Astrophysics Journal Club

Astrophysics Journal Club meetings are held in Room 1-434A of the Physics and Astronomy Building from 1:00-1:50pm every Tuesday of the academic year.



Winter 2012 Schedule

Siyi Xu, coordinator


Date
Speaker(s)
Title(s)
Jan. 10
AAS
No Journal Club


Jan. 17
Kim Phifer

Mike Rich
NGC 6778: a disrupted planetary nebula around a binary central star

Discovery of a Tidally Disrupting Dwarf Galaxy near NGC 4449
Jan. 24
Michelle Kislak

Sean Lake
Feedback Effects on Low-Mass Star Formation

An Empirical Model for Galaxy Evolution: the Origin of the Schechter Function
Jan. 31
Anna Pancoast
UCSB
How to Measure Black Hole Masses and Other Interesting Properties of Active Galaxies
Feb. 7
Yat-Tien Lee

Takashi Hattori
Subaru Observatory
A newly-discovered young massive star cluster at the far end of the Galactic Bar

Optical Integral Field Spectroscopy of NGC7469 with Subaru/Kyoto-3DII
Feb. 14
Mark Morris
PIGs, EGGs, Proplyds and a Tadpole: Making Sense of the Interstellar Menagerie
Feb. 21
Laura Vican

Ben Zuckerman
A Two-Dimensional Infrared Map of the Extrasolar Planet HD 189733B

Summary of January 2012 Arecibo meeting "Planets around stellar remnants"
Feb. 28
Kristin Kulas

Zhiyuan Li
HALOS: Towards a Sample of ~1000 Strongly-Lensed Galaxies

Downtown Andromeda: A Multi-Wavelength Study of The Nearest LINER
Mar. 6
CANCELLED
Pospective Visits
Mar. 13
David Fisher
CARMA postdoc
TBD


All speakers are from UCLA unless otherwise noted.
Speakers please e-mail Journal Club coordinator for presentation projector assistance.
| sxu at astro dot ucla dot edu |


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