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.

Chao-Wei Tsai, coordinator

Date	Speakers	Titles
January 10	AAS 207th Meeting in Washington, DC. No Journal Club this week.
January 17	Mike Muno Seth Hornstein	A Neutron Star with a Massive Progenitor in the Star Cluster Westerlund I TBA (Teaching in Astronomy)
January 24	Dr. Yuan Chi (ASIAA)	Bar-driven Instability and Evolution of Galactic Gaseous Disks (Abstract)
January 31	Nate McCrady	Massive Young Super Star Clusters -- Explorations with a Laser
February 7	Mike McElwain	Young Brown Dwarfs and Giant Planets
February 14	Mike Jura Alex Jarvis	Are We Alone in the Carbon Desert? Gamma-Ray Bursts and Life on Earth
February 21	Jessica Lu Quinn Konopacky	50 Intermediate-Mass Black Holes at the Galactic Center The Young and the Restless: The Controversy Over AB Dor
February 28	Tuan Do Erin Smith	A View of Andromeda from the Spitzer Space Telescope Spying on the neighbors: Microlensing surveys and planet searches
March 7	Travis Barman Ryan Mallery	The New Transiting Extrasolar Planet: HD 189733 b Galactic Metal
March 14	Stan Metchev	Sub-Stellar Companions to Young Stars: Frequency and Properties

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

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Last updated: Wednesday, 02-Feb-2006 10:49:03 PDT