Astrophysics Journal Club is a weekly seminar at which students, faculty and postdocs offer reviews of interesting and potentially important papers from the research literature.
Spring Semester 2009 Journal Club
Date |
Student |
Faculty/Postdoc |
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Jan 29 |
|
Terry Jones |
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Feb 5 |
Paul Edmon |
|
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Feb 12 |
|
Liliya Williams |
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Feb 19 |
Karl Isensee
|
|
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Feb 26 |
Pete Mendygral |
|
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Mar 5 |
Andrew Helton |
Megan Krejny |
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Mar 12 |
Kathleen deWahl |
Larry Rudnick |
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Mar 19 |
Spring
Break |
Spring
Break |
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Mar 26 |
Steve Warren |
Yong Qian |
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Apr 2 |
Danielle Berg |
Chick Woodward |
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Apr 9 |
Tom Vonderharr |
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Apr 16 |
Ted Wahl |
Evan Skillman |
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Apr 23 |
Damon Farnsworth |
Tom Jones |
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Apr
30 |
Kristen McQuinn |
|
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May
7 |
Andrea Mehner |
Roberta Humphreys |
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Some resources to find papers for review:
From
astro-ph: http://astro-ph@xxx.lanl.gov/
From
the journals:
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Some Journal Club Presentation
Guidelines
In preparing a Journal Club
(JC) presentation, the following guidelines
may be useful (partly
paraphrased from the Astrophysics Grad Student Handbook):
I. Paper selection: Please
choose a paper that will be interesting to a broad audience.
"Discovery" papers are more likely to be of general interest than
"technical" papers.
For example, reviewing the
relevant journal article connected to a press release will
generally be appreciated by
all. Remember that short papers, especially Letters, are concise,
so often much of the background is omitted. On the other hand, it may be
difficult to do justice to a very long paper in the time allotted.
II. Give yourself enough
prep time: It is best to identify an article at least a
week in advance, so there is
time to find another if the first choice turns out to be unsuitable.
III. Tips for Presentation:
IV. Feedback: Everyone is
encouraged to seek and to provide helpful feedback, since one of the principal
purposes of JC is to enhance our presentation skills.
Some suggested questions to address in reviewing papers.
Last update: 16 January, 2009