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


CTIO REU & PIA 2008 - mini workshop
The Universe as seen by the students
March 19 and 20, at 4:30pm
Aura Lecture Hall

March 19
Adele Plunkett (Middlebury College) Iron abundances on open cluster dwarfs: Pleiades
Matthew Schenker (Dartmouth College) Search for SW Sextantis Cataclysmic Variables
Peter Mares (Cornell University) Characterizing the phase space of our galactic halo by using Blue Horizontal Branch stars as distance indicators
Emily Lynch (Dartmouth College) Globular clusters in NGC3370
March 20
Emma Crow-Willard (Occidental College) The brightest cluster galaxy catalogue and density correlations analysis
Campos Macarena (Universidad de Concepcion) HST imaging observations of z~1 radio sources and their radio-optical alignments
Régis Cartier Ugarte (Universidad de Chile) Spectroscopy of red x-ray selected quasars
Amit Misra (Case Western Reserve University) Impact of Galaxy Cluster Mergers on Radio Galaxies