Astronomy Journal Club / Spring 2009

Journal club is held in the 14th floor library of Pupin, every Friday beginning at 1:00 pm. Desserts and coffee will be free for the taking.

Organized by Jacqueline

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Date		Presenter		Paper with link		Comments and annotations
Feb 13		Josh		​Implications of Recent Measurements of the Milky Way Rotation for the Orbit of the Large Magellanic Cloud
		Jacqueline		Trigonometric Parallaxes of Massive Star Forming Regions:VI. Galactic Structure and Non-circular motions. How big is the MW?		this is a draft by Reid et al. Mark Reid will talk at NYU on Feb 19
Feb 20		Bishop Lecture by Andy Gould				no journal club today
Feb 27		Erika
		David S
Mar 6		Zoltan
		Jim
Mar 13		Jen
		Greg
Mar 27		Joo
Apr 3		Christine
Apr 10		Cameron
Apr 17		Destry
		Mary
Apr 24
May 1
May 8
May 15

Please sign up with a link to the paper you would like to discuss, so that people can download a copy beforehand. It is encouraged for you to choose a paper outside of your research topics. Please sign-up WELL in advance and prepare a reasonable length presentation.