Fall 2026 SERIES
Organizer - Padmavathi Venkatraman & Henna Abunemeh
Journal Club is an informal gathering for Astronomy students, faculty, and staff to discuss current research in Astronomy over lunch. Presentations showcase either recent results of local research projects or reviews of current journal articles. Journal Club meets every Monday noon for one hour in the Astronomy classroom, room 134.
JOURNAL CLUB MEETINGS:
August 31st: The AGORA High-resolution Galaxy Simulations Comparison Project. IX - Part 1&2: Effects of a Major Galaxy Merger on Star Formation & Stellar Morphology of a Milky Way-mass Galaxy Progenitor, Thinh Nguyen
September 14th: The Delay Time Distribution of Tidal Disruption Events and Quasi-Periodic Eruptions, Margaret Shepherd
September 21st: "Slay the Shear: A Unified Statistical Framework for Weak Gravitational Lensing Shear Estimation” and "D4CNN×AnaCal: Physics-Informed Machine Learning for Accurate and Precise Weak Lensing Shear Estimation.” Shurui Lin
September 28th: “Everyone’s using it, but no one is allowed to talk about it”: College Students’ Experiences Navigating the Higher Education Environment in a Generative AI World, Astronomy Culture Journal Club
October 5th: “Too Quiet for Comfort: Local Little Red Dots Lack Variability over Decades" & "NEXUS: Spectral Variability of Little Red Dots and Blue Active Galactic Nuclei at 2≲z≲6.", Zachary Stone
October 12th: "Diffuse Galaxy Detection with Zooniverse Citizen Science", Nick Mazziotti
October 21st (Special Wednesday Session): "Thermonuclear Supernovae in the NIR Era”, Willem Hoogendam
October 26th:
November 2nd:
November 9th:
November 16th:
November 30th:
December 7th: