events:jcroster [CIRA]

Journal Club, Roster of Speakers

Speakers are assigned primarily on a volunteer basis. Remember, in 2011, journal club begins at midday and is followed by lunch.

For information on what to do when presenting, see the instructions page.

For CIRA members, the schedule for the 11am meetings can be found here.

Potential Speakers list

Jamie, Hayley, Robin, Tom, Chittawan, Nathan, Tim, Brian, Robert, Wiebke, Ron, Dave E, John F, Mark G, Leith, John G, Kirsten, Peter, David H, Aziz, Budi, John K, Kevin, Nadia, Mervyn, J-P, James, Aquib, John M, Mehran, Steve O, Shantanu, Dave P, Hayden, Cormac, Franz, Roberto, Bruce, Jon T, Steven, Cath, Mark W, Randall

Previous Example Topics

Transients, EoR, AGN, Pulsars and Pulsar Timing, Solar Heliospherics, HI in Galaxies, Interstellar Medium, Masers, Instrumentation, Classic papers, SETI, Signal Processing, Nature/Science papers, Review articles, VLBI science.

2012 Journal Club Roster January-June
Date	Leader	Paper	Slides
Jan 16	J-P	Using the bi-spectrum to detect transients
Jan 23	James Miller-Jones	The disc-jet connection in black hole X-ray binaries
Jan 30	Shane Walsh	Segue 3: The Faintest Globular Cluster in the World
Feb 6	Robert Duffin	Type III-L Solar Radio Bursts and their Associations with Solar Energetic Proton Events
Feb 13	Summer Students	Various Topics
Feb 20	Wiebke Ebeling	CAASTRO outreach & the demographics of Social Media
Feb 27	Leith Godfrey	TBA
Mar 5	Jean-Pierre Macquart
Mar 12	Natasha Hurley-Walker	MWA problem solving
Mar 19	Steven Tremblay	VIPS CSOs: Observing Parsec-scale Radio Galaxies with the VLBA
Mar 26	Cath Trott	Impact of point source subtraction residuals on 21cm EoR estimation
Apr 2	Ray Norris (colloquium)
Apr 16	Hannah Feldman/Ben Barrett
Apr 23	Roberto Soria	Mysteries of the intermediate mass black hole candidate HLX1
Apr 30	Shantanu Padhi	How far is far-field: Basics of Antenna measurements
May 7	Divya Palaniswamy
May 14	John Morgan
May 21	ICRAR student day
May 28	Nadia Kudryavtseva	A blind MWA transient search in the Pictor A field
Jun 4	Franz Schlagenhaufer
Jun 11
Jun 18
Jun 25

Past Journal Club papers:

