Solar Journal Club -- PHYS 500-17

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

Time: Monday 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 2007 Schedule:

Week
Discussion Leader Paper
1/22 Organizational Meeting Time: 1:30pm - 2:00pm
1/29 Dibyendu Nandi Usoskin, et al., Solar activity, cosmic rays and the Earth's temperature: A millennium-scale comparison
2/5 Colin Beveridge Su, Golub, and Van Ballegooijen, A Statistical Study of Shear Motion of the Footpoints in Two-Ribbon Flares
2/12 Sabrina Savage Wu, Huang, and Tang, The Influence of Ion-Acoustic Turbulence on the Electron Acceleration in the Reconnecting Current Sheet
2/19 No SJC President's Day
2/26 Silvina Guidoni Low, Spontaneous Current Sheets in an Ideal Hydromagnetic Fluid
3/5 Jonathan Cirtain First-light results on Hinode/XRT observations of jets
3/12 No SJC Spring Break
3/19 Trae Winter Jiang, Liu, Liu, and Petrosian, Evolution of the Loop-Top Source of Solar Flares: Heating and Cooling Processes
3/26 Andrew Holt Demoulin, Extending the Concept of Separatrices to QSLs for Magnetic Reconnection
4/2 Maria Kazachenko Fletcher, Hannah, Hudson, Metcalf, A TRACE White Light and RHESSI Hard X-ray Study of Flare Energetics
4/9 Tom Rust De Pontieu, et al., Rapid Temporal Variability of Faculae: High-Resolution Observations and Modeling
4/16 Anna Malanushenko Sheeley, Warren, and Wang, The Origin of Postflare Loops
4/23 Andrés Muñoz Ternullo, The Butterfly Diagram Fine Structure
4/30 Angela Des Jardins Temmer, Veronig, Vrsnak, Miklenic, Energy Release Rates Along Halpha Flare Ribbons and the Location of Hard X-ray Sources
5/7 No SJC Finals Week

Links to journals

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

Past Schedules:

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