Solar Journal Club -- PHYS 500-13

Coordinator: Dana Longcope dana@physics.montana.edu

Time: Wed 12:00

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 theoretical and observational research topics of the discipline and the MSU research program. The default 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 actively contribute 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. 


Most weeks we will discuss an article from the current literature, chosen from the list of Suggested titles

Schedule:

Week
Discussion Leader Paper
9/13 B. Welsch DeVore, Magnetic Helicity Generation by Solar Differential Rotation
9/20 M. Wills-Davey Aschwanden & Nitta, The effect of hydrostatic weighting ...
9/27 D. Longcope Lou, Rossby-type wave-induced periodicities in flare activities... (ApJ 540 1102)
10/4 P. Martens Antiochos, et al., The thermal nonequilibrium of prominences  
10/11 R. McMullen Schrijver & Title, On the formation of polar spots on Sun-like stars
10/18 E. Noonan Litwin & Rosner, Coronal scale-height enhancement by MHD waves
10/25 T. Magara Abbett et al., The 3d evolution of rising, twisted magnetic flux tubes...
11/1 Students Forbes, A review on the genisis of Coronal Mass Ejections
11/8 Students II Forbes, A review on the genisis of Coronal Mass Ejections (cont)
11/15 C. Kankelborg Klimchuk, Antiochos & Norton, Twisted coronal magnetic loops
11/22 - Thanksgiving
11/29 B. Welsch R. Kulsrud, Magnetic reconnection: Sweet-Parker vs. Petschek
12/6 D. Longcope Van ballegooijen et al., Mean Field model for the formation of filament channels on the Sun
12/13 D. McKenzie Tomczak, The analysis of hard X-ray radiation of flares with occulted footpoints


Links to journals



Group participants (who get papers)
  1. Acton
  2. Blehm, Zachary
  3. Canfield
  4. Colman, Angela
  5. Davey
  6. Fox, J. Lewis
  7. Jepsen, Steve
  8. Jibben, Trish
  9. Kankelborg
  10. Klapper
  11. Klumpar
  12. Larsen, Brian
  13. Longcope
  14. Magara
  15. Martens
  16. McKenzie
  17. McMullen
  18. Noonan
  19. Welsch
  20. Wills-Davey


Past Schedules:

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