From Mica
Taking advantange of the capabilities of Virtual Worlds environments we have the opportunity to create unique seminars with attendees from many different institutions from all over the world including the authors of the papers being discussed.
We hope you will join us and we encourage you to invite other colleague astrophysicists and students you think might be interested.
When
Every Friday of the month at 10am SLT (1pm EST)
See Upcoming Professional Events for listings of any seminars coming up soon.
Where
Second Life, in the MICA small amphitheater
Second Life accounts are free; you can go here to join Second Life. If you need help getting started in Second Life, many current MICA members will be willing to help you get your virtual legs. Contact Rob Knop at rknop@pobox.com, or in-world as Prospero Frobozz.
Format
Typically, this is a seminar presentation from a professional astronomer talking about work they have done or they have collaborated on, followed by questions and discussion as is normal in seminars.
Sometimes, we will do this as a "Journal Club", including:
- Discussion of a paper with one or more authors of the paper informally illustrating the main points of the paper and answering questions from attendees.
- Discussion of a paper with no author present. Authors might be invited to a later Journal Club event to answer questions raised during the discussion and for further discussion.
Speakers: If you're going to give a talk, or are interested in giving a talk, see this page of information and advice about converting your slides into something that Second Life can handle, and about actually giving the talk in Second Life.
Intended Audience
Astrophysicists. While seminars will be open to everyone, it will not be an outreach event and we expect the discussion to be technical.
Current Schedule
See Upcoming Professional Events
Past Schedule
- April 11, 2008:
- S.McMillan A parallel gravitational N-body kernel by S. Portegies Zwart, S McMillan, Derek Groen et al., 2008, New Astronomy, 13, 285 http://arxiv.org/abs/0711.0643
- April 25, 2008:
- E.Glebbeek Report on the highlights of the IAU Symposium 252 The Art of Modeling Stars in the 21st Century
- May 9, 2008:
- May 23, 2008:
- Will Farr Report on the highlights of the April APS meeting in St. Louis
- May 31, 2008:
- September 26, 2008:
- November 7, 2008:
- Gordon Richards (Drexel University) "SDSS Quasar Science"
- November 14, 2008:
- Derek Richardson (University of Maryland-College Park) "Rotational breakup as the origin of small binary asteroids"
- paper on Nature Press release
- December 5, 2008:
- December 19, 2008:
- February 20, 2009:
- Steve McMillan (Drexel University) Multiple Stellar Populations in Globular Clusters (| paper 1)
- March 20, 2009:
- Evert Glebbeek (McMaster University) - "Coupling stellar evolution and stellar dynamics: the evolution of stellar collision remnants"
- March 27, 2009:
- George Djorgovski (Caltech) - "Synoptic Sky Surveys and Exploration of Time Domain in Astronomy" - Audio Recording
- April 10, 2009:
- April 17, 2009:
- April 24, 2009:
- May 1, 2009:
- May 15, 2009:
- Andreas Berlind (Vanderbilt University) - "Galaxy clustering on very small scales: measurements and theory" - No audio recording
- May 22, 2009:
- May 29, 2009:
- June 5, 2009:
- Raffaele D'Abrusco (University of Padova) - "A data-mining perspective on the problem of candidate QSOs extraction" - Audio recording (MP3)
- June 17, 2009:
- July 24, 2009:
- September 18, 2009
- B. Scott Gaudi (Ohio State University) The Demographics of Extrasolar Planets with Gravitational Microlensing Slides
- September 25, 2009
- Darren Croton (Swinburne University) How to model the entire Universe in N easy steps (N>>1) Slides
- October 2, 2009
- Chris Lintott (Oxford University) The science of Galaxy Zoo, or what to do with 250,000 astronomers
- October 9, 2009
- Cristina Lopes (University of California Irvine) New developments in OpenSim and the Hypergrid
- October 23, 2009
- Nathan Leigh (McMaster University) Stellar Populations in Globular Clusters Cores: Evidence for a Peculiar Trend Among Red Giant Branch Stars
- October 30, 2009
- Christine Corbett Moran (University of Zurich)
ParaViz: A parallel visualization tool for astrophysical applications. Slides
- November 13, 2009
- Derek Groen (Leiden University)
CosmoGrid: Simulating the Universe on a Grid of Supercomputers Slides
- November 20, 2009
- Josh Lifton (MIT)
Trends, Dual Reality, and Identity in Virtual Worlds. Slides
- December 11, 2009
- Shenlei E. Winkler (FRI)
Towards the Future: A Foundation to Support OpenSim in Education, Science, and Research
- December 18, 2009
- Gloria Mark (UCI)
Large-Scale Distributed Collaboration in Space Mission Design: Challenges and Opportunities
- January 15, 2010
- January 22, 2010
- John Mather (NASA GSFC, Nobel laureate in physics 2006, project scientist for the JWST )
Astronomy with the James Webb Space Telescope - Slides - Audio Recording
- January 29, 2010
- Will Farr (Northwestern University)
Numerical Relativity from a Gauge Theory Perspective
- February 5, 2010
- February 12, 2010
- Vahe Gurzadyan (Yerevan Physics Institute Armenia)
Chance and Determinism - How Chance Enters the Description of the Universe - Slides - Audio Recording (Note: audio quality ranges from bad to okay) - Photo
- February 19, 2010
- George Djorgovski (Caltech)
Exploring the time domain in astronomy with the Catalina Real-time Transient Survey (CRTS) - Audio Recording
- February 26, 2010
- Ashish Mahabal (Caltech)
Best programming practices Slides
- March 5, 2010
- Ciro Donalek (Caltech)
Knowledge Discovery from Data [Slides]
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