Program Activities



January
February
March
Seminars and talks
Observing run schedule and pictures
Photo Gallery
Visit to Pachon
Lunar Eclipse
Visit to Las Campanas
Visit to Paranal
REU/PIA Symposium 2008


REU Participants and Projects

Student & Institution Mentor(s) Project Title e-mail
Crow-Willard, Emma
Occidental College
Chris Miller (CTIO)
The brightest cluster galaxy catalogue and density correlations analysis reu1 @ ctio.noao.edu
Lynch, Emily
Dartmouth College
Roberto de Propris (CTIO) & Michael West (ESO)
Globular clusters in NGC3370 reu2 @ ctio.noao.edu
Mares, Peter
Cornell University
Roberto de Propris, Craig Harrison & Alistair Walker(CTIO)
Characterizing the phase space of our galactic halo by using Blue Horizontal Branch stars as distance indicators reu3 @ ctio.noao.edu
Misra, Amit
Case Western Reserve University
Percy Gomez (Gemini)
Impact of Galaxy Cluster Mergers on Radio Galaxies reu4 @ ctio.noao.edu
Plunkett, Adele
Middlebury College
Simon Schuler (CTIO)
Iron abundances on open cluster dwarfs: Pleiades reu5 @ ctio.noao.edu
Schenker, Matt
Dartmouth College
Linda Schmidtobreick (ESO) & Stella Kafka (SSC)
Search for SW Sextantis Cataclysmic Variables reu6 @ ctio.noao.edu



PIA Participants and Projects

Student & Institution Mentor(s) Project Title e-mail
Campos Macarena
Universidad de Concepcion
Susan Ridgway (CTIO)
HST imaging observations of z~1 radio sources and their radio-optical alignments reu7 @ ctio.noao.edu
Regis Cartier Ugarte
Universidad de Chile
Malcolm Smith (CTIO)
Spectroscopy of red x-ray selected quazars reu8 @ ctio.noao.edu