Fall 2006 Journal Club Schedule

Fridays at 3:45 in the Globe Room, Elvey Building (check the room on the abstracts below as some may be moved)

note:
Sept 15 Journal club will be in 202 NSCI
Nov. 10 Journal club will be in 401 IARC

Titles and abstracts tend to show up the week of the talk so check back if they are missing.

 

Date

Name - Affiliation

Title

Sept. 1

No Speaker

No Speaker

Sept. 8 Dan Swift , Geophysical Institute Particle-code simulation of auroral electron
acceleration by inertial Alfvén waves
Sept. 15 Robin Blume-Kohout , Institute for Quantum Information
California Institute of Technology
What's a quantum computer good for (and
how would it work)
(note Rm change to 202 NSCI)

Sept. 22

No speaker

No speaker

Sept. 29

No speaker

No speaker

Oct. 6

Joe Kan, Geophysical Institute

Storm-substorm relationships: The role of magnetic reconnection at the substorm expansion onset and during the ring current injection

Oct. 13

Curt A. L. Szuberla, Geophysical Institute and Physics Dept.

Large Numbers

Oct. 20 Michael Danielides, Geophysical Institute A Review of the Auroral Turbulence II Rocket Experiment & Related Observations

Oct. 27

Chris Granade, Physics Dept.

The benefits of version control

Nov. 3

William Bristow, Geophysical Institute and Electrical Engineering Dept.

Substorm convection patterns observed by the Super Dual Auroral Radar Network

Nov. 10

Takeshi Kammae, Geophysical Institute and Physics Dept.

High-Speed Imaging and Spectroscopic Observations of Sprites (note Rm change to 401 IARC)

(Prof. Juan Roederer's previously announced talk, "Some basic epistemological and pedagogical questions concerning electromagnetism" has been postponed )

Nov. 17

K. Remick

Statistical modeling of geomagnetic storm occurrences

Nov. 24

No Speaker

Thanksgiving Break

Dec. 1

Davis Sentman, Geophysical Institute and Physics Dept.

Electrochemistry of Sprite Streamers

Dec. 8 TBA TBA

Dec. 15

No Speaker

No Speaker

Dec. 22

No Speaker

No Speaker

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Titles are linked to PDF and HTML versions of the Abstract.

To schedule a Journal Club presentation please contact Curt Szuberla or David Newman

Link to last semesters talks

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Link to fall 2003 semesters talks

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Link to fall 2002 semesters talks

Link to spring 2002 semesters talks


 

Last updated 11 January, 2007