Journal Club Fall 2010

Fall 2010 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: Oct 29 and Nov 19th will be in the Elvey Auditorium

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

Date	Name - Affiliation	Title
Sept 3	C. P. Price, Physics Dept., UAF	Cataclysmic Calculations: Apocalypse When and Other Investigations of Eschatological Endstates
Sept 10	Chung-Sang Ng. Physics Dept./GI, UAF	Random Walk on the Surface of the Sun
Sept 17	Thomas Gabrielson, Penn State University	The 1883 Explosion of Krakatoa and the Speed of Sound
Sept 24	No Speaker (Adamson thesis defense at 2:15PM)	No Speaker (Adamson thesis defense at 2:15PM)
Oct 1	David Fee, GI, UAF	Volcanic Jet Noise
Oct 8	Srivathsan Ragunathan, GI, UAF	Searching for secondary islands during MHD simulations of island coalescence instability
Oct 15	David Newman, Physics Dept./GI, UAF	Sustainable distributed generation in the power transmission grid: Good or Bad for the system?
Oct 22	Flora Grabowska, Librarian, Keith B. Mather Library UAF, Geophysical Institute	The Benefits of Publishing Open Access
Oct 29 (Note Elvey Aud.)	Eric Mazur, Balkanski Professor of Physics, Harvard University	Wrapping light around a hair
Nov. 5	Shiva Hullavarad, Advanced Materials Group, Institute of Northern Engineering, UAF	Unique Opportunities in Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education at Advanced Materials Group, UAF
Nov. 12	Hans Nielsen, Physics Dept./GI, UAF	Interesting trivia I learned teaching astronomy
Nov. 19 (Note Elvey Aud.)	Peter Peterson, Physics Dept./GI, UAF	Investigating Brine on Frost Flowers with Absorption Tomography
Nov. 26	No Speaker Thanksgiving break	No Speaker
Dec. 3	No Speaker this week	No Speaker
Dec. 10	No Speaker this week	No Speaker
Dec. 17	No Speaker finals week	No Speaker
Dec. 24	No Speaker winter break	No Speaker

		Have a nice winter break