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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.

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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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