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April 6 (Friday)

Colloquium PhD Thesis Defense: Sten Hasselquist

Apr 6 @ 3:15 pm – 4:15 pm BX102

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August 20 (Tuesday)

Pizza lunch: Nick Arge

Aug 20 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm AY 119

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August 23 (Friday)

Colloquium: Safe Zone Training (Host: Inclusive Astronomy Group)

Aug 23 @ 3:15 pm – 4:15 pm BX102

Safe Zone Training Dr. Zooey Sophia Pook, NMSU The SafeZone Training was established to educate and train students, faculty, and staff on how to provide safe and affirming support to members of the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and questioning...
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August 29 (Thursday)

Planetary Group meeting

Aug 29 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm AY 119

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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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September 6 (Friday)

Colloquium: Brian Svoboda (Host: Moire Prescott)

Sep 6 @ 3:15 pm – 4:15 pm BX102

Starless clumps and the earliest phases of high-mass star formation in the Milky Way Brian Svoboda, NRAO Jansky Fellow High-mass stars are key to regulating the interstellar medium, star formation activity, and overall evolution of...
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September 12 (Thursday)

Colloquium Thesis Proposal: Rachel Marra

Sep 12 @ 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm Jett Hall 210

An Observer’s Examination of the Circumgalactic Medium using Cosmological Simulations Rachel Marra, NMSU A significant aspect to understanding galaxy evolution is having an understanding of the intricacies involving the inflow and outflow of baryons onto...
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Planetary Group meeting

Sep 12 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm AY 119

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September 13 (Friday)

Colloquium: Eric Nielsen (Host: Moire Prescott)

Sep 13 @ 3:15 pm – 4:15 pm BX102

Charting the Outer Reaches of Exoplanetary Systems: Wide-Separation Giant Planet Demographics with Direct Imaging Eric Nielsen, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University Over the past decade, the combination of advances in adaptive...
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September 16 (Monday)

Pizza lunch: Kristian Finlator

Sep 16 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm AY 119

Detecting host galaxies of metal absorbers at the end of the dark ages Share this:TweetPrint

September 26 (Thursday)

Planetary Group meeting

Sep 26 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm AY 119

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September 27 (Friday)

Colloquium: Mental Health Training (Host: Sarah Kovac)

Sep 27 @ 3:15 pm – 4:15 pm BX102

Promoting Graduate Student Wellness: A Guide for Faculty and Staff Marie Zubiate, Aggie Health and Wellness Center As graduate students demonstrate signs of emotional and psychological distress, faculty and staff play an important role in...
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September 30 (Monday)

Pizza lunch: Jason Jackiewicz

Sep 30 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm AY 119

Current Efforts in Seismology of the Sun and Stars Share this:TweetPrint

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 10 (Thursday)

Planetary Group meeting

Oct 10 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm AY 119

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October 14 (Monday)

Pizza Lunch: Wladimir Lyra

Oct 14 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm AY 119

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October 18 (Friday)

No Colloquium

Oct 18 @ 3:15 pm – 4:15 pm BX102

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October 24 (Thursday)

Planetary Group meeting

Oct 24 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm AY 119

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October 25 (Friday)

Colloquium: Shun Karato (Host: Jason Jackiewicz)

Oct 25 @ 3:15 pm – 4:15 pm BX102

Solving the Puzzles of the Moon Shun Karato, Yale University After 50 years from the first landing of men on the Moon, about 380 kg of samples were collected by the Apollo mission. Chemical analyses...
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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

November 1 (Friday)

No Colloquium

Nov 1 @ 3:15 pm – 4:15 pm BX102

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November 4 (Monday)

Pizza lunch: Glen Kacprzak

Nov 4 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm AY 119

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November 7 (Thursday)

Planetary Group meeting

Nov 7 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm AY 119

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November 8 (Friday)

Colloquium: Jacob Vander Vliet (Host: Chris Churchill)

Nov 8 @ 3:15 pm – 4:15 pm BX102

Galaxy Evolution in a Computer Box, or “How to turn a PhD on Theoretical Galaxy Evolution into a Scientific Programming Career with NASA” Jacob Vander Vliet, NASA/SOFIA I graduated from NMSU in 2017 with a...
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November 11 (Monday)

Pizza lunch: Moire Prescott

Nov 11 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm AY 119

Understanding Lyman-alpha Nebulae at Low Redshift Share this:TweetPrint

November 15 (Friday)

Colloquium: Phil Judge (Host James McAteer)

Nov 15 @ 3:15 pm – 4:15 pm BX102

Using every photon to learn about the physics of solar plasmas Phil Judge, High Altitude Observatory, Boulder CO. The Sun has traditionally been the Rosetta Stone that can overcome the gap in regimes between laboratory...
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November 18 (Monday)

Pizza Lunch: Mark Croom

Nov 18 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm AY 119

A retrospective look at a NASA career Share this:TweetPrint

November 21 (Thursday)

Planetary Group meeting

Nov 21 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm AY 119

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November 22 (Friday)

Colloquium: Rixin Li (Host: Wladimir Lyra)

Nov 22 @ 3:15 pm – 4:15 pm BX102

Simulating Planetesimal Formation in the Kuiper Belt and Beyond Rixin Li, University of Arizona A critical step in planet formation is to build super-km-sized planetesimals in protoplanetary disks. The origin and demographics of planetesimals are...
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November 29 (Friday)

No Colloquium: Thanksgiving

Nov 29 @ 3:15 pm – 4:15 pm BX102

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