From CASS
Journal Club Talk Archive
Here are some of the past journal club talks. To see the list of current talks go here.
Spring 2012
June 15, 2012
- Title: "H-mode (high confinement mode) studies in tokamaks"
- Christopher Lee
- UCSD-CASS
June 8, 2012
- Pei-Chun's title: "Turbulent transport of momentum in the solar tachocline"
Wendell's title: "The ABCs of Supernovas"
- Pei-Chun Hsu
- UCSD-CASS
- Wendell Misch
June 1, 2012
- Lei's title: "Inter-species collisionless energy transfer by drift wave-zonal flow turbulence"
Yusuke's title: "Intrinsic Rotation Generation in Tokamak 'Engine'"
- Lei Zhao
- UCSD-CASS
- Yusuke Kosuga
May 25, 2012
- Zhibin's title: "Turbulent magnetic reconnection"
Scott's title: "The gaseous environment of high-z galaxies"
- Zhibin Guo
- Peking University & UCSD-CASS, respectively
- Scott Gustafson
May 18, 2012
- Jon's title: "Searching for Primordial B-modes from the South Pole
with the Keck Telescope"
Chang's title: "The interplay between primordial non-Gaussianity and
gravitational lensing"
- Jon Kaufman
- UCSD-CASS
- Chang Feng
May 11, 2012
- "Catching asteroids for fun and profit"
- Nathan Johnson
- UCSD-CASS
May 4, 2012
- Dave's title: "Exoplanet Atmospheres"
Daniella's title: "How to make an extremely low metallicity low-mass star"
- Dave Boettger
- UCSD-CASS
- Daniella Bardalez Gagliuffi
April 27, 2012
- Alexey's title: "Neutrino kinetics in supernovae and the early universe"
Stephanie's title: "Multi-chroic Dual-Polarization Bolometric Focal Plane
for Studies of the Cosmic Microwave Background"
- Alexey Vlasenko
- UCSD-CASS
- Stephanie Moyerman
April 20, 2012
- NOTE: Journal Club/Special CASS Meeting
- You're all invited to attend. We intend on holding a special meeting every quarter as an opportunity to share information about what's going on in CASS.
April 13, 2012
- Title TBA
- Richard Stancliffe
- Mt. Stromlo Observatory
April 6, 2012
- NOTE: Will be held in SERF 329
- "A Kerr Doppler Derivation: Is there Dark Matter in the Metric?"
- Sophia Inzunza-Cisneros
- MIT
Winter 2012
March 9, 2012
- "Pair Instability Supernovae"
- JJ Cherry
- UCSD-CASS
March 2, 2012
- "Dark Matter Velocity Anisotropy in Galaxy Clusters"
- Doron Lemze
- Johns Hopkins University
February 24, 2012
- Smith's: "Black Hole Jet Battle: Retrograde vs. Prograde"
So's: "Next Generation Computing Woes"
- Stephen Smith &
Geoffrey So
- UCSD-CASS
February 10, 2012
- Diamond-Stanic's: "The Biggest Black Holes in the Universe"; Michelsen's: "What's Not Wrong with Faster-than-Light Neutrinos"
- Aleks Diamond-Stanic &
Eric Michelsen
- UCSD-CASS
February 3, 2012
- "How to Referee a Paper"
- Alison Coil,
Kim Griest &
Adam Burgasser
- UCSD-CASS
January 27, 2012
- "Revisiting the Grand Design Spiral Galaxies"
- Kit Lee
- UCSD-CASS
January 20, 2012
- Cieplak's: TBA
Day's: "The Lyman-Alpha Forest in a Blazar-Heated Universe”
- Agnieszka Cieplak
- UCSD-CASS
- Aaron Day
January 13, 2012
- "Dark Radiation in the Early Universe"
- Evan Grohs
- UCSD-CASS
Fall 2011
December 2, 2011
- "Neutrinos: Cosmic Tricksters?"
- George Fuller,
UCSD-CASS
November 18, 2011
- "Early-type galaxies: the last 8 billion years"
- [SPECIAL ASTRO SEMINAR] Sugata Kaviraj, Sr. Research Fellow, Oxford University
November 4, 2011
- "Star Formation: Is Molecular Gas a Necessity?"
