CTIO REU/PIA 2008

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January 14 - March 21, 2008



Schedule of 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
Régis Cartier Ugarte
Universidad de Chile
Malcolm Smith (CTIO)
Spectroscopy of red x-ray selected quazars reu8 @ ctio.noao.edu


The material on the various web pages is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant no. 0647604.

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.

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