Astro Journal Club at Drexel

General Format: We will usually have one talk of 30 - 40 minutes. Each talk will disscuss a paper related to the topic announced at the beginning of the quarter (see below). There will be available a list of recommended publications, and the order in which they will have to be presented.

* We might also have external speakers, the schedule below will be updated as information becomes available.

Spring 2005:

We will continue for the first 2 weeks with: Cosmology: Parameters & Models

Mon March 28th 4:00 pm, 808	Drexel Journal Club
	General Introduction of the Spring Seminar and its topic(s)/Schedule
Tu Apr 5th 3:30 pm, 808	speaker: Adriene Leonard
	theme: Candidates for Dark Matter
	suggested reading: * "Dark Matter Candidates" by Edward A. Baltz, to be found at: http://arXiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0412170
Tu Apr 12th 3:30 pm, 808	speaker: Samantha Osmer
	theme: Theory of Dark Energy -- parameters + possibilities
	suggested reading: * "The Cosmological Constant and Dark Energy" by Peebles & Ratra in Reviews of Modern Physics 75, 559 (2003) [see http://scitation.aip.org/getabs/servlet/ GetabsServlet?prog=normal&id=RMPHAT000075000002 000559000001&idtype=cvips&gifs=Yes]

Tu Apr 19th 3:30 pm, 808	speaker: Samantha Osmer
	on: General description of the galaxy parameter space
	suggested reading: * tbd
Tu Apr 26th 3:30 pm, 808	speaker: Dave Goldberg
	on: Press-Schechter formalism, the spherical collapse.
	suggested reading: * Press & Schechter 1974 [ApJ, 187, 425] * Gunn & Gott III 1972 [ApJ, 187, 425] * Mo & White 2002 [MNRAS, 336, 112]
Tu May 3rd 3:30 pm, 808	speaker: John Parejko
	on: The macroscopic properties of the gas in galaxies; time scales
	suggested reading: * Molecular gas and the dynamics of galaxies, by F. Combes to be found at: http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9902016 * Gas Dynamics in Central Parts of Galaxies, by W. Maciejewski to be found at: http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0302250
Tu May 10th 3:30 pm, 808	speaker: *Changbom Park* [Korea Institute for Advanced Study]
	on: Galaxy types and topology of large scale sturcture
Tu May 17th 3:30 pm, 808	speaker: Mike Fench
	on: Galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field
	suggested reading: * "Evolution of the Dependence of Rest-Frame Color and Morphology Distribution on Stellar Mass for Galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field-North," by Kajisawa & Yamada, 2005 [ApJ, 618, 91]
Tu May 24th 3:30 pm, 808	speaker: Ernie Mamikonyan
	on: Current state of simulations of galaxy formation/evolution
	suggested reading: * "Simulating the joint evolution of quasars, galaxies and their large-scale distribution" by Springel et al. 2005, to be found at: http://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0504097
Tu May 31th 3:30 pm, 808	speaker: tbd

Note: Penn talks that don't clash with ours will also be added FYI.

- Penn Journal Club is at 1pm on Fridays in DRL Astro Room.

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