2011 Journal Club Roster July-December
Date	Leader	Paper	Slides
Jul 18	Steven	Chang et al - An intensity map of hydrogen 21-cm emission at redshift z~0.8
Jul 25	John Kennewell	An overview of the 2011 ASA meeting
Aug 1	Hayley Bignall	Stewart et al - A multiple-beam CLEAN for imaging intra-day variable radio sources
Aug 8	Kirsten Gottschalk	ICRAR Outreach
Aug 15	Owen Giersch	Colak & Qahwaji - Automated McIntosh-Based Classification of Sunspot Groups Using MDI Images
Aug 22	Steve Ord	Demorest - Cyclic Spectral Analysis of Pulsars
Aug 29	Hayden Rampadarath	Hanny's Voorwerp- a story in 4 papers (Lintott et al. 2009, Jozsa et al. 2009, Rampadarath et al. 2010, Schawinski et al. 2010)
Sep 5	Wiebke Ebeling	Transformation of a Science Paper into a Diamond Planet - http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2011/08/19/science.1208890 for the paper and http://www.swinburne.edu.au/chancellery/mediacentre/media-centre/news/2011/08/a-planet-made-of-diamond for the press release including a link to the video
Sep 12	Phil Crosby	Success Indicators for Science/Engineering Mega-projects
Sep 19	Ron Ekers	Benefits of Research Infrastructures beyond Science - The Example of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) http://www.cost.eu/events/ska
Sep 26	Roberto Soria	Star formation and death in a spiral galaxy
Oct 3	Natasha Hurley-Walker	The Arcminute Microkelvin Imager
Oct 10	Alexander Nemchin	Time series in geochronology: is there a chance that astronomers know how to treat geochronological data?
Oct 17	James Miller-Jones	Resolving the jets of Circinus X-1 with Very Long Baseline Interferometry
Oct 24	Danny Price	Digital Instrumentation for Radio Astronomy
Oct 31	J-P	On the performance of RM synthesis
Nov 7	Natasha Hurley-Walker	“Directional Calibration of the CROME Experiment” (Felix Werner)
Nov 14	Prof Atsushi Mase	Microwave Reflectometric Measurement of Biological Signals
Nov 21	Franz Schlagenhaufer	EMC
Nov 28	Aziz Jiwani	“Active antenna development for the SKA”
Dec 5	John Goldsmith
Dec 12	Nathan Clarke	“A Power Analysis for Incoherent Dedispersion”	PDF

2011 Journal Club Roster January-June
Date	Leader	Paper	Slides
Jan 17
Jan 24
Jan 31	A/Prof Patrick Alan Woudt, Department of Astronomy, University of Cape Town	Colloquium: Transients with MeerKAT and SALT
Feb 7	Nadia K	Kepler results
Feb 14	Randall W	The VLBA fast transients project (V-FASTR)	Project overview Detection algorithms
Feb 21	Aziz J	SMOS:The payload	SMOS: The Payload, by McMullan et al.
Feb 28	Nathan C	FPGA Implementations of Fast Transient Detectors: The Tardis & Hotrod Systems	slides
Mar 7	Jan Geralt BDV	The Square Kilometre Array - Can ICRAR rescue the project?
Mar 14
Mar 21	John G	An Overview of Australian Aboriginal Ethnoastronomy	An overview of Australian Aboriginal Ethnoastronomy
Mar 28	Clancy James (short-term visitor)	Colloquium - to be advised
Apr 4	various	PhD student presentations
Apr 11	John Kennewell	Predicting the Sunspot Cycle	scf-hathaway.pdf, sc24-pesnell.pdf
Apr 18	Luis G V M	Modeling mm to X-flare emission from Sgr A*
May 2	Aquib M	Sw 1644+57 / GRB 110328A: A remarkable cosmological event
May 9	Jan Geralt BDV	Engineering Aperture Arrays: The AA Concept Design Review (and how ICRAR will save the SKA project)
May 16	J-P Macquart	Some Issues Related to Fast Transients
May 23	Leith G	Review of “Hot and Cold Gas Accretion and Feedback in radio-loud active galaxies”	Hardcastle et al. (2007)
May 30	Cormac R	to be advised
June 6		bye
June 13	Cath T	A Method for 21cm Power Spectrum Estimation in the Presence of Foregrounds	http://arxiv.org/abs/1103.0281
June 20	John M	The VLBA Galactic Plane Survey – VGAPS	http://au.arxiv.org/abs/1101.1460
June 27		bye

