= Astrophysics Journal Club at N.C. State University = Welcome to the home page for the Astrophysics Journal Club. As of Fall 2009, we are meeting on Thursdays at 3:00 pm, in Riddick 400P. Our meetings are public and anyone with an interest in astronomy and astrophysics is welcome to attend. Each week, we select a recently published article from the scientific literature and discuss the paper and its findings. One person is in charge of leading the discussion, but our format is more of an open forum than a lecture. The presenter for each week chooses the journal paper for that week's meeting. Individual pages for each week are below, complete with a schedule of who will be presenting that week. '''Fall 2009''' ["September 10th"] - Brian Williams: The Diversity of Type Ia Supernovae from Broken Symmetries ["September 17th"] - Don Warren: Discovery of the Highest Spectroscopically Confirmed Short GRB ["September 24th"] - Dave Fallest: Dust Formation in Massive Stars and Their Explosive Ends October 1st - Cody Simmons October 8th - Fall Break ["October 15th"] - Letisha Mclaughlin ["October 22nd"] - Steve Reynolds ["October 29th"] - John Blondin: A Blast wave from the 1843 eruption of eta Carinae November 5th - Davide Lazzati November 12th - David Brown November 19th - Liliana Caballero December 3rd - Kazimierz Borkowski '''Spring 2009''' April 22nd, 2009 - April 15th, 2009 - Don Warren ["April 8th, 2009"] - Davide Lazzati: Positron Abundance in Cosmic Rays ["April 1st, 2009"] - David Brown: A Recoiling Supermassive Black Hole March 25th, 2009 - No meeting ["March 18th, 2009"] - Don Ellison: Particle Acceleration in collisionless shocks ["March 11th, 2009"] - Letisha Mclaughlin: The Lost Siblings of the Sun March 4th, 2009 - No meeting, Spring Break February 25th, 2009 - Guest Speaker: Brian Morsony, University of Wisconsin ["February 18th, 2009"] - John Blondin: Comprehensive Simulations of Superhumps February 11th, 2009 - Liliana Caballero: Research talk ["February 4th, 2009"] - Andrey Vladimirov: Molecular Clouds Illuminated by Cosmic Rays ["January 28th, 2009"] - Steve Reynolds: Fossil Remnants of Reionization in the Halo of the Milky Way ["January 21st, 2009"] - Brian Williams: Dust Formation in a Galaxy with Primitive Abundances '''Fall 2008''' ["December 3rd, 2008"] - Cody Simmons: Optical Images of an Extrasolar Planet 25 Light Years from Earth November 27th, 2008 - No meeting, Thanksgiving ["November 20th, 2008"] - Gail Mclaughlin: The Impact of Neutrino Magnetic Moments on the Evolution of Massive Stars ["November 13th, 2008"] - Don Ellison: Cosmic ray acceleration in the remnant of SN 1006 ["November 6th, 2008"] - Davide Lazzati: Dust Extinction in High-z Galaxies with GRB Afterglow Spectroscopy October 30th, 2008 - No meeting, SESAPS ["October 22nd, 2008"] - Matthew Mumpower. Note change of day to Wednesday this week. October 16th, 2008 - No meeting October 9th, 2008 - No meeting, fall break ["October 2nd, 2008"] - Steve Reynolds: Optical flaring from suspected magnetar ["September 25th, 2008"] - Andrey Vladimirov: A 20-yr radio light curve for G1.9+0.3 ["September 18th, 2008"] - Don Warren: Cosmology/Dark Energy topic ["September 11th, 2008"] - Brian Williams: Star Formation Around Supermassive Black Holes ["September 4th, 2008"] - Letisha Mclaughlin: Practice talk = WikiName Wiki = What is this wiki about? Interesting starting points: * RecentChanges: see where people are currently working * WikiSandBox: feel free to change this page and experiment with editing * FindPage: search or browse the database in various ways * SyntaxReference: quick access to wiki syntax * SiteNavigation: get an overview over this site and what it contains == How to use this site == A Wiki is a collaborative site, anyone can contribute and share: * Edit any page by pressing '''[[GetText(Edit)]]''' at the top or the bottom of the page * Create a link to another page with joined capitalized words (like WikiSandBox) or with {{{["quoted words in brackets"]}}} * Search for page titles or text within pages using the search box at the top of any page * See HelpForBeginners to get you going, HelpContents for all help pages. To learn more about what a WikiWikiWeb is, read about MoinMoin:WhyWikiWorks and the MoinMoin:WikiNature. Also, consult the MoinMoin:WikiWikiWebFaq. This wiki is powered by MoinMoin.