Astrophysics Journal Club



Astrophysics Journal Club meetings are held in Room 8349 Math Sciences from 1:00-2:00pm every Tuesday of the academic season.



Spring 2003 Schedule

Dave Cline and Katsushi Arisaka, coordinators


Date
Speakers
Titles
April 1
 
David Cline  

The Davis Cosmic Inflation Meeting
April 8
Sarah Seager  
OCIW
Characterizing Extrasolar Planets
 
April 15
Kevin Lee  
Todd Thompson UC Berkeley
OMNIS Progress
Shock Breakout in Core-Collapse Supernovae and its Neutrino Signature
April 22
Ned Wright    
WISE and WMAP 
April 29
Ben Zuckerman  
Adam Burgasser  
Galapagos Forever
How to Access 2MASS Data Products
May 6
Floyd Stecker NASA

Gaspard Duchene  
Testing Lorentz Invariance with High Energy Cosmic Gamma-Rays
-- Implications for Quantum Gravity and Extra Dimensions
Open issues in local formation : highlights from Ouro Preto
May 13
Ciska Kemper  
Graciela Gelmini  
Mass-loss modulations of AGB stars traced in rotational transitions of CO
Detection of Subdominant Dark Matter
May 20
Tapas Kumar Das  
Behavior of Matter Close to the Black Hole Event Horizon
May 27
Michael Rich  
Katsushi Arisaka
The Galaxy Evolution Explorer
Ultra High Energy Astronomy by Charged Particles & Neutrinos
June 3
Rick Edelson
Alex Kusenko
The Lobster-ISS X-ray All-Sky Monitor
Dark Matters


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


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