The 2002 CTIO REU/PIA Program

January 14 - March 25, 2002

U.S. REU Participants and Projects

	Student & Institution	Advisor	Project Title	e-mail
	Pamela Baca University of Colorado, Denver	Dara Norman dnorman@ctio.noao.edu	Search for Galaxy Clusters in the Fields of QSOs / Follow_up Observations of Deep Lens Survey Transients	astrofizkid@yahoo.com
	Jeffrey Carlin San Francisco State University	Chris Smith csmith@ctio.noao.edu	Optical Studies of the Vela Bullets	jcthepuma@hotmail.com
	Tucker Freismuth College of Charleston	André Tokovinin atokovinin@ctio.noao.edu	From Binaries to Triples	Tfreis@aol.com
	Colette Salyk Mass. Institute of Technology	Knut Olsen kolsen@ctio.noao.edu	The Disk Tilt of the LMC	csalyk@MIT.edu

Chilean Students and Projects:
Práctica de Investigacíon en Astronomía (PIA) Program

	Student & Institution	Advisor	Project Title	e-mail
	Marcelo Mora Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago	Nick Suntzeff nsuntzeff@ctio.noao.edu	K-correction Calculations for Type Ia Supernovae	mmorage@puc.cl
	Sergio Vera Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago	Nick Suntzeff nsuntzeff@ctio.noao.edu	The Darkness of the Chilean Night Sky	savera@puc.cl
	Miguel Verdugo Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago	Nick Suntzeff nsuntzeff@ctio.noao.edu	Precision photometry for Type Ia supernovae	mverduol@puc.cl

U.S. intern, participating in the REU program

	Student & Institution	Advisor	Project Title	e-mail
	Amber Young Middlebury College, Vermont	Nicole van der Bliek & Bob Blum nvdbliek@ctio.noao.edu rblum@ctio.noao.edu	Infrared Spectra of SiO Masing AGB Stars in the Galactic Bulge	alyoung@jaguar.middlebury.edu

The REU/PIA 2002 schedule

Highlights

• Tour of Cerro Tololo
• Tour of Cerro Pachon and the Gemini South facility
• Observing at CTIO: the 0.9-m telescope
• Participating in the IAU Conference on Light Pollution
• Participating in the Workshop on ``Star Formation Accross the Stellar Mass Spectrum''