Astro Journal Club at Drexel

* Disque Hall, Rm 808 *

Winter 2006:
This term, we will discuss about
STARS

General Format: Presentations in the usual colloquium format, e.g., power point. Please make the effort to read the announced papers in advance so that we can all actively participate in the parley. An obvious place to look for potential papers remains:

http://xxx.lanl.gov/archive/astro-ph

We also strongly encourage students to become familiar and search the ADS astronomy page for articles that are already published, and thus peer reviewed, at:

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abstract_service.html

Graduate students engaged in research should also think about presenting results from their work.

* We will definitely have external speakers this quarter, the schedule below will be updated as information becomes available.

Winter 2006: Tuesdays, 3:30 pm, cookies and tea will be there as well.

A list of "in charge" discussion leaders/speakers will be updated weekly and can be found here:

January 10th 3:30 pm, 808
Adrienne, Sanghamitra, Anca & Enrico
--scientific and non-scientific news from: the 207th AAS Meeting, Washington DC.

January 17th 3:30 pm, 808
All!
--organizational meeting; setting up the stage for this quarter's discussion on STARS

January 24th 3:30 pm, 808
John Parejko
the paper: THE ADEQUACY OF STELLAR EVOLUTION MODELS FOR THE INTERPRETATION OF THE COLOR-MAGNITUDE DIAGRAMS OF RESOLVED STELLAR POPULATIONS,
authors: C. Gallart, M. Zoccali, A. Aparicio
---ARAA, vol 43, page 387-434, Sep 2005
-you can see the abstract on-line, with links to "supplemental material" (few more nice pictures) here
-you can find the pdf version here (probably through the school computers only.)
January 31st 3:30 pm, 808
Mike French
-- we will continue the previous week discussion,
part II of the ARAA, vol 43, page 387-434, Sep 2005

February 7th 3:30 pm, 919
Dr. Gordon Richards , Johns Hopkins University
special seminar, info here

February 8th 3:30 pm, 808
Dr. David Bacon, The Royal Observatory, Edinburgh

special seminar on MOND, cosmological tests of TeVeS (Tensor, Vector, Scalar) theory, an alternative, to GR.

February 10th 3:30 pm, 919
Dr. Marianna Vestergaard, University of Arizona
special seminar, info here

February 14th 3:30 pm, 808
no JClub.
February 21st 3:30 pm, 919
Dr. Eric Gawiser, Yale University
special seminar, info here

February 22nd 1:00 pm, 919
Dr. Kenneth Rines, Yale University
special seminar, info here

February 28th 3:00 pm, 808
Adrienne Leonard

--discussion on: "nucleosynthesis in binary stars"
--Authors: C. Simon Jeffery, Christopher A. Tout, John C. Lattanzio.
--to be found at: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/311/5759/345

March 7th 3:30 pm, 808
Danny Pan

--discussion on: star clusters [and/or white/brown stars]

March 14th 3:30 pm, 808
Sanghamitra Deb

"The Physics of Core-Collapse Supernovae"
Authors: S. Woosley (UC Santa Cruz), H.-T. Janka (MPI Astrophysics, Garching)
Comments: Review article; 17 pages, 5 figures
Journal-ref: Nature Physics 1 (2005) 147

March 14th 3:30 pm, 808

--no JClub, exam week.

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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@drexel.edu with questions or suggestions regarding our Journal

See here for the archive of previous astro seminars.


January 10th 3:30 pm, 808	Adrienne, Sanghamitra, Anca & Enrico --scientific and non-scientific news from: the 207th AAS Meeting, Washington DC.
January 17th 3:30 pm, 808	All! --organizational meeting; setting up the stage for this quarter's discussion on STARS
January 24th 3:30 pm, 808	John Parejko the paper: THE ADEQUACY OF STELLAR EVOLUTION MODELS FOR THE INTERPRETATION OF THE COLOR-MAGNITUDE DIAGRAMS OF RESOLVED STELLAR POPULATIONS, authors: C. Gallart, M. Zoccali, A. Aparicio ---ARAA, vol 43, page 387-434, Sep 2005 -you can see the abstract on-line, with links to "supplemental material" (few more nice pictures) here -you can find the pdf version here (probably through the school computers only.)
January 31st 3:30 pm, 808	Mike French -- we will continue the previous week discussion, part II of the ARAA, vol 43, page 387-434, Sep 2005
February 7th 3:30 pm, 919	Dr. Gordon Richards , Johns Hopkins University special seminar, info here
February 8th 3:30 pm, 808	Dr. David Bacon, The Royal Observatory, Edinburgh special seminar on MOND, cosmological tests of TeVeS (Tensor, Vector, Scalar) theory, an alternative, to GR.
February 10th 3:30 pm, 919	Dr. Marianna Vestergaard, University of Arizona special seminar, info here
February 14th 3:30 pm, 808	no JClub.
February 21st 3:30 pm, 919	Dr. Eric Gawiser, Yale University special seminar, info here
February 22nd 1:00 pm, 919	Dr. Kenneth Rines, Yale University special seminar, info here
February 28th 3:00 pm, 808	Adrienne Leonard --discussion on: "nucleosynthesis in binary stars" --Authors: C. Simon Jeffery, Christopher A. Tout, John C. Lattanzio. --to be found at: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/311/5759/345
March 7th 3:30 pm, 808	Danny Pan --discussion on: star clusters [and/or white/brown stars]
March 14th 3:30 pm, 808	Sanghamitra Deb "The Physics of Core-Collapse Supernovae" Authors: S. Woosley (UC Santa Cruz), H.-T. Janka (MPI Astrophysics, Garching) Comments: Review article; 17 pages, 5 figures Journal-ref: Nature Physics 1 (2005) 147
March 14th 3:30 pm, 808	--no JClub, exam week.