Meetings and Workshops

Below is a list providing links to various scientific meetings and workshops held at and sponsored by the Green Bank Observatory. Annual schools and training workshops are not listed here, but information on those schools can be found at on our single dish training and observer training workshops pages.

The annual undergraduate training workshop does not have individual web pages.

Green Bank Observatory student training opportunities are listed on the student opportunities page. Annual camps and programs run by the education division, such as PING, INCLUDES, Governor’s Science Institute, Pulsar Search Collaboratory, SPOT, Chatauqua, etc. are found on the education website. Educational Research in Radio Astronomy (ERIRA) workshop and information is found on their home page. Society for Amateur Radio Astronomers (SARA) meeting information is available at radio-astronomy.org and Green Bank StarQuest meeting information is at greenbankstarquest.org

2021

• AAS 236 Meeting – Online only (page coming soon)
• GBT@20 – Join us, virtually, as we celebrate the twentieth birthday of the Green Bank Telescope and two decades of scientific discovery and innovation.

2020

• The New Argus-144 Instrument – September 22-24, 2020
• POSTPONED – Ozma at 60 – preregistration – April 2020
• The Advanced Green Bank Telescope: Planning for the Next Decade – January 7, 2020
• AAS 235 Meeting in Honolulu Hawai’i – January 2020

2019

• Warm Ionized Medium in Galaxies – October 6-9, 2019
• Moonshots and Earthshots in the Search for Life Beyond Earth (invitation only) – July 20-23, 2019

2018

• GBT Surveys Workshop – October, 2018

• NANOGrav Physics Frontiers Center Fall 2018 Collaboration Meeting at Green Bank Observatory – October 2018

• Eleventh NSF-Sponsored Undergraduate ALFALFA Team Workshop

2017

• Transformative Science for the Next Decade with the Green Bank Observatory – October 2017

• 60th Anniversary of Green Bank – October 2017

• Workshop on Theoretical and Laboratory Studies of Icy Regoliths – September 2017

• Metrology and Control of Large Telescopes – September 2017

• Tenth NSF_Sponsored Undergraduate Alfalfa Team Workshop – June 2017

2016

• Breakthrough Listen North American Community Workshop – October 2016 (no link)

• Ninth NSF-Sponsored Undergraduate ALFALFA Team Workshop

2015

• High Frequency Science Workshop – September 2015

• Eighth NAIC/NRAO School on Single Dish Radio Astronomy – July 2015

• Future of Planetary Radio Astronomy with Single-dish Telescopes Workshop – June 2015

2014

• The 3rd China-U.S. Workshop on Radio Astronomy Science and Technology: Emerging Opportunities – May 2014

2013

• The Galactic Gas Supply Workshop – May 2013

2012

• Casper Workshop – August 2012

• Global Properties of HI in Galaxies – April 2012

2011

• Sixth NAIC/NRAO School on Single Dish Radio Astronomy – July 2011

• Innovations in Data Intensive Astronomy – May 2011

2010

• From Project Ozma to the Starship Enterprise: A Conversation About the Next 50 Years of SETI – September 2010

2009

• Fifth NAIC – NRAO Single Dish Summer School – July 2009 (Held at Arecibo Observatory; No link)

2007

• Fourth NAIC – NRAO Single Dish Summer School – July 2007

• The 2007 NRAO Postdoctoral Symposium – April 2007

• Neutron Star Populations – May 2007

2006

• Future GBT Instrumentation Workshop – September 2006

• The Lewis E. Snyder Astrochemistry Lectures – September 2006

2005

• Third NAIC – NRAO Single Dish Summer School – July 2005 (Held at Arecibo Observatory)

2004

• Sgr A* at 30 Workshop – March 2004

2003

• High Frequency Science with the GBT Workshop – September, 2003

• Second NAIC – NRAO Single Dish Summer School – July 2003 (No link)

2002

• Solar Radiophysics with the Frequency Agile Solar Radiotelescope (FASR) – May 2002

2001

• Green Bank Workshop — 21 cm HI Survey Of The Milky Way – May 2001

• First NAIC – NRAO Single Dish Summer School – July 2001 (Held at Arecibo Observatory; No link)

2000 and before (incomplete)

• Green Bank Workshop on Warm Ionized Gas in Galaxies – September 1999

• 30 Years of Discovery, the 140 Foot Telescope – September, 1995

• Radio astronomy from space- September 1986

• Cometary radio astronomy – September 1986