2011 Winter Term Journal Club Schedule


January 7, 2011
Discussion: How to Give a Good Talk

January 14, 2011
[AAS Week]:

January 21, 2011
Tseliakhovich, Dmitriy : "Title " Athena Stacy, Volker Bromm, Abraham Loeb, [arXiv:1011.4512] AND "Title " Maio et al. [arXiv:1011.4006]
Jones, Tucker: "A fundamental relation between mass, star formation rate and metallicity in local and high-redshift galaxies" [MNRAS]

January 28, 2011
Goncalves, Thiago: "Gas Properties in Starburst Galaxies at Low and High Redshift" Gonçalves et al., ApJ 2010, 724, 1373 and Daddi et al., ApJ 714, 118

February 4, 2011
Krause, Elisabeth : "Cluster galaxies dies quietly" von der Linden, Wild, Kauffmann et al. 2010 [MNRAS]
Manohar, Swarnima: "High-Redshift Metals. II. Probing Reionization Galaxies with Low-Ionization Absorption Lines at Redshift Six" George D. Becker et al [arXiv:1101.4399]

February 11, 2011
Zhang, Ke: "Using M Dwarf Spectra to Map Extinction in the Local Galaxy" [arXiv:1102.0280]
Morton, Timothy : "Overview of Kepler results" [arXiv:1102.0541] [arXiv:1102.0543] [arXiv:1102.0544] [arXiv:1102.0291] [arXiv:1102.0547] [arXiv:1102.0605]

February 18, 2011
Findeisen, Krzysztof : "On the Angular Momentum Evolution of Fully Convective Stars: Rotation Periods for Field M-Dwarfs From the MEarth Transit Survey" Jonathan Irwin, Zachory K. Berta, Christopher J. Burke, David Charbonneau, Philip Nutzman, Andrew A. Westand Emilio E. Falco [ ApJ]
Kasliwal, Mansi : "V1309 Scorpii: merger of a contact binary" R. Tylenda, M. Hajduk, T. Kamiski, A. Udalski, I. Soszyski, M. K. Szymaski, M. Kubiak, G. Pietrzyski, R. Poleski, . Wyrzykowski, K. Ulaczyk [arXiv:10012.0163]

February 25, 2011
Cody, Ann Marie : "SDSS-III: Massive Spectroscopic Surveys of the Distant Universe, the Milky Way Galaxy, and Extra-Solar Planetary Systems," Eisenstein et al. [arXiv:1101.1529] AND "The Eighth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Data from SDSS-III," SDSS-III collaboration [arXiv:1101.1559]
Mooley, Kunal: "The Extended Main-Sequence Turn-off Clusters of the Large Magellanic Cloud - Missing links in Globular Cluster Evolution" Keller, Mackey, Da Costa, [arXiv:1002.1723]

March 4, 2011
Ali-Haimoud, Yacine: "Time of primordial Be-7 conversion into Li-7, energy release and doublet of narrow cosmological neutrino lines" Khatri and Sunyaev [arXiv:1009.3932]
Perez, Laura: "Dust Ejection from Planetary Bodies by Temperature Gradients: Laboratory Experiments" Thorben Kelling, Gerhard Wurm, Miroslav Kocifaj, Jozef Klacka, Dennis Reiss [arXiv:1102.4525]

March 11, 2011
Tendulkar, Shriharsh: "Families of dynamically hot stellar systems over ten orders of magnitude in mass," I. Misgeld, M. Hilker [arXiv:1103.1628]
Schenker, Matthew: The Detectability of Lyman Alpha Emission from Galaxies during the Epoch of Reionization [arXiv:1101.5160]