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Green Bank Science Lunch Talks

Thursday at 12:00 in the Residents Hall Lounge (unless otherwise stated)

If you would like to give a science lunch talk at Green Bank, please email Jay Lockman.

2008
Date	Speaker	Topic
April 24, 2008	Ue-Li Pen University of Toronto, Canada	HI Intensity Mapping
April 3, 2008	Simon Dicker University of Pennsylvania	MUSTANG's first observing season, status, results and a look into the future
March 27, 2008	Jorge Pérez-Gallego University of Florida	3D Optical Spectroscopy of Luminous Compact Blue Galaxies: NGC 7673, a Guinea Pig. Abstract Luminous Compact Blue Galaxies (LCBGs) are high surface brightness starburst galaxies bluer than a typical SBc and with typical luminosities L*, which are undergoing a major burst of star formation. LCBGs are the closest counterparts of the numerous population of starburst galaxies observed at high redshift, including Lyman-break galaxies at z ~ 2. However, because LCBGs are very rare in the nearby universe, their properties are still largely unknown. We have selected a representative sample of LCBGs from the SDSS and UCM databases which, although small, provides an excellent reference for comparison with current and future surveys of similar starbursts at high redshift. We are carrying out a 3D optical and radio spectroscopic study of this LCBG sample, including spatially resolved maps of kinematics, extinction, SFR, and metallicity, in order to characterize their star formation history and mass assembly, and the role of mergers and supernova galactic winds. In my talk I will be mainly showing our preliminary kinematic results of this comprehensive multiwavelength study for NGC 7673, a prototypical LCBG in the nearby universe.
March 20, 2008	Sanchayeeta Borthakur University of Massachusetts, Amherst	Neutral Gas in and around Galaxies and Galaxy-groups
March 6, 2008	Léo Barriault Université Laval, Quebec	Study of High Galactic Latitude HI
February 28, 2008	Jim Braatz NRAO	An Update on the Megamaser Cosmology Project
February 21, 2008	Lynn Matthews Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics	High-Mass Star Formation
February 14, 2008	Brian Mason NRAO	The Contribution of Point Sources to the CBI High-L Excess
February 7, 2008	Karen O'Neil and D.J. Pisano NRAO	Report on the recent meeting at Arecibo on "The Evolution of Galaxies through the Neutral Hydrogen Window".
January 31, 2008	Katy Lancaster University of Bristol, UK	First results from two new Sunyaev Zel'dovich Effect (SZE) experiments: OCRA and AMiBA
January 24, 2008	Jay Lockman NRAO	Highlights from the AAS meeting in Austin, Texas, held earlier this month
2007
Date	Speaker	Topic
September 6, 2007	Alyson Ford Swinburne University	HI Clouds in the Lower Galactic Halo
August 23, 2007	Glen Langston NRAO	VSOP-II science
August 16, 2007	Dana Balser NRAO	e2e update
August 9, 2007	Brian Mason NRAO	Using the GBT to measure the polarization of Spinning Dust
August 2, 2007	Jay Lockman NRAO	A report on "Galaxies in the Local Volume"
July 26, 2007	Karen O'Neil NRAO	A report on "IAU Symposium No. 244: Dark Galaxies and Lost Baryons"
July 19, 2007	Kelley Hess UW-Madison	NGC 2997
June 21, 2007	Jay Lockman NRAO	A report on "The Milky Way Halo - Stars and Gas: Locations, Motions, Origins"
June 7, 2007	Dunc Lorimer WVU	A bright millisecond radio burst of extragalactic origin
May 31, 2007	Charlie Figura Wartburg College
April 25th, 2007	Leslie Sage Nature	"How to publish a paper in Nature"
