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
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
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

Events

2014/09/29: Jodi , recent AMS results
- Electron and Positron Fluxes in Primary Cosmic Rays Measured with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station
- High Statistics Measurement of the Positron Fraction in Primary Cosmic Rays of 0.5–500 GeV with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station
2014/09/15: Louis Strigari (visitor). He suggested these papers as background to the discussion:
2014/09/08: Jeff Filippini (Caltech), a special guest, via BigBlueButton, discussing the BICEP-2 results.

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