The Astronomy
Weekly HOT-TOPIC preprint review group with
a Difference
It last only 7 minutes! (Held alternate
Tues/Thurs at 10.20am)
ITS HELD
OUTDOORS--ENJOY CALIFORNIA's Weather!
A typical participant in FIRST SEVEN MINUTES
Free Candy/Bananas/Onions and More
Speakers actually get paid in chocolate (see rules below).
Hosted by: Drs.
Phil Appleton and Kartik Sheth of the Spitzer Science Center: Caltech
Email Phil or Kartik to sign up
Oct
11 2005
<>THIS
WEEK: "General Relativity resolves Galactic Rotation Without Exotic Dark Matter (Cooperstock and Tieu) Astro-ph 0507619 "
Presentor:
Seppo Laine : SSC
Location:
KS 4th floor balcony
Time: 10.20am
Future weeks:
Oct
20 (Morrisroe): David Ardila
Oct
25 (Spalding):
Nov 3
(Morrisroe):
PREVIOUS SPEAKERS IN THIS SERIES
- Kartik Sheth " The Weird Ridge Thing On Iapetus"
- Phil Appleton "Dark Matter Haloes of Lyman-Break
Galaxies--Are they the most massive systems at z = 3?"
- Doug McElroy "Ursa Major: a missing low-mass CDM halo?"
- Lee Rottler "First Brown Dwarf Science from Laser Guide Star
Adaptive Optics"
- Doug McElroy "A Dark Galaxy in the Virgo Cluster Imaged at
21-cm"
- Patrick Ogle "A Persistent High-Energy Flux from the Heart
of the Milky-Way: Integral's
View of the Galactic Center"
- Tom
Soifer "Evidence for a Massive Post-Starburst Galaxy at z~6.5" -
Mobasher et al., astro-ph/0509768 (Audience Vote: Chocolate )
- Vandana Desai " The recently Discovered GRB 050905 at z = 6.3 (Audience Vote: Chocolate )"
A Literature review for BUSY people
Why? TO KEEP UP WITH DRAMATIC NEW
DISCOVERIES--
FOUR RULES
:
- You cannot be late
(otherwise you miss it!)
- Presentor has only 7
minutes to present the paper and audience is free to leave after 7 min
- No AV material - max of
two figures to be handed out.
- Audience and speaker will
vote on whether the paper gets a chocolate (thumbs up!) or a banana -
we'd like people to be critical of the preprint. The audience is free to throw tomatoes at Kartik Sheth later that day if he doesn't show up.
PAYMENT Guidelines --
ALL SPEAKERS GET EITHER A FANTASTIC
HIGH QUALITY CHOCOLATE BAR (usually from Belgium) and a banana
In the case a speaker takes more than 2 hours to deliver the
paper, an
onion and some rotten tomatoes are tossed at the speaker.
The name of the pre-print club is derived
from the famous book "The First Three Minutes" by Steven Weinberg.
Steven Weinberg received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979 for his
pioneering work on the unification of the weak and electromagnetic
forces in nature. For
more details click here
Comments and suggestions
to Phil or Kartik at apple@ipac.caltech.edu or
kartik@ipac.caltech.edu