Astronomy Journal Club

(PHY 664)
Spring 2008

Fridays, 12:50-1:45, ESS 450
(sign-up sheet is in the astronomy lounge)

Date	Talk #1	Talk #2
Feb. 8	Mike Simon 1. Correlation of the highest-energy cosmic rays with the positions of nearby active galactic nuclei 2. Retired A Stars and Their Companions: Exoplanets Orbiting Three Intermediate-Mass Subgiants 3. Warm dust in the terrestrial planet zone of a sun-like Pleiad: collisions between planetary embryos?
Feb. 15	Alan Calder Pulsational pair instability as an explanation for the most luminous supernovae
Feb. 22	canceled due to snow
Feb. 29	Mike Zingale Double-detonation supernovae of sub-Chandrasekhar mass white dwarfs
March 7	Bryan Kim The Population of Propellers in Saturn's a Ring
March 14	Yeunhwan Lim Super-Massive Neutron Stars
March 21	spring break -- no meeting
March 28
April 4	Chris Malone Gamma-Ray Bursts from tidally spun-up Wolf-Rayet stars?
April 11	Fred Walter Toroidal vs. poloidal magnetic fields in Sun-like stars: a rotation threshold	Josh Schlieder The global effects of impact-induced seismic activity on fractured asteroid surface morphology Impact-Induced Seismic Activity on Asteroid 433 Eros: A Surface Modification Process
April 18	Jim Lattimer
April 25	Aaron Jackson Rayleigh-Taylor Shock Waves
May 2
May 9	Glenna Dunn