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"It's much easier to be critical than to be correct."
Benjamin Disraeli, in a speech to the House of Commons
The Star and Planet Formation Journal Club is an informal forum for the CfA community where we discuss recent articles of interest in the literature. Our principal focus is on star and planet formation, although we also regularly discuss articles on the interstellar medium. We will meet every Wednesday during the '07-'08 school year, at 11:00 in Phillips auditorium, 60 Garden St. [city map & another]. Occasionally, because of space issues, we will meet in the M-340 conference room on the 3rd floor of 160 Concord St.
Coffee and cookies are provided, funded by passing the hat and some wheedling. Generous donations may lead to sweeter provisions. If you are looking for ideas for papers to present, a good place to start is the star formation newsletter and astro-ph.
Judging by our current attendence, we suggest that you make ~20 copies of the paper and/or handout for distribution.
Please sign up and remember the journal club motto: "It is easier to criticize than to be correct." Anyone who can find the Latin translation of this phrase will be rewarded with *extra free* coffee or cookies at the next journal club.
| Wed. April 9th 11am, Phillips | Jonathan Foster | Magnetic Fields in Dark Cloud Cores: Arecibo OH Zeeman Observations by Troland and Crutcher 2008 http://arxiv.org/abs/0802.2253 |
| Wed. January 16 11am, Phillips | Nate Bastian | Seminar: Young star clusters: IMFs, star-formation efficiencies, and early evolution |
| Wed. January 23 11am, M-340 | Steven Longmore | A Minimum Column Density of 1 g cm-2 for Massive Star Formation, Krumholz & McKee, available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/0801.0442 |
| Wed. January 30 11am, Phillips | Jens Kauffmann | Dense core compression and fragmentation induced by the scattering of hydromagnetic waves, by van Loo, Falle and Hartquist, 2007 MNRAS 376, 779 |
| Wed. February 6 11am, Phillips | Rob Gutermuth | Characterizing the nature of embedded young stellar objects through silicate, ice and millimeter observations by Crapsi et al., 2008 Accepted to A&A, available at http://arxiv.org/abs/0801.4139 |
| Wed. February 13 11am, M-340 | Rahul Shetty | The Volume Densities of GMCs in M81 by Heiner et al. 2008 ApJ 673, 788 |
| Wed. February 20 11am, Phillips | No Speaker | No Title |
| Wed. February 27 11am, Phillips | Jaime Pineda | No Title |
| Wed. March 5 11am, M-340 | No Speaker | No Title |
| Wed. March 12 11am, Phillips | No Speaker | No Title |
| Wed. March 19 11am, Phillips | Dawn Peterson | No Title |
| Wed. March 26 11am, M-340 | No Speaker | No Title |
| Wed. April 2 11am, M-340 | Kevin Covey | Unveiling extremely veiled T Tauri stars by Gahm et al. 2008 http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/0803.3006 |
| Wed. April 9th 11am, Phillips | Jonathan Foster | Magnetic Fields in Dark Cloud Cores: Arecibo OH Zeeman Observations by Troland and Crutcher 2008 http://arxiv.org/abs/0802.2253 |
| Wed. April 16 11am, M-340 | No Speaker | No Title |
| Wed. April 23 11am, Phillips | No Speaker | No Title |
| Wed. April 30 11am, Phillips | Lori Allen | No Title |
| Wed. May 7 11am, M-340 | Scott Wolk | No Title |
| Wed. May 14 11am, Phillips | No Speaker | No Title |
| Wed. October 3 11am, Phillips | Peter Plavchan | Unveiling Disks Around M Dwarfs |
| Wed. October 10 11am, M-340 | Kevin Covey | The Burst Mode of Protostellar Accretion |
| Wed. October 17 11am, M-340 | Michael Meyer | The Stellar Mass Distribution in the Giant Star Forming Region NGC 346" by Sabbi et al. http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/0710.0558 |
| Wed. October 24 11am, M-340 | Jan Forbrich | On the Rapid Collapse and Evolution of Molecular Clouds, Elmegreen, 2007(ApJ 668, 1064) |
| Wed. October 31 11am, M-340 | Jonathan Devor | Identification, Classifications, and Absolute Properties of 773 Eclipsing Binaries Found in the TrES Survey |
| Wed. November 7th 11am, Phillips | Jonathan Foster | Multiple protostellar systems. II. A high resolution near-infrared imaging survey in nearby star-forming regions, Duchene et al., 2007(arXiv: 0710.0827) |
| Wed. November 14 11am, Phillips | John Bochanski | Special Seminar: Slicing with Sloan: M dwarfs and the Milky Way I will present results from two different studies that use Sloan Digital Sky Survey observations of low-mass stars to examine the history and evolution of the Local Milky Way. I will present preliminary results from my PhD thesis that focuses on constraining the initial mass function of low-mass stars. I employ a matched SDSS + 2MASS catalog that is over two orders of magnitude larger than any previous mass function sample. The second project uses a large spectroscopic sample of low-mass stars to trace the kinematic structure of the Milky Way to heights of 1.5 kpc above the Galactic Plane. These two studies, along with ongoing research at UW, are just a few examples of vast impact that SDSS has made on Galactic astronomy. |
| Wed. November 21 11am, Phillips | N/A | Cancelled |
| Wed. November 28 11am, Phillips | Tyler Bourke | Statistics of Core Lifetimes in Numerical Simulations of Turbulent, Magnetically Supercritical Molecular Clouds, Galvan-Madrid et al., 2007(ApJ, 670, 480) |
| Wed. December 5 11am, Phillips | Erik Rosolowsky | The relationship between the prestellar core mass function and the stellar initial mass function, Goodwin et al., 2008 (arXiv: 0711.1749) |
| Wed. December 12 11am, Phillips | Sean Andrews | Demographics of transition objects, Najita, Strom, & Muzerolle, 2007, MNRAS 378, 369 |
| Wed. December 19 11am, Phillips | Eric Mamajek | A kinematic study of the Taurus-Auriga Association, by Bertout and Genova (2006, A&A, 460, 499) |
If you would like to sign up to give a talk or discuss a paper, email the Journal Club wranglers: Kevin Covey (k c o v e y), Eric Mamajek (e m a m a j e k), or Erik Rosolowsky (e r o s o l o w) [each address is at the @cfa.harvard.edu domain].
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