The 2005 CTIO REU/PIA Program

January 17 - March 28, 2005

U.S. REU Participants and Projects

	Student & Institution	Advisor	Project Title	e-mail
	Sonia Aggarwal Haverford College	Nick Suntzeff nsuntzeff@ctio.noao.edu	Photometry of Eta Carinae	EtaCarIsTheStar@hotmail.com reu8@ctio.noao.edu
	Claire Bendersky Mt. Holyoke College	Hugo Schwarz hschwarz@ctio.noao.edu	The Planetary Nebula NGC 6543	cnbender@mtholyoke.edu reu6@ctio.noao.edu
	Ben Brandvig University of Washington	Bernadette Rodgers, Nicole van der Bliek and Sandrine Thomas brodgers@gemini.edu nvdbliek@ctio.noao.edu sthomas@ctio.noao.edu	Herbig Ae/Be Stars	brandvig@u.washington.edu reu7@ctio.noao.edu
	AJ Carver University of Wisconsin-Madson	Linda Schmidtobreick and Alan Whiting lschmidt@eso.org whiting@ctio.noao.edu	Suspected SW Sextantis Stars	acarver@wisc.edu reu2@ctio.noao.edu
	Betsy Mills Indiana University	Hugo Schwarz hschwarz@ctio.noao.edu	Extinction Towards Planetary Nebulae	eamills@indiana.edu reu5@ctio.noao.edu
	Dylan Semler Macalester College	Malcom Smith, Hugo Schwarz and Nicholas Suntzeff msmith@ctio.noao.edu hschwarz@ctio.noao.edu nsuntzeff@ctio.noao.edu	The Night Sky Brightness at CTIO	dsemler@macalester.edu reu3@ctio.noao.edu

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

	Student & Institution	Advisor	Project Title	e-mail
	Laura Pérez Universidad de Chile	Malcom Smith msmith@ctio.noao.edu	Red Quasars	lperez@das.uchile.cl reu4@ctio.noao.edu
	Omar Valdivia Universidad de Concepción	Chris Smith and Sean Points csmith@ctio.noao.edu spoints@ctio.noao.edu	The Energy Balance of LMC-1	ovaldivi@udec.cl reu1@ctio.noao.edu

The Program in Progress: Observing on the 0.9-meter and touring Gemini

During the week-long observing run on the CTIO 0.9-meter telescope, all students perform all the functions: deciding what to observe next, moving the telescope, and taking data.
		Of course, every observing night begins with a sunset.

Right, Dr. Bernadette Rodgers describes some of the controls of the Gemini 8-meter telescope to the students. Below, the students investigate the dome and the main mirror.

The material on the various student web pages is based in part upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant no. 0353843.

Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.