- Marcel Neeleman,
UCSD-CASS
October 28, 2011
- "Exploring the Geometry of Accreting Material in Active Galactic Nuclei"
- Liz Rivers,
UCSD-CASS
October 21, 2011
- "Dark Matter Parameters from Neutrino Telescopes"
- Katie Richardson,
UNM
October 14, 2011
- "Attempts to reconcile recent results in the direct detection of dark matter"
- Paul Hemphill,
UCSD-CASS
October 7, 2011
- "The Major and Minor Galaxy Merger Rates at z<1.5"
- Alex Mendez,
UCSD-CASS
September 30, 2011
- "The dependence of AGN accretion on host stellar mass and color"
- James Aird,
UCSD-CASS
September 23, 2011
- "Insight into extrasolar rocky planets from white dwarf stars"
- Carl Melis,
UCSD-CASS
Spring 2011
May 27, 2011
- "Low-metallicity DLA"
- Dr. Bryan Penprase,
Pomona College
May 6, 2011
- "Observable Signatures of Gas Accretion in Galaxy Halos"
- Kyle Stewart,
Postdoctoral Scholar
JPL
April 22, 2011
- "The Density PDF of Molecular Clouds and the Core Fragmentation Mass Function"
- Rick Wagner,
UC San Diego
Winter 2011
February 18, 2011
- "Bridges to Understanding Merging Galaxies"
- Robert da Silva,
Graduate Student,
UC Santa Cruz
February 11, 2011
- "The Baryonic Acoustic Feature and Redshift Distortions in the SDSS and BOSS LRG Samples"
- Eyal Kazin,
Graduate Student
NYU
January 28, 2011
- "Dark energy from interacting fermions"
- Gerard Stephenson, Jr.,
Adjunct Professor
Physics & Astronomy
UNM
January 21, 2011
- "Galaxy Mergers: Black Hole Accretion, Star Formation, and Feedback"
- Hai Fu,
Caltech
Fall 2010 & Earlier
November 3, 2009
- "X-ray Spectroscopy of the High Mass X-ray Binary GX 301-2"
- Richard Rothschild,
UCSD-CASS
November 10, 2009
- "The Distribution of Thermal Pressures in the Diffuse Interstellar Medium of our Galaxy"
- [SPECIAL ASTRO SEMINAR] Edward Jenkins, Princeton University
November 17, 2009
- "Nature vs. Nurture in Galaxy Formation Simulations"
- Marcel Haas
November 24, 2009
- "The Kinematics and Geometry of Galactic Winds at z~1"
- Kate Rubin
December 1, 2009
- No Journal Club
December 8, 2009
- "Galaxy Mergers in Phase Space"
- Robyn Sanderson, MIT
January 8, 2010
- "What does the Higgs boson have to do with reverse causation?"
- JJ Cherry, UCSD-CASS
January 15, 2010
- "Women in Astronomy 2009: Report for the Baltimore Meeting"
- Adam Burgasser, UCSD-CASS
January 22, 2010
- No Journal Club
January 29, 2010
- "Testing Magnetic Star Formation Theory"
- David Collins, UCSD-CASS
February 5, 2010
- "Past, Present, and Future of CMB Polarization Experiments"
- Nate Miller, UCSD-CASS
February 12, 2010
- No Journal Club
February 19, 2010
- Special Astro Seminar 12:00-1:00PM in SERF 280
- Journal Club Cancelled
February 26, 2010
- "Classical and Recurrent Novae"
- Rebekah Hounsell, Liverpool John Moores Univ.
March 5, 2010
- "New Results at High Redshift Enabled by the Latest Hubble Servicing Mission"
- Marc Rafelski, UCSD-CASS
March 12, 2010
- "WMAP7"
- Meir Shimon, UCSD-CASS
April 2, 2010
- "Gravitational Waves and LIGO."
- Alex Mendez, UCSD-CASS
April 9, 2010
- "A Brief Overview of Baryon Acoustic Oscillations"
- Geoffrey So, UCSD-CASS
April 16, 2010
- "Using G-dot to Constrain Theories with Extra Dimensions"
- Nathan Johnson, UCSD-CASS
April 23, 2010
- "Big science from little stars: What we can learn from the Volkswagens of the Milky Way"
- Andrew West, Boston Univ.
April 30, 2010
- "Spectrographs HIRES and UVES: Not good enough"
- Jonathan Whitmore, UCSD-CASS
May 7, 2010
- "Active Galactic Nuclei: A Broadband Overview"
- Liz Rivers, UCSD-CASS
May 14, 2010
- "Theories of Dark Energy"
- Kim Griest, UCSD-CASS
May 21, 2010
- "Using CMB Polarization Telescopes for Galactic Plane Surveys"
- Darcy Barron, UCSD-CASS
May 28, 2010
- "Atmospheric Halos et al."
- Slawomir Suchy, UCSD-CASS
June 4, 2010
- "Nuclear De-exitation into Neutrino Pairs: A Relaxing Introduction"
- Wendell Misch, UCSD-CASS
October 1, 2010
- No Journal Club
October 8, 2010
- "State of the Art Supernova Modeling: Welcome to the Jungle"
- JJ Cherry, UCSD-CASS
October 15, 2010
- "The Spitzer Deep, Wide-Field Survey: From Brown Dwarfs to Reionization, and Everything In Between"
- Daniel Stern, JPL
October 22, 2010
- TASC Practice Talks
- Various
October 29, 2010
- No Journal Club
November 5, 2010
- "Weak Interactions in Big Bang Nucleosynthesis"
- Evan Grohs, UCSD-CASS
November 12, 2010
- *CANCELLED*
- Agnieszka Cieplak, UCSD-CASS
November 19, 2010
- "The AGN Star Formation Connection in Clusters of Galaxies From Multiwavelength Photometry"
- David Atlee, OSU
November 26, 2010
- Thanksgiving Break
- No Journal Club
December 3, 2010
- WILL BE HELD IN SERF 280
- Michelle Fumagalli, UCSC