Program Activities



January
February
March
Seminars and talks
Observing run schedule and pictures
Photo Gallery
Visit to Pachon
Visit to Las Campanas
Lunar Eclipse
REU & PIA 2007 symposium: The Universe as seen by the Students
AAS Jan 2008, Austin TX

CTIO REU 2007 - Seminars




Lunch Talk
every Thursday at 12:30pm, in the main AOSS conference room

Date
Speaker Title
Thursd. Jan 18
Etienne Artigau (Gemini) Introduction to IDL
Thursd Jan 25
Dara Norman (CTIO) So, you want to go to Graduate School
Thursday Feb 1
Jean-Renee Roy (Gemini) Recent highlights from Gemini
Thursday Feb 8
Jim De Buizer (Gemini) Observing Techniques
Thursday Feb 15
James Radomski (Gemini) High Resolution Mid-IR Observations of AGN
Doug Simons (Gemini) Why is Astronomy Important? A Personal View
Chris Smith (CTIO) LSST
Thursday March 8 Miguel Roth (Las Campanas Observatories) Astronomy in Las Campanas
Thursday March 15
Jayadev Rajagopal (CTIO) Introduction to Interferometry
Thursday March 22 & Friday March 23
REU presentations The universe as seen by the students



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

Date
Speaker Paper
Wednesday, Jan 17 Stella Kafka A Far-Ultraviolet Survey of 47 Tucanae. I. Imaging
Tuesday, Jan 23 Cassy Davison Observations of Brown Dwarfs
Tuesday, Jan 30 Scott Henderson Spectroscopy of Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies in the Fornax Cluster
Tuesday, Feb 6 Stephanie Golmon Clusters in the solar neighborhood: How are they destroyed?
Tuesday, Feb 13 Claudia Araya An ultraviolet, optical and infrared study of Herbig Ae/Be stars
Tuesday, Feb 20 Daniel Harsono The Galaxy Luminosity function down to M~ -10 in the Hydra I cluster
Tuesday, Feb 27 Aisha Mahmoud Obscured AGB stars in the Magellanic Clouds. I. IRAS candidates
Tuesday, March 6 Rachel Anderson Variable Stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud: Discovery of Extragalactic W UMa Binaries
Tuesday, March 13 Rodrigo Hinojosa Identification of Six New SNRs in the LMC