April 11th, 2007	Zak Schroeder Grosse Pointe North High School	"Galaxy Clusters: The Local Effects on Star Synthesis"
April 5th, 2007	Carl Gottlieb, Sandra Bruenken, Harshal Gupta Harvard	"Negative Ions"
March 15th, 2007	Shea Brown U. Minnesota	"New Populations of Diffuse Polarization Structures"
March 8th, 2007	Tom Bania Boston University
March 1st, 2007	Bob Mutel U. Iowa
February 22th, 2007	Jeff Wagg NRAO-Socorro	"Using the GBT to search for a high-redshift population of submm luminous galaxies"
February 15th, 2007	Jay Lockman NRAO	"SS433 And Its Interaction With The ISM"
February 8th, 2007	Scott Schnee Caltech	"The Physical Properties Of The Starless Core TMC-1C"
February 1st, 2007	Jules Harnett NRAO	"Extreme Science:Wintering Over At The South Pole"
January 25th, 2007	GB Staff Green Bank	"A Discussion Of The Recent AAS Meeting"
January 18th, 2007	Rene Plume University Of Calgary	"A Search for High-Mass Pre-Protostellar Objects"
January 11th, 2007	Clive Dickinson JPL	"Observational Evidence For Anomalous (Spinning Dust) Emission"
January 4th, 2007	Green Bank Staff NRAO	"The Upcoming AAS Meeting"
2006
Date	Speaker	Topic
December 20th, 2006	Green Bank Staff NRAO	"Summary Of 2006 Science From The GBT"
December 14th, 2006	Todd Hunter NRAO	"The High-Mass Protostellar Cluster AFGL5142"
December 7th, 2006	Amanda Kepley University of Wisconsin at Madison	"Magnetic Fields in Irregular Galaxies"
November 30th, 2006	Tony Minter NRAO	"How Far To The 'Radio Magnetar'?"
November 15th, 2006	Andrea Possenti Osservatorio di Cagliari	"Classifying Neutron Stars: Are RRATs And XDINSs The Same Class Of Sources?"
November 9th, 2006	Jay Lockman and D.J.Pisano NRAO	"Update On The GASS Project"
November 2nd, 2006	GB Staff NRAO	"Technical Projects And R&D From GBT Workshop"
October 26th, 2006	Phil Korngut NRAO	"Commissioning The MUSTANG Receiver On The Green Bank Telescope"
October 19th, 2006	Claudia Cyganowski The University Of Wisconsin	"A Millimeter Protocluster in S255N"
October 12th, 2006	Jill Rathborne Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics	"Infrared Dark Clouds: precursors to star clusters"
October 5th, 2006	Erik Rosolowsky Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics	"Studying Giant Molecular Clouds Across Galactic Environments."
August 3rd, 2006	Kevin Douglas Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley	"The TOGS Project: Piggyback Galactic HI Studies With ALFA"
July 20th, 2006	Richard Crutcher University of Illinois	"CARMA Status, And Interstellar Magnetic Fields."
July 13th, 2006	Carl Gottlieb Harvard-Smithsonian Center	"Laboratory and Astronomical Spectroscopy of Reactive Molecules."
July 6th, 2006	Joel Weisberg Carleton College	"Discovery Of Pulsed Maser Emission In An OH Cloud, Stimulated By A Pulsar."
June 22nd, 2006	Kathryn Denning Dept. Of Anthropology, York University, Canada	"Humanity's Stuff In Space: Save, Ignore, Delete?"
June 15th, 2006	Jay Lockman NRAO-GB	"News From The Recent Calgary AAS Meeting"
June 8th, 2006	Richard Prestage NRAO-GB	"News From The Legacy Workshop"
June 1st, 2006	Toney Minter NRAO-GB	"Small Ionized & Neutral Structures In the Diffuse ISM"
May 18th, 2006	Glen Langston NRAO-GB	"Astrobiology News"
May 11th, 2006	Dana Balser NRAO-GB	"Planetary Nebula News"
May 3rd, 2006	Martin Zwaan European Southern Observatory	"Atomic and molecular hydrogen in galaxies and absorption line systems"
April 27th, 2006	Miguel Angel Requena Torres Consejo Superior de Investigaciones (CSIC)	"Complex organic molecules in the Galactic center. Hot core chemistry without hot cores."
