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Mar 3 @ 3:15 pm – 4:15 pm BX 102

Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph Views of How the Solar Atmosphere is Energized Dr. Bart De Pontieu, Lockheed Martin At the interface between the Sun’s surface and million-degree outer atmosphere or corona lies the chromosphere. At...
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March 10 (Friday)

Colloquium: Hazel Bain

Mar 10 @ 3:15 pm – 4:15 pm BX 102

Antarctic high altitude balloon observations of solar flares: Life and work on the ice Dr. Hazel Bain, University of California, Berkeley The Gamma-Ray Imager/Polarimeter for solar flares (GRIPS) instrument is a balloon-borne telescope designed to...
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March 13 (Monday)

Pizza Lunch: Jean McKeever

Mar 13 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm AY 119

Red Giants in Eclipsing Binary Systems Jean McKeever Share this:TweetPrint

April 24 (Monday)

Pizza Lunch: Laurel Farris

Apr 24 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm AY 119

Determining the size of coronal bright points using cross-correlation methods Laurel Farris Share this:TweetPrint

September 1 (Friday)

Colloquium: Isak Wold (Host: Moire Prescott)

Sep 1 @ 3:15 pm – 4:15 pm BX102

A Faint Flux-Limited LAE Sample at z = 0.3 Isak Wold, UT Austin Observational surveys of Lya emitters (LAEs) have proven to be an efficient method to identify and study large numbers of galaxies over...
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September 8 (Friday)

Colloquium: Travis Metcalfe (Host: Jason Jackiewicz)

Sep 8 @ 3:15 pm – 4:15 pm BX102

The Magnetic Mid-life Crisis of the Sun Dr. Travis Metcalfe, Space Sciences Institute After decades of effort, the solar activity cycle is exceptionally well characterized but it remains poorly understood. Pioneering work at the Mount...
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September 11 (Monday)

Pizza Lunch: Drew Chojnowski and Sten Hasselhof

Sep 11 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm AY 119

A Peculiar Supergiant and One Weird BinaryShare this:TweetPrint

September 15 (Friday)

Colloquium: Lisa Winter (Host: Laura Boucheron)

Sep 15 @ 3:15 pm – 4:15 pm BX102

Long duration solar gamma ray flares Lisa Winter, LANL Long duration solar gamma ray flares (LDGRFs) present a challenge to models of solar flares. While the gamma ray emission initially was thought to be the...
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September 20 (Wednesday)

Colloquium PhD Defense: Jean McKeever

Sep 20 @ 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm Business College 103

Asteroseismology of Red Giants: The Detailed Modeling of Red Giants in Eclipsing Binary Systems Jean McKeever, NMSU Asteroseismology is an invaluable tool that allows one to peer into the inside of a star and know...
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October 2 (Monday)

Pizza Lunch: Sarah Kovac

Oct 2 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm AY 119

The Citizen Cate ProjectShare this:TweetPrint

October 13 (Friday)

Colloquium: Kyoung-Soo Lee (Host: Moire Prescott)

Oct 13 @ 3:15 pm – 4:15 pm BX102

Colloquium Title Kyoung-Soo Lee, Purdue University Abstract textShare this:TweetPrint

October 16 (Monday)

Pizza Lunch: Ken Naiff

Oct 16 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm AY 119

Dark Sky Images Ken Naiff Ken, an retired engineer, is a highly technically skilled and artistic astrophotographer. He will be sharing some of his work and elaborating on the technical methods and processing techniques he...
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October 20 (Friday)

Colloquium: Benjamin Oppenheimer (Host: Kristian Finlator)

Oct 20 @ 3:15 pm – 4:15 pm BX102

Breaking the Self-Similarity of Galaxy Formation: A Circumgalactic Medium Perspective Benjamin Oppenheimer, University of Colorado Boulder If you could see a dark matter halo directly without knowing the scale, you probably could not distinguish a...
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October 23 (Monday)

Pizza Lunch: Kristian Finlator

Oct 23 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm AY 119

Vastly Improved Simulations of the Hydrogen Reionization Epoch: Too Much for One Paper?Share this:TweetPrint

November 6 (Monday)

Pizza Lunch: Ethan Dederick

Nov 6 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm AY 119

Cool Science ResultsShare this:TweetPrint

November 9 (Thursday)

