Solar Journal Club -- PHYS 500-17

Coordinator: Dana Longcope dana@mithra.physics.montana.edu

Time: Tuesday 10:00-10:50 AM

Place: Dayton Conference Room (EPS 258) 


In this seminar, graduate student and faculty participants will review recent journal articles and preprints in order to familiarize themselves with the "state of the art" of the major observational and theoretical research topics of the discipline and the MSU research program. From time to time, "classic" papers of enduring value may be discussed. The typical weekly meeting will consist of a one-hour critical discussion of a journal article, copies of which will have been distributed to, and read by, all participants during the previous week. Each discussion will be informally led by a student or faculty member. Participants will be expected to contribute actively to all discussions, and to lead an occasional one on a rotating basis.

When appropriate, these discussions will be replaced by an informal presentation of personal research results by MSU students, faculty, or scientific visitors. 


Here is a list of suggested titles from the current literature. 

Spring 2005 Schedule:

Week
Discussion Leader Paper
1/18 Organizational meeting
1/25 Alisdair Davey Virtual Solar Observatory
2/1 Trae Winter Bloomfield, et al., Wavelet Phase Coherence Analysis: Application to a Quiet-Sun Magnetic Element
2/8 Piet Martens McIntosh, Patterns and Dynamics of Solar Magnetic Fields and HeI Coronal Holes in Cycle 23
2/15 Andrew Holt Lites and Socas-Navarro, Characterization of Magnetic Flux in the Quiet Sun II: The Internetwork Fields at High Angular Resolution
2/22 Dana Longcope Fletcher, Pollock, and Potts, Tracking of TRACE Ultraviolet Flare Footpoints
3/1 Dibyendu Nandi Brandenburg, The case for a distributed solar dynamo shaped by near-surface shear
3/8 Angela DesJardins Fletcher, et al., Evidence for the Flare Trigger Site and Three-Dimensional Reconnection in Multiwavelength Observations of a Solar Flare
3/15 No SJC Spring Break
3/22 Colin Beveridge Priest, Heyvaerts, and Title, A Flux-Tube Model for Solar Coronal Heating Driven by the Magnetic Carpet
3/29 T.J. Madjarska, Doyle, and van Driel-Gesztelyi, Evidence of Magnetic Reconnection Along Coronal Hole Boundaries
4/5 Silvina Guidoni Louarn, et al., Cluster Observations of Complex 3D Magnetic Structures at the Magnetopause
4/12 Andres Munoz Solanki, et al., Unusual Activity of the Sun During Recent Decades Compared to the Previous 11,000 Years
4/19 Sabrina Savage TBD
4/26 Loren Acton TBD
5/3 No SJC Finals Week

Links to journals

Group participants (who get papers)
  1. Acton
  2. Beveridge
  3. Canfield
  4. DesJardins
  5. Fox
  6. Guidoni
  7. Holt
  8. Jibben
  9. Kankelborg
  10. Klapper (Campus Mail to Math Department)
  11. Klumpar
  12. Larsen
  13. Longcope
  14. Martens
  15. McKenzie (Electronic copy only)
  16. Merriot, Ivy (Electronic copy only)
  17. Munoz
  18. Nandi
  19. Savage
  20. Scott, Jason
  21. Winter
  22. Yoshimura

Past Schedules:

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