Spring 2018 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 19

Massimiliano Galeazzi
University of Miami - Department of Physics

The DXL mission and studies of the Diffuse X-ray Background and Solar Wind Charge eXchange

Jan 26

Prof. Emer. Charles Deehr
Geophysical Institute, UAF

Professor Lars Vegard’s Contributions to Auroral Research: A sixty year odyssey of curiosity, patience, and determination

Feb 2

Rodney Viereck
Director Space Weather Prediction Testbed
NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center


Space Weather and the Numerical Models for Forecasts

Feb 9

Prof. Emer. Charles Deehr
Geophysical Institute, UAF
The Importance of Amundsen’s 1903-06 Magnetic Field Observations to Solar-Terrestrial Physics A Contemporary Investigation Using the Data from the Gjøa Expedition, 1903-06 with comparisons to simultaneous observations by Kristian Birkeland and Robert F. Scott

Feb 16

no speaker no speaker, GI Awards presentations

Feb 23

David Newman
Physics/GI UAF

Playing with the Universe

March 2

Note: 3:30-4:30 in Elvey Aud.

Chapman Lectures

Bodo Bookhagen
Potsdam University, Germany,

Vertical tectonics and sea-level changes: examples from plate margins 

March 9

Boyi Wang
UCLA

Dayside magnetosphere and ionosphere responses to transient upstream disturbances measured by satellite-imager coordination

March 16

Spring Break Spring Break

March 23

No Talk today

No Talk today

March 30

Peter Damiano
Geophysical Institute, UAF

Ion temperature effects on Alfvenic field aligned currents and electron energization in the terrestrial magnetosphere

April 6

Riley Troyer
Physics Dept.UAF
Improving Energy Use as the Fairbanks North Star Borough Energy Management Intern

April 13

Blake Stauffer
Physics Dept. UAF

Bitcoin and Distributed Digital Consensus 

April 20

Syun-Ichi Akasofu
IARC, UAF

A new theory on the formation of sunspots

April 27

Riley Troyer
Physics Dept.UAF

Are neutral wind signatures of the cusp region density enhancement visible around 240 km above Antarctica? 

May 4

TBD TBD

May 11

no speaker no speaker

 

 

 

 

 

Have a nice Summer Break

 

 

 

 

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To schedule a Journal Club presentation please contact Chung-Sang Ng or David Newman

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Last updated 24 April, 2018