Past Journal Club Talks

 

Spring 2007

January 22: Bing Zhang: GRB Models

Jan. 29: Ken Nagamine: Report from Kennicutt-Schmidt Workshop

Feb. 5: Daniel Proga: Hot and cold gas accretion and feedback in  radio-loud active galaxies

Feb. 12: Bing Zhang & Nayantara Gupta: Report from GLAST meeting

Feb. 26: George Rhee: “The sloan lens arc survey” by Gavazzi et al. (astro-ph/0701589)

March 5: Francisco Virgili: “Constraints on Dynamical Dark Energy Models 

Including Gamma Ray Bursts” by Li et al. (astro-ph/0612060)

March 19: Ryuichi Kurosawa

March 26: Nayantara Gupta

April 2: Diane Pyper Smith: "CU Virginis - The First Stellar Pulsar" by B.J. Kellett, et al. (astro-ph/071214)

April 9: George Rhee: Conference summary

April 16: David Whitehead

April 23: Binbin Zhang

April 30: Agnieska Janiuk: "Feedback from supercritical disk accretion flows: two-dimensional radiation-hydrodynamic simulations of stable and unstable disks with radiatively driven outflows" (astro-ph/0703103)

May 7: Tae-Song Lee: Cross Correlation between DLAs and LBGs


Fall 2006

Dec 11: Amanda Maxham: Detection of Periodic Signatures in the Solar Power Spectrum. On the track of  l=1 Gravity Mode

Dec 4: Ryuichi Kurosawa: Evolution of VeryMassive Stars and Pop III Stars

Nov 27: Daniel Proga: Pulsar spins and the accretion shock of  Supernovae

Nov 20: Agnieszka Janiuk: Neutrino cooled disk around a spinning black hole

Nov 13: Francisco Virgili: Supermassive Black Hole in a Dwarf Elliptical

Nov 6: David Whitehead: Observations of cataclysmic variables

Oct 30: Enwei Liang: A comprehensive analysis of GRB 060218

Oct 23: Bernard Zygelman: Probing the  dark age universe

Oct 16: Ken Nagamine: What are damped Ly-α systems?

Oct 9: Nayantara Gupta: Neutrino  production and p-gamma interactions

Oct 2: George Rhee: Probing the dark matter halos of galaxies

Sep 25: Daniel Proga: Growing Supermassive Black Holes