Astrophysics Journal Club

Astrophysics Journal Club meetings are held in Room 2-748 Physics and Astronomy Building from 1:00-2:00pm every Tuesday of the academic season.

Chao-Wei Tsai, coordinator

Date	Speakers	Titles
April 04	Samir Salim Ben Zuckerman	Origin of Elliptical Galaxies - Recent Results From Paranal to Patagonia: Chile from Top to Toe
April 11	Emily Rice Jessica Lu	On Location Planetarium Update Journey to the Center of the Milky Way [!] This Journal Club will be held in Planetarium (Room MS 8224) located on the 8th floor of the Math Sciences Building
April 18	Elise Furlan	Dust Evolution in Protoplanetary Disks Observed with Spitzer-IRS
April 25	Dr. Andrew Gould (Ohio State Univ.)	Microlensing Planets: Cold Neptunes and Beyond (Abstract)
May 02	Ian McLean Chun Ly	Instrumentation at the W. M. Keck Observatory - the UCLA contribution The Jet of M87
May 09	Dr. Livia Origlia (U. of Bologna)	Chemical Abundances in Young Stellar Clusters and Galaxies (Abstract)
May 16	Gamma Ray Group Stephen Fegan Matthew Wood	Mini Series: Gamma Ray Astronmy (I) & (II) Ground-based Gamma-ray Astronomy with VERITAS Microquasars: A New Class of VHE Gamma-ray Sources
May 23	Gamma Ray Group Amanda Weinstein Yeuk Chun (Ken) Chow	Mini Series: Gamma Ray Astronmy (III) & (IV) [!] Canceled Recent VHE Observations of AGNs
May 30	David Cline Mike McElwain	Study of Very Short Gamma Ray Bursts (Abstract) A Characterization of Dusty Debris Disks
June 06	Renaud Belmont	Heating mechanisms in magnetized disks: from microquasars to the Galactic Center

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

Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day
Image from http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

Last updated: Wednesday, 02-Feb-2006 10:48:35 PDT