Rutgers Astrophysics Journal Club

Fall 2005 Schedule

Coordinator: Neelima Sehgal

*** Graduate students: Order your FREE lunch here ***

    Look here for a list of classic astronomy (theory) papers as an idea for your journal club article.
Additionally, check out the NASA Astrophysics Data System to search for refereed articles
(at the bottom there is an option to sort by citations, if that is your wish).

The Astrophysics Journal Club is held Thursdays at 12:30 PM in Serin Physics Rm. 112 , for the Fall of 2005.



Date
Speaker
Topic, Readings, Links,...
Sept 15 EVERYONE Internal discussion, topics, picking dates ...
Sept 22 Neelima Sehgal
Constraints on the dark energy equation of state from the imprint of baryons on the power spectrum of clusters- Angulo et al. ( 2005, MNRAS, 362, L25 )  Background ( astro-ph/0509320 ).
Sept 29
Matthew Francis
A Primer to Relativistic MOND Theory - Jacob D. Bekenstein and Robert H. Sanders ( astro-ph/0509519 )
Oct 6
week off

Oct 13
Jessica Warren
Detection of a huge explosion in the early Universe - G. Cusumano et al.  ( astro-ph/0509737 )
Oct 20
Dusan Maletic
Local Pancake Defeats Axis of Evil -  Chris Vale ( astro-ph/0509039 )

Oct 27
Adam Reese
A Merger Origin for Short Gamma-Ray Bursts Inferred from the Afterglow and Host Galaxy of GRB 050724 -  Berger et al. ( astro-ph/0508115 )
Nov 3
Arthur Congdon
Size is Everything: Universal Features of Quasar Microlensing with Extended Sources - Mortonson et al. ( Astrophys.J. 628 (2005) 594-603 )
Nov 10
 week off

Nov 17
week off

Nov 24
Thanksgiving

Dec 1
Ricardo Zanmar
Halo evolution in the presence of a disc bar - Paul J. McMillan and Walter Dehnen ( Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 363 (2005) 1205-1210 )
Dec 8
Kristine Spekkens
Discovery of a bright quasar without a massive host galaxy - Magain et al. ( 2005, Nature  437,15 )  Also see abstracts of  ( astro-ph/0511315 ) and ( astro-ph/0511242 ).
Dec 15
Holiday Party!

Dec 22
Vacation




 
    Last updated on 13 Sept 2005 by Neelima Sehgal .

    Previous journal clubs: Spring 2005 , Fall 2004 , Spring 2004 , Fall 2003 , Fall 2002 , Spring 2002 , Fall 2001 , Spring 2001 .