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  • 40th Meeting of the Division of Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society
    NMSU planetary scientists presented their work at the meeting held in Ithaca in October 2008.

  • NMSU astronomy professor Nicole Vogt spoke at the University of Texas, in Austin, on March 4, 2008.

  • NMSU astronomy professor Nicole Vogt gave a colloquium talk at the University of Maryland, on February 6, 2008.

  • 211th meeting of the American Astronomical Society
    NMSU was strongly represented at the semi-annual meeting of the AAS, held in Austin in January, 2008.

  • 39th Meeting of the Division of Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society
    NMSU planetary scientists presented their work at the meeting held in Orlando in October 2007.

  • NMSU astronomy professor Nicole Vogt was invited to speak at an international meeting on the formation and evolution of galaxy disks, sponsored by the Vatican Observatory in Rome, October 1-5, 2007.

  • NMSU astronomy professor Nicole Vogt visited the University of Washington on April 19, 2007, to talk about the evolution of spiral galaxies over the last ten billion years for the weekly colloquium talk.

  • NMSU astronomy professor Jon Holtzman gave a colloquium to the NMSU Mathematics Department on The Accelerating Universe And The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Supernova Survey, on March 29, 2007.

  • NMSU astronomy professor Rene Walterbos spoke at the NRAO Array Operations Center Colloquium Series in Socorro, on March 30, 2007, on The Central Region of M33: Bars Seem Popular in the Local Group.

  • NMSU astronomy professor Nicole Vogt was invited to give an astrophysical colloquium at the University of California, San Diego, on February 21, 2007. She discussed new results on Disk Galaxy Evolution as a Function of Redshift: Disentangling Evolution and Selection Biases.

  • 209th meeting of the American Astronomical Society
    NMSU had good representation at the semi-annual meeting of the AAS, held in Seattle in January, 2007.

  • 38th Meeting of the Division of Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society
    NMSU planetary scientists presented their work at the meeting held in Pasadena in October 2006.
    • Jennie Giron & Anita Sohus
      NASA Planetary Science Summer School: Longitudinal Study
    • Jim Norwood, Nancy Chanover, & Heidi Hammel
      Constraints On The Distribution Of Methane In Uranus' Atmosphere
    • Amy Simon-Miller, Nancy Chanover, & Glenn Orton
      Jupiter's White Oval Turns Red
    • Paul Strycker, Nancy Chanover, Michael Sussman, & Amy Simon-Miller
      A Spectroscopic Search for Jupiter's Chromophores
    • Michael Sussman, Nancy Chanover, Amy Simon-Miller, & Raul Morales-Juberias
      Dynamical Analysis of the Reddening of Jovian Oval BA
    • Tanya Tavenner, Elliot Young, Jim Murphy, Sky Coyote, Mark Bullock, & Scot Rafkin
      A Sharper View of Venus: Strategies For Precise Cloud Tracking of Venus' Lower Cloud Deck
    • Michael Theriot, ... , Jim Murphy, ...
      Interannual Comparison of Temporal and Spatial Structure in the Martian Thermosphere from Atmospheric Accelerometer Measurements of Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) during Aerobraking and Stellar Occultation Measurements from the SPICAM Ultraviolet Infrared Atmospheric Spectrometer of Mars Express (MEX)
    • Anne Verbiscer, ... , Nancy Chanover, Jon Holtzman, ...
      Phoebe at True Opposition: Multiwavelength Phase Curves
    • Paul Withers, Jim Murphy, ...
      Mars Odyssey Accelerometer Results

  • 26th General Assembly of the International Astronomy Union
    NMSU professor Nicole P. Vogt was invited to give a review talk at the IAU Symposium #235, Galaxy Evolution across the Hubble Time, August 14-17, 2006 in Prague, the Czech Republic.
    • Nicole P. Vogt,
      The Tully-Fisher Relation as a Function of Redshift:
      Disentangling Galaxy Evolution and Selection Biases

  • Galaxies in the Cosmic Web
    The NMSU astronomy department hosted a conference on the growth of galaxies and their halos in filaments, groups, and voids, galaxy formation, lensing, satellites, and dark matter distributions, May 15-19, 2006.
    • Daniel Ceverino-Rodriguez, Feedback
    • Chris Churchill, Dynamical Connections between Galaxies and their Gas at large z's
    • Anatoly Klypin, Satellite Dynamics and Mass Distribution in Outer Parts of Galaxies
    • Nicole P. Vogt, The Evolution of Spiral Galaxy Scaling Relations with Redshift
    • Rene Walterbos, Rotation Curve and Mass Modeling of M33

  • 207th meeting of the American Astronomical Society
    NMSU was strongly represented at the semi-annual meeting of the AAS, held in Washington, D.C. in January, 2006.

  • Nearly Normal Galaxies in a LCDM Universe
    NMSU astronomers celebrated their close connection with Sandy Faber, Joel Primack, and George Blumenthal in a triple 60th birthday celebration at UC Santa Cruz on July 8-12, 2005.
    • Jon Holtzman, Bulge Stellar Populations
    • Anatoly Klypin, Halo Substructure in Simulations
    • Nicole P. Vogt, Disk Galaxy Evolution to Redshifts z ~ 1

  • Island Universes: Structure and Evolution of Disk Galaxies
    NMSU astronomers attended a meeting held on the island of Terschelling in the north of the Netherlands on July 3-8, 2005
    • Bhasker Moorthy, Bulges of Spiral Galaxies: Stellar Populations, Structure and Kinematics
    • Nicole P. Vogt, Evolutionary History of Disk Galaxies

  • The Formation of Disk Galaxies
    NMSU was well represented at an idyllic meeting held in Ascona, Switzerland, June 15 - July 1, 2005.
    • Bhasker Moorthy, Bulges of Spiral Galaxies: Stellar Populations, Structure and Kinematics
    • Nicole P. Vogt, The Role of Selection Effects in Mimicking Galaxy Evolution

  • IAU Colloquium 199 Probing Galaxies through Quasar Absorption Lines
    Three NMSU astronomers of the NMSU Quasar Absorption Line Group attended an international conference in Shanghai, China in March, 2005. For more information, see the NMSU Press Release.

  • NMSU hosted the Spring Meeting of the American Association of Variable Star Observers, March 21 - 25, 2005.