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.


Fall 2005 Schedule

Chao-Wei Tsai, coordinator


Date
Speakers
 Titles
October 4
Matt Malkan
 The People's Choice Journal Club II:
Review of the Leiden AGN Workshop
October 11
Jean Turner

Miguel Reguena
(DAMIR-IEM-CSIC , Spain) 
The Latest on ALMA from Santiago

Alcohol Chemistry in the Center of our Galaxy

October 18
Ned Wright  
What's New in Cosmology?

NOTE

 The talk of Dr. Hans Krimm (GSFC, NASA)  (originally scheduled on Oct 18st) with title
"Swift: Results from (nearly) the First Year of the Mission"
has been cancelled.
October 25
Marc Rafelski
Tuan DO
 Mike Brown's discoveries of Planetary Sized Objects in the Kuiper Belt
Possible Spectroscopic Biosignatures for Future Observations of Extrasolar Terrestrial Planets
November 1
Dr. Scott Gaudi
(CfA) 
Transit Searches for Extrasolar Planets: Properties, Pitfalls, Payoffs, and Promises (Abstract)

NOTE

 The talk of Dr. Daisuke Kawata (OCIW)  (originally scheduled on Nov 1st) with title
"Multi-wavelength studies of galaxy formation with GCD+"
has been rescheduled to November 2nd (Colloquium time).
November 8
Mark Morris
Peter Plavchan
 The Double Helix Nebula: a torsional Alfven wave or a transient, force-free magnetic field structure?
An Odyssey of Near-Infrared Variability: The 2MASS Calibration Fields
November 15
Eugene Chen
Emily Rice
 Stellar Convectioin
UCLA Planetarium Update
November 22
No meeting this week. Happy Thanksgiving!
November 29
Emily Rice,
Quinn Konopacky,
Stan Metchev,
Peter Plavchan,
Steve Berukoff
Journal Club Special: Highlights in Protostars and Planets V Conference
December 6
Masao Mori

Dr. Giovanni Fossati
(Rice U.) 
Physical Connection among Lyman Alpha Emitters, Lyman Break Galaxies, and Present-day Elliptical Galaxies

Challenges to the common-wisdom model for blazar emission from X-ray/TeV simultaneous observations


All speakers are from UCLA unless otherwise noted.
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