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Astronomy Department Lunch Talk/Journal Club from Past Semesters,
Astronomy Department Lunch Talk/Journal Club is held on Thursdays at 12:00PM in room 807 Dennison Bldg, unless otherwise noted.
Maps and directions to the department.
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For more information contact Alexander (Sasha) Muratov.
| Date | Speaker | Topic | Paper |
| **Tue Apr 15 2008 12 807 Dennison | Nathan Crockett, Jennifer Blum, Shannon Schmoll, Laura Ingleby | Research Talk | |
| **Tue Apr 08 2008 12 807 Dennison | Wen-Hsin Hsu, Sasha Muratov, Jessica Hart | Research Talk | |
| **Thu Apr 03 2008 12 807 Dennison | Kwayera Davis | Research Talk | |
| **Tue Mar 25 2008 12 807 Dennison | Patrick Seitzer | **Special Talk** | |
| **Tue Mar 18 2008 12 807 Dennison | Joel Lamb, John Tobin | Research Talk | |
| **Tue Mar 11 2008 12 807 Dennison | Jana Grcevich | Research Talk | |
| **Tue Jan 29 2008 12 807 Dennison | Sarah Ragan | Research TAlk | |
| **Tue Jan 22 2008 12 807 Dennison | Catherine Espaillat | Research Talk | |
| **Tue Oct 02 2007 12:35 807 Dennison Bldg | Joel Lamb | research talk | |
| **Tue Oct 02 2007 12:10 807 Dennison Bldg | John Tobin | research talk | |
| **Tue Sep 25 2007 12:35 807 Dennison Bldg | Jana Grcevich | research talk | |
| **Tue Sep 25 2007 12:10 807 Dennison Bldg | Laura Ingleby | research talk | |
| **Tue Sep 18 2007 12:35 807 Dennison Bldg | Kiwi Davis | research talk | |
| **Tue Sep 18 2007 12:10 807 Dennison Bldg | Jen Blum | research talk | |
| **Tue Sep 11 2007 12:10 807 Dennison Bldg | Zhaohuan Zhu | research talk | |
| **Mon Apr 16 2007 | Sarah Ragan | Characterizing Massive and Clustered Star Formation: A Detailed Study of Infrared Dark Clouds | |
| **Mon Apr 09 2007 | Jeremy Hallum | State of Astronomy IT | |
| **Mon Apr 02 2007 12:40 | Laura Ingleby | FIRST-SECOND YEAR RESEARCH TALKS | |
| **Mon Apr 02 2007 | Zhaohuan Zhu | FIRST-SECOND YEAR RESEARCH TALKS | |
| **Mon Apr 02 2007 12:25 | Jen Blum | FIRST-SECOND YEAR RESEARCH TALKS | |
| **Mon Mar 26 2007 | John Tobin | FIRST-SECOND YEAR RESEARCH TALKS | |
| **Mon Mar 26 2007 12:25 | Joel Lamb | FIRST-SECOND YEAR RESEARCH TALKS | |
| **Mon Mar 19 2007 | Jana Grcevich | FIRST-SECOND YEAR RESEARCH TALKS | |
| **Mon Mar 12 2007 | Joe Bernstein | Active Learning and Astro 101 | Hake, R. 1998, Am. J. Phys., Vol. 66, Pg. 64-74; Duncan, D. 2006, Ast. Ed. Rev., Vol. 5, Pg. 70-88; and Slater, T., Prather, E., Brissenden, G., 2007 NASA Center for Astronomy Education Active Learning Workshop |
| **Mon Mar 05 2007 | Ming Zhao | Interferometric study of rapidly rotating stars | |
| **Mon Feb 19 2007 | Tom Brink | Effectiveness of Collaborative Ranking Tasks on Student Understanding of Key Astronomy Concepts | Hudgins, D., Prather, E., Grayson, D., Smits, D. 2006, Astronomy Education Review, 5(1), 1 |
| **Mon Feb 12 2007 | Jess Werk | The Fates of Young Star Clusters: Destruction vs. Survival. | RESEARCH TALK |
| **Mon Jan 29 2007 | Scott Cameron | Forming Disk Galaxies in Lambda CDM Simulations | F.Governato (UW, INAF), B.Willman (NYU), L.Mayer (ETH), A.Brooks (UW), G.Stinson (UW), O.Valenzuela (UW), J.Wadsley (Mc Master), T.Quinn (UW) |
| **Mon Jan 22 2007 | Javier Alonso | The Long Bar in the Milky Way: Corroboration of an Old Hypothesis | López-Corredoira et al. |
| **Tue Dec 12 2006 | Catherine Espaillat | Probing the Gas and Dust in the Transition Disk CS Cha | RESEARCH TALK |
