Montana State University

Solar Journal Club -- PH 500 - 17

MSU Solar Physics Group
Coordinator: Dana Longcope dana [-at-] solar.physics.montana.edu

Time: Tuesday 11:00 AM - 12:00 Noon

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 2008 Schedule:

Week
Discussion Leader Paper
1/22 Organizational Meeting Time: 11:00am - 12:00pm
1/29 Masha Kazachenko Paper: Theoretical Predictions of X-Ray and Extreme-UV Flare Emissions Using a Loss-of-Equilibrium Model of Solar Eruptions, by Reeves, Warren, & Forbes
2/5 Silvina Guidoni Paper: Magnetic Field Properties of Flux Cancellation Sites, by M. Kubo and T. Shimizu
2/12 Andrés Muñoz Paper: The Outer Solar Atmosphere During the Maunder Minimum: a Stellar Perspective, by P. G. Judge and S. H. Saar
2/19 Tom Rust Paper: Are Constant Loop Widths an Artifact of the Background and the Spatial Resolution? by M. C. Lopez Fuentes, P. Demoulin, and J. A. Klimchuk
2/26 Jason Scott Paper: On the Size of Structures in the Solar Corona by C. E. DeForest
3/4 Sabrina Savage Paper: The relative timing of supra-arcade downflows in solar flares by Khan et al.
3/11 No SJC SPRING BREAK
3/18 Trae Winter cancelled
3/25 Ravindra Belur Paper: Chromospheric Alfvenic Waves Strong Enough to Power the Solar Wind by B. De Pontieu et al.
4/1 Trae Winter Paper: Motion OF 3~V6 keV Non-thermal Sources Along the Legs of a Flare Loop by Sui et al., 2006
4/8 Dibyendu Nandi Paper: Overview of the Workshop on "Solar variability, Earth's Climate and the Space Environment"
4/15 Lewis Fox Paper: Stereoscopic Spectroscopy for Efficient Spectral Imaging and Magnetography by DeForest et al.
4/22 Lucas Tarr Paper: Solar chromospheric spicules from the leakage of photospheric oscillations and flows by Bart De Pontieu et.al.
4/29 Ivy Merriot Paper: TBD

Links to journals

Group participants (who get papers)
  1. Acton, Loren
  2. Canfield, Dick (Electronic copy only)
  3. Cirtain, Jonathan (Electronic copy only)
  4. Davey, Alisdair (Electronic copy only)
  5. DesJardins, Angela
  6. Fox, Lewis (Electronic copy only)
  7. Guidoni, Silvina
  8. Holt, Andrew (Electronic copy only)
  9. Kankelborg, Charles
  10. Kazachenko, Masha
  11. Klapper, Isaac (Electronic copy only)
  12. Klumpar, Dave (Electronic copy only)
  13. Kobelski, Adam (Electrionic copy only)
  14. Longcope, Dana
  15. Malanushenko, Anna
  16. McKenzie, David (Electronic copy only)
  17. Merriot, Ivy (Electronic copy only)
  18. Muñoz, Andrés
  19. Nandi, Dibyendu
  20. Qiu, Jiong
  21. Ravindra Belur
  22. Rust, Tom
  23. Savage, Sabrina (Electronic copy only)
  24. Scott, Jason
  25. Shin, Junho
  26. Takeda, Aki
  27. Tarr, Lucas
  28. Winter, Trae
  29. Yoshimura, Keiji (Electronic copy only)

Past Schedules:

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