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
January 11	No Meeting this Week	AAS Meeting in San Diego
January 18	Mike Muno	A Swarm of Black Holes at the Galactic Center
January 25	Mike Jura	Do White Dwarfs Have Asteroids?
February 1	Xi Chen Ned Wright	Dynamical Evolution of Barred Galaxies Fact & Fiction in Cosmology
February 8	Ian McLean James Larkin	15 years of Infrared Instrument Development at UCLA OSIRIS and the Future of Integral Field Spectrographs
February 15	Eddie Laag (UC Riverside) Chun Ly	Characterizing Morphologies and Energy Sources of Distant Luminous Infrared Galaxies with AO SKA: The International Radiotelescope for the 21st Century
February 22	Tommaso Treu Jessica Lu	SLACS: The Strong Lenses Factory SINFONI in the Galactic Center: Young Stars and IR Flares in the Central Light Month
March 1	Tuan Do Travis Barman	First Science from Cassini Modeling the Heated Atmospheres of Cool Dwarfs with Hot Companions
March 8	Kartik Sheth (Caltech: Spitzer Science Center)	Tracing the Evolution of Disk Galaxies: From CO Detection of Your 'Garden-Variety' Submillimter Galaxy to the Cosmic Evolution of Bars
March 15	Jeffrey Zweerink Steve Berukoff	A Matter of Days Cometary Water Production: Implications for Solar System Studies

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

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Last updated: Tuesday, 22-Mar-2005 18:10:00 PST