April 13th, 2006	Wouter Vlemmings Jodrell Bank	"VLBA detection of the first magnetically collimated jet: shaping the PPNe W43A"
April 6th, 2006	Rachel Osten NRAO-CV	"GRBs aren't the only things that go flash in the night: Swift observations of a hard X-ray flare on a nearby active star"
March 23rd, 2006	Brian Mason Green Bank	"New And Interesting Results From WMAP"
March 16th, 2006	Jay Lockman Green Bank	"GBT observations of the gas-dust connection"
March 9th, 2006	Yancy Shirley Steward Observatory, University of Arizona	The Evolutionary State of Low-mass Starless Cores
March 2nd, 2006	Glen Langston Green Bank	43m Science
February 22nd, 2006	Beth Willman NYU	A Galactic Companion With Mutiple Stellar Tails
February 15th, 2006	Karen Masters CFA	Mapping Mass In The Local Universe
February 9th, 2006	NRAO Visiting Committee	Lunch meeting with scientific staff
February 2nd, 2006	Bojan Nikolic NRAO-GB	Toward quantitative understanding of mid-ir emission from galaxies
January 26, 2006	Frank Ghigo NRAO-GB	Low frequency news
January 19, 2006	Local staff NRAO-GB	AAS207 meeting news
January 4, 2006	Vlad Kondratiev Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow	Giant Pulses of PSR B1937+21 with the GBT / Mark5
2005
Date	Speaker	Topic
December 22, 2005	Felix Lockman, Richard Prestage NRAO-GB	Annual Christmas science lunch: 2005 summary
December 14, 2005	Alok Singhal UVA	Connections between Internal Galaxy Kinematics, HI Line Widths, and the Cosmic Distance Scale
December 13, 2005	Arnold Boothroyd CITA, U. of Toronto	HI sidelobe correction
December 9, 2005 canceled	Joeri van Leeuwen UBC, Vancouver	Why are pulsars so bright in radio?
December 1, 2005	Peter Martin CITA, U. of Toronto	Probing faint foreground emission in low-column-density windows
November 16, 2005	Marsha Bishop NRAO Library, CV	The NRAO Library: The Library where YOU are
November 10, 2005	Sue Ann Heatherly NRAO-GB	PR - Green Bank issues
November 3, 2005	Seiji Kameno, Nomasa Nakai, Stoko Sawada-Satoh, Naoko Sato, Ryo Yoshikawa NAO, Japan	Scanning fuel gas in AGN
October 27, 2005	Felix Lockman NRAO-GB	Senior Review issues
October 20, 2005	Katherine Blundell Oxford U., UK	Evolving and revolving: the relativistic jets of SS433
October 19, 2005	Regina Jorgenson UCSD	A Radio Selected Quasar Survey for Damped Lyman-alpha Systems
October 13, 2005	Dain Kavars University of Minnesota	HI self-absorption
October 6, 2005	Sanchayeeta Borthakur University of Massachusettts	Galaxy interactions with special reference to Hickson compact groups
September 29, 2005	Felix Lockman, Brian Mason NRAO-GB	News from the meeting in Paris
September 21, 2005	G.B. Taylor UNM/NRAO/NMT/KIPAC	Exploring the Transient Universe with the Long Wavelength Array
September 14, 2005	Tony Remijan NASA GSFC	Interstellar Isomers and the GBT
September 8, 2005	Brian Mason NRAO-GB	The GBT Penn Array: update
September 1, 2005	Felix Lockman NRAO-GB	Science with the GBT: past, present, and future
August 24, 2005	Vincent Pereira NRAO-GB RET Teacher Program	Calibrating Array Detectors
August 18, 2005	Larry Morgan NRAO-GB	Triggered Star Formation Within Bright-Rimmed Clouds
August 11, 2005	Farhad Zadeh Northwestern U.	A Multi-Wavelength Observing Campaign to Study Sgr A*
