Astro Morning Tea Schedule for 2010
Dates for which there is no meeting are highlighted in red.
PLEASE SEE THE JOURNAL CLUB GUIDELINES HERE
| 1st Feb | Tim Bedding and Dennis Stello Kepler results |
| 8th Feb | |
| 15th Feb | Journal Club: Peter Dobbie & Tom Evans "Evidence for Oscillation of Atmospheric Neutrinos", Fukuda et al., (1998) |
| 22nd Feb | Torgny Karlsson |
| 1st Mar | Journal Club: Ben Jelliffe & Juliana Kwan "On the Density of Neutral Hydrogen in Intergalactic Space" Gunn & Peterson, (1965) |
| 8th Mar | Miroslav Micic |
| 15th Mar | Journal Club: Tom McCavana & Kate Randall "Galactic Bridges and Tails", Toomre & Toomre, (1972) |
| 22nd Mar | ? |
| 29th Mar | Journal Club: Billy Robbins & Anthony Smith "A paradox resolved using observations of Doppler boosting in Kepler lightcurves", van Kerkwijk et al. (2010) |
| 5th Apr | Easter! |
| 12th Apr | John O'Byrne |
| 19th Apr | Journal Club: John Ching & Chris Hales "Final Results from the Hubble Space Telescope Key Project to Measure the Hubble Constant", Freedman et al., (2001) |
| 26th Apr | Anzac Day public holiday! |
| 3rd May | Mike Wheatland SDO results |
| 10th May | Journal Club: Kitty Lo & Keith Bannister "A relativistic type Ibc supernova without a detected γ-ray burst", Soderberg et al., (2010) suggested by Tara Murphy |
| 17th May | Julia Bryant |
| 24th May | Journal Club: Dinuka Wijensinghe & Hugh Garsden "Implications of the Copernican principle for our future prospects" Gott (1993) Suggested by Scott Croom |
| 31st May | Helen Johnston |
| 7th Jun | Journal Club: Daniel Yardley & Daniel Huber "A Correlation Between Stellar Activity and the Surface Gravity of Hot Jupiters" Hartman (2010) Suggested by Tim Bedding |
| 14th Jun | Queen's birthday! |
| 21st Jun | Paul Hancock |
| 28th Jun | MWA meeting! |
| 5th Jul | ASA meeting! |
| 12th Jul | Journal Club: Muazzam Ali & Matthew Nichols "Cold streams in early massive hot haloes as the main mode of galaxy formation" Dekel et al (2009) Suggested by Scott Croom |
| 19th Jul | |
| 26th Jul | Journal Club: Madusha Gunawardhana & Scott Wales "A giant planet imaged in the disk of the young star Beta Pictoris" Lagrange et al (2010) Suggested by Tim Bedding |
| 2nd Aug | Sanjib Sharma |
| 9th Aug | Journal Club: Tom Evans & Ben Jelliffe "Confirmation of the Remarkable Compactness of Massive Quiescent Galaxies at z ~ 2.3: Early-Type Galaxies Did not Form in a Simple Monolithic Collapse", van Dokkum et al (2008) Suggested by Scott Croom |
| 16th Aug | Tim White |
| 23rd Aug | Journal Club: Tim White & Elizabeth Mahony "The R136 star cluster hosts several stars whose individual masses greatly exceed the accepted 150 Msun stellar mass limit" Crowther et al (2010) Suggested by Peter Tuthill |
| 30th Aug | Discussion of US Decadal Review |
| 6th Sep | Journal Club: Chris Trinh & Chris Hales "Formation of Galaxies and Clusters of Galaxies by Self-Similar Gravitational Condensation" Press & Schechter (1974) Suggested by Scott Croom |
| 13th Sep | Richard Ellis |
| 20th Sep | Joss Bland Hawthorn |
| 27th Sep | Keith Bannister |
| 4th Oct | Labour day! |
| 11th Oct | Journal Club: Yitping Kok & Kate Randall "The hierarchical formation of the brightest cluster galaxies" De Lucia & Blaizot (2007) Suggested by Scott Croom |
| 18th Oct | Journal Club: Prajwal Kafle & John Ching "The Kinematics of the Ultra-faint Milky Way Satellites: Solving the Missing Satellite Problem" Simon & Geha (2007) Suggested by Scott Croom |
| 25th Oct | Kate Randall |
| 1st Nov | Journal Club: Vicente Maestro & Dinuka Wijensinghe "The Lick-Carnegie Exoplanet Survey: A 3.1 M_Earth Planet in the Habitable Zone of the Nearby M3V Star Gliese 581" Vogt et al. (2010) Suggested by Tim Bedding |
| 8th Nov | Daniel Huber |
| 15th Nov | Tom McCavana & Keith Bannister "A two-solar-mass neutron star measured using Shapiro delay" Demorest et al. (2010) Nature 467, 1081 Suggested by Helen Johnston |
| 22nd Nov | Peter Dobbie |
| 29th Nov | Journal Club: Scott Wales & Daniel Yardley "Evidence for Terrestrial Planetary System Remnants at White Dwarfs" Farihi (2010) Suggested by Tim Bedding |
| 6th Dec | Chris Flynn Dark Matter Awareness Week |
| 13th Dec | Matthew Nichols |
| 20th Dec | Christmas! |
| 27th Dec | Christmas! |