Journal Club Fall 2017

Fall 2017 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)2

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 Note: 4:00PM in Elvey Aud.	Elena Surovyatkina Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia	Critical phenomena and downscaling criticality in tipping elements in the Earth system This lecture is part of the Chapman Chair Series
Sept 8 Note: 4:00PM in Elvey Aud.	Bernd Blasius University of Oldenburg, Germany	Marine bioinvasion in the network of global shipping connections This lecture is part of the Chapman Chair Series
Sept 15	Blake Stauffer Physics Dept./GI, UAF	Hybrid simulations of radial transport driven by the Rayleigh-Taylor instability
Sept 22	Dan Swift Physics Dept./GI, UAF	Highlights of Auroral Research at the Geophysical Institute
Sept 29	Riley Troyer Physics Dept./GI, UAF	A Physics Student in Congress: my experience as a summer intern for the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
Oct 6	Jiansen He Peking University, China	MHD Waves in the Solar Atmosphere
Oct 13	no speaker this week	no speaker this week
Oct 20	Don Hampton Geophysical Institute	Highlights of the 2017 Sounding Rocket Season at Poker Flat
Oct 27	Ned Rozell Geophysical Institute	Two million steps: A GI science writer's summer walk along the trans-Alaska pipeline
Nov 3	Mark Conde Physics Dept./GI, UAF	The gravity wave event observed on August 17, 2017, and it implications for understanding of mechanisms for producing heavy elements
Nov 10 (note: starting at 3:30)	Hyunju Connor Physics Dept./GI, UAF	SMILE soft X-ray imaging mission: Innovative approach to understand solar wind – magnetosphere interaction
Nov 17	Dan Swift GI, UAF	Global Warming: What can be done about it
Nov 24	no speaker Thanksgiving	no speaker Thanksgiving
Dec 1	Theodore Hodapp Department of Education and Diversity, American Physical Society	Critical issues (and solutions) facing the physics community: Teacher shortages, lack of diversity
Dec 8	Brandon Burkholder and Stefan Awender Physics Dept./GI, UAF	Mapping the Auroral Electrojet
Dec 15	no speaker	no speaker
Dec 22	no speaker	no speaker

		Have a nice Winter Break