Solar Journal Club -- PHYS 500-17

Coordinator: Charles Kankelborg kankel@mithra.physics.montana.edu

Time: Tuesday 2:10 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. 

Schedule:

Week
Discussion Leader Paper
9/3 Organizational meeting
9/10 Jonathan Cirtain Karpen, et al., Are Magnetic Dips Necessary for Prominence Formation?
9/17 Rebecca McMullen Moon, et al., Statistical Evidence for Sympathetic Flares
9/24 Melissa Cirtain Warren & Warshall, Temperature and Density Measurements in a Quiet Coronal Streamer
10/1 Andrew Holt Schrijver & Title, The Topology of a Mixed-Polarity Potential Field, and Inferences for the Heating of the Quiet Solar Corona
10/8 Amy Winebarger Solar EUV Active Region Loops: Observations and Models
10/15 Dibyendu Nandi Review of recent progress in dynamo theory
10/22 Bob Leamon Larson, et al., Tracing the Topology of the October 18-20, 1995, Magnetic Cloud with ~0.1 - 100 keV Electrons
10/29 David McKenzie Bastian, The Coronal Mass Ejection of 1998 April 20: Direct Imaging at Radio Wavelengths
11/5 Election Day, no classes
11/12 Stephane Regnier Kusano, et al., Measurement of Magnetic Helicity Injection and Free Energy Loading into the Solar Corona
11/19 J. Lewis Fox Li, et al., Persistent Coronal Streamers and the Identification of Sunspot Clusters
11/26 Dibyendu Nandi The Solar Clock
12/3 Angela DesJardins Veronig, et al, Relative Timing of Solar Flares Observed at Different Wavelengths
12/10 Sarah Jones REU project: currents in flux ropes
12/17 No SJC Final Exams

Links to journals

Group participants (who get papers)
  1. Acton
  2. Canfield
  3. Cirtain, Jonathan
  4. Cirtain, Melissa
  5. Davey
  6. DesJardins
  7. Fox
  8. Holt
  9. Kankelborg
  10. Klapper
  11. Klumpar
  12. Kumar
  13. Larsen
  14. Leamon
  15. Longcope
  16. Magara
  17. Martens
  18. McKenzie
  19. McMullen
  20. Nandi
  21. Obland
  22. Regnier
  23. Sato
  24. Wills-Davey
  25. Winter

Past Schedules:

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