Journal Club Fall 2016

Fall 2016 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 26	Dr. Ajeet Maurya Fulbright Scholar from India	Tweek Radio atmospherics: Characteristics and Application
Sept 2	Christopher Fallen Geophysical Institute, UAF	Radio Modification of the Ionosphere, and Who Uses This HAARP Thing Anyway?
Sept 7 at 4:00 in Elvey Aud	Dr. Jürgen Kurths incoming Chapman Chair	Synchronization & Complex networks: Are such theoretical approaches useful for Earth and Life Sciences?
Sept 8 at 3:00 in Elvey Aud	Dr. Eddy Carmack outgoing Chapman Chair	Long road to the new Arctic Ocean: Does a non-linear path lie ahead?
Sept 9 at 3:30 in Elvey Aud	Dr. David Scholl outgoing Chapman Chair	Two reasons why some subduction zones, e.g. Aleutian and Alaska, are so seismically nasty, + what’s new in potential new Aleutian and Bering Sea studies.
Sept 16	Hans Nielsen Geophysical Institute, UAF	High Speed Sprite Imaging: A model and its potential application to the aurora
Sept 23	Mark Conde Physics Department & Geophysical Institute, UAF	Breakthrough Starshot: Is it Feasible?
Sept 30	David Newman Physics Department & Geophysical Institute, UAF	The World through the Lens of Complex Systems: or Why is Risk Analysis so Hard
Oct 7	Syun Akasofu IARC	Where is the magnetic energy for the expansion phase of auroral substorms accumulated? The main body, not the magnetotail
Oct 14	No Speaker this week	No Speaker this week
Oct 21	Sean Counihan Physics Department	Optimization of the Power Grid
Oct 28	No Speaker this week	No Speaker this week
Nov 4	No Speaker this week	No Speaker this week
Nov 11	UAF Society of Physics Students,Physics Department, UAF	The 2016 Quadrennial Physics Congress: A Report
Nov 18	Amir Raz Physics Department	Tsunami Waves in Narrow Bays
Nov 27	No Speaker - Thanksgiving	No Speaker - Thanksgiving
Dec 2	No Speaker this week	No Speaker this week
Dec 9	Hongbo Joshua Yang formerly from Brookhaven National Laboratory	High Temperature Superconductivity - Three Decades of Pursuit for New Materials and Deeper Understanding
Dec 16	No Speaker this week AGU	No Speaker this week AGU
Dec 23	Christmas Day	Scrooge

		Have a nice Winter Break