Below is a listing of speakers and topics from past semesters of [[:journal club]]. You can use the table of contents at right to navigate.

====== Fall 2011 Schedule ======

^ Date ^ Speaker ^ Status ^ Topic ^
|  8/26 | **Signup / organizational meeting** |||
|   9/2 | **No Journal Club — Labor Day weekend** |||
|   9/9 |Eric Huff | G | [[http://arxiv.org/abs/1109.1217|Are SMBHs shrowded by "Super-Oort" clouds of comets and asteroids?]] |
|     . |Mike McCourt | G | [[http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011Natur.476...69J|Forming the lunar farside highlands by accretion of a companion moon]] |
|  9/16 | | | |
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|  9/23 |Janos Botyanszki | G | [[http://arxiv.org/abs/1108.3664v1|Circumstellar Material in Type Ia Supernovae via Sodium Absorption Features]] |
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|  9/30 |James McBride | G | [[http://www.nature.com/doifinder/10.1038/nature10364|A close nuclear black-hole pair in the spiral galaxy NGC 3393]] |
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|  10/7 | | | |
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| 10/14 |Jon Pober | G | [[http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011arXiv1108.1474A|21 cm observation of LSS at z~1 Instrument sensitivity and foreground subtraction]] |
|     . |Jacob Lynn | G | [[http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.1644|Super-Eccentric Migrating Jupiters]] |
| 10/21 |Jason Dexter | P | [[http://arxiv.org/abs/1109.6660|Observing Lense-Thirring Precession in Tidal Disruption Flares]] |
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| 10/28 |Karto Keating | G | [[http://iopscience.iop.org/0004-637X/508/1/157|Electric Dipole Radiation from Spinning Dust Grains]] |
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|  11/4 |Kartik Kumar | G | [[ http://www.sciencemag.org/content/333/6049/1602 | Kepler-16: A Transiting Circumbinary Planet ]] ; [[http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011ApJ...741L...1W|Spin-Orbit Alignment for the Circumbinary Planet Host Kepler-16 A]] |
|     . |Brad Cenko | P | [[http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.0007|A revised view of the transient radio sky]] |
| 11/11 | **No Journal Club — Veteran's Day** |||
| 11/18 |Statia Luszcz| G | Are we headed for another Little Ice Age? [[http://iopscience.iop.org/0004-637X/724/2/1021/|1]] [[http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v4/n11/full/ngeo1282.html|2]] [[http://www.agu.org/journals/gl/gl1119/2011GL049328/|3]] |
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| 11/25 | **No Journal Club — Thanksgiving** |||
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|  12/2 |Eileen Meyer | V | TBA |
|     . | | | Full-hour talk |

