Astronomy Journal Club
Spring 2009
Journal Club meets Wednesdays at 12:00 pm in SC 6333. Please see schedule below. Contact: Phill Cargile (p.cargile)AstroCoffee meets Thursdays at 12:00 pm in SC 6913D to talk about recent papers on astro-ph. See Astro Wiki for papers that will be discussed. Contact: Josh Pepper (joshua.pepper)
Journal Club Schedule
| Date | Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 14, 2009 | Get involved with LSST | Keivan Stassun |
| Jan 21, 2009 | Using Cadmium Zinc Telluride CCD's in High-Energy Astrophysics | Trey Mack |
| Jan 23, 2009 12:30 pm, SC 6333 |
Alternative Science Career Paths plus the State-of-the-Art Planetarium | Martin Rutcliffe (Wichita State) |
| Jan 28, 2009 | Open Clusters: Investigating Stellar Dynamics and Stellar Evolution | Bob Mathieu (U of Wisconsin) |
| Feb 4, 2009 | A Search for Satellites of Asteroid Vesta | Fabienne Bastien |
| Feb 11, 2009 | Observational Evidence for Coronal Twisted Flux Rope | Alicia Aarnio |
| Feb 12, 2009 SC 6524 |
Galactic Diversity: The Many Colors of Brown Dwarfs | Adam Burgasser (MIT) |
| Feb 18, 2009 | The Baryon-Dark Matter Conversation | Douglas Watson |
| Feb 25, 2009 | Drag-o-llision Models of Debris Disks with Planets | Marc Kuchner (GSFC) |
| Mar 4, 2009 | Spring Break | |
| Mar 11, 2009 | A Horologist's Look at Lithium in Stars | Phillip Cargile |
| Mar 18, 2009 | Chemical Analysis of Five Red Giants in the Globular Cluster M10 (NGC6254) | Sharina Haynes |
| Mar 25, 2009 | The Milky Way Tomography with SDSS - Stellar Metallicity (Ivezic et al. 2008) | Saurav Dhital |
| Apr 1, 2009 | An Empirical Criterion to Classify T Tauri Stars | Sonali Shukla |
| Apr 8, 2009 | A Search for Pre-main Sequence Eclipsing Binaries and Stellar Rotation Periods in the Lagoon Nebula | Calen Henderson |
| Apr 15, 2009 | Simulation of Accretion & Outflows in Black Holes | Deatrick Foster |
| Apr 22, 2009 | The Low Level of Debris Disk Activity at the Time of the Late Heavy Bombardment: A Spitzer Study of Praesepe | Tommy Le Blanc |
| Apr 29, 2009 | On the Formation of Halpha Line Emission Around Classical T Tauri Stars | Billy Teets |
| May 6, 2009 | The Nice Model of Solar System Evolution | Julia Bodnarik |
| May 13, 2009 | Utilizing Nuclear Physics to Determine the Elemental Composition of Planetary Surfaces | Julia Bodnarik |
Note:
Items marked in green are part of
the Department Colloquium Series in Room SC 4327.
Items marked in red at Special Journal Clubs
and meet at different times, as marked above.
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