Solar Journal Club -- PHYS 500-13

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

Time: Tuesday 3:10-4:00 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 2006 Schedule:

Week
Discussion Leader Paper
8/29 Organizational Meeting
9/5 Andrew Holt Wiegelmann and Inhester, Magnetic Stereoscopy
9/12 Colin Beveridge Barnes and Leka, Photospheric Magnetic Field Properties of Flaring Versus Flare-Quiet Active Regions III. Magnetic Charge Topology Models
9/19 Angela DesJardins Hurfurd, et al., Gamma-Ray Imaging of the 2003 October/November Solar Flares
9/26 Anya Malanushenko Keller, et al., On the Origin of Solar Faculae
10/3 Andres Munoz Holzwarth, Mackay, and Jardine, The impact of meridional circulation on stellar butterfly diagrams and polar caps
10/10 Masha Kazachenko Bogachev and Somov, Comparison of the Fermi and Betatron Acceleration Efficiencies in Collapsing Magnetic Traps
10/17 Jason Scott Doyle, et al., Study of a transient siphon flow in a cold loop
10/24 Silvina Guidoni Dasso, et al., A new model-independent method to compute magnetic helicity in magnetic clouds
10/31 Sabrina Savage Nitta, Magnetic reynolds number dependence of reconnection rate and flow structure of the self-similar evolution model of fast magnetic reconnection
11/7 No SJC Election Day -- Campus closed
11/14 Ravindra Hagenaar and Shine, Moving Magnetic Features Around Sunspots
11/21 Dibyendu Nandi Dikpati, de Toma, and Gilman, Predicting the strength of solar cycle 24 using a flux-transport dynamo-based tool
11/28 Tim Howard TBD
12/5 Trae Winter Li and Habbal, Coronal loops heated by turbulence-driven Alfven waves
12/12 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. Klapper, Isaac (Campus mail to Mathematics Dept.)
  14. Klumpar
  15. Larsen
  16. Longcope
  17. Malanushenko
  18. Martens
  19. McKenzie (Electronic copy only)
  20. Merriot, Ivy (Electronic copy only)
  21. Munoz
  22. Nandi
  23. Qiu
  24. Ravindra
  25. Savage
  26. Scott
  27. Wang
  28. Winter (Electronic copy only)
  29. Yoshimura

Past Schedules:

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