Frontiers of Astrophysics, Journal Club
Fall 2008
Fri @ 12-1 p.m., Room 7 Bryant
DATE |
SPEAKER |
TITLE |
References, Additional info. |
Aug 29 Frontiers |
Jonathan Tan |
Massive star formation through the universe |
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Aug 29 JC |
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Sept 5 Frontiers |
Anthony Gonzalez |
Surveys, Galaxies, and Galaxy Clusters |
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Sept 5 JC |
Conor Mancone |
Origin of multiple stellar populations in globular clusters and their
helium enrichment |
Alvio Renzini (2008), arXiv:0808.4095
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Sept 12 Frontiers |
Elizabeth Lada |
Embedded Star Clusters |
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Sept 12 JC |
Knicole Colon |
The Atmospheric Signatures of Super-Earths: How to Distinguish Between Hydrogen-Rich and Hydrogen-Poor Atmospheres |
E. Miller-Ricci, D. Sasselov, S. Seager http://arxiv.org/abs/0808.1902
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Sept 19 |
No talks |
Reitz Union Grad Student Presentation Day |
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Sept 26 Frontiers |
Sara Gonzalez |
Update on Library Resources |
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Sept 26 JC |
Jason Ybarra |
The directional analysis of star clusters |
A. Cartwright and A. P. Whitworth, MNRAS 2008, in press
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Oct 3 Frontiers |
Charlie Telesco |
Fun with CanariCam on the GTC |
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Oct 3 JC |
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Oct 10 Frontiers |
Fred Hamann |
Outflows from AGN |
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Oct 10 JC |
Izaskun San Roman |
The Triangulum Stream |
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Oct 17 JC |
David Vollbach |
HST Morphologies of Local Lyman Break Analogies: Evidence for Starbursts Triggered by Merging |
Overzier, Heckman, Kauffmann et al. 2008
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Oct 17 JC |
Dan Li |
Planet formation around stars of various masses: the snow line and the
frequency of giant planets. |
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Oct 24 |
No talks |
Univ. Holiday |
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Oct 31 Frontiers |
Eric Ford |
Introduction to Exoplanet Research |
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Oct 31 JC |
Mark Keremedjiev |
Systematic Uncertainties in Black Hole Masses Determined from Single Epoch Spectra |
arXiv: 0810.3234
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Nov 7 Frontiers |
Vicki Sarajedini |
Introduction to AGN research |
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Nov 7 JC |
Nestor Lasso |
2 years of integral monitoring of GRS 1915+105. I. Multiwavelength
coverage with integral, RXTE, and the Ryle radio telescope |
Rodriguez et al. 2008
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Nov 14 Frontiers |
Ata Sarejedini |
Introduction to Stellar Populations Research |
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Nov 14 JC |
Soung-Chul Yang |
A complete N-body Model of the old open cluster M67 |
(Hurley et al, MNRAS 2005)
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Nov 21 Frontiers |
Oleg Kargaltsev |
Introduction to High Energy Astrophysics Research |
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Nov 21 JC |
Ji Wang |
Approaches to More Precise Radial Velocity Measurement |
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Nov 28 |
No talks |
Thanksgiving |
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Dec 5 Frontiers |
Reba Bandyopadhyay |
Introduction to Galactic Center Research |
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Dec 5 JC |
Dan Gettings |
The Extragalactic Distance Scale Without Cepheids |
Mould et al.
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