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Astro Journal Club

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Spring 2022 Schedule of Events

Date Lead Main Paper Additional Papers
January 24
January 31 Krista Decadal Survey Report https://www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/decadal-survey-on-astronomy-and-astrophysics-2020-astro2020
February 7 Cynthia TBD
February 14 Eric https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.01214
February 21 Joel/Roundtable JWST Links to come here
February 28
March 7 Joe Ryan https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.08181 1.) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212686417300420
2.) https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.02264v1
3.) https://arxiv.org/abs/1309.4924v2
4.) https://arxiv.org/abs/1205.2384v2
5.) https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.01759v1
6.) https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.03835v3
7.) https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.03394v2
8.) https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.07044v1
March 14
March 21
March 28
April 4 Joel Meyers https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.11431 https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.11391
May 2 Joe Ryan https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/abdd40/pdf
May 9 Joe Ryan https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/502/1/436/6095721 https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/504/4/5840/6261198 https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.10728

Fall 2021 Schedule of Events

Date Lead Main Paper Additional Papers
November 8
November 15 Bob Rodriguez-Torres et al 2017
November 22
November 29
December 6
December 13

Spring 2021 Schedule of Events

Date Lead Main Paper Additional Papers
February 22 Bob https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.04298
March 1 No Meeting
March 8 No Meeting
March 15 Bob Optimizing Photonics Ring-Resonator Filters for OH-Suppressed Near-Infrared Astronomy
March 22 Joel Physics of Neutrino Mass
March 29 Krista https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020ApJ...904...83S/abstract
April 5 Steve S. Amateur/Teaching Astronomy Opportunities with SMU Physics Department Resources
April 12 Rob https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.03537 - Strong constraints from COSINE-100 on the DAMA dark matter results using thesame sodium iodide target
April 19
April 26
May 3

Fall 2020 Schedule of Events

Date Lead Main Paper Additional Papers
September 14 No Meeting Graduate Student Lunch
September 21 Group Introduction 3 minutes, 5 slides from each person Introduction of you and your interests
September 28 Taylor Wallace Radon Plate-Out
October 5 Cynthia exoplanet searches slides
October 12 Krista Supermassive Black Holes
October 19 No Meeting
October 26 No Meeting
November 2 No Meeting
November 9 Noah / Cynthia NanoHz Gravitational Waves
November 16 Ishwita
November 23 No Meeting - Grad Lunch
November 30 Jasmine
December 7

Summer 2020 Schedule of Events

Date Lead Main Paper Additional Papers
June 1 Bob https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.05318
June 15 Joel https://www.nature.com/articles/s42254-019-0137-0?draft=collection https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.03663 Flauger Slides Flauger Talk Video
June 29 Jodi/Rob https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.09721 XENON1T observes tritium Solar axions cannot explain the XENON1T excess Prospects of Migdal Effect in the Explanation of XENON1T Electron Recoil Excess Neutrino self-interactions and XENON1T electron recoil excess Xenon1T presentation slides.pdf
July 6 Eric https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.10218
July 20 No Meeting Identifying Dark Matter Meeting (https://indico.cern.ch/event/766367/page/20554-connection-details)
August 10 No Meeting SLAC Summer Institute (https://conf.slac.stanford.edu/ssi2020/)
August 17 No Meeting SLAC Summer Institute (https://conf.slac.stanford.edu/ssi2020/)

Spring 2020 Schedule of Events

Date Lead Main Paper Additional Papers
January 27 No Meeting
February 3 Joel https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.05291 https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.09187
February 10 No Meeting
February 17 Cynthia https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.00101
February 24 Eric https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.06958
March 2 Rob https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.181102 https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.251801 , Suggest Krista consider https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.12043v1
March 9 (Linux Mtg)
March 16 SPRING BREAK
March 23 Yoni Kahn (via remote) https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.06937 Slides https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.08893
March 30 Vera Glusevic (via remote) Note: We will start at 12:15pm this day. Slides (pdf)
April 6 No Meeting
April 13 (Linux Mtg) Ryan Staten (via remote) https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/0067-0049/226/2/24/pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1607.03145.pdf
April 20 No Meeting
April 27 Cynthia https://arxiv.org/abs/0802.2962 Slides (pdf) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2177-0, see also https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0502169 and https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0703087
May 4 Cynthia https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0609125

