Astro Journal Club at Drexel

* Disque Hall, Rm 808 *

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.

Winter 2005: Cosmology: Parameters & Models

Tu Dec 4th 3:30 pm, 808
Drexel Journal Club

General Introduction of the Winter Seminar and its topic

Mon Jan 10th 4:00 pm, 808
speaker: John Parejko

theme: general review of FRW models -parameter space of viable models

suggested reading:
* Bahcall, N. A., Ostriker, J. P., Perlmutter, S., Steinhardt, P. J., "The Cosmic Triangle: Revealing the State of the Universe."

Mon Jan 17th 4:00 pm, 808
no speaker: MLK -holiday

Mon Jan 24th 4:00 pm, 808
speaker: Michael Vogeley

theme: Cosmic Microwave Background

suggested reading:
* Hu & Dodelson 2002, at

http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev.astro.40.060401.093926
-- for the PDF (50 pages!) or, more reading on the web:
http://background.uchicago.edu/~whu/araa/araa.html

Mon Jan 31st 4:00 pm, 808
speaker: Fan-Chi Lin

theme: Large Scale Structure

suggested reading:
* Eisenstein et al. 2005, "Detection of the Baryon Acoustic Peak in the Large-Scale Correlation Function of SDSS Luminous Red Galaxies,"
to be found at: http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/astro-ph/0501171

with additional (on-line) info at: http://cmb.as.arizona.edu/~eisenste/acousticpeak/

Mon Feb 7th 4:00 pm, 808
speaker: Mike Fench

theme: Clusters of Galaxies and the baryonic mass

suggested reading:
* Neta A. Bahcall, "Cosmology with Clusters of Galaxies",

invited talk at Nobel98, "Particle Physics and the Universe," 8/1998

to be found at:
http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9901076

Mon Feb 14th 4:00 pm, 808
speaker: Ernie Mamikonyan

theme: Type Ia SNe and the accelerating universe

suggested reading:
* "Evidence from Type Ia Supernovae for an Accelerating Universe"

A. V. Filippenko & A. G. Riess, to be found at:

http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0008057

Tu Feb 21st 4:00 pm, 808
no speaker: President's Day

theme: Peculiar velocities/Bulk flows -linear theory...

suggested reading:
* TBD

Mon Feb 28th 4:00 pm, 808
speaker: Steve McMillan

theme: Problems with the "concordance model"

suggested reading:
* An alternative to the cosmological 'concordance model,' by Blanchard et al. 2003
to be found at: http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0304237

Mon March 7th 4:00 pm
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

Mon March 14th 4:00 pm, 808
speaker: Samantha Osmer

theme: Theory of Dark Energy -- parameters + possibilities

suggested reading:
* tbd


Tu Dec 4th 3:30 pm, 808	Drexel Journal Club
	General Introduction of the Winter Seminar and its topic
Mon Jan 10th 4:00 pm, 808	speaker: John Parejko
	theme: general review of FRW models -parameter space of viable models
	suggested reading: * Bahcall, N. A., Ostriker, J. P., Perlmutter, S., Steinhardt, P. J., "The Cosmic Triangle: Revealing the State of the Universe."
Mon Jan 17th 4:00 pm, 808	no speaker: MLK -holiday

Mon Jan 24th 4:00 pm, 808	speaker: Michael Vogeley
	theme: Cosmic Microwave Background
	suggested reading: * Hu & Dodelson 2002, at http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev.astro.40.060401.093926 -- for the PDF (50 pages!) or, more reading on the web: http://background.uchicago.edu/~whu/araa/araa.html
Mon Jan 31st 4:00 pm, 808	speaker: Fan-Chi Lin
	theme: Large Scale Structure
	suggested reading: * Eisenstein et al. 2005, "Detection of the Baryon Acoustic Peak in the Large-Scale Correlation Function of SDSS Luminous Red Galaxies," to be found at: http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/astro-ph/0501171 with additional (on-line) info at: http://cmb.as.arizona.edu/~eisenste/acousticpeak/
Mon Feb 7th 4:00 pm, 808	speaker: Mike Fench
	theme: Clusters of Galaxies and the baryonic mass
	suggested reading: * Neta A. Bahcall, "Cosmology with Clusters of Galaxies", invited talk at Nobel98, "Particle Physics and the Universe," 8/1998 to be found at: http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9901076
Mon Feb 14th 4:00 pm, 808	speaker: Ernie Mamikonyan
	theme: Type Ia SNe and the accelerating universe
	suggested reading: * "Evidence from Type Ia Supernovae for an Accelerating Universe" A. V. Filippenko & A. G. Riess, to be found at: http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0008057
Tu Feb 21st 4:00 pm, 808	no speaker: President's Day
	theme: Peculiar velocities/Bulk flows -linear theory...
	suggested reading: * TBD
Mon Feb 28th 4:00 pm, 808	speaker: Steve McMillan
	theme: Problems with the "concordance model"
	suggested reading: * An alternative to the cosmological 'concordance model,' by Blanchard et al. 2003 to be found at: http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0304237
Mon March 7th 4:00 pm	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
Mon March 14th 4:00 pm, 808	speaker: Samantha Osmer
	theme: Theory of Dark Energy -- parameters + possibilities
	suggested reading: * 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.

Locations:

Disque 808 is found on the 8th floor of Disque Hall

DRL Astro Room is found on the 4th floor of David Robinson Laboratory, on 33rd and Walnut

(DRL A2 is also in David Robinson Laboratory, on 33rd and Walnut, but on the first floor)

See the home pages of Drexel and Penn for more details, maps, etc.

e-mail to: constant@newton.physics.drexel.edu with questions or suggestions regarding our Journal

See here for the archive of previous astro seminars.