Journal Club Schedule

All talks are in 370 Cahill at 4PM on Fridays, unless otherwise noted. Shri will give an "example" talk on the first day, followed by the graduate student talks for the rest of the year.

Instructors: Chris Hirata & Shri Kulkarni


October 1, 2010
Shri Kulkarni: "Renewal & Resurgence in Radio Astronomy: The APERTIF project."
Elisabeth Krause: "The M-Sigma Relation Derived from Sphere of Influence Arguments," D Batcheldor, ApJ 711, L108 (2010) [arXiv:1002.1705]

October 8, 2010 (4:30PM)
Dmitriy Tseliakhovich: "The nonlinear evolution of baryonic overdensities in the early universe: Initial conditions of numerical simulations," S Naoz, N Yoshida, & R Barkana, MNRAS submitted [arXiv:1009.0945]

October 15, 2010
Swarnima Manohar: "How Universal is the SFR - H2 Relation?" R Feldman, N Gnedin, & A Kravtsov, ApJ submitted [arXiv:1010.1539]
Varun Bhalerao: "The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR)." F Harrison et al, Proc SPIE 7732, pp. 77320S-77320S-8 (2010) [arXiv:1008.1362]

October 22, 2010
Walter Max-Moerbeck: "Investigating the Cosmic-Ray Ionization Rate Near the Supernova Remnant IC 443 Through H3+ Observations," N Indriolo et al (2010) [arXiv:1010.3252]
Drew Newman: "The Spectral Energy Distribution of Post-Starburst Galaxies in the NEWFIRM Medium-Band Survey: A Low Contribution from TP-AGB Stars," M Kriek et al, ApJ 722, L64 [arXiv:1008.4357]; "A Substantial Population of Low Mass Stars in Luminous Elliptical Galaxies," P van Dokkum & C Conroy, Nature accepted [arXiv:1009.5992]

November 5, 2010 (4:30PM)
Matthew Stevenson: "Structure in the Rotation Measure Sky," J Stil, A Taylor & C Sunstrum, ApJ accepted [arXiv:1010.5299]

November 12, 2010 (4:30PM)
Gwen Rudie: "Probing star formation across cosmic time with absorption line systems," B Menard, V Wild, D Nestor, A Quider & S Zibetti, MNRAS submitted [arXiv:0912.3263]

November 19, 2010
Krzysztof Findeisen: "Evidence for Terrestrial Planetary System Remnants at White Dwarfs," J Farihi, Invited Review at Planetary Systems Beyond the Main Sequence held in Bamberg, Germamy [arXiv:1010.6067]
Shriharsh Tendulkar: "Deployment of low-cost replicable laser adaptive optics on 1-3 meter class telescopes," C Baranec, R Dekany, S Kulkarni, N Law, E Ofek, M Kasliwal & V Velur, Astro2010 White Paper [2009astro2010T..14B]

December 3, 2010
Ryan Trainor: Measurements of the UV background at 4.6 < z < 6.4 using the quasar proximity effect, A Claverly et al. [arXiv:1011.5850]
Vera Gluscevic: "Interpreting Dark Matter Direct Detection Independently of the Local Velocity and Density Distribution," P Fox, G Kribs & T Tait [arXiv:1011.1910]

December 10, 2010 (3:30PM)
Samuel Lee: "Turning off the Lights: How Dark is Dark Matter?" S McDermott, H Yu & K Zurek [arXiv:1011.2907]