Astrophysics Journal Club

Astrophysics Journal Club meetings are held in Room 1-434A of the Physics and Astronomy Building from 1:00-1:50pm every Tuesday of the academic year.



Winter 2012 Schedule

Siyi Xu, coordinator


Date
Speaker(s)
Title(s)
Jan. 10
AAS
No Journal Club


Jan. 17
Kim Phifer

Mike Rich
NGC 6778: a disrupted planetary nebula around a binary central star

Discovery of a Tidally Disrupting Dwarf Galaxy near NGC 4449
Jan. 24
Michelle Kislak

Sean Lake
Feedback Effects on Low-Mass Star Formation

An Empirical Model for Galaxy Evolution: the Origin of the Schechter Function
Jan. 31
Anna Pancoast
UCSB
How to Measure Black Hole Masses and Other Interesting Properties of Active Galaxies
Feb. 7
Yat-Tien Lee

Takashi Hattori
Subaru Observatory
A newly-discovered young massive star cluster at the far end of the Galactic Bar

Optical Integral Field Spectroscopy of NGC7469 with Subaru/Kyoto-3DII
Feb. 14
Mark Morris
PIGs, EGGs, Proplyds and a Tadpole: Making Sense of the Interstellar Menagerie
Feb. 21
Laura Vican

Ben Zuckerman
TBD

Summary of January 2012 Arecibo meeting "Planets around stellar remnants"
Feb. 28
Kristin Kulas

Betsy Mills
Molecular Hydrogen in Lyman Alpha Emitters

TBD
Mar. 6
Tom Esposito

Kevin Hainline
TBD

TBD
Mar. 13
Leo Meyer

TBD
From Black Holes to Black-Scholes (and back)

TBD


All speakers are from UCLA unless otherwise noted.
Speakers please e-mail Journal Club coordinator for presentation projector assistance.
| sxu at astro dot ucla dot edu |


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