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 +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 | | | |
 +|     . | | | |
 +|  9/23 |Janos Botyanszki | G | [[http://​arxiv.org/​abs/​1108.3664v1|Circumstellar Material in Type Ia Supernovae via Sodium Absorption Features]] |
 +|     . | | | |
 +|  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]] |
 +|     . | | | |
 +|  10/7 | | | |
 +|     . | | | |
 +| 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]] |
 +|     . | | | |
 +| 10/28 |Karto Keating | G | [[http://​iopscience.iop.org/​0004-637X/​508/​1/​157|Electric Dipole Radiation from Spinning Dust Grains]] |
 +|     . | | | |
 +|  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]] |
 +|     . | |  | |
 +| 11/25 | **No Journal Club — Thanksgiving** |||
 +|     . | | | |
 +|  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