August 5, 2005	Johannes Boehm Vienn Technical U.	Atmosphere path delays from numerical weather models
July 29, 2005	Andrew West U. of Washington	HI Selected Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
July 21, 2005	Esteban Araya New Mexico Tech	An Update on H2CO 6cm Emission
July 8, 2005	Amy Lovell Agnes Scott College	The Deep Impact
June 30, 2005	Thomas Greve Caltech	An interferometric CO survey of luminous submm galaxies
June 23, 2005	Ski Antonucci UCSB	The Big Blue Bump and Who Has It
June 22, 2005	Philip Gebhardt Saturday Morning Scientists	A project for high school students
June 16, 2005	Karen O'Neil NRAO-GB	Visit to the Nancay observatory
June 9, 2005	Brian Mason NRAO-GB	News from the AAS meeting
June 1, 2005	Robert Ferdman University of British Columbia, Canada	Constraining Neutron Star Masses from Pulsar Timing
May 27, 2005	Staff NRAO	gbtidl discussion
May 20, 2005	Jeff Wagg Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics	Evolution and Clustering of High-Redshift Lyman Alpha Forest Lines in a LCDM Universe
May 5, 2005	Jay Lockman, Yurii Pydoprigora NRAO-GB	TBA
April 28, 2005	Tony Minter NRAO-GB	Advances on the GBT baselines
April 21, 2005	Glen Langston NRAO-GB	New life of the 140ft
April 14, 2005	Al Wootten NRAO-CV	The ALMA update
April 8, 2005	Yuri Kovalev NRAO-GB	Fine Scale Structure of AGN
March 31, 2005	Members AUI/NRAO Visiting Committee	Informal discussion
March 25, 2005	Jay Lockman and Yurii Pydoprigora NRAO-GB	News from a Baltimore meeting
March 17, 2005	Yancy Shirley NRAO-SOC	Tracing collapse around very low-mass objects
March 10, 2005	Jim Braatz NRAO-CV	GBT IDL project
March 4, 2005	Bojan Nikolic NRAO-GB	Tidally triggered star formation in interacting galaxies
Feb 24, 2005	Paul Vanden Bout NRAO-CV	Early Universe Molecular Emission Line Galaxies
Feb 18, 2005	Phil Solomon Stony Brook U.	Dense Molecular Gas and Star Formation rates in Galaxies
Feb 10, 2005	Yancy Shirley NRAO-SOC	Discovery of radio emission around the lowest luminosity protostar known: L1014-IRS
Feb 3, 2005	Dana Balser NRAO-GB	An 8.5 GHz Arecibo survey of Carbon Recombination Lines toward Ultra-compact HII regions: Physical properties of dense molecular material
Jan 27, 2005	Ji-hyun Kang Seoul National Unversity, South Korea	Search for Missing SNRs using HI 21cm Emission Line
Jan 21, 2005	Scientific staff NRAO-GB	News from the AAS meeting
Jan 6, 2005	Glen Langston, Jay Lockman NRAO-GB	AAS presentations
2004
Date	Speaker	Topic
December 22, 2004	Phil Jewell, Jay Lockman NRAO-GB	Annual Christmas science lunch: 2004 summary
December 17, 2004	Kirsten Knudsen MPIA, Germany	Deep Submillimeter Observations of Distant Faint Dusty Galaxies
December 7, 2004; combined with software lunch	Dale Frail NRAO-SOC	NRAO-wide proposal submission tool
December 2, 2004	Laura Hainline Caltech	CO Emission in High-Redshift QSOs from the Owens Valley Millimeter Array
November 18, 2004	Ian Avruch JIVE	VLBI tracking of the Huygens Probe
November 10, 2004	Brian Mason NRAO-GB	Recent CMB polarization results
November 4, 2004	Edward Chapin U. of Pennsylvania	Photometric redshifts for submm-selected galaxies
October 28, 2004	Jeff Wagg INAOE	The SCUBA Half-Degree Extragalactic Survey (SHADES)
