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Contents 1 Welcome to the MICA Journal Club. 1.1 When 1.2 Where 1.3 Format 1.4 Topics 1.5 Requirements 1.6 Intended Audience 2 Current Schedule 3 Past Schedule

Welcome to the MICA Journal Club.

Taking advantange of the capabilities of Virtual Worlds environments we have the opportunity to create a unique Journal Club with attendees from many different institutions from all over the world including the authors of the papers being discussed.

We hope you will join us and we encourage you to invite other colleague astrophysicists and students you think might be interested.

When

Second and Fourth Friday of every month. 7:30 Second Life Time (=Pacific Time)-10:30 EST ``coffee time 8:00 Second Life Time (=Pacific Time)-11:00 EST Start of the discussion

Where

Second Life ISM Workshop room: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Spaceport%20Bravo/153/205/59

Format

• Discussion of a paper with one or more authors of the paper informally illustrating the main points of the paper and answering questions from attendees.
• Formal talk on the results of a paper by one of the authors followed by discussion and questions.
• Discussion of a paper with no author present. Authors might be invited to a later Journal Club event to answer questions raised during the discussion and for further discussion.

Topics

These will probably be determined by the interests and expertise of attendees. At least initially we expect the Journal Club to be dominated by computational astrophysics, dense stellar systems (MODEST)-like papers.

We strongly encourage attendees to come to the Journal Club with suggestions for future papers to be discussed.

Requirements

In general no one will be required to give a talk on a paper (unless someone volunteers to do that) not even the person who suggested the paper.
Only requirement.....really reading the papers!!

Intended Audience

Astrophysicists. While the journal club will be open to everyone, it will not be an outreach event and we expect the discussion to be technical.

Current Schedule

Past Schedule

• April 11, 2008:
  • A parallel gravitational N-body kernel S. Portegies Zwart, S McMillan, Derek Groen et al., 2008, New Astronomy, 13, 285 http://arxiv.org/abs/0711.0643
    
• April 25, 2008:
  • E.Glebbeek Report on the highlights of the IAU Symposium 252 The Art of Modeling Stars in the 21st Century
• May 9, 2008:
  • Dark Energy From Vacuum Fluctuations by S.G. Djorgovski and V.G. Gurzadyan, 2007 Nuclear Physics B 173, 6 http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/astro-ph/0610204
• May 23, 2008:
  • Will Farr Report on the highlights of the April APS meeting in St. Louis