Steward Observatory Journal Club

Room N305, 12:00 - 1:00 Wednesdays
Contact: Phil Hinz

Please sign up by contacting Phil . For students who take JC for credit, please talk to me about your paper selection at least a week (preferably more) in advance.

Some suggestions:

Schedule





Date

Speaker

Discussion Topic

Jan. 23



Rainer Wehrse

The Reionization of the Universe: The evolution of the radiation field and of the ionization degree

Jan. 30

David Trilling

A young massive planet in a star–disk system

Setiawan et al. Nature, 2008

Stephanie Cortes

Magnetospheric accretion-ejection processes in the classical T Tauri star AA Tauri
    Bouvier et al. 2007
    http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007A%26A...463.1017B

Feb. 6

Daniel Eisenstein

SuperWIMPS, Dwarf Galaxies, and Big Bang Nucleosynthesis
Papers:
   A Simultaneous Solution to the ^6Li and ^7Li Big Bang Nucleosynthesis
   Problems from a Long-Lived Negatively-Charged Leptonic Particle, by
   by Motohiko Kusakabe, Toshitaka Kajino, Richard N. Boyd, Takashi Yoshida,
   Grant J. Mathews
   http://arxiv.org/abs/0711.3854 with more details in
   http://arxiv.org/abs/0711.3858

   Dark Matter Halos with Cores from Hierarchical Structure Formation,
   by Louis E. Strigari, Manoj Kaplinghat, James S. Bullock;
   http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0606281

   SuperWIMP Solutions to Small Scale Structure Problems,
   by Cembranos, Feng, Rajaraman, Takayama;
   http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0507150


Feb. 13

Stephane Herbert-Fort

A Search for Extended Ultraviolet Disk (XUV-Disk) galaxies in the Local Universe
   Thilker et al. 2007
   http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007ApJS..173..538T

Chad Engelbracht

Isolated OB Associations in Stripped HI Gas Clouds
   Werk et al. 2008
   http://arxiv.org/abs/0801.4758

Feb. 20

Stephanie Juneau


Yancy Shirley


Feb.27

Internal Symp.


Internal Symp.


Mar. 5

Ilaria Pascucci

Jenna Kloosterman


Mar. 12

Ed Olszewski


Brandon Swift


Mar. 26


Christopher Willmer


April 2

Krystal Tyler



April 9




April 16

Eric Nielsen


Kristian Finlator


April 23

Serena Kim


Suresh Sivanandam


April 30

Amanda Ford



May 7




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