Colloquia - Coloquios

All colloquia are held in the San Joaquín campus (see Contact Information for directions to the campus). Coffee and cookies are typically served 30 minutes before each colloquium. In this link you will find a calendar with all astronomy talks in Santiago de Chile, including those in our department.

Todos los coloquios se realizarán en el campus San Joaquín (ver Contacto para ver como llegar). Se servirá cafe y galletas 30 minutos antes del inicio de cada coloquio. En este link encontrará un calendario con todas las charlas de Astronomía en Santiago de Chile, incluyendo las nuestras.

Coloquios 2012 Colloquia

Jan.31.2012, 13:00, The SED of Low-Luminosity AGNs at high-spatial resolution, Juan A. Fernández Ontiveros (Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Germany)

Jan.30.2012, 13:00, Progenitors of recent core-collapse supernova, Nancy Elias de la Rosa (IEEC-CSIC, Spain)

Jan.27.2012, 15:00, The star that should not exist, Paolo Molaro (INAF, Italy)

Jan.25.2012, 13:00, What "don't" we know about galaxy formation?, Darren Croton (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)

Jan.24.2012, 16:00, The Hierarchical Origins of Observed Galaxy Morphology, Dave Wilman (Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Germany)

Jan.20.2012, 14:00, What sets the maximum spin frequency of neutron stars?, Ira M. Wasserman (Cornell University, USA)

Jan.19.2012, 13:00, The Connection between Missing Stellar Cusps in Galactic Nuclei and General Relativity, Pau Amaro Seoane (Albert-Einstein Institute, MPG Potsdam, Germany)

Jan.18.2012, 13:00, Using the Near-IR Galaxy Luminosity Function to test for a Large Local Void, Ryan Keenan (UW-Madison/CTIO)

Jan.11.2012, 13:00, Mining the UKIDDS GPS: Embedded Galactic Clusters and Star Formation, Lauri Haikala (University of Helsinki, Finland)

Coloquios 2011 Colloquia

Dec.15.2011, 13:00, The Eris Simulation: Forming Realistic Milky Way-like Galaxies Through Cosmological Simulations, Javiera Guedes (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)

Dec.12.2011, 16:00, Santiago calls Asiago: real time remote observations from PUC-Chile to Asiago Observatory-Italy, Rodolfo Angeloni (DAA-PUC)

Dec.07.2011, 13:00, Tracing the Galaxy structure with detached eclipsing binaries from VVV and OGLE surveys, Kris Hełminiak (DAA-PUC)

Dec.05.2011, 13:00, Cosmography with lensed quasars, Cecile Faure (Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de l'Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)

Dec.02.2011, 13:00, Star Formation, Near and Far, Neal Evans (The University of Texas at Austin)

Nov.30.2011, 13:00, Studying Star Formation and Galaxy Evolution at Low and High Redshift with Integral Field Spectroscopy, Guillermo Blanc (Carnegie Observatories)

Nov.28.2011, 13:00, The Infra-Red Follow-Up of the Next Generation Virgo Survey (NGVS-IR): Survey Status and First Results, Roberto Muñoz (DAA-PUC)

Nov.25.2011, 10:00, State-of-the art of semianalytic models, Sofia Cora (Universidad Nacional de La Plata)

Nov.23.2011, 13:00, A Systematic Search for Flickering in Southern Symbiotic Stars, Roberto Angeloni (DAA-PUC)

Nov.21.2011, 13:00, The Sumptuous Open Cluster NGC 6791, Giovanni Carraro (Padova University)

Nov.18.2011, 13:00, The Brown Dwarf Kinematics Project, Jackie Faherty (Universidad de Chile)

Nov.16.2011, 13:00, Facing the Abundance Discrepancy in the Orion Nebula, Adal Mesa (DAA-PUC)

Nov.09.2011, 13:00, Hydrostatic carbon burning in presupernova CO white dwarfs, Francisco Förster (Universidad de Chile)

Nov.07.2011, 14:00-17:30, PUCHEROS Science Day

Oct.25.2011, 13:00, Matter Distribution in Spiral Galaxies, Irina Yegorova (ESO, Chile)

Oct.20.2011, 13:00, Extrasolar planets meet star spots: Sizes of planets, evolution of spots, differential rotation of stars, evaporation of planets, J. Schmitt (Univ. Hamburg)