2010 Journal Club Roster January-June
Date	Leader	Paper	Slides
Jan 11	Danny Price (Oxford PhD candidate)	Guest talk: Armstrong et al - A Digital Broadband Beamforming Architecture for 2-PAD
Jan 18	Aziz	Instrumentation: Lazio et al - Technology Development for the Lunar Radio Array
Feb 8	David H.	Calibration: Ground-based IR observations of an exoplanet
Feb 15
Feb 22	Bruce Stansby	Test for Early VLBI on an ASKAP Antenna
March 1	Claire Hotan	Making Meaning with Math in Physics: A semantic analysis	PDF
March 8	Hayley Bignall	Kanekar et al. - Probing fundamental constant evolution with neutral atomic gas lines	PDF
Mar 15	Aidan Hotan	Kontorovich - On high brightness temperature of pulsar giant pulses	PDF
Mar 22	Mark Waterson	Protecting Applications Against Heisenbugs	PDF
Mar 29	Jeff Hodgson	Interplanetary scintillation and its relation to the angular structure of radio sources
Apr 12	Rodrigo Garcia & Ben Hug	Rodrigo: A novel ocean color index to detect floating algae in the global oceans Ben: The influence of a novel transmission detector on 6 MV x-ray beam characteristics
Apr 19	Randall Wayth	Dark stars: A new look at the first stars in the universe
May 3	Ben Kneuss	Particle decoration in super critical fluid to improve the hydrogen sorption cyclability of magnesium
May 10		TBA
May 17	Timothy Young & Jeremy Savage	Tim: Simultaneous Single Pulse Observations of Radio Pulsars Jeremy: Measurements of positron scattering by hydrogen, alkali metal, and other atoms
May 24	J-P Macquart	Gravitation: Verlinde - On the Origin of Gravity and the Laws of Newton
May 31	Tiffany Fouche & Tom Russell	Tiffany: Satellite observations of convective storm tops in the 1.6, 3.7 and 3.9 micron spectral bands Tom: Gravitational-Wave Detection Using Pulsars: Status of the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array Project
June 14		TBA
June 21	Franz Schlagenhaufer	Digital Computer Solutions of Electromagnetic Transients in Single- and Multiphase Networks
2010 Journal Club Roster July-December
July 12	Owen Giersch	Automated Detection of Filaments and Their Disappearance Using Full-Disc Hα Images
July 19	ICRAR Intellectual Property Seminar	N/A
July 26	Mick Todd	The Population of Near-Earth Asteroids in Coorbital Motion with the Earth
Aug 2	James Miller-Jones	No evidence for black hole spin powering of jets in X-ray binaries
Aug 9	John Morgan	Fundamental Imaging Limits of Radio Telescope Arrays
Aug 16	Hayley Bignall	The Allen Telescope Array Twenty-centimeter Survey—A 690 deg2, 12 Epoch Radio Data Set. I. Catalog and Long-duration Transient Statistics
Aug 30	Damien Macpherson	Honours JC: A Review of Astronomy Education Research
Sep 6	Mark Zammit	Honours JC: Calculation of electron-helium scattering
Sep 20	Kranav Sharma	Pulsars: Camilo, Thorsett & Kulkarni - The magnetic fields, ages, and original spin periods of millisecond pulsars
Oct 4	Hayley Bignall, Mark Waterson	Conference Review and R&S Instrument demo
Oct 11	Rick Perley (NRAO) Colloquium	The Expanded Very Large Array
Oct 25	Arwin Kahlon & Kevin Koay	Honours JC: Harker et al - Power spectrum extraction for redshifted 21-cm Epoch of Reionization experiments: the LOFAR case and AGN: Kovalev et al - The Relation between AGN Gamma-ray Emission and Parsec-scale Radio Jets
Nov 1	2nd semester Honours students	Poster presentations (+5min talks) - in room 301.147
Nov 8	Jamie Biggs	My recent research - A study of Perth's light pollution
Nov 15	Steven Tingay	Titov - Secular aberration drift and IAU definition of International Celestial Reference System Requires Curtin log in
Nov 22	TBA	TBA
Nov 29	Shantanu Padhi	Fhager, Padhi & Howard - 3D Image Reconstruction in Microwave Tomography Using an Efficient FDTD Model in the seminar room only in 610
Dec 6	Leith Godfrey	Croton et al - The many lives of active galactic nuclei: cooling flows, black holes and the luminosities and colours of galaxies and Erratum
Dec 13	Arwin Kahlon	Arwin's Christmas Special JC paper

