Program Activities



January
February
March
Seminars and talks
Observing run schedule and pictures
Photo Gallery
Visit to Pachon
Student Abstracts
REU & PIA 2006 symposium
AAS Jan 2007: Seattle, WA




Lunch talks: starting at 12:30pm, in the main AOSS conference room

Date
Speaker Title
Thursday, Jan. 19
Nicole van der Bliek "Infrared Astronomy"
Thursday, Jan. 26
Gary Da Costa "The Local Group"
Tuesday, Jan. 31
Andrei Tokovinin "Adaptive optics in Astronomy"
Thursday, Feb. 16
Malcolm Smith "Controlling Light Pollution in Chile - and World Wide"
Friday, Feb. 17
Dara Norman "So, you want to go to Graduate School"
Thursday, Feb. 23
Roberto De Propris "Clusters of Galaxies: Nirvana for Ellipticals"
Thursday, Mar. 2
Jeremy Mould "How long since the Big Bang?"
Thursday, Mar. 9
Joey Richards "How FULL is a Planetary Nebula? How bright is La Serena?"
Thursday, Mar. 16
Alistair Walker "Studies of the Local Group dwarf galaxy Carina"



Journal Club - Join us at the CTIO library @ 11:00am

Date
Paper
Wednesday, Jan. 18 Stella Kafka A Far-Ultraviolet Survey of 47 Tucanae. I. Imaging
Tuesday, Jan. 24 Brad Tucker Chemical Abundances in 12 Red giants of the Large Magellanic Cloud from High-Resolution Infrared Spectroscopy
Thursday, Feb. 2 Guillermo Damke Structure and Kinematics of the Interstellar Medium in Front of SN 1987A
Tuesday, Feb. 7 Gwen Rudie NGC 770: A Counterrotating Core in a Low-Luminosity Elliptical Galaxy
Tuesday, Feb. 14 Maria Jose Cordero A search for clustering around herbig Ae/Be stars
Tuesday, Feb. 21 Renee Mateluna Three-Dimensional Photoionization Structure and Distances of Planetary Nebulae. II. Menzel 1
Tuesday, Feb. 28 Matt Klimek Supernova Remnants in the Magellanic Clouds. VI. The DEM L316 Supernova Remnants
Tuesday, Mar. 7 Anne Sweet Herbig Ae/Be stars - Intermediate-mass stars surrounded by massive circumstellar accretion disks
Tuesday, Mar. 14 Allison Widhalm Disks and Planets Around Massive White Dwarfs
Tuesday, Mar. 21 Drew Newman On the light echo in V838 Mon