Astrophysics Journal Club


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

Jan 29

 

Terry Jones

Feb 5

Paul Edmon

 

Feb 12

 

Liliya Williams

Feb 19

Karl Isensee

 

Feb 26

Pete Mendygral

 

Mar 5

Andrew Helton

Megan Krejny

 

Mar 12

Kathleen deWahl

Larry Rudnick

 

Mar 19

Spring Break

Spring Break

 

Mar 26

Steve Warren

Yong Qian

 

Apr 2

Danielle Berg

Chick Woodward

 

Apr 9

Tom Vonderharr

 

 

Apr 16

Ted Wahl

Evan Skillman

 

Apr 23

Damon Farnsworth

Tom Jones

 

Apr 30

Kristen McQuinn

 

 

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/


 

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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.


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Last update: 16 January, 2009