The Journal Club Homepage 1999

Why waste another perfectly good hour on Astronomy, you ask ? because... 

• Meet in the luxurious Astronomy Lounge at 4 pm on the specified date.
• Peruse the article in advance if possible or be prepared to invent fanciful theorems.
• The listed article will be summarized by whoever dared to suggest it.
• Eat authentic artifically flavored popcorn :)

*NOTE* CMS Series will continue hopefully...more news to come

Introducing: The Career Mentoring Series (CMS)

Upcoming dates for Journal Club - Fall 1999

•     Sep 10, 1999
•     Sep 24, 1999
•     Oct 08, 1999
•     Oct 22, 1999
•     Nov 05, 1999
•     Nov 19, 1999
•     Dec 03, 1999
•     Dec 17, 1999

On previous dates at Journal Club

Feb 18, 1999: CMS discussion:  The ugly world of Networking (Slide Show) - Kartik Sheth

Feb 11, 1999: CMS discussion: Getting a faculty job  (What do search committees look for ?) - Mike A'Hearn

Dec 04, 1998:  Spectra of faint Kuiper belt objects - relevant articles: Brown et al. 1997, Science 276 937, Brown et al. 1998, Science 280, 1430; Brown et al. 1998, ApJL 505 65 - reviewed by Yan Fernandez

Dec 04, 1998: CMS discussion: Presenting yourself for a job outside academia -  Pedro Safier

Nov 06, 1998:  Radio emission from the unusual supernova 1998bw and its association with the gamma-ray burst of 25 April 1998, Kulkarni, Nature, 395, 663 -reviewed by Yan Fernandez.

Nov 06, 1998: CMS discussion: How to write a good proposal - Sally Watt.

Oct 26, 1998: Yan and Laura Woodney reported on the highlights of the DPS meeting in Madison, Wisconsin.

Oct 09, 1998: CMS discussion: How to make it into the Ph.D. program - John Trasco

Oct 22, 1998: CMS discussion:How to leave the Ph.D. program - Leslie Looney

September 18, 1998:  Can planets influence the horizontal branch morphology, Soker,  AJ, 1998, 116, 1308 - reviewed by Patrick Shopbell.

September 04, 1998:  A critique of current magnetic-accretion models for classical T Tauri stars, Safier, APJ,1998,494:336 - reviewed by Kartik Sheth.

 August 21, 1998:   Mass Supply to AGN and Starburst Galaxies, Shlosman, 1992, ASP Vol. #31, 335.D - reviewed by Kartik Sheth.

Apr 24, 1998:   Direct Measurement of Cosmological Parameters from the Cosmic Deceleration of Extragalactic Objects  Loeb, APJL, 1998, 449:L111- reviewed by Yan Fernandez.

July 10, 1998:    12CO J=1--0 Observations of Individual Giant Molecular Clouds in M81, Taylor, C.L. & Wilson, C.D., APJ 1998, 494:581 - reviewed by Kartik Sheth

May 8, 1998:   Molecular Gas in Galaxies, Young, J.S. & Scoville, N.Z., ARAA 1991, 29:581-625  - reviewed by Donna Pierce

Apr 24, 1998:   Thermal Water Vapor Emission from Shocked Regions in Orion, Harwit et al. 1998, ApJL 497 105  - reviewed by Yan Fernandez.

 
March 27,1998: Kristen Adams reviewed the Japan Conference.

Sep 12, 1997:__ An Objective Classification Scheme for QSO spectra Francis et al, APJ, 398:476-490, 1992 - reviewed by Kartik Sheth.

Mar 13, 1998:  Molecular Gas in Galaxies, Young, J.S. & Scoville, N.Z., ARAA 1991, 29:581-625  - reviewed by Kartik Sheth.

Feb 27, 1998: Advection-dominated Accretion Model of Sagittarius A*:Evidence for a Black Hole at the Galactic Center, Narayan et al. ApJ 492 554 - reviewed by Yan Fernandez.

Nov 7, 1997:__ First and Second year student talks

 
A Universal Formation Mechanism for Open and Globular Clusters in Turbulent Gas Elmegreen, B.G. & Efremov, Y.N. 1997, ApJ, 480, 235 - review by Nikolaus Volgenau
On The SFR, IMF, and Hubble Type of Disk Galaxies, and the Age of the Universe Sommer & Larsen, 1996 ApJ, 457, 118S - review by Will Dinyes
The Color Magnitude Diagram in Baade's window revisited Kiraga et al, ApJ, 485:611 - review by Amy Fredericks
The Ursa Major Cluster of Galaxies. II. Bimodality of the distribution of Central Surface Brightneses R. B. Tully, M. A. W. Verheijen, ApJ. 484, 145 July 1997 - review by Wayne Baumgartner


Oct 24, 1997:__Mass Estimates of X-Ray Clusters Evrard et al., ApJ, 469, 494 - reviewed by Don Horner.

Oct 10, 1997:__Star Formation in Irregular Galaxies: A Review of Several Key Questions Hunter, PASP, 109, 937, 1997 - reviewed by Yan Fernandez.

Sep 26, 1997:__ Gravitational Microlensing in the Local Group Paczynski, ARAA, 34, 419-459, 1996 - reviewed by Yan Fernandez. "Expert" guest - Dr. John Wang.