Astrophysics Journal Club

Astrophysics Journal Club meetings are held in Room 2434 Physics and Astronomy Building from 1:00-2:00pm every Tuesday of the academic season.

Quinn Konopacky, coordinator

Date	Speakers	Titles
October 5	Quinn Konopacky Emily Rice	Journal Club 2004-2005 The Best of All Possible Worlds? The Philosophy of Multiverses
October 12	Sandrine Lefebvre Mike Rich	Solar Radius Measurements at Mount Wilson Draco 119: An Unusual Ultra Metal Poor Giant in the Draco Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy
October 19	Samir Salim Erin Smith	GALEX and the Star Formation History in the Local Universe In the Nick of (Hubble) Time: The HST Servicing Mission and the Future of Space-Based Astronomy
October 26	Andrew Gould (Ohio State University)	Recent Advances in Microlensing and Galactic Structure (Abstract)
November 2	Luigi Rolly Bedin (E.S.O.) Mike Blanton (NYU)	Omega Centauri's Double Main Sequence (Abstract) Extremely Low Luminosity Galaxies in the Field (Abstract)
November 9	Paolo Tozzi (Trieste University)	The Multiwavelength Survey of the Chandra Deep Field South (Abstract)
November 16	Jennifer Carson	Gamma Rays from the Galactic Center
November 23	Atakan Gurkan (Northwestern)	Disruption of a Young Dense Cluster at the Galactic Center: Resolving the Youth Paradox
November 30	Alaina Henry Matt Malkan	ALMA -- The Next Generation of Millimeter and Submillimeter Astronomy Weighing the Central Black Holes in Distant Galaxies
December 7	Sebastian Heinz (MIT)	A Jet is a Jet, Big or Small: Connections Between Microquasars and AGN Jets (Abstract)

All speakers are from UCLA unless otherwise noted.
speakers please e-mail webmaster for presentation projector assistance

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