The LIGO journal club usually meets at 3:00PM on Fridays on 2nd floor of W Bridge (room 265). We meet to discuss a recent journal article from PRL, ApJ or the like. Someone is designated as a lead, to initiate the discussion, but not to present slides or give a monologue. The lead should also post a link to the article the Tuesday before meeting in the Meetings and papers section below.
Preferably, selected articles won't be exceptionally long, and would relate (at least tangentially) to LIGO.
You will be emailed by the journal club Tsar two weeks out from your date and again a week out. The rotating roster can be found at HERE
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Highlighted papers pool
If we are short of a presenter we will draw something from this list of papers. If find any papers that would be interesting to discuss at future journal club meetings, then you should add them to the list on the following page:
Interesting papers
Older papers on this list can be found in the Interesting papers (archive) page.
Meetings and papers
Date |
Lead |
Link (pre-print or other open format) and other links |
Link (official DOI peer reviewed version) |
Attendance |
2018 Mar 30 |
Johannes |
Observing Dissipative Topological Defects with Coupled Lasers |
Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, (2017) 013902 |
5 |
2018 Mar 23 |
Koji |
Astrometric Search Method for Individually Resolvable Gravitational Wave Sources with Gaia |
Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, (2017) 261102 |
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2018 Feb 23 |
Aidan |
Broadband Measurement of Quantum Radiation Pressure Noise in an Optomechanical Cavity at Room Temperature, see also slides in Other Files |
In preparation |
12 |
2018 Feb 16 |
Gabriele |
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2018 Feb 2 |
Eric G |
Destabilizing turbulence in pipe flow |
Destabilizing turbulence in pipe flow |
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2017 Jan 26 |
gautam |
Silicon-based optical coatings with a 12 times thermal noise reduction |
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10 |
2017 Jan 19 |
TJ |
Evidence for a decreasing X–ray afterglow emission of GW 170817A / GRB 170817A in XMM-Newton observations |
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8 |
2017 Jan 5 |
rana |
Videos of metaforests |
Forests as a natural seismic metamaterial: Rayleigh wave bandgaps induced by local resonances |
13 |
2017 Dec 15 |
Brittany |
Probing Noncommutative theories with Quantum Optical Experiments Probing Planck-scale Physics with Quantum Optics |
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13 |
2017 Dec 8 |
Chris |
Light Microscopy at Maximal Precision Focus: Modeling Imperfections Boosts Microscope Precision |
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2017 Nov 17 |
Rana |
(ArXiv) Searching for high-frequency gravitational waves by ground high field magnetic resonant sweepings V. B. Braginsky and M. B. Mensky, General Relativity and Gravitation 3, 401 (1972) Braginsky, et al "On the ElectroMagnetic Detection of Gravitational Waves" |
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2017 Nov 10 |
Tom C |
(ArXiv) Illuminating Gravitational Waves: A Concordant Picture of Photons from a Neutron Star Merger |
Published version (Science) |
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2017 Nov 3 |
Michael C |
(arXiv version) Exploring Short-GRB afterglow parameter space for observations in coincidence with gravitational waves |
- |
- |
2017 October 27 |
awade |
(arXiv version) Black holes, quantum information, and the foundations of physics |
Black holes, quantum information, and the foundations of physics |
9 |
2017 October 20 |
Aarroonn |
A Unified Approach to the Classical Statistical Analysis of Small Signals |
- |
5 |
2017 October 13 |
Jon |
Measuring the Tidal Force on a Particle’s Matter Wave |
Phase Shift in an Atom Interferometer due to Spacetime Curvature across its Wave Function |
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2017 October 6 |
Johannes |
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Experimental Demonstration of Frequency Autolocking an Optical Cavity Using a Time-Varying Kalman Filter |
9 |
2017 September 29 |
jAmie |
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Achievement of Sustained Net Plasma Heating in a Fusion Experiment with the Optometrist Algorithm |
9 |
2017 September 22 |
raNa |