Oct.19.2011, 13:00, Galaxy population of SPT-SZ selected galaxy clusters, Alfredo Zenteno (Universitaets-Sternwarte Muenchen, Germany)

Oct.11.2011, 13:00, Precision astrometry and radial velocities of low mass stars -- A data analysis approach to the detection of mini-solar systems, Guillem Anglada-Escude (Carnegie DTM)

Oct.04.2011, 13:00, Galaxy Cluster as Cosmological Probes, Hans Boehringer (MPE, Garching)

Sep.23.2011, 13:00, Studying the Physics of Low-Mass Star Formation with CARMA, Demerese Salter (University of Maryland)

Sep.21.2011, 10:00, The First Brown Dwarf Results from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), Chris Gelino (New Mexico State University)

Sep.20.2011, 13:00, Population Gradients in Dwarf Galaxies of the Local Group, Sebastian Hidalgo (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias)

Sep.15.2011, 13:00, Red giant stars as tracers of the chemical evolution of the Galactic bulge, Alan Alves-Brito (DAA, PUC)

Sep.07.2001, 16:00, Measuring Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background with POLARBEAR, Adrian Lee (University of California, Berkeley)

Sep.01.2011, 13:00, Collisionless accretion disks: a particle-in-cell simulation of the magnetorotational instability, Mario Riquelme (University of California, Berkeley)

Aug.31.2011,13:00, Probing Galaxies Through Quasar Absorption Lines with HST/COS, Brian Keeney (Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy in Boulder, Colorado)

Aug.24.2011,10:30, Large-scale clustering of haloes and galaxies: Are they related?, Ivan Lacerna (DAA, PUC)

Aug.18.2011, 10:30, The Starring Role of Bars in Understanding Galaxy Evolution: Results from S4G, COSMOS, DEEP2 and AEGIS, Kartik Sheth (National Radio Astronomy Observatory)

Jul.29.2011, 14:00,The hunt for the evaporating atmosphere of a hot neptune , David Ehrenreich (Institut de planétologie et d'astrophysique de Grenoble)

Jul.13.2011, 10:30, The extinction curve towards the galactic center, Tobias Fritz (MPE, Garching, Germany)

Jul.06.2011, 10:30, Disentangling star formation and active galactic nuclei activity over cosmic time, Alexandra Pope (University of Massachusetts)

Jul.04.2011, 10:30, Nucleosynthesis in AGB stars, Amanda Karakas (Australian National University)

Jul.01.2011, 10:30, Galaxy interactions: mergers, metals and monsters, Sara Ellison (University of Victoria)

Jun.30.2011, 16:30, The Growth of Galaxies and Black Holes in a Hierarchical Universe, Rachel Somerville (Space Telescope Science Institute)

Jun.29.2011, 10:00, The Red Giant Branch Bump as a Probe of the Age-Metallicity-Helium Relationship in Old Stellar Populations, David Nataf (The Ohio State University)

Jun.24.2011, 10:30, Light-cones and strong gravitational lensing, Juan E. Gonzalez (ESO-Garching)

Jun.23.2011, 11:00, The OmegaCAM public surveys at the VST, Gijs Verdoes Kleijn (Kapteyn Institute, Groningen)

Jun.22.2011, 10:30, Star formation and the cosmic evolution of the gas content of galaxies, Claudia Lagos (Durham University, UK)

Jun.16.2011, 10:30, Young massive stellar clusters in the Milky Way: tips and tricks, Maria Messineo (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Radioastronomie)

Jun.15.2011, 10:30, Synthetic spectra for protoplanetary disks , Stefan Dreizler (Goettingen University)

Jun.08.2011, 14:00, Transiting planet survey, new insights on planet formation and structure , Didier Queloz (Observatoire de Geneve)

Jun.08.2011, 10:30, Secular building of galaxy bulges , Dimitri Gadotti (ESO-Chile)

Jun.07.2011, 10:30, New insight into the magnetic fields, rotation, and activity of M-dwarfs, Denis Shulyak (Gottingen University)

Jun.06.2011, 16:30, Amber and the VLT interferometer, Fabien Malbet (Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de l'Observatoire de Grenoble)

May.12.2011, 10:00, Constraining feedback from AGN: the case of Mrk 509, Katrien Steenbrugge (Univ. Católica do Norte-Chile)