Fall 2019 Schedule of Events

Date Lead Main Paper Additional Papers
September 9 Joel https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.10625 Slides https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.03663
September 16 GRAD STUDENT LUNCH NONE NONE
September 23 Rob Search for γ-Ray Line Signals from Dark Matter Annihilations in the Inner Galactic Halo from 10 Years of Observations with H.E.S.S. A New Population of Ultra-High-Energy Gamma-Ray Sources Detected by HAWC
September 30 Jodi Highlights from TAUP 2019 slides Katrin_talk.pdf Gravitational_waves.pdf Dark_Matter_Theory.pdf
October 7 Cynthia https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.03507 slides https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.07947
October 14 No Meeting Fall Break
October 21 Ishwita
October 28 Eric https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.04255 https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.06533
November 4 Krista https://arxiv.org/pdf/1910.00940.pdf
November 11 Joel https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.03689 Neutrinos in the CMB
November 18 GRAD STUDENT LUNCH NONE
November 25 NO MEETING NONE
December 2 Eric https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.12083
December 9 Ivan Vitev (LANL) [Host:Fred] Effective field theories in reactions with nuclei: from jets to quarkonia

Fall 2017 Schedule of Events

Date Lead Main Paper Additional Papers
August 21 No Meeting 1st Day of Class
August 28 Jodi arXiv:1708:06372
September 4 No Meeting Labor Day
September 11 Ryan https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03413
September 18 Rob https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.02222 https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.03434
September 25 Matt http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aa831c
October 2 Govinda https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01513 http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/835/2/166/meta
October 9 No Meeting Fall Break
October 16 Ryan https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03413
October 23 No Meeting TSAPS
October 30 No Meeting DM Day
November 6 Rob https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.07902
November 13 Matt https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.05024 http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aa9373
November 20 Frank Avignone Lunch
November 27 Ryan https://journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.161101 http://iopscience.iop.org/journal/2041-8205/page/Focus_on_GW170817
December 4 Dan SIDM Can Explain Diverse Rotation Curves arxiv

Spring 2017 Schedule of Events

Date Lead Main Paper Additional Papers
January 30 Jodi NATURE ASTRONOMY 1, 0009 (2016) Nature Physics Article 1 Nature Physics Article 2
February 6 Matt arxiv 1609.05917
February 13 Rob Dark Matter Search in a Proton Beam Dump with MiniBooNE
Cosmic Bell Test: Measurement Settings from Milky Way Stars
February 20 Govinda arxiv 1611.04635
February 27 Ryan http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v542/n7642/full/nature21360.html
March 6 Burcin Mutlu Pakdil (Hosted by Fred) https://smu.box.com/s/w1m4eembcv4l4ukgwf5tyuijvffnye8h
March 13 No Meeting Spring Break
March 20 Rob Strongly baryon-dominated disk galaxies at the peak of galaxy formation ten billion years ago
March 27 Ryan See the link I provided above (new exoplanets)
April 3 Govinda arxiv 1703.08293 arxiv 1701.08165
April 10 Jodi arXiv:1612.07325
April 17 Matt http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aa693a
April 24 Dan Akerib Lunch
May 1 Hang The weak-lensing masses of filaments between luminous red galaxies

Fall 2016 Schedule of Events

Date Lead Main Paper Link Additional Papers
September 19 Jodi 1604.03158
September 26 Dan 1607.07410 1609.06154
1609.06138
October 3 Bob & Farley 1603.08573 1609.09076
1304.6993
astro-ph/0508646
October 10 Fall Break No Meeting
October 17 Govinda 1603.04730
October 24 Matt Minniti et al. 2016
October 31 Rob Sasaki et al. 2016 1506.01354
1610.08972
November 7 Ryan 1508.05898
November 14 Dan 1609.01492
November 21 Pavel Nadolsky HEP lunch seminar N/A
November 28 Fred Olness N/A
December 5 Matt ApJL Link
December 12 Ryan

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