The Physics Department2024-2025 Journals Club
The purpose of the Journals Club is to give graduate students experience at making presentations and fielding questions, to give the presenter a chance to delve into new and interesting material, and to give other students a chance to learn about and discuss these papers. Each presenter should aim for a 15 to 20 minute presentation with 5 minutes for questions/discussion. The idea is not to present your own research, but to find interesting results from current journals (ideally within the last year, but there is some flexibility here). Check with your supervisor for more guidance, if needed. Also, ask your supervisor to provide feedback on your presentation, as this will help you to improve in the future.
All Journals Club talks are held on Wednesdays at 12:30pm in Stirling Hall 501 unless otherwise noted.
| Date | Presenters |
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| Sept 4 | |
| Sept 11 |
Meet and Greet |
| Sept 18 |
Leo Kim/ Feeding plankton to whales: high-redshift supermassive black holes from tiny black hole explosions
Neal Avis Kozar/ "Supernova axions convert to gamma-rays in magnetic fields of progenitor stars" |
| Sept 25 |
Mayukh Bagchi/ "The Black Hole Explorer: Motivation and Vision" Audrey Fung/ The imprint of the first stars on the faint end of the white dwarf luminosity function |
| Oct 2 |
Tim Hapitas/ Lawrence Faria/ postponed |
| Oct 9 |
Patrick Hatch/ Mathieu Perron-Cormier/ |
| Oct 16 |
READING WEEK
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| Oct 23 |
Han Wu/ James Barron/ , Sharma, K et al. |
| Oct 30 |
Ayan Biswas/ Felix Thiel/ |
| Nov 6 |
Yilda Boukhtouchen/ Postponed to Nov. 20 Akanksha Bij/
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Nov 12 changed to TUESDAY |
Tai Withers/ Yilda Boukhtouchen/ .
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| Nov 20 |
Bryan Owens/ The case of the missing VHE GRBs:
Lawrence Faria/
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| Nov 27 |
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JOURNALS CLUB will be held on Wednesdays, at 12:30 p.m. in Room 501 (TIME/DATE TBD)
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| Feb 19 | Winter Term READING WEEK |
| Feb 26 | |
| Mar 5 |
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| Mar 12 |
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| Mar 19 |
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| Mar 26 | |
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Apr 2 |
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