Journal Club Spring 2019

Spring 2019 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 18	No Speaker this week	No Speaker this week
Jan 25	John Meriwether Department of Physics and Astronomy Clemson University - NJIT	The strange case of vigorous thermospheric vertical winds in aurora
Feb 1	Chijie Xiao School of Physics, Peking University	Experimental investigation of 3D magnetic reconnection at the null point
Feb 8	David Newman Physics Department/GI UAF	Science Policy and Science Funding: A view from Washington
Feb 15	No journal club this week, GI Awards Ceremony	No journal club this week, GI Awards Ceremony
Feb 22	Chung-Sang Ng Physics Department/GI UAF	A Sanity Check on the WKB Method
March 1	Tom Marsik Cold Climate Housing Research Center/UAF	Air Source Heat Pumps in Alaska
March 8	Richard Hechter University of Manitoba	From Movies, to Art, to Youtube: Teaching physics that resonates with students
March 15	Spring Break	Spring Break
March 22	W. Alan Delamere Delamere Support Services	Human Exploration of Mars: Cost Realities of a First Mission
March 29	Jennifer Carter Leicester University, England	Field aligned currents in the Earth’s magnetosphere: general behaviours, inter-hemispheric comparisons, and relation to the auroras
April 5	Lynn Kaluzienski, School of Earth and Climate Sciences and Climate Change Institute University of Maine	Ice Physics on Europa- Surface Morphology and Insights from the Ocean Moon
April 12	Peter Damiano, Geophysical Institute, UAF	Electron dynamics in kinetic scale field line resonances
April 19	no speaker	no talk
April 26	David Polashenski Geophysical Institute Glaciers Group	Applications of Radar in Glaciology
May 3	no speaker	no speaker
May 10	no speaker	no speaker

		Have a nice summer