Journal Club Spring 2011

Spring 2011 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 21	Don Hampton, Geophysical Institute, UAF	Nuclear Science in Space: a tale of two comets
Jan 28	Keith Cunningham, Alaska Satellite Facility	A History of Radar
Feb 4	John Dunwoody, Physics/Oceanography UAF	Satellite Tracked Drifters in the Bering Sea
Feb 11	Joe Kan, Professor and Dean Emeritus	Dipolarization initiated by Cowling electrojet current loop substantiated by THEMIS observations of a substorm on March 1, 2008
Feb 18	Gerhard Kramm, Geophysical Institute, UAF	On the atmospheric greenhouse effect and its climatic impact
Feb 25	Essam Yasin, Geophysical Institute, UAF	Modulational Instability of Finite Beta Plasma Flute Modes
March 4	No Talk this week	No Talk
March 11	David Newman, Physics Dept and Geophysical Institute, UAF	The Impact of Diamagnetic Drifts on the Dynamics of Turbulent Transport
March 18	No Talk	Spring Break
March 25	Juan Roederer, GI/Physics, Director/Prof. Emeritus Note different location this week: GI Auditorium	It’s about Time!
April 1	no speaker	no speaker
April 8	Chung-Sang Ng, Physics Dept and Geophysical Institute, UAF	Electrostatic Structures in Space Plasmas
April 15	David Newman, Physics Dept and Geophysical Institute, UAF Note different location this week: GI Auditorium	Making Fusion Work: Controlling Transport in Magnetically confined Plasmas
April 22	H. J. Christian, National Space Science and Technology Center University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL	Lightning – A Spark of Understanding
April 29	No speaker - Springfest	No speaker - Springfest
May 6	W. A. Bristow, ECE Dept and Geophysical Institute, UAF	First observations of ionospheric irregularities and flows over the south geomagnetic pole from the SuperDARN HF radar at McMurdo Station, Antarctica
May 13	No Speaker	No Speaker

		Have a nice summer break