MKI Journal Club meets semester Fridays at noon in the Marlar Lounge (building 37, room 252).
Click on a speaker's name to visit their home page. Click on an author's name to download and view their paper.
| 7 September | Rob Simcoe: Introduction |
| Science news | |
| 14 September | |
| Ben Cain: Werner et al, "Complex X-ray Morphology of Abell 3128: A distant cluster behind a disturbed cluster" | |
| Mark Bautz: A. Evrard et al., "Virial Scaling of Massive Dark Matter Halos: Why Clusters Prefer a High Normalization Cosmology" | |
| 21 September | |
| Mike Stevens: Opher et al, "The Orientation of the Local Interstellar Magnetic Field" | |
| Scott Hughes: Mezzacappa et al,"Ascertaining the Core Collapse Supernova Mechanism: An Emerging Picture?" | |
| 28 September | |
| Ryan Lang: Arnaud et al., "An overview of the second round of the Mock LISA Data Challenges" | |
| Al Levine: Stark et al., "A Keck Survey for Gravitationally-Lensed Lyman-alpha Emitters in the Redshift Range 8.5 < z < 10.4" | |
| 5 October | Green Center Dedication: no talks |
| 12 October | |
| Josh Carter: Freese, et. al., "The Effect of Dark Matter on the First Stars: A New Phase of Stellar Evolution" | |
| Gregg Harry: Clarkson & Seahra, "A Gravitational Wave Window on Extra Dimensions" | |
| 19 October | |
| Will Farr: James B. Hartle and Mark Srednicki, Are We Typical? | |
| Adam Burgasser: Mohanty et al and Marmajek & Meyer, The Enigma of the Planetary-Mass Brown Dwarf 2MASS 1207-3932B | |
| 26 October | |
| Stephen O'Sullivan: Buonanno et al, "A data analysis driven comparison of analytic an numerical coalescing binary waveforms: non-spinning case" | |
| Nitya Kallivayalil: van der Marel & Guhathakurta , "M31 Transverse Velocity and Local Group Mass from Satellite Velocities" | |
| 2 November | |
| Yangsen Yao: Bregman & Lloyd-Davies, "X-Ray Absorption from the Milky Way Halo and the Local Group" | |
| Leo Stein: Boyarsky et al., "Constraining Dark Matter Properties with SPI" | |
| 9 November | |
| Jackie Hewitt: Wyithe, Loeb, and Geil, "Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations in 21cm Emission: A Probe of Dark Energy out to High Redshifts" | |
| Robyn Sanderson: Gao & Theuns, "Lighting the Universe with filaments" | |
| 16 November | |
| Norbert Schultz: The Pierre Auger Collaboration, "Correlation of the Highest-Energy Cosmic Rays with Nearby Extragalactic Objects" | |
| Mike Matejek: Brown and Salaris, "The Impact of Rotation on the Evolution of Low-Mass Stars" | |
| 23 November | Thanksgiving: no talks. |
| 30 November | |
| Paola Testa: Pascucci et al., "Detection of Ne II Emission from Young Circumstellar Disks" | |
| Timothy Bodiya: Abbott et al (for the LIGO Collaboration), "Implications for the Origin of GRB 070201 from LIGO Observations" | |
| 7 December | |
| En-Hsin Peng: Sanders et al, "Cool X-ray emitting gas in the core of the Centaurus cluster of galaxies" | |
| Li Ji: Ebisawa et al, "Spectral Study of the Galactic Ridge X-ray Emission with Suzaku" | |