May.04.2011, 10:00, Tycho Brahe, Kepler and the laws of planetary motions, Alberto Righini (Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Florence-Italy)

Apr.15.2011, 10:00, The Structural Parameters of Globular Clusters in Massive Galaxies, Kristin Woodley (University of British Columbia-Canada)

Apr.13.2011, 10:00, Deep ACS imaging of Intermediate-Age Star Clusters in the LMC: Clues to the Nature of Multiple Stellar Populations, Paul Goudfrooij (STScI-USA)

Apr.12.2011, 10:00, Distribution of globular clusters after a merger, Sarah Bird (University of Turku-Finland)

Apr.11.2011, 16:30, Reionization Fossils, Ghost Halos and the Missing Bright Satellites, Mia Bovill (University of Maryland)

Apr.06.2011, 10:00, A Fully Empirical Approach to Galaxy Evolution, Alvio Renzini (INAF-Padova)

Mar.31.2011, 16:30, Exploring the distant galaxy cluster population with the XMM Distant Cluster Project, Alessandro Nastasi (MPE-Garching)

Mar.11.2011, 16:30, The stars that shouldn't be there (mostly) dynamical solutions to existential paradoxes, Hagai Perets (CfA-Harvard)

Mar.10.2011, 16:30, Galactic and Extragalactic Searches for Pulsars and Radio Transients, Eduardo Rubio-Herrera (University of Amsterdam)

Mar.08.2011, 16:30, Formation of extrasolar planetary systems, Phil Armitage (University of Colorado)

Jan.27.2011, 16:30, Igniting the Galaxy: The evolution of the star-forming clouds in global galaxy disc simulations, Elizabeth Tasker (McMaster University - Canada)

Jan.19.2011, 16:30, Constrained simulations of the local Universe and petascale computing performance, Roberto González (University of Chicago)

Jan.18.2011, 16:30, Evolución de la rotación de pulsares jóvenes, Cristóbal Espinoza (University of Manchester - UK)

Jan.10.2011, 16:30, First Results of the Project MASGOMAS, Sebastian Ramirez Alegria (IAC-Spain)

Dec.27.2010, 16:30, Cosmography with strong lensing galaxy clusters, Eric Jullo (JPL/NASA)

