The 2004 CTIO REU/PIA Program

January 12 - March 22, 2004




U.S. REU Participants and Projects

Student & Institution Advisor Project Title e-mail
Rebecca Barlow
Mt. Holyoke College
Andrei Tokovinin
atokovinin@ctio.noao.edu
From Binaries to Triples rjbarlow@mtholyoke.edu
reu7@ctio.noao.edu

Luke Galli
Colorado College
Alan Whiting and Linda Schmidtobreik
whiting@ctio.noao.edu
lschmidt@eso.org
Cataclysmic Variable Stars l_galli@coloradocollege.edu
reu8@ctio.noao.edu

Alice Globus
Wells College
Dara Norman
dnorman@ctio.noao.edu
Deep Lensing Survey follow-up aglobus@wells.edu
reu1@ctio.noao.edu

Ethan Knox
Humboldt State University
Nicolas Suntzeff
nsuntzeff@ctio.noao.edu
Photometry of Nearby Supernovae eak2@humboldt.edu
reu2@ctio.noao.edu

Melissa Rice
Wellesley College
Hugo Schwarz
hschwarz@ctio.noao.edu
3D Ionization Codes for Planetary Nebulae mrice@wellesley.edu
reu6@ctio.noao.edu

Kyle Walker
Ohio State University
Marcel Bergman and James Turner
mbergman@ctio.noao.edu jturner@gemini.edu
E+A Galaxies walker.623@osu.edu
reu3@ctio.noao.edu



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

Student & Institution Advisor Project Title e-mail
Javier Fuentes
Universidad de La Serena
Hugo Schwarz, Hektor Monteiro and Alan Whiting
hschwarz@ctio.noao.edu
hmonteiro@ctio.noao.edu
whiting@ctio.noao.edu
Planetary Nebulae interactions with the ISM jafulet@hotmail.com
reu4@ctio.noao.edu

Bárbara Rojas
Universidad de Chile
Bryan Miller
bmiller@gemini.edu
Ages, Metallicities and Kinematics of Nuclei in Fornax dEs brojas@das.uchile.cl
reu5@ctio.noao.edu



The Program in progress: on the summit with the telescopes and in the computer room


Above, the students examine the Gemini South telescope, guided by Dr. Bryan Miller (caught in mid-explanation at right). Below, Hektor Monteiro explains the modelling of Planetary Nebulae to Melissa Rice.
Above, Melissa Rice waiting for sunset on the summit of Cerro Tololo. Left, Rebecca Barlow, Dr. Linda Schmidtobreick of the European Southern Observatory, and Melissa Rice at the controls of the 1.5m.


The January 2005 AAS Meeting

The 2004 REU and PIA students presented poster papers at the January 2005 meeting of the American Astronomical Society at San Diego, California. Right, Luke Galli poses by his poster; far right, Ethan and Javier discuss supernovae.

Left, Ethan has moved on to Kyle's poster; right, Kyle discusses it with another astronomer.
Far left, Melissa Rice; and left, Alice Globus listen to comments on their work.