October 21, 2004	Dana Balser NRAO-GB	News from ESO-Arcetri conference on Chemical Abundances and Mixing in Stars in the Milky Way and its Satellites
October 14, 2004	Andrew Baker NRAO and U. of Maryland	Millimeter Observations of High-Redshift Galaxies
October 7, 2004	Alberto Bolatto U.C. Berkeley, Dept. of Astronomy	Molecular Gas in Nearby Dwarf Galaxies
September 29, 2004	Ron Maddalena NRAO-GB	Green Bank weather conditions for high frequency observing
September 23, 2004	Jay Lockman, Tony Minter, Rick Fisher NRAO-GB	News from the conferences "Extraplanar Gas" in Dwingeloo, "Diffuse matter in the Galaxy" in Arecibo, "Science with Wavelengths on Human Scales" in Santa Fe
September 16, 2004	Thomas Troland University of Kentucky	The Magnetic Field and other Physical Conditions in the Veil of Orion
September 9, 2004	Robert Minchin Cardiff U., UK	The cosmological significance of Low Surface Brightness galaxies found in HIDEEP
September 2, 2004	Leonid Matveenko Space Research Institute, Moscow	Active zones of Orion KL - H2O Masers
August 27, 2004	Ken Kellermann NRAO-CV	Grote Reber: Amateur or Professional Radio Astronomer
August 19, 2004; Jansky Auditorium	Matthew Bailes Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology	Observing relativistic binary pulsars (to be presented using a 3D virtual reality technology)
August 12, 2004	Jonathan Keohane Hampden-Sydney College	Was the Supernova Remnant W49B Caused by a Collapsar?
August 11, 2004	Andrea Possenti Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari	The direct influence of A on the radioemission from B in the Double pulsar
August 5, 2004	Bruce Campbell Center for Earth and Planetary Studies, NASM	Radar Probing of the Moon with Arecibo and the GBT
July 28, 2004	Bryan Jacoby CalTech	The Mass of a Millisecond Pulsar
July 21, 2004	Min Yun University of Massachusettts, Astronomy Department	Cold gas in galaxy collisions
July 15, 2004	Barney Rickett Univ. Calif. San Diego	Scintillation of the Double Pulsar
July 8, 2004	Glen Langston NRAO-GB	News from International Syposium on Molecular Spectroscopy
July 1, 2004	Ingrid Stairs University of British Columbia	Geodetic Precession in PSR B1534+12
June 23, 2004	Don Backer, Rajagopalan Ramachandran, Paul Demorest University of California, Berkeley	GASP
June 16, 2004	Casey Law Northwestern U.	Multiwavelength GBT Observations of the Galactic Center
June 10, 2004	Staff NRAO-GB	News from the AAS meeting
June 1, 2004	Bryan Butler NRAO-AOC	Ammonia in Comets
May 27, 2004	Ron Maddalena and Tony Minter NRAO-GB	Discussion: Baseline template fitting
May 18, 2004	Tim Pearson Cal Tech	CMB Polarization Observations and the CBI
May 13, 2004	Susanna Widicus Cal Tech	Detection of Dihydroxyacetone in Sgr B2(N-LMH): The first 3C Interstellar Sugar?
May 6, 2004	Rajagopalan Ramachandran University of California, Berkeley	Physical properties of the pulsars in PSR J0737-3039 system
April 30, 2004	Joseph Lazio Naval Research Lab	Search for Radio Pulsars
April 22, 2004	Karen O'Neil NRAO-GB	A great topic
April 16, 2004	Nissim Kanekar Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen, the Netherlands	Do the fundamental constants change with time?
