The CTIO REU/PIA 2002 program
January 14 - March 25 2002
La Serena

As part of the CTIO REU/PIA program we offer a number of talks & ``classes'' scheduled during the period you'll be working at CTIO:

Date		Time	Title	Speaker
January	15	11:00	Welcome & Light Pollution	Malcolm Smith
	16	10:00	About AURA	Bill Smith
		15:00	How to prepare an observing run	Alan Whiting
	17	10:00	The expanding universe	Jeremy Mould
	21	11:30	How does the NSF work	Eileen Friel
	29	15:00	CCD's	Ricardo Schmidt
	31	15:00	Cosmology	Alan Whiting
February	5	15:00	The SuperMACHO project	Andy Becker
	7	15:00	How to write proposals	Chris Smith
			e.g. observing and grant proposals
	12	14:30	Adaptive Optics	André Tokovinin
	14	15:00	Supernovae & the acceleration universe	Nick Suntzeff
	20	14:30	Stellar Populations in near-by Galaxies	Knut Olsen
	21	17:00	An introduction to Perl	Andy Becker
	22	14:00	An introduction to Perl - cont.	Andy Becker
	25	11:00	AO lab demonstration	André Tokovinin
	26	14:30	Observing in the infrared	Nicole van der Bliek
	27	13:00	TAC meeting & pizza's	All students
	28	15:00	Star formation -- an introduction	Steve Heathcote
March	1	14:30	Massive star formation	Jim De Buizer
	4	15:00	How to apply for graduate school	Dara Norman
	8	15:00	How to present scientific results	Nicole van der Bliek
	21	10:30	Photometric systems & absolute calibration	Nicole van der Bliek
		14:30	What I did this Summer	All students

Things to do:

In connection to the talk by Chris Smith: How to write proposals you are requested to write an observing proposal. Please hand in your proposal on Thursday Feb. 21. The idea is that you read each others proposals and grade them. We'll discuss the proposals in a Time Allocation Meeting (TAC) to be held on Wednesday Feb. 27 at 13:00, while eating pizza's!

In addition to the talks and classes, we will meet every Friday afternoon$^*$ at 16:30 to discuss your accomplishments and problems, to share your science, ask questions etc. The idea is to keep these meetings informal and to stimulate discussions.

* i.e. Friday Feb. 1, 8 & 15 and March 1, 8, 15 & 23.

Important Notice:
Please prepare a 3 line summary of the goal of your project
and a 5 step plan how to reach that goal!
We will discuss this on Friday Feb. 15.

Other meetings to which you are encouraged to go to are:

• Staff Tea's: every Monday, Wednesday & Friday at 10:30 the scientific staff of Tololo meets in the Library

• Seminars: visiting astronomers often present their scientific work for the Tololo staff. There is no fixed day of the week for these seminars, as it depends on the schedule of the speaker. They are announced well in advance though.

• International Conference on Light Pollution, March 5 - 7
• Workshop on Galactic Star Formation Across the Stellar Mass Spectrum, March 10 - 14

You don't have to register neither for the conference nor for the workshop before arriving at CTIO. Because you are CTIO Summer students, we will take care of registration once you are here.

On Friday March 22 we will go up to Cerro Pachon for a tour of Gemini South and the SOAR telescope. If there is interest and if there is time left (you do have a very busy schedule) we might also arrange a visit to La Silla and/or Las Campanas Observatory during your stay here.

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