| Date | Speaker Paper(s) |
| September 28 | Shawn Poindexter Microlensing variability in the Einstein Cross, Q2237+0305: a spectrophotometric monitoring with the VLT by Eigenbrod et al. (arXiv:0709.2828) |
| October 5 | Kelley Denney Biases in Virial Black Hole Masses: An SDSS Perspective by Shen et al. (arXiv:0709.3098v1) |
| October 12 | Roberto Assef Evidence of Cosmic Evolution of the Stellar Initial Mass Function by van Dokkum (arXiv:0710.0875) |
| October 19 | Brian Lacki A bright millisecond radio burst of extragalactic origin by Lorimer et al. (arXiv:0709.4301) |
| October 26 | Himel Ghosh "Bridging the gap between stellar-mass black holes and ultraluminous X-ray sources" by Soria (arXiv:0707.2049) |
| November 2 | Molly Peeples "Evolution of the Bar Fraction in COSMOS: Quantifying the Assembly of the Hubble Sequence" by Sheth et al. (arXiv:0710.4552) and "Bars in Disk-Dominated and Bulge-Dominated Galaxies at z~0: New Insights from ~3600 SDSS Galaxies" by Barazza et al. (arXiv:0710.4674) |
| November 9 | David Atlee "Luminous Red Galaxies in hierarchical cosmologies" by Almeida et al. (arXiv:0710.3557) |
| November 16 | Jose Prieto "V838 Monocerotis: A Geometric Distance from Hubble Space Telescope Polarimetric Imaging of its Light Echo" by Sparks et al. (arXiv:0711.1495) |
| November 30 | TBA |
| Date | Speaker Paper(s) |
| January 11 | Jason Eastman "First detection of polarized scattered light from an exoplanetary atmosphere" by Berdyugina et al. (arXiv:0712.0193) |
| January 18 | Rob Siverd "The inner radius of T Tauri disks estimated from near-infrared interferometry: the importance of scattered light" by Pinte et al. (arXiv:0712.0012) |
| January 25 | Stephan Frank "Detection of amino acetonitrile in Sgr B2(N)" by Belloche et al. (arXiv:0801.3219) |
| February 1 | Linda Watson "Star Formation in NGC 5194 (M51a). II. The Spatially Resolved Star Formation Law" by Kennicutt et al. 2007, ApJ, 671, 333 (link to ApJ pdf file) |
| February 8 | Dave Nataf "A Significant Population of Very Luminous Dust-Obscured Galaxies at Redshift z ~ 2" by Dey et al. (arXiv:0801.1860) |
| February 15 |
Graduate Student Research Symposium 2008 pt I
Jennifer Yee "Getting More For Your Money: Identifying and Confirming Long-Period Planets with Kepler" Jason Eastman "The DEdicated MONitor for EXotransits (DEMONEX)" José Prieto "Some Early Results from the LBT" |
| February 22 |
Graduate Student Research Symposium Winter 2008 pt II
Kate Grier "Systematic Errors in Reverberation Mapping: A Case Study of Undersampling" Rob Siverd "KELT: The Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope" Roberto Assef "Low-Resolution Spectral Templates from 0.1 to 30 Microns for Galaxies and AGNs" |
| February 29 |
Graduate Student Research Symposium Winter 2008 pt III
Jonathan Bird "Using Ultra Long Period Cepheids to Extend the Cosmic Distance Ladder to 100 Mpc and Beyond" Molly Peeples "Simulating Weak Lensing by Galaxy Clusters for the Dark Energy Survey" Linda Watson "Recalibration of the M-sigma Relationship for AGN" |
| March 7 |
Graduate Student Research Symposium Winter 2008 pt IV
David Nataf "Wide-Field Variability Survey of the Galactic Bulge" David Atlee "Origins of the Soft X-Ray Excess: A UV-X Ray Correlation" Subo Dong "Hunting for extra-solar planets with gravitational microlensing" |
| Date | Speaker Paper(s) |
| March 28 | Jennifer Yee "Spatially Resolved Molecular Hydrogen Emission in the Inner 200 AU Environments of Classical T Tauri Stars" by Beck et al. 2008, ApJ, 676, 472 |
| April 4 | Rebecca Stoll "Properties of Active Galaxies Deduced from H I Observations" by Ho, Darling, and Greene arXiv:0803.1952 |
| April 11 | Kate Grier "GRB 070306: A Highly Extinguished Afterglow" by Jaunsen et al. arXiv:0803.4017 |
| April 18 | Sebastian Rabien, MPE Garching |
| April 25 | Deokkeun An "The Milky Way Tomography with SDSS: II. Stellar Metallicity" by Ivezic et al. arXiv:0804.3850 |
| May 2 | no journal club this week |
| May 9 | Vimal Simha "Deuterium Abundance in the Most Metal-Poor Damped Lyman alpha System: Converging on Omega_baryons" by Pettini et al. arXiv:0805.0594 |
| May 16 | Harriet Dinerstein, University of Texas at Austin "Up and Over the Iron Peak: Heavy Metals in Planetary Nebulae" |
| May 23 | no journal club |
| May 30 | no journal club |
| June 6 | Kathy Sullivan, Battelle Center for
Mathematics and Science Education Policy, OSU "Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission 4" |
| June 13 | Julio Chaname, STScI Towards a Better Understanding of Resolved Stellar Systems -- Modeling Discrete Velocity Datasets |
| Please let me know the paper you will discuss by no later than one week before your assigned date. If you would like help with choosing or dissecting a paper, or have any other questions, please feel free to come and talk with me. You should aim for a 1/2 hour presentation if there are no interruptions, although of course there likely will be lots of them. I expect you will present your paper using a laptop and some standard presentation software (Powerpoint, Keynote, StarOffice, Latex, etc). If you do not have your own laptop, the department has some available for loan. I will meet with you for about 10-15 minutes after your talk to give you feedback. |
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Last updated: 12 June 2008 by Kris Sellgren |
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