Astrophysics Journal Club

Astrophysics Journal Club meetings are held in Room 2-434 of the Physics and Astronomy Building from 1:00-2:00pm every Tuesday of the academic year.

Kathy Kornei, coordinator

Date	Speaker(s)	Title(s)
Apr 01	Dan Werthimer (UCB, Space Sciences Laboratory)	Is Anybody Out There? Searching for ET with Five Million SETI@Home Volunteers
Apr 08	Brad Hansen	The White Dwarf Cooling Sequence in NGC 6397
Apr 15	Cancelled
Apr 22	Cancelled
Apr 29	Taft Armandroff (W.M. Keck Observatory)	Progress and Prospects at the W. M. Keck Observatory
May 06	Dave Silva (Observatory Scientist, TMT)	Stellar Populations in Early-Type Galaxies: New Windows at 2.2 Microns
May 13	Emily Rice Andreas Koch	Sex, Lies, and Near-Infrared Spectra: What is Sigma Ori 70? Small-Scale Chemical Evolution in Small-Scale Dwarf Spheroidals
May 20	Alice Shapley	Metallicities and Physical Conditions in Star-Forming Galaxies at High Redshift
May 27	Ben Zuckerman Kristin Kulas	Planetary Systems Around Close Binary Stars: The Remarkable BD+20 307 The SDSS Discovery Of A Strongly Lensed Post-Starburst Galaxy At z=0.766
Jun 03	Andrea Stolte	Orbits, Red Sources, and Mysteries of the Galactic Center Arches Cluster

All speakers are from UCLA unless otherwise noted.
Speakers please e-mail Journal Club coordinator for presentation projector assistance.

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Last updated: Wednesday, 20-Aug-2008 18:10:01 PDT