Spring 2002 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)

 

Date

Name - Affiliation

Title

Jan. 18

No speaker this week

No speaker this week

Jan. 25

No speaker this week

No speaker this week

Feb. 1

No speaker this week

No speaker this week

Feb. 8

James W. LaBelle, Professor of Physics, Dartmouth College

Fine Structure in Auroral Radio Emissions (PDF version)

Feb. 15

Lt. Col. Geoff McHarg, US Airforce Academy

Flickering aurora--The possible importance of electric field shear (PDF version) (NOTE ROOM CHANGE THIS WEEK)

Feb. 22

Antonius Otto, Geophysical Institute, UAF

Hall Physics in Magnetic Reconnection (PDF version)

March 1

Scott Bailey, Geophysical Institute, UAF

Observations of Polar Mesospheric Clouds from the Student Nitric Oxide Explorer (PDF version)

March 8

María Varela, Departamento de Física. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. and Universidad Complutense de Madrid. SPAIN

Exploring materials at the nanometric scale: Which mechanisms are involved in thin film growth? (PDF version)

March 15

Raul Sanchez, Departamento de Física. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Waiting-time statistics of SOC systems: From solar flares to turbulent plasma transport (PDF version) (NOTE ROOM CHANGE to Elvey Auditorium THIS WEEK)

March 22

No Speaker this week

Spring Break

March 29

Mark E. Koepke, Department of Physics, West Virginia University

Interrelated Experiments in Laboratory and Space Plasma Physics (PDF version)

April 5

Vikas S. Sonwalkar, Department of Electrical Engineering, UAF

Observations and interpretation of discrete and diffuse whisltler mode echoes received by RPI on image (PDF version)

April 12

No Speaker this week

No Speaker this week

April 19

Dan Swift, Geophysical Institute, UAF

The Aurora as a Source of Radiation Belt Electrons (PDF version)

April 26

R. V. Reddy,Geophysical Institute, UAF

Global Hybrid Code Simulation of the Earth's Magnetosphere: The Initial Developments

May 3

No Speaker this week

No Speaker this week

 

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

Link to last semesters talks