Special Pizza Lunch: Jane Rigby

Nov 9 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm AY 119

Galaxy Evolution in High Definition Via Gravitational Lensing Dr. Jane Rigby Deputy Project Scientist for JWST, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Abstract: In hundreds of known cases, “gravitational lenses” have deflected, distorted, and amplified images...
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November 10 (Friday)

Colloquium: Jane Rigby (Host: Moire Prescott)

Nov 10 @ 3:15 pm – 4:15 pm BX102

Science with the James Webb Space Telescope Jane Rigby, NASA/GSFC NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will have revolutionary capabilities and sensitivity for imaging and spectroscopy from 0.7 to 28 micron. JWST should make major...
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November 13 (Monday)

Pizza Lunch: James Lewis

Nov 13 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm AY 119

Multivariate Analysis of the CGMShare this:TweetPrint

November 17 (Friday)

Colloquium: Larisza Krista (Host: James McAteer)

Nov 17 @ 3:15 pm – 4:15 pm BX102

The statistical study of solar dimmings and their eruptive counterparts Larisza Krista, Cu/CIRES, NOAA/NCEI Results are presented from analyzing the physical and morphological properties of 154 dimmings (transient coronal holes) and the associated flares and...
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November 27 (Monday)

Pizza Lunch: Rachel Marra and Trevor Picard

Nov 27 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm AY 119

ASTR 598 TalkShare this:TweetPrint

December 1 (Friday)

Colloquium: Laura Keating (Host: Kristian Finlator)

Dec 1 @ 3:15 pm – 4:15 pm BX102

Colloquium Title Colloquium Speaker Name, Affiliation Abstract textShare this:TweetPrint

December 4 (Monday)

Pizza Lunch: Karen Kinemuchi

Dec 4 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm AY 119

Life at Apache Point ObservatoryShare this:TweetPrint

December 8 (Friday)

Colloquium – Dean Pesnell (Host: James McAteer)

Dec 8 @ 3:15 pm – 4:15 pm BX102

SDO, the Sun, the Universe Dean Pesnell, NASA / GSFC ABSTRACT: The Sun is our best example for how stars evolve and behave. It is the only star whose surface is well-resolved in time and...
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March 28 (Wednesday)

Colloquium PhD Thesis Defense: Ethan Dederick

Mar 28 @ 3:15 pm – 4:15 pm Science Hall 109

Seismic Inferences of Gas Giant Planets: Excitation & Interiors Ethan Dederick, NMSU Seismology has been the premier tool of study for understanding the interior structure of the Earth, the Sun, and even other stars. In...
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April 2 (Monday)

Pizza Lunch: Michael Engelhardt (Physics), “The quarks in the proton go round and round …”

Apr 2 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm AY 119

The quarks in the proton go round and round …Share this:TweetPrint

September 21 (Friday)

Colloquium: Dave Thilker (Host: Rene Walterbos)

Sep 21 @ 3:15 pm – 4:15 pm BX102

Fresh Perspectives on Star Formation from LEGUS, the Legacy ExtraGalactic Ultraviolet Survey David Thilker, Johns Hopkins University The Legacy ExtraGalactic Ultraviolet Survey (LEGUS) was a Cycle 21 Large Treasury HST program which obtained ~parsec resolution NUV- to I-band WFC3 imaging for 50 nearby, representative star-forming Local Volume galaxies, with a primary goal of...
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November 5 (Monday)

Pizza lunch: Heidi Sanchez

Nov 5 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm AY 119

The Sunspot Solar Observatory Visitor Center Heidi Sanchez, Sunspot Solar Observatory, NMSUShare this:TweetPrint

August 30 (Friday)

Colloquium: Lisa Young (Host: Rene Walterbos)

Aug 30 @ 3:15 pm – 4:15 pm BX102

Cold Gas and the Evolution of Early-type Galaxies Lisa Young, New Mexico Tech A major theme of galaxy evolution is understanding how today’s Hubble sequence was established — what makes some galaxies red spheroidals and...
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October 4 (Friday)

Colloquium: Raja GuhaThakurta (Host: Rene Walterbos)

Oct 4 @ 3:15 pm – 4:15 pm BX102

The SPLASH Survey of the Andromeda Galaxy Raja Guhathurkurta, University of California, Santa Cruz Our nearest large spiral galaxy neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy (M31), and its dwarf satellites, offer a panoramic yet detailed view of...
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October 28 (Monday)

Pizza Lunch: Sultan Hassan

Oct 28 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm AY 119

What can DLAs tell us about galaxy formation? Share this:TweetPrint