2009 Journal Club Roster January-June
Date	Leader	Paper
Jan 12	Steven	AGN4: Klamer et al - A search for distant radio galaxies from SUMSS and NVSS, pt III
Jan 19	Aidan	Pulsars 1: Petrova - Towards explanation of the radio - X-ray correlation in the Vela pulsar
Jan 27	Tim	Pulsars 2: 12 noon on 27th Bhat et al - Crab giant pulses with the MWA LFD FPS
Feb 2	Claire	Pulsars 3: van Kerkwijk & Ingle - Reconstructing the Guitar: Blowing Bubbles with a pulsar bow shock backflow
Feb 9	Nino, Aquib, Michael	Research review
Feb 16	Hayley	Galactic Cosmic Rays: Protheroe et al. - Interpretation of radio continuum and molecular line observations of Sgr B2: free-free and synchrotron emission, and implications for cosmic rays
Feb 23	Andrew B	HI in galaxies 1: Dwarakanath et al - On the origin of the wide HI absorption line toward SgrA*
March 6	Aquib	HI in galaxies 2: McClure-Griffiths et al - The Southern Galactic Plane Survey: HI Observations & Analysis
March 9	Bruce, Owen; Sascha Schediwy	Research review; UK aperture array prototyping
Mar 16	Cormac	HI in galaxies 3: Curran & Whiting - HI 21-cm absorption and unified schemes of active galactic nuclei
Mar 23	Megan, Andrew Faulkner	Masers 1: Impellizzeri et al - A gravitationally lensed water maser in the early universe + visitor's talk
April 6	Julia, Mario	Masers 2 & 3: Julia - Hewitt & Yusef-Zadeh - Discovery of new interacting SNR in the inner galaxy, Mario - Watson - Magnetic Fields and the Polarization of Astrophysical MASER Radiation:A Review
April 20	Owen	Solar Physics 1: Howard & Simnett - Interplanetary coronal mass ejections that are undetected by solar coronagraphs
April 24	Tim, Andrew B	Fri 24th to avoid ANZAC day Research review Tim's presentation
May 4	David +Tim	Solar physics 2: Hudson - Unpredictability of the Most Energetic Solar Events
May 11	Merv	Solar physics 3: Mitchell, Greenhill, Wayth et al - Real-time Calibration of the Murchison Widefield Array
May 18	Dr John Kennewell	Visitor's talk: Orbital Space Debris (please ignore page header!)
May 25	J-P	Interstellar medium 1:Walker, Koopmans, Stinebring & van Straten - Interstellar Holography
June 2	Claire, Carlos	Research review Note change of date to Tuesday
June 8	~~Steven~~ Hayley	~~ISM 2~~ Radio astronomy sociology: Broderick - The Buffalo Syndrome
June 15	Jeff	ISM 3: Mangalam et al - The changing ISM of massive elliptical galaxies & cosmic evolution of radio galaxies and quasars
2009 Journal Club Roster July-December
July 13	Aziz	Classic papers in radioastronomy: background papers: Dyson - Equiangular Spiral Antenna, Erickson - Lessons learned from Clark Lake, Main Paper: Erickson & Fisher - Wideband Decametric Array at Clark Lake
July 20	Randall	Classic papers 2: Bhatnagar et al - Correcting direction-dependent gains in the deconvolution of radio interferometric images, supplementary paper Bhatnagar - Cal'n & im challenges at low RFs: An overview ...
July 27	Bruce	Classic papers 3: Hewish - Observation of a Rapidly Pulsating Radio Source
Aug 3	Mick, Julia	Research review
Aug 10	Ir. Jan Geralt bij de Vaate (ASTRON)	Colloquium: The SKA Aperture Array Verification Program and Related Engineering Research Topics
Aug 17	David E	Instrumentation 1: Fisher et al - Phased Array Feeds white paper
Aug 24	Peter	Instrumentation 2: Padman - Optical Fundamentals for Array Feeds Veidt - Memo 71: Focal Plane Array Architectures
Aug 31	Mick	Instrumentation 3: On William Parsons, Earl of Rosse Lord Oxmantown - An Account of Experiments on the Reflecting Telescope
Sept 14	Kevin + J-P, Hayely	Research Review, 5 min talks by research staff on their work
Sept 21	Aziz + Megan, Ron, Aidan, Randall, Merv (John K), Peter	Research review, sparkler talks
Oct 5	Brian Sallur, WARO	The 9m dish at WARO, Chittering: A brief talk on the history of the MGRO and WARO observatories during the last 30 years. May include presentation of chart recordings of the special solar ULF magnetic energies experiment, featuring a unique magnetic sensor.
Oct 12	John + Ron + ??	Research Review, also see this IYA project announcement; Story behind CSIRO 802.11 media coverage; Sparkler talks (Steven, Cormac, Dave E, Wayne)?
Oct 19	ICRAR meeting	ICRAR all hands meeting, 7 Fairway
Oct 26	Prof Alexander Nemchin (WASM)	Lunar Geology
Nov 2	Jeff, Luis, Kranav	Honours intro talks; research review
Nov 9	Aquib	Free choice paper (VLBI science I): Stewart et al - Circinus X-1: A runaway binary with curved radio jets
Nov 16	Mark, Steven	Intro & background; Free choice paper (AGN 5):Wang et al - Active Galactic Nuclei with Double-peaked Narrow Lines: Are They Dual AGNs?
Nov 23	CAC students + Tim	Activities Review + Free choice paper (Instrumentation 4):DeBoer et al - Australian SKA Pathfinder: A High-Dynamic Range Wide-Field of View Survey Telescope or download the file
Nov 30	Kevin	Free choice paper (Instrumentation 5): iVEC link Jester & Falcke - Science with a lunar low-frequency array:... or download paper
Dec 14	Chris, Bob	Research Review

