28 January 2005
Discussion leader: G. Heald
Topic:
Stellar Initial Mass Function
Link to paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0409465
4 February 2005
Discussion leader: S. Meidt
Topic:
Interstellar Medium
Link to paper: http://prola.aps.org/abstract/RMP/v73/i4/p1031_1
(focus on section III)
11 February 2005
Discussion leader: J. Brown
Topic:
Brown Dwarfs
Link to paper: browndwarfs.pdf
18 February 2005
Discussion leader: P. Thorman
Topic:
AGN
Link to paper: http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/96/9/4749
4 March 2005
Discussion leader: R. Cook
Topic:
Interstellar/Precometary Ices and Molecules
Link to paper: Erice2000.pdf (Section
III only; pp 27-44)
11 March 2005
Discussion leader: S. Taylor
Topic:
Close Binary Star Systems
Link to paper: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?1973A&A....24..337S (Section
I)
18 March 2005
Spring Break
1 April 2005
Discussion leader: J. Arcido
Topic:
Collision of Subclusters in Abell 754
Link to paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9505018
8 April 2005
Discussion leader: G. Heald
Topic:
Secular Evolution and Pseudobulges
Link to paper: http://chandra.as.utexas.edu/~kormendy/southafrica.pdf
15 April 2005
Discussion leader: P. Thorman
Topic:
Line Ratios as Diagnostic Tools in Stellar Coronae
Link to paper: ness_jordan.pdf
29 April 2005
Discussion leader: S. Taylor
Topic:
Predictions of Big-Bang Nucleosynthesis
Link to paper: http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/astro-ph/pdf/0010/0010171.pdf