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 2008 - talks

CTIO REU 2008 - Seminars




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

Date
Speaker Title
Thursday, Jan 17
Chris Smith LSST
Thursday, Jan 24
Michael West (ESO) So You Want To Be An Astronomer
Thursday, Jan 31
Malcolm Smith (CTIO) Light polution
Thursday, Feb 7
Observing run + CTIO Obs. council - no lunch talk
Thursday, Feb 14
Linda Schmidtobreick (ESO) Microquazars
Thursday, Feb 21
Chris Miller (CTIO) First science from GALAXY ZOO: Morphology vs. Environment
Thursday, Feb 28
Jayadev Rajagopal (CTIO) Interferometry and its applications
Thursday, March 6
Miguel Roth (Las Campanas Observatories) Astronomy in Las Campanas
Thursday, March 13
Etienne Artigau (Gemini Obs.) Brown Dwarfs



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

Date
Name Paper
Wedn. Jan 16 Stella Kafka Spitzer Space Telescope Observations of Magnetic Cataclysmic Variables: Possibilities for the Presence of Dust in Polars
Tuesd. Jan 22 Adele Plunkett Spectroscopic Abundances in Cool Pleiades Dwarfs and NGC 2264 Stars
Tuesd. Jan 29 Amit Misra The Origin of Wide-Angle Tailed Radio Galaxies
Tuesd. Feb 5 Peter Mares The Milky Way's Rotation Curve to 60 kpc and an Estimate of the Dark Matter Halo Mass from Kinematics of ~2500 SDSS Blue Horizontal Branch Stars
Tuesd. Feb 12 Macarena Campos Halo ejection in distant radio galaxies
Tuesd. Feb 19 Emilly Lynch ACS imaging of star clusters in M51
Tuesd. Feb 26 Matt Schenker SW Sextantis stars, the dominant population of cataclysmic variables with orbital periods between 3 and 4h
Tuesd. March 4 Regis Cartier The reddest ISO-2MASS quasar
Tuesd. March 11 Emma Crow-Willard How special are brightest group and cluster galaxies?