Coloquios 2010 Colloquia

Dec.20.2010, 16:30, Event Advancements in Multi Laser Adaptive Optics at the MMT telescope, Eduardo A. Bendek (University of Arizona)
Dec.16.2010, 16:30, Galaxy Clusters in the First Half of Cosmic Time, Rene Fassbender (Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, Germany)
Dec.03.2010, 16:30, Dark-Matter Awareness Week at U. Católica (Part II), Alvaro Orsi, Max Bañados, Timo Anguita & Sebastián García
Dec.01.2010, 16:30, Dark-Matter Awareness Week at U. Católica (Part I), Nelson Padilla, Sebastián Olivares, Felipe Barrientos & Francisca Garay
Nov.16.2010, 16:30, Satellites of satellites: the history of early-type dwarfs as told by their globular cluster systems, Rubén Sánchez-Janssen (ESO)
Nov.04.2010, 16:30, Scaling Relations of Disk Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Melanie Hall (Queen's University Astronomy Research Group)
Nov.02.2010, 16:30, Spiral structure and stellar populations in the solar neighbourhood, Jacques R. D. Lépine (IAG-USP - Brasil)
Oct.29.2010, 16:30, Mapping Dark Matter in Galaxy Clusters & Groups: Gravitational Lensing, Numerical Simulations, and more, Marceau Limousin (Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille)
Oct.20.2010, 16:30, The Physical Properties of Lyman-alpha Emitters from z=2 to 3, Caryl Gronwall (Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics - Penn State University)
Oct.19.2010, 16:30, How to Falsify the GR+LambdaCDM Model with Galaxy Redshift Surveys, Viviana Acquaviva (Rutgers University - Dept. of Physics and Astronomy)
Oct.07.2010, 16:30, Evolution of the stellar mass functions, mass densities and mass to light ratios at z>4, Valentino Gonzalez (Univ. of California - Santa Cruz)
Sep.23.2010, 16:30, Wide Binaries: Opportunities at the Non-Violent End of the Semi-Major Axis Distribution, Julio Chaname (Carnegie Institution of Washington)
Sep.07.2010, 16:30, The star formation history of Local Group Galaxies, Matteo Monelli (IAC-España)
Aug.26.2010, 16:30, X-ray, optical and NIR long term monitoring of AGN, Paulina Lira (DAS-U.Chile)
Aug.12.2010, 16:30, Molecular gas and dust in galaxies and AGN during the first billion years of the Universe, Jeff Wagg (ESO-Chile)
Aug.06.2010, 16:30, Stellar orbits in the Galactic Center, Stefan Gillessen (Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics-Germany)
Aug.05.2010, 16:30, Physical properties of double-mode RR Lyrae stars based on pulsation and evolution models, Istvan Dekany (DAA-PUC)
Jul.20.2010, 16:30, Gas and dust in submillimeter galaxies and massive disk galaxies at high-redshift, Manuel Aravena (NRAO)
Jul.15.2010, 16:30, The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS), Charles Bennett (JHU Department of Physics & Astronomy)
Jul.14.2010, 16:30, Magnetohydrodynamic phenomena in the solar atmosphere. Remarks on experiments done from Isla de Pascua during the 2010 July 11 solar eclipse, Dipankar Banerjee (Indian Institute of Astrophysics)
Jun.10.2010, 16:30, Stars Outside Galaxies, Duilia de Mello (CUA/GSFC)
Jun.07.2010, 16:30, The Evolution of Primordial Circumstellar Disks, Lucas Cieza (Institute for Astronomy, University of
Hawaii)
May.27.2010, 16:30, Star Forming Dense Cores: Properties from NH3 maps and a First Hydrostatic Core candidate, Jaime Pineda (CfA-Harvard)
May.13.2010, 16:30, Quasar Microlensing, Timo Anguita (DAA-PUC)
Abr.15.2010, 16:30, RR Lyrae stars as tracers of stellar populations in the galactic bulge, Andrea Kunder (CTIO)
Mar.18.2010, 16:30, The Milky Way's Globular Clusters and Streams in 3D Velocity Space:Deciphering Accretion and Constraining the Galactic Potential, Dana Casetti (Yale University)
Mar.16.2010, 16:30, Understanding neutron stars from the outside in, Andrew Cumming (McGill University)
Mar.12.2010, 15:00, VISTA - the Visible & Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy, Jim Emerson (Queen Mary University of London)
Ene.22.2010, 16:30, Preparing for Gaia: getting ready for the biggest revolution in Galactic astronomy, Martin Altmann (University of Heidelberg)
Ene.21.2010, 16:30, Effects of environment on the properties of galaxies in clusters via
ram pressure stripping, Tomás Tecce (Instituto de Astronomía y Física del Espacio, Buenos Aires)

Ene.14.2010, 16:30, HETDEX: The Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment, Guillermo Blanc (University of Texas at Austin)

Ene.12.2010, 16:30, Evolución de la rotación de pulsares jóvenes, Cristóbal Espinoza (University of Manchester)

Ene.12.2010, 11:00, Where to Study Planet Formation? The Nearest, Youngest Stars, Eric Mamajek (University of Rochester)

Ene.05.2010, 16:30, What do we know about radio-loud Active Galactic Nuclei at the beginning of the "Fermi era"?, Giovanni Fossati (Rice University)

Coloquios 2009 Colloquia

Dec.17.2009, 16:30, Massive Stars: Life and Death, José Luis Prieto (Ohio State University)

Dec.10.2009, 16:30, Inertial modes in convective planets & their indirect detection: using Saturn's rings as a seismograph, Fernando Peña (Saint Mary's University, Canada)
Dec.10.2009, 11:00, Supercúmulos de galaxias: catálogo SDSS vs. modelo LCDM, Heliana Luparello (Instituto de Astronomía Teórica y Experimental, CONICET-UNC, Argentina)
Dec.03.2009, 16:30, Galactic Archeology: Looking for Ghosts in the Galactic Halo, Luis Aguilar (UNAM)
Nov.26.2009, 16:30, A study of transiting extrasolar planets, Markus Rabus (DAA-PUC)

Nov.19.2009, 16:30, Ohio State Atomic Astrophysics Group: From Anomalous Nebular Abundances to X-Ray nanobiomedicine, Maximiliano Montenegro (PUC)

