Solar Journal Club -- PHYS 500-17

Coordinator: Jiong Qiu qiuj@mithra.physics.montana.edu

Time: Tuesday 2:10-3:00 PM

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 2006 Schedule:

Week
Discussion Leader Paper
1/17 Organizational Meeting
1/24 Tongjiang Wang Research Seminar: Waves and Oscillations in Coronal Loops
1/31 Silvina Guidoni Schussler and Rempel, The Dynamical Disconnection of Sunspots from their Magnetic Roots
2/7 Andrew Holt Amari, Luciani, and Aly, Non-Current-Free Coronal Closure of Subphotospheric MHD Models
2/14 Andres Munoz Tokman and Bellan, Three-dimensional Model of the Structure and Evolution of Coronal Mass Ejections
2/21 Dana Longcope Research Seminar: A Dynamical Model of Separator Current Sheet Formation
2/28 Masha Kazachenko Komm, et al., Kinetic Helicity Density in Solar Subsurface Layers and Flare Activity of Active Regions
3/7 Angela DesJardins Kontar, et al., Compton Backscattered and Primary X-rays from Solar Flares: Angle Dependent Green's Function Correction for Photospheric Albedo
3/14 No SJC Spring Break
3/21 Jason Scott Welsch, Magnetic Flux Cancellation and Coronal Magnetic Energy
3/28 Sabrina Savage Huang and Lin, Quasi-periodic Reversals of Radio Polarization at 17 GHz Observed in the 2002 April 21 Solar Event
4/4 Dibyendu Nandi Leka, Fan, and Barnes, On the Availability of Sufficient Twist in Solar Active Regions to Trigger the Kink Instability
4/11 Trae Winter Bradshaw and Mason, A Self Consistent Treatment of Radiation in Coronal Loop Modeling
4/18 Anya Malanushenko Chou and Ladenkov, Evolution of Solar Subsurface Meridional Flows in the Declining Phase of Cycle 23
4/25 Piet Martens Magnetic Reorientation and Spontaneous Formation of Tangential Discontinuities in Deformed Magnetic Fields
5/2 No SJC Finals Week

Links to journals

Group participants (who get papers)
  1. Acton
  2. Beveridge
  3. Canfield
  4. Cirtain, Jonathan (Electronic copy only)
  5. Davey, Alisdair (Electronic copy only)
  6. DesJardins
  7. Fox
  8. Guidoni
  9. Holt
  10. Howard
  11. Kankelborg
  12. Kazachenko
  13. Klumpar
  14. Larsen
  15. Longcope
  16. Malanushenko
  17. Martens
  18. McKenzie (Electronic copy only)
  19. Merriot, Ivy (Electronic copy only)
  20. Munoz
  21. Nandi
  22. Qiu
  23. Ravindra
  24. Savage
  25. Scott
  26. Wang
  27. Winter (Electronic copy only)
  28. Yoshimura

Past Schedules:

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