Astro seminar

Winter 2005

The astro seminar is a platform for all researchers in Astrophysics, i.e. grad students, PHD students, instructors, postdocs, professors [did I forget anybody?], to present their work or (as in a journal club) a paper they find interesting.

Guidelines

Work in progress is fine and most probably more interesting to the audience than completely finished projects where you know all the answers.
Not everybody in the audience works in your field, so technicalities should be minimized in favour of physical ideas.
Bring your lunch if you like (but don't munch and slurp too loudly…)

Plan

The seminar starts at 12.00.
Time slots are 30 minutes for the talk, plus 15 minutes for questions and discussion.
Please send me the title of your talk, together with a useful reference (if applicable) at least 8 days ahead of your talk, so I can properly announce it.

Date	Speaker Title	Reference
Wed 12-Jan 2005	Wolfgang Dobler Magnetic field generation in fully convective stars	W. Dobler, M. Stix, & A. Brandenburg “Magnetic field generation in fully convective rotating spheres” astro-ph/0410645 (2005)
Wed 19-Jan-2005	Rachid Ouyed Meissner effect and vortex dynamics in quark stars	R. Ouyed, Ø. Elgarøy, H. Dahle, & P. Keränen “Meissner effect and vortex dynamics in quark stars. A model for soft gamma-ray repeaters” A&A 420, 1025-1032 (2004)
Wed 26-Jan-2005 12:15	Jan Staff The cannon ball model for gamma ray bursts	A. Dar and A. De Rujula “Towards a complete theory of Gamma Ray Bursts” astro-ph/0308248
Wed 02-Feb-2005	René Plume Astro-chemistry at University of Calgary: Future Directions
Wed 09-Feb-2005	Dennis Leahy The mechanism of pulse shapes in X-ray pulsars	D. A. Leahy “Mass-radius constraints from a pulse shape model for Her X-1” ApJ 613, 517-521 (2004)
Wed 16-Feb-2005	Jean-Pierre De Villiers GRMHD Simulations of Disk/Jet Systems: Application to Collapsars	De Villiers, Staff, Ouyed astro-ph/0502225
Wed 23-Feb-2005	—
Wed 02-Mar-2005	—
Wed 09-Mar-2005	David Hobill Properties of Bianchi-IX cosmological models
Wed 16-Mar-2005	Brian Niebergal Modelling LSI 61.303 -- how an ambient stellar wind affects the termination shock of a pulsar wind
Wed 23-Mar-2005	Jean-Pierre De Villiers Using ray tracing to visualize Black Hole accretion	There is a Web page with images and animations
Wed 30-Mar-2005	—
Wed 06-Apr-2005	Christy Bredeson A high resolution look at Galactic depolarization features
Wed 13-Apr-2005	Julie Grant DRAO deep imaging of Galactic foreground emission
Wed 20-Apr-2005	Alan Hildebrand Optimizing asteroid exploration by discovering the Earth proximate population before their close approaches using a microsatellite named NEOSSat
Wed 27-Apr-2005	Nicole Kaiser Searching for Near-Earth Asteroids using the Baker Nunn Telescope

Venue

New meeting room SB 605D

Sign up

To sign up for a talk, contact Wolfgang Dobler at Wolfgang.Dobler@ucalgary.ca, see him in SB 527A, or call him at 220-6059.

Other regular meetings

CAPCA (Computational AstropPhysics Calgary Alberta) meeting

Last updated 02-Mar-2005 by Wolfgang Dobler
Send comments to Wolfgang.Dobler@ucalgary.ca