====== Spring 2011 Schedule ======

^ Date ^ Speaker ^ Status ^ Topic ^
| Jan 21  | Charlie Conroy | Job Candidate | The Stellar Initial Mass Function Is Not Universal |
|        | Administration |  | **Speaker Sign-Up** |
| Jan 28  | Eugene Chiang | F | [[http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010ApJ...714L.238B|Inflating Hot Jupiters with Ohmic Dissipation]] (Batygin & Stevenson, 2010) |
|        | Chat Hull | G | [[http://arxiv.org/abs/1101.2892|Probing Reionization with Intensity Mapping of Molecular and Fine Structure Lines]] (Gong et al, 2011) \\ [[http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010Natur.466..463C|An intensity map of hydrogen 21-cm emission at redshift z ≈ 0.8]] (Chang et al, 2010) |
| Feb 4  | Lucianne Walkowicz | P | Getting Started with Kepler Data |
|        | Therese Jones | G | [[http://arxiv.org/abs/1102.0262|Physics of Coevolution of Galaxies and Supermassive Black Holes]] (Cen, 2011) |
| Feb 11  | Dave DeBoer | R | [[http://arxiv.org/abs/1102.0745|Intensity mapping of molecular gas during cosmic reionization]] (Carilli, 2011) |
|        | Sloane Wiktorowicz | P | [[http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010Natur.468.1080M|Images of a fourth planet orbiting HR 8799]] (Marois et al., 2010) |
| Feb 18  | Phil Hopkins | P | [[http://arxiv.org/abs/1102.2913|Feedback in Luminous Obscured Quasars]] (Greene et al., 2011) |
|        | Mike Wong | R | [[http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2010GL045389|Oxygen flux in the solar wind: Ulysses observations]] (von Steiger et al., 2010) |
| Feb 25  | Brendon Brewer | Visitor | **Non-JC visitor seminar**: “Direct Modelling of Reverberation Mapping Data” |
| Mar 4  |  |  | **No journal club; prospective student visit**  | 
| Mar 11  | Peter Williams | G | [[http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011ApJ...727..129A|Insights into the High-energy γ-ray Emission of Markarian 501 from Extensive Multifrequency Observations in the Fermi Era]] (Abdo et al., 2011) |
|        | Nathan Roth | G | [[http://arxiv.org/abs/1102.4090|Three-dimensional simulation of massive star formation in the disk accretion scenario]] (Kuiper et al., 2011) |
| Mar 18  | Ken Shen | P | [[http://arxiv.org/abs/1101.5132|Prelude to a double degenerate merger: the onset of mass transfer and its impact on gravitational waves and surface detonations]] (Dan et al., 2011) |
|        | Mo Ganesh | G | [[http://arxiv.org/abs/1103.2153|Broad-Line Reverberation in the Kepler-Field Seyfert Galaxy ZW 229-015]] (Barth et al., 2011) |
| Mar 25 |  |  | **No Journal Club: Spring Break**  |
| Apr 1  | Josh Bloom | F | [[http://arxiv.org/abs/1102.1429|Radio transients from stellar tidal disruption by massive black holes]] (Giannios & Metzger, 2011) |
|        | Jacob Lynn | G | [[http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011ApJ...728L..28E|Evidence for Particle Acceleration to the Knee of the Cosmic Ray Spectrum in Tycho's Supernova Remnant]] (Eriksen et al., 2011) |
| Apr 8  | Amber Bauermeister | G | [[http://arxiv.org/abs/1104.0879|Testing the comet nature of main belt comets. The spectra of 133P/Elst-Pizarro and 176P/LINEAR]] (Licandro et al., 2011) |
|        |  |  | cancellation |
| Apr 15  | Josiah Schwab | G | [[http://arxiv.org/abs/1104.0252|Supernova Fallback onto Magnetars and Propeller-Powered Supernovae]] (Piro & Ott, 2011) |
|        | Matt George | G | [[http://arxiv.org/abs/1103.4788|Water Masers in the Andromeda Galaxy: The First Step Toward Proper Motion]] (Darling, 2011) |
| Apr 22  | Meredith Hughes | P | [[http://arxiv.org/abs/1012.3500|IR variability in disks with gaps and holes: caused by planets?]] (Espaillat et al, 2011) |
|        | Jonnie Pober | G | [[http://arxiv.org/abs/1101.3314|The first (nearly) model-independent constraint on the neutral hydrogen fraction at z~5--6]] (McGreer et al., 2011) |
| Apr 29  | Máté Ádámkovics | Rockstar | [[http://arxiv.org/abs/1104.4977|On the formation location of Uranus and Neptune as constrained by dynamical and chemical models of comets]] (Kavelaars et al., 2011) |
|        |  |  | TBD |

====== Fall 2010 Schedule ======

^ Date ^ Speaker ^ Status ^ Topic ^
| Sep 3  | James McBride | G | [[http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010Natur.464..733S|Intense star formation within resolved compact regions in a galaxy at z = 2.3]] & [[http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010arXiv1008.3183D|The Properties of the Interstellar Medium within a Star-Forming Galaxy at z=2.3]]|
|        | (no 2nd speaker) |  |  |
| Sep 10 | Jeff Silverman | G | UC Berkeley Astronomy Public Outreach |
|        | (no 2nd speaker) |  |  |
| Sep 17 | **Cancelled** |  |  |
| Sep 24 | Matt McQuinn | P | [[http://arxiv.org/abs/1007.4195|Nonspherical similarity solutions for dark halo formation]] |
|        | Adam Miller | G | [[http://arxiv.org/abs/1009.3265|The bulk of the black hole growth since z~1 occurs in a secular universe: No merger-AGN connection]] |
| Oct 1  | Chung-Pei Ma | F | Everything you wanted to know about publishing ... |
|        | Paul Kalas | F | ... and more |
| Oct 8  | Margaret Pan | P | [[http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010MNRAS.407.1301B|On the size distribution of supernova remnants in the Magellanic Clouds]] |
|        | Katie Silverio | G | [[http://arxiv.org/abs/1002.4875v2|Habitable Climates: The Influence of Eccentricity]] |
| Oct 15 | **Guest Speaker** | -- | Steve Rawlings (Oxford) |
| Oct 22 | Nicholas McConnell | G | [[http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2003ApJ...583L...5N|Quasars Hosting 10^10 Solar-Mass Black Holes]] |
|        | Mike Kuhlen | P | [[http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010MNRAS.401.2463R|Computational Eulerian hydrodynamics and Galilean invariance]] |
| Oct 29 | Brad Cenko | P | [[http://arxiv.org/abs/1009.5992|A Substantial Population of Low Mass Stars in Luminous Elliptical Galaxies]] |
|        | Chris Klein | G | [[http://arxiv.org/abs/1010.3018v1|Revisiting the Hubble sequence in the SDSS DR7 spectroscopic sample: a publicly available bayesian automated classification]] |
| Nov 5  | Mario Riquelme | P | [[http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010Sci...330..347V|Particle Acceleration on Megaparsec Scales in a Merging Galaxy Cluster]] |
|        | Francesca Fornasini | G | [[http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009PASP..121..316D|The Origin and Shaping of Planetary Nebulae: Putting the Binary Hypothesis to the Test]] |
| Nov 12 | Sarah Newman | G | Metallicity Gradients in High-Redshift Galaxies: Evidence for Filamentary Accretion?: [[http://arxiv.org/abs/1010.1538|Jones et al 2010]], [[http://arxiv.org/abs/1010.2534v2|Cresci et al 2010]] |
|        | Ken Shen | P | Canceled due to sickness |
| Nov 19 | Erik Petigura | G | [[http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v467/n7319/full/nature09466.html|A two-solar-mass neutron star measured using Shapiro delay]] |
|        | Genevieve Graves | P | [[http://arxiv.org/abs/1002.0848|The Ages of Type Ia Supernova Progenitors]] |
| Dec 3  | Adam Morgan | G | [[http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010ApJ...709L.133B|Discovery of z ~ 8 Galaxies in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field from Ultra-Deep WFC3/IR Observations]] |
|        | Antonino Cucchiara | P | [[http://arxiv.org/abs/1011.4075|The Brightest Of Reionizing Galaxies Survey: Design and Preliminary Results]] |
| Dec 10 | **Guest Speaker** | -- | Brooks Hanson (//Science//): "Top ten reasons to be worried about the future of scientific publishing" |

