Journal Club Summer/Fall 2011

Summer/Fall 2011 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)

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

Date	Name - Affiliation	Title
Aug 1 Special Journal Club	Prof. Chanchal Uberoi, Indian Institute of science, Bangalore, India	Historic Observations of Space Weather Effects on Human Life and Technical Systems in India
Sept 2	Dave Sentman, Prof Emer. Physics Dept and GI, UAF	Overview of Effects of Thunderstorms on the Middle and Upper Atmosphere
Sept 9	No Speaker	No Speaker
Sept 16	Robert Michell, Southwest Research Institute	Dispersion analysis of flickering aurora
Sept 23	David Sibeck, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center	Ballooning-Mirror Mode Waves in the Quiet-Time Morning Magnetosphere: THEMIS Observations
Sept 30	No Speaker	No Speaker
Oct 7	Q.-G. Zong, Peking University, China/University of Massachusetts Lowell	Fast Acceleration of Killer Electrons and Energetic Ions by Interplanetary Shock Excited ULF Waves
Oct 14 Note: This week we will meet int the GI Auditorium	Juan G. Roederer, GI/Physics, Director/Prof. Emeritus	The Quantum Wars of 2011
Oct 21	TBA	TBA
Oct 28	TBA	TBA
Nov 4	I T. Lee, High Altitude Observatory, National Center for Atmospheric Research	Data assimilation of FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC electron densities using the NCAR TIE-GCM
Nov 11	Don Hampton, GI, Optical Science Manager Poker Flat Research Range	Why are we still studying the aurora?
Nov 18	TBA	TBA
Nov 25	No Speaker - Thanksgiving break	No Speaker - Thanksgiving break
Dec 2	TBA	TBA
Dec 9	TBA	TBA
Dec 16	No Speaker	No Speaker

		Have a nice winter break