Spring 2007 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:

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

Date

Name - Affiliation

Title

Jan. 19

Jef Spaleta, HIPAS Observatory

Energy Confinement Time Measurements in the CDX-U Plasma Device

Jan. 26 Juan Roederer, Geophysical Institute Some basic epistemological and pedagogical questions concerning electromagnetism
Feb. 2 Eric Adamson, Geophysical Institute and Physics Dept. Analysis of Magnetic Cavities in the Vicinity of a Cusp-like Magnetic Configuration

Feb. 9

Antonius Otto, Geophysical Institute and Physics Dept.

Particle Acceleration at the Geomagnetic Cusps - Myth or Reality

Feb. 16

No Speaker

No Speaker

Feb. 23

Joe Kan, Professor and Dean Emeritus, University of Alaska Fairbanks

On the Origin of Creativity and Leadership

March 2

David Newman, Physics Dept. and Geophysical Institute

Communicating Science

March 9 TBA TBA

March 16

Spring Break,

Spring Break

March 23

Theo Gerkema, Royal NIOZ
Texel, The Netherlands

Internal-wave theory beyond the 'Traditional Approximation'

March 30

Ted Newman, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh

Anecdotes, Facts, Opinions and Some History of the Theory of Relativity

April 6

Juan Roederer, Geophysical Institute

Demoting the Maxwell Equations: Some basic epistemological and pedagogical questions concerning electromagnetism (Pt. II)

April 13

Styers/Jensen/Paris, Geophysical Institute

Auroral Photography

April 20

Dan Swift, Geophysical Institute

The Aurora as a Source for the Electron Radiation Belts

April 27 Duncan Marriott and Curt Szuberla, Geophysical Institute and Physics Dept. Antarctica: A First-Time Perspective

May 4

David Newman, Physics Dept. and Geophysical Institute

Toward the characterization and understanding of turbulence and turbulent transport: Turbulence for fun and profit

May 11

No Speaker

No Speaker

 

 

 

 

 

Have a nice summer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

To schedule a Journal Club presentation please contact Curt Szuberla or David Newman

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Last updated 7 September, 2007