2008 Journal Club Roster
Date	Leader	Paper
Aug 29	David H	Tegmark - The FFT Telescope
Sept 8	Aidan	Transients 1: Lorimer - extragalactic radio burst
Sept 15	Aquib	Transients 2: Kulkarni - Radio emission from SN 1998bw
Sept 22	Bruce	Transients 3: Vachaspati - Sparks from superconducting strings
Sept 29	Owen	Ord - B field of solar corona from pulsars
Oct 6	Andrew B	Doeleman et al - Event horizon-scale structure of MW BH (Sgr A*)
Oct 13	Cormac	EoR 1: Shaver - Can the reionization epoch be detected as a global signature in the cosmic background?
Oct 20	Hayley	EoR 2: Ciardi & Madau - Probing beyond the Epoch of Hydrogen Reionization with 21 Centimetre Radiation
Oct 27	Merv	EoR 3: Bowman - Sensitivity of 1st gen EoR observatories & potential for diff theoretical power spectra
Nov 3	J-P	EoR 4: Becker et al - Evolution of Optical Depth in Ly-a Forest - Evidence against reionisation at z~6
Nov 10	Mick	Astronomy Education: astronomy_education_mt.pdf
Nov 17	Mario	Astronomy Education 2: Clickers, videos and NO PREP HOMEWORK!!
Nov 24	Megan	Active Galactic Nuclei 1: Westoby et al - Are galaxies with AGN a transition population?
Dec 1	Peter	“Town Hall meeting”: see papers Hall et al Dewdney et al
Dec 8	Tim	AGN 2: Norris et al - The evolving starburst-AGN connection: Implications for SKA and its pathfinders
Dec 15	Melanie J-H	AGN 3: Johnston-Hollitt et al - Radio obs of the H-R supercluster: excess star-forming galaxies in a merging cluster? MNRAS version through Curtin library