====== Spring 2010 Schedule ======

Original data live on [[http://lyra.berkeley.edu/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=astrojc-fall09#schedule|lyra]]. For posterity, a list of speakers in alphabetical order. Asterisks denote external speakers.

  * Vardha Bennert (*)
  * Bethany Cobb
  * Helene Flohic (*)
  * Matt George
  * Chat Hull
  * Stephen Kane (*)
  * Pat Kelly (*)
  * Heather Knutson
  * Mike McCourt
  * Adam Morgan
  * Sarah Newman
  * Jonnie Pober
  * Emily Rice (*)
  * Josh Shiode
  * Anand Sivaramakrishnan (*)

====== Fall 2009 Schedule ======

Original data live on [[http://lyra.berkeley.edu/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=astrojc-fall09#schedule|lyra]]. For posterity, a list of speakers in alphabetical order. Asterisks denote external speakers.

  * Brad Cenko
  * Jessie Christiansen (*)
  * Moshe Elitzur (*)
  * Genevieve Graves
  * Assaf Horesh (*)
  * Casey Law
  * Aaron Lee
  * Yu-Qing Lou (*)
  * Chun Ly (*)
  * Matt McQuinn
  * Don Neill (*)
  * Tony Piro
  * Tuan Do (*)

====== Spring 2009 Schedule ======

Original data live on [[http://lyra.berkeley.edu/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=astrojc09|lyra]]. For posterity and nagging purposes, an alphabetical list of speakers. External speakers denoted with an asterisk.

  * Katey Alatalo
  * Niccoló Bucciantini
  * Bethany Cobb
  * Mo Ganesh
  * Chat Hull
  * Jens Kauffmann (*)
  * Christopher Klein
  * Alex Larzarian (*)
  * Adam Miller
  * Yookyung Noh
  * Ian Parrish
  * Josh Shiode
  * Jeff Silverman

====== Fall 2008 Student Speakers ======

This list, and those following (that is, going back in time), are derived from the tables on [[http://lyra.berkeley.edu/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=astrojc09|lyra]], which seem to have been
prepared by Joe Converse. Non-students probably spoke too.

  * Joe Converse
  * Charles Hansen
  * Nicholas McConnell
  * Katie Peek
  * Jeff Silverman

====== Spring 2008 Student Speakers ======

  * Amber Bauermeister
  * Onsi Fakhouri
  * Mo Ganesh
  * Therese Jones
  * James McBride
  * Brian Metzger
  * Adam Miller
  * Stella Offner
  * Andrew Siemion
  * Thea Steele
  * Linda Strubbe
  * Peter Williams

====== Fall 2007 Student Speakers ======

  * Joe Converse
  * Eric Huff
  * Nia Imara
  * Statia Luszcz
  * Nicholas McConnell
  * Brian Metzger
  * Yookyung Noh
  * Katie Peek
  * Dan Perley
  * Kristen Shapiro
  * Andrew Wetzel

====== Spring 2007 Student Speakers ======

  * Onsi Fakhouri
  * Eric Huff
  * Nia Imara
  * Holly Maness
  * Brian Metzger
  * Katie Peek
  * Dan Perley
  * Kristen Shapiro
  * Jeff Silverman
  * Linda Strubbe

====== Fall 2006 Student Speakers ======

  * Katey Alatalo
  * Holly Maness
  * Brian Metzger
  * Stella Offner
  * Dan Perley
  * Karin Sandstrom

====== Spring 2006 Student Speakers ======

  * Linda Strubbe

====== Fall 2005 Student Speakers ======

Rosters before this semester are lost to antiquity.

  * Joe Converse
  * Charles Hansen
  * Brian Metzger
  * Katie Peek
  * Dan Perley
  * Karin Sandstrom
  * Kristen Shapiro