Ay 141: Research Conference in Astronomy (2007-08)

a.k.a. "Journal Club"

Schedule

Grad Students: please also contribute to the Journal Club blog, at citastrograds.blogspot.com

Spring Term

  • 04/04/08: Yacine Ali-Hamoud- "TBD"
    04/04/08: TBD

  • 04/11/08: Ann Marie Cody - "TBD"
    04/11/08: Walter Max-Moerbeck - "TBD"

  • 04/18/08: TBD - "TBD"
    04/18/08: Thiago Goncalves - "TBD"

  • 04/25/08: No Journal Club Meeting
    04/25/08:

  • 05/02/08: Matthew Stevenson - "First results from DAMA/LIBRA and the Combined Results with DAMA/Nal" (Bernabei et al.; arXiv:0804.2741)
    05/02/08: Karin Menendez-Delmestre - "Protoclusters associated with z > 2 radio galaxies . I. Characteristics of high redshift protoclusters", Venemans et al. 2007

  • 05/09/08: Dan Grin - "TBD"
    05/09/08: Milan Bogosavljevic - "TBD"

  • 05/16/08: TBD
    05/16/08: TBD

  • 05/23/08: David Law - "TBD"
    05/23/08: TBD

  • 05/30/08: TBD
    05/30/08: TBD

    Winter Term

    • 01/18/08: Milan Bogosavljevic - "An Asymmetric Distribution of Positrons in the Galactic Disk Revealed by Gamma-rays" Weidenspontner et al, Nature, January 10, 2008
      01/18/08: TBD

    • 01/25/08: Varun Bhalerao- "The Comet 17P/Holmes 2007 Outburst: The Early Motion of the Outburst Material", http://arxiv.org/pdf/0801.0864
      01/25/08: Adam Kraus- "Where are the Low-Mass Hypervelocity Stars?" (own research)

    • 02/01/08: Karin Menendez-Delmestre- "The Arecibo Radio Telescope: Its Role in Current Astronomical Research"
      02/01/08: George Djorgovski- "Things that go *bang!* in the night: exploring the time domain with the PQ survey"

    • 02/08/08: Larry Weintraub- "Point Sources and the CBI-Excess" (own research)
      02/08/08: Brian Cameron- "Correlation of the highest-energy cosmic rays with the positions of nearby active galactic nuclei" The Pierre Auger Collaboration, arXiv:0712.2843

    • 02/15/08: Dan Stark- "TBD"
      02/15/08: Chuck Steidel- "MOSFIRE: A Wide-Field near-IR Imager and Multi-Object Spectrograph for the Keck Observatory"

    • 02/22/08: Wenjin Huang -- "The Origin of Stellar Rotation in Massive Stars" (own research)
      02/22/08: Laura Perez- "Identifying the Rotation Rate and the Presence of Dynamic Weather on Extrasolar Earth-like Planets from Photometric Observations", arXiv:0802.1836v2 [astro-ph]

    • 02/29/08: Matthew Stevenson- "Two Recent Papers by J.G. Hartnett, arXiv:0711.4885v2 , arXiv:0712.3833v2
      02/29/08: Elina Richards- "Do Type 1a Supernovae Prove Lambda>0?", Rowan-Robinson 2002, MNRAS, 332, 352.

    • 03/14/08: Ann Marie Cody- "TBD"
      03/14/08: Walter Max-Moerbeck- "TBD"

      Fall Term

    • 10/05/07: Kasliwal - "A bright millisecond radio burst of extragalactic origin" (arXiv:0709.4301)
      10/05/07: Richard Ellis - "Diversity in Type Ia Supernovae: Implications for Future Cosmology Missions"

    • 10/12/07: Corder - "Can Protostellar Jets Drive Supersonic Turbulence in Molecular Clouds?" Banergee, Klessen and Fendt (astro-ph:0706.3640)
      10/12/07: Weintraub - "The first rotation periods in Praesepe" Scholz and Eisloeffel (astro-ph/0708.2274)

    • 10/19/07: Ali-Haimoud - "Fundamentalist physics: why Dark Energy is bad for Astronomy" (arXiv:0704.2291)
      10/19/07: Goncalves - "A Thousand Invisible Cords Binding Astronomy and High-Energy Physics" (arXiv:0708.1199)

    • 10/26/07: Perez - "Lighting the Universe with filaments", Gao & Theuns, Science, 317 (2007), 1527
      10/26/07: Grin - "Thermal evolution of the primordial clouds in warm dark matter models with keV sterile neutrinos" Jaroslaw Stasielak (astro-ph/0606435) and "Relic keV sterile neutrinos and reionization", Peter L. Biermann and Alexander Kusenko (astro-ph/0601004)

    • 11/02/07: Cody - "Planetary embryos and planetesimals residing in thin debris discs", Quillen et al. 2007, MNRAS, 380, 1642
      11/02/07: Schlichting - "Rapid planetesimal formation in turbulent circumstellar disks", Johansen et al., Nature, 2007

    • 11/09/07: Max-Moerbeck - "It's a wonderful tail: the mass loss history of Mira", C. J. Wareing, A. A. Zijlstra, T. J. O'Brien, M. Seibert ( arXiv:0710.3010)
      11/09/07: Brown - "Childhood to Adolescence: Dust and Gas Clearing in Protoplanetary Disks" (abridged thesis defense talk)

    • 11/16/07: Stevenson - "The Mass of the Coma Cluster from Weak Lensing in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey", Jeffrey M. Kubo, Albert Stebbins, James Annis, Ian P. Dell'Antonio, Huan Lin, Hossein Khiabanian, Joshua A. Frieman (arXiv:0709.0506)
      11/16/07: Brobeck - "A Problem with the Clustering of Recent Meaures of the Distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud", Bradley E. Schaefer (arXiv:0709.4531)

    • 11/30/07: Stark - "A Population of Massive and Evolved Galaxies at z>5", Wiklind et al. (astro-ph/0710.0406)
      11/30/07: Law - "Variable Stars in the Newly Discovered Milky Way Dwarf Spheroidal Satellite Canes Venatici I", Kuehn et al.

    • 12/07/07: Cameron - "Implications for the Origin of GRB 070201 from LIGO Observations" by the LIGO Collaboration and K. Hurley arXiv/0711.1163
      12/07/07: Kraus - "A 15.65 Msun Black Hole in an Eclipsing Binary in the Nearby Spiral Galaxy M33", Orosz et al., Nature, 449, 872 or arXiv:0710.3165, with supplemental information at arXiv:0710.3168)