UNLV Astro Journal Club Schedule for Fall 2013

Tuesdays at 12:15 pm in the Dept. Conference Room (217)

Date

Speaker

Journal/Talk Title

09/03
Gao He
Multi-messenger signals from NS-NS mergers
09/10
K. Nagamine
BH Accretion, FB Efficiencies & Thermal Instability: a step to modeling AGN feedback
09/17
Jared Rice
Radiative Transfer and Radiative Driving of Outflows in AGN and Starbursts.
09/24
Dr. Hui Li
A Model for Astrophysical Jet and Lobe System
10/01
Bing Zhang
To B or not to B, that is the question:
The Case of Magnetically Dominated Outflow Models of GRB Prompt Emission
10/08
Daniel Proga
The Physics of Winds from Black Hole Accretion Disks
10/15

Cancelled
10/22
Houjun Lu
Exploring the difference between a Magnetar and a BH central engine from GRB afterglows
10/29

Cancelled
11/05
Ye Li
An Unobscured Type II Quasar Candidate: SDSS 012032.2-005501.9
11/12

Cancelled
11/19
Deng Wei
Relativistic Magnetic Reconnection
11/26
John Boisvert
Tully-Fisher Relation: Determined using an Inclination-Free MLE Method
12/03
Keita Todoroki
The Antikythera Mechanism from Ancient Greece
12/10
Sandamali W.