| **Tue Dec 05 2006 | Janet Colucci | "Gas metallicity diagnostics in star-forming galaxies" | by T. Nagao, R.Maiolino, and A. Marconi (Astronomy and Astrophysics, November 2006) |
| **Tue Nov 28 2006 | Jun Ji | "A debris disk around an isolated young neutron star" | by Zhongxiang Wang,Deepto Chakrabarty, & David L.Kaplan (Nature,April 6,2006) |
| **Tue Nov 21 2006 | Ajay Tannirkulam | "Capture Formed Binaries via Encounters with Massive Protostars" | Nickolas Moeckel & John Bally; astro-ph/0610633 |
| **Tue Nov 14 2006 | Jana Grcevich | "A Direct Empirical Proof of the Existence of Dark Matter" | |
| **Tue Oct 31 2006 12:10 | Janet Colucci | Detailed Abundances of Extragalactic Globular Clusters: A Training Set | RESEARCH TALK |
| **Tue Oct 03 2006 12:35 | Jana Grcevich | Detecting Dark Matter Haloes through Tidal Interactions | RESEARCH TALK |
| **Tue Oct 03 2006 12:10 | Jeffrey Fogel | Chemical Evolution in Protoplanetary Disks | RESEARCH TALK |
| **Tue Sep 26 2006 12:35 | Jun Ji | Metallicity Determination of Hot Gases in Elliptical Galaxies with XMM-Newton | RESEARCH TALK |
| **Tue Sep 26 2006 12:10 | Jessica Werk | Triggered Star Formation Outside of Galaxy Disks | RESEARCH TALK |
| **Tue Sep 19 2006 12:35 | Matt Greco | Investigating the Cas A X-Ray Point Source | RESEARCH TALK |
| **Tue Sep 19 2006 12:10 | Zhaohuan Zhu | Modeling the Hot Inner Disk of FU Ori | RESEARCH TALK |
| **Tue Apr 18 2006 | Matt Greco | CANCELED | CANCELED |
| **Tue Apr 11 2006 | Joe Bernstein | "A debris disk around an isolated young neutron star"" | Zhongxiang Wang, Deepto Chakrabarty, & David L. Kaplan (Nature, Vol. 440, 772-775 (6 April 2006))" |
| **Tue Mar 28 2006 | Scott Cameron | "Extracting Star Formation Histories from Medium-resolution Galaxy Spectra" | Mathis, Charlot, and Brinchmann (2006, MNRAS, 365, 385-400) |
| **Tue Mar 14 2006 | Ajay Tannirkulam | "Probing the Coevolution of supermassive black holes and galaxies using Gravitationally lensed Quasar hosts" | Peng et al 2006 (astro-ph/0603248) |
| **Tue Mar 07 2006 | Tom Brink | "Conceptual Astronomy Knowledge among Amateur Astronomers" | Margaret L. Berendsen (Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Astronomy Education Review, Volume 4, Issue 1: 1-18, 2005) |
| **Tue Feb 21 2006 | Catherine Espaillat | "Investigating Disk Evolution: A High Spatial Resolution Mid-Infrared Survey of T Tauri Stars" | McCabe et al. (2006, ApJ, 636, 932) |
| **Tue Jan 24 2006 | Janet Colucci (12:00) Jana Grcevich(12:15) Matt Greco(12:30) Zhaohuan Zhu(12:45) | " | STUDENT RESEARCH TALKS |
| **Tue Jan 17 2006 | Jeffrey Fogel(12:00) Jess Werk(12:15) Jun Ji(12:30) Aletta Tibbetts(12:45) | "" | STUDENT RESEARCH TALKS |
| **Mon Jan 16 2006 | Christopher Thom | "Galactic Lint or Local Group Flotsam"" | |
| **Tue Dec 13 2005 | Ming Zhao | Disk and Wind Interaction in MWC 279 Spatially Resolved with VLTI / AMBER | Malbet, F. et al. (astro-ph/0510350) |
| **Tue Nov 22 2005 | Javier Alonso | "A Comparison of Elemental Abundance Ratios in Globular Clusters, Field Stars, and Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies" | Pritzl, Venn, & Irwin (2005,Aj,130,2140) |
| **Tue Nov 15 2005 | Sarah Ragan | An unbiased search for the signatures of protostars in the rho Ophiuchi Molecular Cloud (II. Millimetre continuum observations) | T. Stanke, M.D. Smith, R. Gredel, & T. Khanzadyan (astro-ph/0511093, Accepted for publication in A&A, March 2006) |
