Solar Journal Club -- PH 500 - 13

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. 

Fall 2007 Schedule:

Week
Discussion Leader Paper
8/28 Organizational Meeting Time: 2:10pm - 3:00pm
9/4 Silvina Guidoni Kliem and Török, Torus Instability
9/11 Ravindra Litvinenko, Chae, and Park, Flux Pile-Up Magnetic Reconnection in the Solar Photosphere
9/18 Dana Longcope Arber, Haynes, and Leake, Emergence of a Flux Tube through a Partially Ionized Solar Atmosphere
9/25 David McKenzie Introduction to MSU Resident Hinode Archive
10/2 Andrés Muñoz Yeates, Nandy, and Mackay, Exploring the Physical Basis of Solar Cycle Predictions: Flux Transport Dynamics and Persistence of Memory in Advection versus Diffusion Dominated Solar Convection Zones
10/9 Colin Beveridge Barnes, On The Relationship Between Coronal Magnetic Null Points and Solar Eruptive Events
10/16 Jason Scott Parfrey and Menou, The Origin of Solar Activity in the Tachocline
10/23 Tom Rust Mariska et al., Hinode EUV Imaging Spectrometer Observations of Solar Active Region Dynamics
10/30 Anna Malanushenko Zhang, Flyer, and Low, Magnetic Field Confinement in the Corona: The Role of Magnetic Helicity Accumulation
11/6 Charles Kankelborg Coronal Tomography with STEREO (+TRACE )
11/13 Ryan Collins Regnier and Priest, Free Magnetic Energy in Solar Active Regions above the Minimum-Energy Relaxed State
11/20 Lucas Tarr Crouch, Charbonneau, and Thibault, Supergranulation as an Emergent Length Scale
11/27 Masha Kazachenko Liu, Norton, and Scherrer, A Note on Saturation Seen in the MDI/SOHO Magnetograms
12/4 Greg Gabrielson Harvey, Branston, Henney, and Keller, Seething Horizontal Magnetic Fields in the Quiet Solar Photosphere
12/11 No SJC Finals Week

Links to journals

Group participants (who get papers)
  1. Acton, Loren
  2. Beveridge, Colin (Electronic copy only)
  3. Canfield, Dick
  4. Cirtain, Jonathan (Electronic copy only)
  5. Collins, Ryan
  6. Davey, Alisdair (Electronic copy only)
  7. DesJardins, Angela
  8. Fox, Lewis (Electronic copy only)
  9. Gabrielsen, Greg
  10. Guidoni, Silvina
  11. Holt, Andrew (Electronic copy only)
  12. Kankelborg, Charles
  13. Kazachenko, Masha
  14. Klapper, Isaac (Campus mail to Mathematics Dept.)
  15. Klumpar, Dave
  16. Larsen, Brian (Electronic copy only)
  17. Longcope, Dana
  18. Malanushenko, Anna
  19. Martens, Piet
  20. McKenzie, Dave (Electronic copy only)
  21. Merriot, Ivy (Electronic copy only)
  22. Muñoz, Andrés
  23. Nandi, Dibyendu (Electronic copy only)
  24. Qiu, Jiong
  25. Ravindra
  26. Rust, Tom
  27. Savage, Sabrina
  28. Scott, Jason
  29. Takeda, Aki
  30. Tarr, Lucas
  31. Taylor, Ken
  32. Winter, Trae
  33. Yoshimura, Keiji

Past Schedules:

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