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 2010 Schedule

Ian J. Crossfield, coordinator
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Date
Speaker(s)
Title(s)
Mar 30
Quinn Konopacky

Orbital Dynamics of the HR 8799 Planetary System

Apr 6
Ben Zuckerman
Evidence for and delineation of the era of final catastrophic accretion of rocky planets around sun-like stars.
Apr 13
Sylvana Yelda

Michael Rich
It Might Be Here (IMBH) in Omega Centauri

Galex detects Remarkable Low Level Star Formation in Elliptical Galaxies
Apr 20
Rene Ong

Joel Kastner
The Rediscovery of Cygnus X-3

The Dusty Circumstellar Disks of B[e] Supergiants in the Magellanic Clouds (paper)
Apr 27
Julia Fang

Shane Frewen
Taming the no-longer-invisible Monster of epsilon Aurigae

Examining the the oldest field white dwarfs in our Galaxy
May 4
Linda Strubbe
Electromagnetic Flares from the Tidal Disruption of Stars by Massive Black Holes
May 11
Tom Esposito

Matt Wood
A Binary Core of a Planetary Nebula: Double-Degenerate Fun

Dark Matter Annihilation Searches in Local Group Galaxies with VERITAS
May 18
David Rodriguez

Speaker TBD
Truncated Disks in TW Hya Association Multiple Star Systems

Topic TBD
May 25
Chun Ly
The Universe as Viewed from Star Forming Galaxies over the Past Ten Billion Years
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The Energetic Messier 87
Jun 1
Jon Kemal

Ian Crossfield
Topic TBD

Astrometry and phase curves: the orbital configuration of the upsilon Andromedae system
Jun 8
Alberto Dominguez
Extragalactic Background Light inferred from AEGIS Galaxy SED-type Fractions


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


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  • ESS Planetary Lunch Series

  • Condensed Matter Journal Club

  • High Energy and Astroparticle Seminars

  • ESS Colloquia

  • IGPP Colloquia

  • Planetary Science Seminar

  • Space Physics


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