April 8, 2004	Michael Murphy Institute of Astronomy, U. of Cambridge, UK	A varying fine-structure constant?: evidence for and against
April 1, 2004	Jan Michael Hollis NASA/GSFC	Sugar in absorbtion
March 18, 2004	Brian Mason NRAO-GB	New results from the CBI
March 11, 2004	Tomislav Markovic NRAO-AOC/NMT	The Dynamics of Intercluster Medium Gas
March 5, 2004	Sue Ann Heatherly, Bill Saxton NRAO-GB, EPO group	New AAS displays and "One Observatory" issues
March 4, 2004	Steve Gibson University of Calgary	Dark Hydrogen in the Galactic Plane
February 26, 2004	Felix Lockman NRAO-GB	Stray HI radiation at the GBT
February 19, 2004	Rick Perley, Felix Lockman NRAO-AOC,GB	News from "the X-ray Radio Connections" meeting
February 12, 2004	Frank Briggs Australian National University	RFI Cansellation with a Reference Horn
February 4, 2004	Eric Phelps MIT, Lincoln Laboratory	Our GBT project
January 27, 2004	Fred Lo NRAO-CV	Magamasers and Galaxies
January 22, 2004	Sci staff NRAO-GB	URSI news
January 15, 2004	Sci staff NRAO-GB	AAS203 news
2003
Date	Speaker	Topic
December 18, 2003	Jeremy Darling Carnegie Observatories	The OH Molecule as a Probe of Galaxy Evolution and Cosmology
December 11, 2003	Wendy Lane Naval Research Laboratory	The VLA Low-frequency Sky Survey
December 4, 2003	Glen Langston NRAO-GB	News from the Radioastron meeting
November 20, 2003	Yuri Kovalev, Jr. NRAO-GB	News from JENAM-2003 / Broad-band radio spectral and variability properties of the WMAP sample of extragalactic objects
November 14, 2003	Paul Kondratko CfA	Thick, Flared, Disorganized, and Self-gravitating Accretion Disk in NGC 3079 (click here for pfd version of the talk)
November 5, 2003	Yuri Kovalev, Sr. ASC LPI, Moscow	Broad-band spectral search of relativistic jets in strong AGN
October 30, 2003	Felix Lockman NRAO-GB	Recent papers on dark matter in galaxies
October 23, 2003	Karen O'Neil NRAO-GB	Astronomical and Gastronomical report from the ADASS meeting in France
October 16, 2003	Jim Braatz NRAO-GB	TBA
October 2, 2003	Brian Mason NRAO-GB	Lightening Rods
September 25, 2003	Mallory Roberts McGill University	TBA
September 18, 2003	None	None Scheduled
September 11, 2003	Eva Schinnerer NRAO-AOC	TBA
September 4, 2003	Dana Balser NRAO-GB	Summary of June, 2003 meeting - "The Structure and Evolution of our Galaxy"
August 28, 2003	Jay Lockman NRAO-GB	Recent results on HI studies in our Galaxy
August 21, 2003	Yuri Kovalev NRAO-GB	Review of RATAN-600 Russian radio telescope: design, instrumentation, methods of observation, main science programs
August 7, 2003	Brian Mason NRAO-GB	Continuum imaging with focal plane arrays
July 31, 2003	Carl Heiles UC Berkeley	GBT beam and polarization calibration techniques
July 24, 2003	Felix Lockman, Phil Jewell NRAO-GB	IAU GA/Symp News
July 17, 2003	Glen Langston NRAO-GB	Molecular spectroscopy
July 9, 2003	Felix Lockman, Tony Minter NRAO-GB	News from a conference in Spain
July 3, 2003	David Nice Princeton University	Using scintillation to study binary pulsars
June 27, 2003	Deidre Hunter / Brian Mason Lowell Observatory / NRAO-GB	The Stellar Structure of Irregular Galaxies / News from a nice Greek meeting
June 26, 2003	F. Y. Zadeh Northwestern University	OH Masers at 1720 MHz Associated with Supernova Remnants
June 20, 2003	Ken Kellermann / Yuri Kovalev NRAO-CV,GB	Kinematics of Radio Source Jets / News from the VLBA-10 meeting
June 12, 2003	Brian Mason NRAO-GB	Penn Array Science and Data Analysis Strategies
June 6, 2003	Ron Maddalena, Brian Mason NRAO-GB	News from the AAS202
May 29, 2003	Michael Rupen NRAO-AOC	Radio observations of X-ray millisecond pulsars
May 22, 2003	Kristy Dyer NRAO-AOC	Star formation near and far
May 16, 2003	Crystal Brogan NRAO-AOC	Galactic center at 74 MHz
Organized by: Yuri Kovalev in 2003-2005, Larry Morgan 2006, D.J. Pisano 2007, Paul Ruffle 2008