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QUARG Journals Club 2024/25

2024-2025 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
Sept 4  
Sept 11


Parisa Nozari/ Probing the Physics of Star Formation I on NGC 1333

Meet and Greet
Sept 18

 

Leo Kim/ Feeding plankton to whales: high-redshift supermassive black holes from tiny black hole explosions https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.15062

 

Neal Avis Kozar/ https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.19393 "Supernova axions convert to gamma-rays in magnetic fields of progenitor stars"
Julian Caza/
Sept 25

 

Mayukh Bagchi/ "The Black Hole Explorer: Motivation and Vision" https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.12917

Audrey Fung/ The imprint of the first stars on the faint end of the white dwarf luminosity function https://arxiv.org/pdf/2409.00868
Oct 2

 

Tim Hapitas/ The Great Wave - Evidence of a Large-Scale Vertical Corrugation Propagating Outwards in the Galactic Disc

Lawrence Faria/ Apocalypse When? No Certainty of a Milky Way -- Andromeda Collision postponed
Oct 9

Patrick Hatch/ Observation of high-energy neutrinos from the Galactic plane

Mathieu Perron-Cormier/ Resolution criteria to avoid artificial clumping in Lagrangian hydrodynamic simulations with a multiphase interstellar medium
Oct 16

READING WEEK

 
Oct 23

 Han Wu/ Superradiant evolution of the shadow and photon ring of Sgr A*

James Barron/ Preferential Occurrence of Fast Radio Bursts in Massive Star-Forming Galaxies, Sharma, K et al.
Oct 30

 

Ayan Biswas/ Binary progenitor systems for Type Ic supernovae

Felix Thiel/ The conceptual design of the 50-meter Atacama Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (AtLAST)
Nov 6

Yilda Boukhtouchen/ Postponed to Nov. 20

Akanksha Bij/ The Ancient Star Formation History of the Extremely Low-Mass Galaxy Leo P: An Emerging Trend of a Post-Reionization Pause in Star Formation

 

Nov 12

changed to TUESDAY

Tai Withers/ The Multilayer Nature of Molecular Gas toward the Cygnus Region

Yilda Boukhtouchen/ The DREAMS Project: Dark Matter and Astrophysics with Machine Learning and Simulations.
Nov 20

Bryan Owens/ The case of the missing VHE GRBs: A retrospective study of Swift gamma-ray bursts with Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes

 

Lawrence Faria/ Apocalypse When? No Certainty of a Milky Way -- Andromeda Collision

 

 
Nov 27

 

 

JOURNALS CLUB will be held on Wednesdays, at 12:30  p.m. in Room 501 (TIME/DATE TBD)

Date Presenters

Jan 8

Qinrui Lui/ Ultrahigh-Energy Gamma-ray Emission Associated with Black Hole-Jet Systems (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.08988). (postponed)

Julian Caza/ Filament Accretion and Fragmentation in the Perseus Molecular Cloud (postponed)

Jan 15

Conor McGrath/ An indirect search for dark matter with a combined analysis of dwarf spheroidal galaxies from VERITAS https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.16518

Zoe Brisson-Tsavoussis/ Multi-epoch leptohadronic modeling of neutrino source candidate blazar PKS 0735+178 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2409.04165
Jan 22

Remi Richard/ Comparing Gravity-Entropy conjecture Cosmology to the ΛCDM Model, https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.03655

Raina Irons/ Production of Lithium and Heavy Elements in AGB Stars Experiencing PIES, https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024Galax..12...66C/abstract
Jan 29

Andrew Buchanan

Nathan Skeggs
Feb 5

Lance Schonberg

Avani Bhardwaj
Feb 12

Audrey Burggraf

Nicholas Herreman/ What Hawking Radiation Looks Like as You Fall into a Black Hole
Feb 19 Winter Term READING WEEK
Feb 26

Baldeep Grewal

Brandon Shane
Mar 5

Qinrui Lui/ Ultrahigh-Energy Gamma-ray Emission Associated with Black Hole-Jet Systems (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.08988). 

Julian Caza/ Filament Accretion and Fragmentation in the Perseus Molecular Cloud

 
Mar 12

 

 
Mar 19

 

 
Mar 26  

Apr 2