Astrophysics Journal Club



Astrophysics Journal Club meetings are held in Room 2-434 of the Physics and Astronomy Building from 1:00-1:50pm every Tuesday of the academic year.



Spring 2009 Schedule

Betsy Mills, coordinator


Date
Speaker(s)
Title(s)
Mar 31
No speaker
Cancelled for Prospective student visit
Apr 7 Abby Goodhue

TBD
The Anita Experiment: An Ultra High-Energy Neutrino Telescope
April 14
CANCELLED
April 21
Breann Sitarski

Elena Gallo
MIT
Integral Field Spectroscopy of the Bipolar Jet from the Herbig Ae Star LkH-alpha 233

Nuclear X-ray emission from early type galaxies: Weighting faint super-massive black holes against bright X-ray binaries
April 28 Amanda Weinstein

Greg Mace
Studying the Extreme Universe with VERITAS

Models of Terrestrial Planet Formation in Warm-Jupiter Systems
May 5 Christopher Crockett
Lowell Observatory

Kevin Hainline
A Search for Young Planetary Systems

Lensed Star-Forming Galaxies at High Redshift

May 12
Nate McCrady

Sean Lake
State of the Profession: Education, Employment, and Careers in Astronomy

WISE, a Project Overview

May 19
Kristin Kulas

Quinn Konopacky
Star Formation in Extremely Faint Dwarf Galaxies

Exploring Brown Dwarfs: Masses, Spectra, and Model Predictions

May 26
Jeff Chilcote

Ian Crossfield
A Review of Huble Space Telecope Servicing Mission 4

Massive Planets, Massive Stars

June 2
Beth Klein

Lauren Holzbauer
Bulk Composition of an Extrasolar Minor Planet

The First Stars


All speakers are from UCLA unless otherwise noted.
Speakers please e-mail Journal Club coordinator for presentation projector assistance.
| millsb at astro dot ucla dot edu |


Other Related Colloquium Web Pages:

  • Astrophysics Colloquium

  • Physics Colloquium

  • Condensed Matter Journal Club

  • High Energy and Astroparticle Seminars

  • ESS Colloquia

  • IGPP Colloquia

  • Planetary Science Seminar

  • Space Physics


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