Journal Club Spring 2012

Spring 2012 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 20	Karen Remick - IARC Data Center	Cyberinfrastructure: Data Sharing - Now and in the Future
Jan 27	Memorial For Prof. Davis Sentman (3-5PM)	Memorial For Prof. Davis Sentman (3-5PM)
Feb 3	No speaker	No speaker
Feb 10 note: in GI Elvey Auditorium today	David Newman, Physics Dept and Geophysical Institute, UAF	Finding vulnerabilities and measuring risk in the power transmission system
Feb 17 note: in GI Elvey Auditorium today	Dr. Ping Zhu, University of Wisconsin-Madison	Origin of Auroral Substorms: Trigger and Catalyst
Feb 24	David Newman, Physics Dept and Geophysical Institute, UAF	Making Fusion Work Part 2: Understanding Transport in Magnetically confined Plasmas
March 2 note: in GI Elvey Auditorium today	Joe Kan, Professor and Dean Emeritus, Physics Dept and Geophysical Institute, UAF Canceled	~~Saturation of polar cap potential: Nonlinearity in quasi-steady solar wind-magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling~~ Canceled
March 9	Chung-Sang Ng, Physics Dept and Geophysical Institute, UAF	Energy Distribution of Nanoflares in Three-Dimensional Simulations of Coronal Heating
March 16	Spring break	No Speaker
March 23 note: in GI Elvey Auditorium today	Juan G. Roederer, Physics Dept and Geophysical Institute, Director/Prof. Emeritus, UAF	Scientific Cooperation during the Cold War: a Personal Account
March 30	Agatha Light, Physics Dept, UAF	Foundations of Modern Physics Education
April 6	Edgar A. Bering III, Professor of Physics and ECE, University of Houston	Balloon-borne studies of magnetospheric electrodynamics
April 13	Benjamin W Longmier, Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Houston	Magnetoplasma Rocket Exhuast Plume Measurements and Applications for Spaceflight
April 20	Channon Price, Physics Dept, UAF	Status Report on LENR: A View from Outside
April 27 special seminar at 2PM in IARC rm 501	Callum Anderson, A finalist for the joint Physics and Space Physics faculty position	Local-Scale Neutral Dynamics in the Auroral Zones
April 27	Xuanye Ma, Physics Dept./GI, UAF	Entropy and Nonadiabatic Heating in The Magnetic Reconnection
May 3 special seminar at 11:30AM in the Globe room	Peter Delamere, A finalist for the joint Physics and Space Physics faculty position	Solar wind interaction with the giant magnetospheres: Clues from Saturn’s magnetopause boundary
May 4	David Withoff, Wilson Infrasound Observatory, GI, UAF	Snow Effects in Antarctic Infrasound
May 11	Jose-Miguel Reynolds Barredo, Physics UAF/ Carlos III de Madrid	Coherent events in 2D turbulence

		Have a nice summer break