| **Tue Nov 08 2005 | Matt Walker | A Search for the Most Massive Galaxies | Bernardi et al. (2005), astro-ph/0510696 |
| **Mon Oct 24 2005 | Becky Stanek | Supermassive Black Hole Function at Intermediate Redshifts | Tamura et al (2005), astro-ph/0509912 |
| **Tue Jun 07 2005 | Jess Werk | " | " |
| **Tue Jun 07 2005 | Jess Werk | ||
| **Tue Jun 07 2005 | Jess Werk | ||
| **Tue Jun 07 2005 | Jess Werk | ||
| **Tue Jun 07 2005 | JW | ||
| **Tue Jun 07 2005 | JW | ||
| **Mon May 30 2005 | test | ||
| **Tue May 24 2005 | Jun Ji | ||
| **Tue Apr 12 2005 | Aletta Tibbetts | The hot core-ultracompact HII connection in G10.47+0.03 | Pascucci, et al., A&A 426, 523-534 (2004) |
| **Tue Apr 05 2005 | Jun Ji | CANCELLED | |
| **Tue Mar 29 2005 | Jeffrey Fogel | Detection of Thermal Emission from an Extrasolar Planet | Charbonneau et al.astro-ph/0503457,Deming et al. astro-ph/0503554 |
| **Tue Mar 22 2005 | Jessica Werk | CANCELLED | "" |
| **Tue Mar 15 2005 | Janet Colucci | A Dark Hydrogen Cloud in the Virgo Cluster | astro-ph/0502312 |
| **Tue Mar 08 2005 | Catherine Espaillat | The K-Band Luminosities of Galaxies: Do S0s Come from Spiral Galaxies? | ApJ 621:246-255 March 1 2005 |
| **Tue Mar 01 2005 | spring break | ||
| **Tue Feb 22 2005 | Ajay-Kumar Tannirkulam | Towards an understanding of the Rapid Decline of Cosmic Star formation rate | Bell et al.(astro -ph/0502246) |
| **Tue Feb 15 2005 | Ming Zhao | Numerical Modelling of Dusty Debris Disks | astroph/0502135 |
| **Tue Feb 08 2005 | Sarah Ragan | Constraints on the Ionizing Flux Emitted by T Tauri Stars | R.D. Alexander, C.J. Clarke & J.E. Pringle astro-ph/0501100 |
| **Tue Feb 01 2005 | Tom Brink | new techniques for promoting active learning in large lecture Astronomy 101 | http://aer.noao.edu/ |
| **Tue Jan 25 2005 | Monique Aller | A Chandra Study of the Multi-Component X-Ray Emission from the X-shaped Radio Galaxy 3C 403 | Kraft, Hardcastle, Worrall, Murray |
| **Tue Jan 18 2005 | Becky Stanek | The Morphology-Density Relation of z~1 Clusters. | Postman et al, astro-ph/0501224 |
| **Tue Dec 07 2004 | Scott Cameron | Dearth of Dark Matter in Ordinary Elliptical Galaxies | Romanowsky et al., 2003, Sci, 301, 1696 |
| **Tue Nov 30 2004 | Jifeng Liu | HMXBs as a star formation indicator | Grimm, Gilfanov, and Sunyaev, 2003, MNRAS, 339, 793 |
| **Tue Nov 23 2004 | Javier Alonso | Determining extinction from reddening | M.L.McCall AJ2004 |
| **Tue Nov 16 2004 | Julia Plummer | Assessment of an Internet-Delievered Interactive Approach to Introductory Astronomy for Nonscience Majors | Slater, T.F. and Jones, L.V. 2004 |
| **Tue Nov 09 2004 | Thomas Bensby | "" | "" |
| **Tue Nov 02 2004 | Matt Walker | Deep-Ocean Crusts as Telescopes: Using Live Radioisotopes to Probe Supernova Nucleosynthesis | astro-ph/0410525 |
| **Tue Oct 26 2004 | Mary Putman | " | " |
| **Tue Oct 19 2004 | Knut Olsen (CTIO) | Globular Clusters and the Formation of Galactic Disks | |
| **Tue Oct 12 2004 | Jessica Krick | Beyond the Luminosity Function | Driver 2004 |
| **Tue Oct 05 2004 | none | " | " |
| **Tue Sep 28 2004 | Nestor Mirabal | GRB | |
| **Tue Sep 21 2004 | Ted Bergin Chuck Cowley | ||
| **Tue Apr 13 2004 | Eric Miller | Useful Unix Undertakings | |
| **Tue Apr 06 2004 | GRF? | " | " |
| **Tue Mar 30 2004 | Rebecca Billmeier | Nulling Interferometry: Method and Observations | Hinz et al., 1998, Nature, 395, 251 |
| **Tue Mar 23 2004 | Sarah Ragan | Census of Chamaeleon I Star-Formation Region | K. Luhman, ApJ 602, 816 (2004) |
