Spring 2025 SERIES

Organizer -  Thinh Huu Nguyen & David Vizgan

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 -

Date Presenter Email

January 27th: Liam Nolan Frequency and Abundance of Binary sUpermassive bLack holes from Optical Variability Surveys (FABULOVS): Hubble Space Telescope Imaging of Radial-Velocity Selected Binary Candidates

February 3rd: Yujie Wan A search for millimeter-wave transient sources in the galactic plane with SPT-3G

February 10th: Alon Gurman Phase structure and emission line properties in a simulated, self-regulated ISM

February 17th: Sydney Erickson - Lens Modeling of STRIDES Strongly Lensed Quasars using Neural Posterior Estimation

February 24th: Astronomy Journal Culture Club

March 3rd: Erica Messmer - Tech-neat-ium: Technetium as a Probe of Recent Neutrino Irradiation of the Earth.