Journal Club Spring 2016

Spring 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
Jan. 15	Martin Truffer Physics Department & Geophysical Institute, UAF	A Brief History of Neutrinos
Jan. 22	David Newman Physics Department & Geophysical Institute, UAF	Homogeneity in Networks: A Case Study - The Impact of Inhomogeneity on Blackout Risk in Power Transmission Grids
Jan. 29	No Speaker	No Speaker
Feb. 5	Mark Conde Physics Department & Geophysical Institute, UAF	The Curious Star KIC 8462852 - First Indications of Alien Mega Structures?
Feb. 12	David Newman Physics Department & Geophysical Institute, UAF	100 Years of General Relativity: What's New? (was there a big announcement yesterday?)
Feb. 19	Bill Bristow Electrical Engineering Department & Geophysical Institute, UAF	HAARP 101 – Mind control, weather control, and fun things you can actually do with electromagnetic waves.
Feb. 26	No Speaker, 4th Annual GI Awards Banquet	No Speaker, 4th Annual GI Awards Banquet
March 4	Douglas Ogata Physics Department & Geophysical Institute, UAF	An orange or a carrot?: Quantifying local blob dynamics from NSTX 2010 GPI data
March 11	David Newman and anyone else Physics Department & Geophysical Institute, UAF	What is a University? What's it for?
March 18	No Speaker - Spring Break	No Speaker - Spring Break
March 25	Chung-Sang Ng Physics Department & Geophysical Institute, UAF C.J. Pollock UAF GI Affiliate Faculty Postponed	MHD Turbulence and the Heating of the Solar Wind ~~The Fast Plasma Investigation on NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale mission~~ Postponed
April 1	Vincent Dols University of Colorado/Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics	Europa’s atmospheric neutral loss
April 8	Don Hampton Geophysical Institute, UAF	The curious case of Robin Strutt and the night sky - or - How to have your name associated with an often-used aeronomy unit.
April 15	No Talk today	No Talk today
April 22	Flora Grabowska Geophysical Institute, UAF	3 useful tools: Altmetrics, Scimago and BASE
April 29	Katherine Rawlins Physics Department, UAA	The IceCube Observatory, and the Dawn of Neutrino Astronomy
May 6 Special Seminar at 10:30 AM in the Elvey Auditorium	Mingming Yang	From the Discovery of the Higgs boson to the Meaning of Life

		Have a nice Summer Break