Dr. Rene A. Mendez
      Seminar Coordinator
    Department of Astronomy
      Universidad de Chile
       rmendez@uchile.cl



Year 2017. Thursdays, 12:15hrs

Marzo
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9	Guillermo Blanc, DAS/UChile, "A Characteristic Transition Mass Scale in the Gas Phase Mass-Metallicity Relation of Local Star Forming Galaxies"
16	Nuria Huelamo, Centro de Astrobiologia, Madrid,"The formation of Brown Dwarfs: observational properties"
23	Dainis Dravins, Lund Observatory,"Cherenkov Telescope Arrays for Optical Astronomy: Intensity interferometry and imaging of stellar surfaces"
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Abril
6	Annie Zavagno, LAM Marseille, "The interplay between ionized regions and star formation"
13	Linda Watson, ESO," Molecular Gas and Star Formation in the Outskirts of Galaxies"
18	Special Seminar: Dr. Juan E. González, UdeCHILE "Career Transition: My Experience from Academia to Industry".
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27	Marko Stalevski, DAS/UCile, " Towards a new paradigm for the dust emission in active galactic nuclei "

Mayo
4	Paulina Lira, DAS/UChile, "Reverberation Mapping of Luminous Quasars at high-z"
11      Leonardo Vanzi, AIUC, FIDEOS - en Mayo, pero fecha exacta por definir,  "Zen and the Art of building Astronomical Instruments"
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25	Antonios Katsianis,UdeCHILE, "The star formation rates and stellar masses of Galaxies for the last 13 billion years"

Junio
1	Steven M.  Kahn (Director LSST Corporation), "Recent Advances on the LSST project", SPECIAL@15 hrs.	
8       Loreto Barcos, JAO/NRAO,"Understanding Star Formation from a Radio/Sub-mm Perspective in Local Luminous Infrared Galaxies"
15      Lucia Guaita, INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico de Roma, "The role of HI distribution and kinematics on the escape of Lya photons in star-forming galaxies 
22	Pierre Kervella (UMI-LFCA), "The Orbit of Alpha Cen & Proxima."
29      Gesa Bertrang, DAS/UChile, "On magnetic fields and what we can learn from polarimetry in protoplanetary disks"

Julio
6	Jorge Melnick, ESO, " The Origin of Life: the second law of thermodynamics and the entropy of complex systems"
13      Winter recess
20	Jinhua He, CASSACA/Yunnan Astronomical Observatory. "Millimeter line variation in carbon star IRC +10216."
27	Juna Kollmeier, Carnegie OIbs, "Stellar (and Quasi-stellar) Astrophysics and Galactic Archeology: 2020"

Agosto
3	Gabriel Marinello, DAS/UChile, "Large-scale structure of quasars and Large quasar groups in the SDSS"
10	Thesis Defense - Julian Mejias - no Seminar
17	Francisco Forster, CMM/UChile, "The High cadence Transient Survey (HiTS): early supernova light curves"
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31	Gael Chauvin (UMI-LFCA), "Imaging other worlds"

Septiembre
7       Brent Groves, Australian National University, "Tracing Gas in Galaxies Near and Far"
14	Claudio Ricci, PUC, "The close environments of supermassive black holes"
21	Nanyao Lu, CASSACA, "Sub-millimeter Line Spectroscopy of Galaxies: From Herschel to ALMA"
28	Cristina Dorador, U. de Antofagasta,  "Microorganisms flowering in the Atacama Desert"

Octubre
5	Christopher Howk, University of Notre Dame; visiting PUC Santiago, "A New Approach to the Cosmic Lithium Problem".
12	Simon Casassus, DAS/UChile, "Asymmetries in planet-forming disks"
19	Rodrigo Olea, Fisica-UNAB,  "Black holes in the water tap"
26	Spyro Sypsas, DFI/UChile,  "Cross-tests of CMB features in the primordial spectra"

Noviembre
2	XianZhong Zheng, Purple Mountain Observatory, "The Evolution of Galaxies Across Cosmic Time: Star Formation, Quenching, and Mergers"
9       Javier Alonso, U. de Antofagasta,  "Extinction law in the inner Milky Way as revealed by the VVV survey"
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23	William Welsh, Astronomy Department, San Diego State University, "The Kepler Circumbinary Planets"
30	Matias Vidal, DAS/UChile, Diffuse Galactic emission in the microwave range, **exact date TBD**

Diciembre
7	Joseph Anderson, ESO, "Observational evidence for 'islands of explodability' in massive stars"
14	Kim Bott, University of Washington, "Comparative habitable planet signatures in polarized light"
21	X-mas party at Calan Observatory...
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Enero (2018)
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18	Luc Dessart, UMI-LFCA,"Comparative habitable planet signatures in polarized light".
25	Silvia Bonoli, CEFCA,  "The J-Surveys: the sky in multi-color "