What can we learn about dark matter and dark energy from gravitational waves? |
Constraints on cosmological viscosity and self-interacting dark matter from gravitational wave observations |
7 |
2017 September 1 |
Koji |
NaN |
Breaking Lorentz reciprocity to overcome the time-bandwidth limit in physics and engineering |
9 |
2017 August 18 |
Gabriele |
Counting Black Holes: The Cosmic Stellar Remnant Population and Implications for LIGO |
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8 |
2017 August 11 |
Aidan |
Cavity-stabilized laser with acceleration sensitivity below 10^−12 g^−1 |
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NaN |
2017 August 4 |
Max |
Stochastic and resolvable gravitational waves from ultralight bosons |
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7 |
2017 July 7 |
Gautam |
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Proposal for gravitational-wave detection beyond the standard quantum limit through EPR entanglement |
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2017 June 23 |
Brittany |
"Satellite-distributed entanglement" |
"Satellite-based entanglement distribution over 1200 kilometers" |
10 |
2017 June 16 |
Chris |
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"Fast Radio Bursts from Extragalactic Light Sails" |
6 |
2017 May 26 |
Alan |
Quantum test of the equivalence principle for atoms in superpositions of internal energy eigenstates |
Key Einstein principle survives quantum test |
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2017 May 12 |
Tom |
Is the Gravitational-Wave Ringdown a Probe of the Event Horizon? |
Is the Gravitational-Wave Ringdown a Probe of the Event Horizon? |
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2017 April 28 |
Johannes |
Nondestructive Detection of an Optical Photon |
Nondestructive Detection of an Optical Photon |
8 |
2017 April 28 |
Koji |
Quantum-dense metrology |
Quantum-dense metrology |
9 |
2017 April 7 |
Alex |
Testing quantum gravity with Galactic NS-BH systems |
Shining Light on Quantum Gravity with Pulsar–Black hole Binaries |
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2017 Mar 24 |
Alastair |
- |
Slip-stick and the evolution of frictional strength |
6 |
2017 Mar 10 |
Jess |
- |
Seven temperate terrestrial planets around the nearby ultracool dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 |
5 |
2017 Mar 3 |
Rory |
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Alien Mindscapes: A Perspective on the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence |
10 |
2017 Feb 24 |
- |
Quantum Cognition: The possibility of processing with nuclear spins in the brain A magazine article: A New Spin on the Quantum Brain |
- |
11 |
2017 Feb 17 |
Sarah |
A New Gravitational-Wave Signature from Standing Accretion Shock Instabilities in Supernovae |
doi |
7 |
2017 Jan 27 |
Rana |
Arxiv: Parametric Oscillatory Instability in Fabry-Perot (FP) Interferometer |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0375-9601(01)00510-2 |
9 |
2017 Jan 20 |
Jamie |
Deep Neural Networks to Enable Real-time Multimessenger Astrophysics |
In preparation |
13 |
2017 Jan 13 |
Gabriele |
N/A |
Avalanche Statistics Identify Intrinsic Stellar Processes near Criticality in KIC 8462852 |
9 |
2017 Jan 6 |
rana |
NASA Team Claims ‘Impossible’ Space Engine Works—Get the Facts |
Measurement of Impulsive Thrust from a Closed Radio-Frequency Cavity in Vacuum |
7 |
Past meetings (archival)
Journal club roster 2018
You can find an ordered list of upcoming presenters HERE. The JCTsar script will chose people in this order.
If you find you can't do a week that you are assigned to then find someone willing to trade and update that spreadsheet.
Chooser script (Updated python)
https://github.com/fincle/RoboTsar
The python script TsarMailer.py downloads the google spreadsheet list. This sheet contains an ordered list of names and a list of public holidays to veto. It counts the number of days since the start of the year, vetoing public holidays and chooses presenters sequentially from the list. The scripts loops back to the beginning once the end is reached. An arbitrary phase shift is also added to the week number so that the list position can be twiddled in the event the presenter list length changes and position needs to be fixed.
If a swap of names is performed leaving the list length the same there is no need to adjust the phase factor.
Three other scripts exist to remind the presenter to post a paper and to remind people on the day.
