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Below is a listing of speakers and topics from past semesters of journal club.

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Fall 2010 Schedule

Date Speaker Status Topic
Sep 3 James McBride G Intense star formation within resolved compact regions in a galaxy at z = 2.3 & 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 Nonspherical similarity solutions for dark halo formation
Adam Miller G 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 On the size distribution of supernova remnants in the Magellanic Clouds
Katie Silverio G Habitable Climates: The Influence of Eccentricity
Oct 15 Guest Speaker – Steve Rawlings (Oxford)
Oct 22 Nicholas McConnell G Quasars Hosting 10^10 Solar-Mass Black Holes
Mike Kuhlen P Computational Eulerian hydrodynamics and Galilean invariance
Oct 29 Brad Cenko P A Substantial Population of Low Mass Stars in Luminous Elliptical Galaxies
Chris Klein G Revisiting the Hubble sequence in the SDSS DR7 spectroscopic sample: a publicly available bayesian automated classification
Nov 5 Mario Riquelme P Particle Acceleration on Megaparsec Scales in a Merging Galaxy Cluster
Francesca Fornasini G 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?: Jones et al 2010, Cresci et al 2010
Ken Shen P Canceled due to sickness
Nov 19 Erik Petigura G A two-solar-mass neutron star measured using Shapiro delay
Genevieve Graves P The Ages of Type Ia Supernova Progenitors
Dec 3 Adam Morgan G Discovery of z ~ 8 Galaxies in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field from Ultra-Deep WFC3/IR Observations
Antonino Cucchiara P 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 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 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 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

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