Nov.16.2009, 15:00, Who is under the HAT?, Gaspar Bakos (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)
Nov.03.2009, 10:30: Stellar populations in the near-IR: clues from integrated spectroscopy of globular clusters, Mariya Lyubenova (ESO Garching)

Oct.29.2009, 16:30: Globular Cluster Systems: What have we learned and what's next?, Thomas Puzia (Herzberg Institute for Astrophysics)
Oct.22.2009, 16:30: ACT and XXL galaxy cluster survey: first results, expectations and
cosmological implication, Jean-Baptiste Juin, (DAA - PUC)
Oct.20.2009, 16:30: MAX: a MAssive compression of x^2 for stellar spectra, Paula Jofre (MPA Garching)
Oct.06.2009, 16:30: Proper motions of stars in the field of theglobular cluster M55, Kamil Zloczewski, (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Warsaw)
Oct.05.2009, 16:30: Searching for exoearths and measuring the acceleration of the universe with femtosecond laser frequency combs, Andrew Szentgyorgi (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)
Sep.30.2009, 13:30: Fundamentos de Radioastronomía, Patricio Gallardo (PUC)
Sep.28.2009, 16:30: Finding Planets Around Nearby Stars: The Lick-Carnegie Extrasolar Planet Search Program, Steven S. Vogt (UCO/Lick Observatory, UCSC)
Sep.24.2009, 16:30: Wide-field Adaptive Optics, Dani Guzman (Durham University)
Sep.10.2009, 16:30: Overview of the latest advances in Computational Astrophysics, Cristóbal Petrovich (DAA - PUC)
Sep.03.2009, 16:30: Towards Perfect Image Subtraction: A Generalized Approach to Brute Force Image Subtraction, Jason Quinn (DAA - PUC)

Ago.27.2009, 16:30: The secret lives of globular clusters, David Yong (Mount Stromlo Observatory)

Ago.20.2009, 16:30: First Results from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope: SZ Detections of Galaxy Clusters, Jack Hughes (Rutgers University)

Ago.18.2009, 16:30: Star Formation in the Bullet Cluster, Sun Mi Chung (University of Florida)

Jul.21.2009, 16:30: Taking Sides on Dark Energy, Rocky Kolb (University of Chicago)

Jul.02.2009, 16:30: Super Earths and Life, David Latham (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory)

Jun.19.2009, 16:30: Low-Redshift Type Ia Supernovae by the Carnegie Supernova Project, Gastón Folatelli (Universidad de Chile)
Jun.15.2009, 16:30: Measuring BAO along the line of sight with photometric redshifts: the PAU survey, Francisco Castander (l'Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya)
Jun.11.2009, 16:30: The Optical Turbulence Effects in Astronomy, Amokrane Berdja (CTIO)
Jun.10.2009, 17:00: The Thirty Meter Telescope Project, Richard Ellis (Caltech) and Ray Carlberg (University of Toronto)

Jun.04.2009, 16:30: Gas y Formación Estelar en Galaxias: Lecciones del Universo Cercano, Alberto Bolatto (University of Maryland)

Jun.02.2009, 16:30: Cold baryons in the line of sight toward QSOs and GRBs, Sebastián López (Universidad de Chile)

May.28.2009, 16:30: The IMF of the Arches and the Field of the 30 Doradus Superassociation, Fernando Selman (ESO-Chile)
May.19.2009, 16:30: Searching for benchmark ultracool dwarfs, Avril Day-Jones (Universidad de Chile)
May.14.2009, 16:30: The Births and Deaths of Galaxies: Clues from Globular Clusters, Michael West (ESO-Chile)

Apr.30.2009, 16:30: Globular Cluster Systems of Early-Type Galaxies as probes of galaxy evolution, Maren Hempel (DAA PUC)
Apr.28.2009, 16:30: Using galaxy clusters as a dark energy probe, Chris Lidman (ESO-Chile)

Apr.17.2009, 16:30: The merger rate of galaxies, Roberto de Propris (CTIO)
Apr.02.2009, 16:00, Census of the Milky Way Obscured Cluster Population, Valentin Ivanov (ESO-Chile)
Mar.13.2009, 13:00: Interstellar Ionized Gas, Greg Madsen (University of Sydney)

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