Journal Club Fall 2015

Fall 2015 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
Sept 4	Chung-Sang Ng Physics Department & Geophysical Institute, UAF	Painlevé paradox
Sept 11	Mark Conde Physics Department & Geophysical Institute, UAF	The C-REX Sounding Rocket Mission
Sept 18	no speaker	no speaker
Sept 25 note: this talk will be in the Elvey Auditorium	Morgan Johnson and Jesse Frey, EE, UAF	Introduction to the Alaska Research CubeSats
Oct 2	Channon Price Physics Department, UAF	The Physics of Information: Theory and Experiment Alternate title: The Second Law of Thermo, To Redux or Not to Redux?
Oct 9	no speaker	no speaker
Oct 16	Douglas Ogata Physics Department & Geophysical Institute, UAF	Mechanisms of non-diffusive transport in a simple two-dimensional plasma fluid turbulence model
Oct 23	Christopher Fallen Geophysical Institute, UAF	American Physics Horror Story: A Peeling History of Early Radiation Research
Oct 30	Roman A. Makarevich Physics Department & Geophysical Institute, UAF	Radio Aurora: 1.1 Safety in Numbers
Nov 6	Georgeanna Heaverley Physics Department, UAF	Back to the Future: The Physics & The Fun Facts
Nov 13	Dan LaSota	The Faraday Rotation Effect: An investigation of Remote Control Laboritories in Physics Education
Nov 20	Dr. Kenneth Arnoult, Formerly with the Geophysical Institute, UAF	Planck "Natural Units" and their Relevance to Physics for over a Century
Nov 27	No Speaker - Thanksgiving	No Speaker - Thanksgiving
Dec 4	David Newman Physics Department & Geophysical Institute, UAF	Understanding and Controlling the Mechanisms behind Turbulent Transport: A New Way to Effect the Phase?
Dec 11	Peter Delamere Physics Department & Geophysical Institute, UAF	New Horizons mission to Pluto: An overview of initial results
Dec 18	TBA	TBA
Dec 25	Christmas Day	Scrooge

		Have a nice Winter Break