly
September 20
Lucia Ayala Asensio Berkeley
The Large-Scale Structure of the Universe before the 20th Century
September 27
Stephen Bradshaw Rice University
TBA (Solar)
October 4
Adam Leroy VLA
TBA
October 11
Adam McKay NMSU (PhD Defense)
The Volatile Composition of Comets as Inferred from Gas Production
October 25
Brendan Mullan Penn State University
Under Pressure: Star Clusters in the Tidal Debris of Interacting Galaxies
November 1
Sijing Shen University of California at Santa Cruz
The Galaxy-Circumgalactic Medium Ecosystem in Cosmological Zoom-in Simulations
November 8
Kevin Marvel AAS
Crazy Washington and its Impact on Astronomy
November 15 2 pm - special time
Amanda Ford University of Arizona
QSO Absorption Lines and the Circumgalactic Medium
November 22
Jack Ireland NASA, Goddard
TBA (Solar)
December 6
Don Neidig, USAF Research Lab, and Former staff member, National Solar Observatory
What Astronomers Might Want to Know About Global Warming
December 13


Spring 2013

Craig DeForest Boulder, Colorado
IMAGING THE SOLAR WIND FROM SUN TO EARTH
January 18 with local host James McAteer
Mark Marley NASA Ames
Exoplanets and Brown Dwarfs
January 25 with local host Jason Jackiewicz
Markus J. Aschwanden Lockheed Martin, Advanced Technology Center, Palo Alto, CA
Solar Physics
February 8 with local host James McAteer
Michael Kirk NMSU
THE ANATOMY OF CHROMOSPHERIC FLARES AND ASSOCIATED EPHEMERAL BRIGHTENINGS
February 15
Chas Miller NMSU
Characterizing Surface Properties and Volatile Distributions for Three Primitive Solar System Bodies
February 22
F. Van de Voort UC Berkeley, Leiden University
Feeding galaxies and their gaseous haloes.
March 1 with local host Chris Churchill
Tim Beers NOAO, Tucson
Carbon-Enhanced Metal-Poor Stars: Probes of Nucleosynthesis from the First Generation of Stars in the Universe
March 15 with local host Young Sun Lee
Aliz Derekas Konkoly Observatory, Budapest, Hungary
HD181068: A Unique Triply-Eclipsing Triple System in the KEPLER Field
March 22 with local host Karen Kinemuchi
Ryan Hamilton NMSU
Herschel Observations of Cataclysmic Variables
April 4
Maria Patterson NMSU
Properties of Star Formation and the Interstellar Medium in Galaxy Outskirts
April 5
Kyle Uckert NMSU
The Implementation and Analysis of Several Techniques for In Situ Astrobiology Investigations.
April 12
Candace Gray NMSU
Coronal Mass Ejections And Their Effect On The Venusian Nightglow
April 19
Tamara McDunn Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Topics in Martian Atmospheric Dynamics
April 26

Fall 2012
Bharat Ratra Kansas State University
Dark Energy: constant or time variable?
September 14, with local host Anatoly Klypin
Nick Ule NMSU
Quantifying Differential Rotation Across the Main Sequence
September 21
Jeff Coughlin NMSU
September 28
Nick Gnedin Fermi Lab
What We Do Not Yet Know About Star Formation in Galaxies
October 5
Young Sun Lee Tombaugh Fellow, NMSU
Observational Constraints on the Formation of the Milky Way's Thick Disk
October 12
Harry Enke Potsdam, Germany
Data Management and Publication of Cosmological Simulations
October 19
Benjamine OppenheimerLeiden, Holland
Low-redshift circumgalactic medium: confronting theory with observations
October 26
Peter Behroozi Stanford
Using Observations to Constrain Physical Models of Star Formation from z=0 to z=8
November 2
Kyle DeGraveNMSU
November 14, with local host Jason Jackiewicz
Noam Libeskind AIP, Potsdam
The orientation of Milky Way satellites: problems, solutions and open challenges.
December 7, with local host Anatoly Klypin

Spring 2012
Brant Robertson University of Arizona
Constraints on High-Redshift Galaxy Formation from the New Hubble Ultra Deep Field Project
February 3, with local host Anatoly Klypin
Karen Kinemuchi NASA Ames
Kepler mission
February 17, with local host Jeff Coughlin
Sean Lindsay NMSU
Discrete Dipole Approximation Models of Crystalline Forsterite
February 24, with local host Jim Murphy
Daniel Ceverino UAM, Madrid
Galaxy Formation
March 2, with local host Anatoly Klypin
Roger Wiens LANL
Planets
March 9, with local host Nancy Chanover
Vladimir Avila-Rees UNAM, Mexico City
Origin of galaxies
March 16, with local host A. Klypin
Robert Edmonds, NMSU
Effects of Gravity (Buoyancy) Waves upon the Martian Atmosphere, with Emphasis upon Dust Storm Interactions.
April 9, with local host J. Murphy
Mark Richardson, Ashima Research Inc., Pasadena
Using Data Assimilation for the Martian Climate
April 13, with local host J. Murphy
Karl Gebhardt, University of Texas at Austin
Black Holes and Dark Matter in Nearby Galaxies
April 20, with local host J. Holtzman
Joyce Guzik LANL
Solar physics
May 11, with local host Jason Jackiewicz


Fall 2011

C. Tsang Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colorado
The Venus Atmosphere: Understanding the atmosphere of Earths sister planet
September 9, with local host Nancy Chanover
Francisco Prada IAA, Granada, Spain
Galaxy clustering at z=0.5: results of the Baryonic Oscillations Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS)
September 12 with local host Anatoly Klypin
Marla Geha Yale
The Darkest Galaxies
September 16 with local host Rene Walterbos
Stefan Gottloeber AIP, Potsdam, Germany
Large Scale Structure of the Universe: From Clusters to Groups
September 23 with local host Anatoly Klypin
Julien Frouard UNESP, Brazil and IMCCE, Paris, France
Dynamics and stability of asteroidal systems. The example of (87) Sylvia.
October 14 with local host Malynda Chizek
Aaron Romanowsky UCSC
The Assembly of Galaxy Halos: Chemo-dynamics Beyond the Local Group
October 28 with local host Anatoly Klypin
James Stockton NMSU
Pamela: results on electron and positron spectra in cosmic rays
November 4
Elizabeth Klimek NMSU
Thesis Proposal: Galactic Coronal Gas: Confronting Cosmological Simulations with Absorption Line Observations
November 17 at 3:00pm in Science Hall 109
Scott W. McIntosh National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder
Relentless Energy and Mass Supply to the Outer Solar Atmosphere
November 18 at 2:45 pm with local host James McAteer
Petrus Martens Montana State University
Solar Physics
December 2 with local host James McAteer