| **Tue Mar 16 2004 | Tom Brink | Student's Pre-Instructional Beliefs and Reasoning Strategies About Astrobiology Concepts | Offerdahl, Prather, & Slater 2002 |
| **Tue Mar 09 2004 | Ming Zhao | PKS1510-089: A Head-on View of a relativistic Jet | Homan et al. (2002) ApJ. 580,742 |
| **Tue Mar 02 2004 | Catherine Espaillat | Low-luminosity Active Galactic Nuclei at the Highest Resolution: Jets or Accretion Flows? | Anderson, Ulvestad, and Ho |
| **Tue Feb 24 2004 | none | spring break | |
| **Tue Feb 17 2004 | Jeremy Hallum | State of the Local Computing Environment | " |
| **Tue Feb 10 2004 | Scott Cameron | The Galactic Habitable Zone | Science 2004 January 2; 303: 59-62 |
| **Tue Feb 03 2004 | Ajay-Kumar Tannirkulam | Neutron Star- Neutron Star Binaries | Burgay et al, Nature 426, 531-533 |
| **Tue Jan 27 2004 | Matt Walker | progenitors of dwarf spheroidal galaxies | Grebel et al (2003) |
| **Tue Jan 20 2004 | Jifeng Liu | the compact symmetric object 0402+379 | """"" |
| **Tue Jan 13 2004 | Julia Plummer | Mental Model Building in Astronomy Education | |
| **Tue Dec 09 2003 | Joe Bernstein | Superconductivity in Neutron Stars | astro-ph/0308148 |
| **Tue Dec 02 2003 | cancelled | """" | """" |
| **Tue Nov 25 2003 | Jes Jorgensen | "New Insights into the Physics & Chemistry of Low-Mass Protostars" | |
| **Tue Nov 18 2003 | Monique C. Aller | Galaxy Bulges that are really Inner Disks | Erwin et al., astro-ph 0310791 |
| **Tue Nov 11 2003 | Javier Alonso | Do we understand stellar evolution? Comparing the Yale and Padova isochrones | |
| **Tue Nov 04 2003 | Kerrie McKinstry | The CORALIE survey for southern extrasolar planets | |
| **Tue Oct 28 2003 | Jessica Krick | Star Formation Rate at z~6 | ApJ 595:589-602,2003 |
| **Tue Oct 21 2003 | Becky Stanek | Star Formation History in a LCDM Universe | Springel & Hernquist (2003), MNRAS.339..312 |
| **Tue Oct 14 2003 | Kelly Holley-Bockelmann | Bar-Induced Evolution of Dark Matter Halos | |
| **Tue Oct 07 2003 | Rebecca Bernstein John Monnier | Faculty research interests | "" |
| **Tue Sep 30 2003 | Ray Jayawardhana Ted Bergin | Faculty research interests | "" |
| **Tue Sep 23 2003 | Renato Dupke Chuck Cowley Hugh Aller | Faculty research interests" | " |
| **Tue Apr 01 2003 | Matthew Walker | ||
| **Tue Mar 25 2003 | Rebecca Billmeier | " | " |
| **Tue Mar 18 2003 | kelly Holley-Bockelmann | "" | "" |
| **Tue Mar 11 2003 | Ajay-Kumar Tannirkulam | " | " |
| **Tue Mar 04 2003 | Tom Brink | " | " |
| **Tue Feb 18 2003 | Michael Richard | " | " |
| **Tue Feb 11 2003 | Rebecca Stanek | " | " |
| **Tue Feb 04 2003 | Javier Alonso | " | " |
| Thu Jan 23 2003 | Joe Bernstein | The Cosmological Constant: What Can it Do for You? | |
| Thu Dec 12 2002 | Jessica Krick | A population of Intergalactic Supernovae in Galaxy Clusters | " |
| Thu Nov 21 2002 | Monique Aller | The X-ray source population of NGC 720 | |
| **Tue Nov 05 2002 | Dr. Mario Mateo | ||
| Thu Oct 31 2002 | Kerrie McKinstry | Weather on Extra-Solar Planets | |
| **Tue Oct 22 2002 | Jeremy Hallum | ||
| **Tue Oct 08 2002 | Jifeng Liu | Strange Stars | |
| **Tue Oct 01 2002 | Dr. August Evrard Dr. Hugh Aller | The Virtual Cluster Exploratory: Mock Observations of Galaxy Clusters | |
| **Tue Sep 24 2002 | Dr. Ray Jayawardhana Dr. John D. Monnier Dr. Philip Hughes | Fast Jets and Parallel Universes | |
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