Rutgers Astrophysics Journal Club
Spring 2004 ScheduleCoordinator: Juntai Shen |
The astrophysics journal club is held every WEDNESDAY at 12:00 PM in Rm.
112W, for the spring of 2004.
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| Jan 21 | EVERYONE | Internal discussion: Choosing topics, dates, etc. (in Room 332) |
| Jan 28 | Neelima Sehgal |
CMB basics(I) Recommended reading: Hu et al.(astro-ph/9504057); Kosowsky (astro-ph/0102402) |
Feb 04 |
Naseem Rangwala |
CMB basics(II) Recommended reading: Kosowsky (astro-ph/0102402) from Page 23 on |
Feb 11 |
Neelima Sehgal |
CMB research front (I) Carlstrom et al. (astro-ph/0218192 Page 1-7, 23-34, and 37-39) |
Feb 18 | Naseem Rangwala | Dark Energy Steinhardt (A Quintessential Introduction to Dark Energy ) Lima "Alternative Dark Energy Models: An Overview" (astro-ph/0402109) |
Feb 25 | Arthur Congdon | (Lack of) lensing constraints on cluster dark matter profiles Dalal & Keeton (astro-ph/0312072) Do arcs require flat halo cusps? Bartelmann & Meneghetti (astro-ph/0312011) |
Mar 03 | Jessica Warren | Extrasolar Planets (I): Properties of Extrasolar Planets Detection of oxygen and carbon in the extrasolar planet HD209458b (astro-ph/0401457) |
Mar 10 | Matthew Francis | Extrasolar Planets (II): Detecting Extrasolar Planets Sara Seager, The Search for Extrasolar Earth-like planets (astro-ph/0305337) |
Mar 17 | Spring break! | Enjoy your Spring break. | Mar 24 | Andres Jordan | The Formation of an Astro Postdoc: the preparation, the precedure and the formulae to success Read the astrophysics rumor mill |
Mar 31 | Juntai Shen | Galaxy Formation (I): An overview on the growth of perturbations and disk formation | Apr 07 | Eric Peng | Galaxy Formation (II): Lyman break galaxies and SF history of the Universe Madau et al (1996 MNRAS.283.1388), "High-redshift galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field: colour selection and star formation history to z~4" Dickinson et al (2003 ApJ.587.25), "The Evolution of the Global Stellar Mass Density at 0 Apr 14 |
Monica Hasegan |
Galaxy Formation (III): the fundamental plane of galaxies |
"Dynamically hot galaxies. I - Structural properties" (Bender et. al. 1992, ApJ, 399, 462 ) Apr 21 |
Ricardo Zanmar Sanchez |
Galaxy Formation (IV): Semi-analytical models of structure formation |
Numerical and Analytical Studies of Galaxy Formation Apr 28 |
Jianxiang Wang |
Galaxy Formation (V): |
"Joint Formation of Supermassive Black Holes and Galaxies" (astro-ph/0307378) |
Last updated on Jan 23, 2004 by Juntai
Shen
Previous journal clubs: Fall 2003, Fall 2002, Spring 2002, Fall 2001, Spring 2001.