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
April 5	Brad Hansen	Some Like it Hot
April 12	Matthew Barczys David Sand (Caltech)	Titan Imaging by Cassini A Systematic Search for Gravitationally Lensed Arcs in the HST/WFPC2 Archive
April 19	Priya Natarajan (Yale)	The Nature of Dark Matter from Cluster Lensing
April 26	Chao-Wei Tsai Matthew Wood	Sub-systems of Galactic Globular Clusters Recent Results from the Search for Neutrino Point Sources with AMANDA-II
May 3	Jong-Hak Woo (Yale)	Active Black Holes and the Evolution of Their Host Galaxies
May 10	David Cline Ben Zuckerman	A New Hope for Underground Science in the USA: DUSEL, Proton Decay, and Neutrinos High-Resolution Imaging of Young Planets
May 17	Yoshiaki Kato (Center for Computational Science, Tsukuba University, Japan)	Evolution of Accretion Disks and Formation of Magnetic-Tower Jets
May 24	Ryan Mallery Seth Hornstein	Wormholes IRS13E: An Intermediate Mass Black Hole at the Galactic Center?
May 31	Shelley Wright Sarah Gallagher	Astronomical Paper Chase: Who's on Top, Why, and What Does it Get Them? Mid-Infrared Constraints on Big Donuts
June 7	Donald Yeomens (NASA NEO Program Head)	The Threat From Space: The Prospects of Giant Meteor Impacts and What We're Doing About Them (Northwest Auditorium - go up to the end of Bruin Walk (past the tennis center, up a large hill), cross Circle Drive - NWA is just west of Sproul Hall)

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

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Last updated: Monday, 12-Sep-2005 18:10:00 PDT