Physics

Astro lunch Schedule

Astro journal club meets sporadically Mondays at noon in Fondren room 202 and is open to anyone. An e-mail will typically be sent out the Friday before as a reminder. You can subscribe to the mailing list by sending an e-mail to astroemail. We discuss interesting recent papers and results from astronomy and astrophysics. Participants are encouraged to read the papers before hand and are responsible for their own lunch. The floor is open to anyone and participants are welcome to share interesting results they come across. Many pre-prints are posted to the http://arxiv.org/ daily. Details of the upcoming schedule can be viewed at http://www.astrohep.org/smu/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=astro_journal_club.








Historical Schedule (no longer maintained)

Date Presenter Papers
 
2/25/16 FNAL seminar webcast LIGO Gravity Wave results - http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.061102
 
12/01/14 Matt Wood
(SLAC)
 
11/10/14 Cancelled
 
10/20/14 Clarence Chang
(KICP - U. of Chicago)
South Pole Telescope
 
10/13/14 Rob http://arxiv.org/abs/1410.0653 - First Results from the DarkSide-50 Dark Matter Experiment at Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso
http://arxiv.org/abs/1410.2589 - Search for dark matter annihilation signatures in H.E.S.S. observations of Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies
 
9/29/14 Jodi http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.121102 - Electron and Positron Fluxes in Primary Cosmic Rays Measured with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station
http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.121101 - 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
 
9/15/14 Louis Strigari
(Indiana University)
Dwarf galaxies
http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1103.0007 - Too big to fail? The puzzling darkness of massive Milky Way subhaloes
http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1108.2404 - A Method for Measuring (Slopes of) the Mass Profiles of Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies
http://arxiv.org/abs/1406.6079 - Dynamical models for the Sculptor dwarf spheroidal in a Lambda CDM universe
 
9/08/14 Jeff Filippini
(CalTech)
http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.241101 - Detection of B-Mode Polarization at Degree Angular Scales by BICEP2
Supplemental : http://arxiv.org/abs/1403.4302 - BICEP2 II: Experiment and Three-Year Data Set
Slides : www.physics.smu.edu/web/seminars/astro/SMUastro_BICEP2_08Sep2014.pdf
 
5/26/14 Cancelled - Memorial Day
 
4/28/14 Rob http://arxiv.org/abs/1404.5285 - First Constraints on the Ultra-High Energy Neutrino Flux from a Prototype Station of the Askaryan Radio Array
 
4/21/14 Bob Kehoe, Farley, Govinda http://www.physics.smu.edu/web/seminars/astro/Trio_GRB-SNe.pdf - A Trio of GRB-SNe
 
4/14/14 Bob Kehoe, Farley, Govinda - Physics of Gamma Ray Bursts
http://arxiv.org/abs/1402.1497 - UHE neutrino and cosmic ray emission from GRBs: revising the models and clarifying the cosmic ray-neutrino connection
 
3/24/14 Canceled - CDMS workshop
 
3/17/14 Everyone http://bicepkeck.org/ - Latest BICEP2 CMB results
 
3/10/14 Hang http://arxiv.org/abs/1402.7137 - Search for Low-Mass WIMPs with SuperCDMS.
 
2/24/14 Govinda and Rob http://arxiv.org/abs/1401.7968 - Estimating the First-Light Time of the Type Ia Supernova 2014J in M82
http://arxiv.org/abs/1402.3460 - Search for non-relativistic Magnetic Monopoles with IceCube
 
2/17/14 Govinda http://arxiv.org/abs/1309.4269 - The first month of evolution of the slow rising type II-P SN 2013ej in M74
http://arxiv.org/abs/1401.7968 - Estimating the First-Light Time of the Type Ia Supernova 2014J in M82
 
2/3/14 Jodi http://www.sciencemag.org/content/339/6121/807.full - Detection of the Characteristic Pion-Decay Signature in Supernova Remnants
 
1/27/14 Rob http://arxiv.org/abs/1401.3295 - Search for An Annual Modulation in Three Years of CoGeNT Dark Matter Detector Data
 

2013

 
 
11/25/13 Rob http://arxiv.org/abs/1311.5238 - Evidence for High-Energy Extraterrestrial Neutrinos at the IceCube Detector
 
11/18/13 Rob http://arxiv.org/abs/1311.3148 - Constraints on axion-like particles with H.E.S.S. from the irregularity of the PKS 2155-304 energy spectrum
 
11/11/13 Rob http://arxiv.org/abs/1311.0022 - Isospin-violating dark matter from a double portal
http://arxiv.org/abs/1311.0704 - Observing Dark Worlds: A crowd-sourcing experiment for dark matter mapping
http://arxiv.org/abs/1311.0678 - A light SUSY dark matter after CDMS-II, LUX and LHC Higgs data
 
11/4/13 Rob http://arxiv.org/abs/1310.8214 - First results from the LUX dark matter experiment at the Sanford Underground Research Facility
 
10/28/13 Jodi Overview of liquid noble detectors