Dr. Rene A. Mendez Seminar Coordinator Department of Astronomy Universidad de Chile rmendez@uchile.cl Year 2018. Thursdays, 12:15hrs Marzo 1 == Blocked == 8 12 Elliott Horch, SCSU & Lowell Observatory: Modern Photon-Counting in Astronomy: High-Resolution Imaging Reaches Nirvana 15 Gesa Bertrang, DAS: Polarization and magnetic fields 22 Hugo Messias, ALMA: Hot-dust evolution in galaxies in the last 10Gyr? 29 Huirong Yan, Potsdam University: Astrophysical turbulence: properties, measurement and implications Abril 5 Victor de Souza Magalhaes, Institut de Radioastronomie Millimetrique-IRAM-Grenoble. Title: Tracing the reservoirs of Nitrogen 12 Joaquin Prieto, DAS. Title: Mass Transport in Galaxies 19 Oscar Gonzalez, UK Astronomy Technology Centre (UKATC) at the Royal Observatory Edinburgh: MOONS: The Multi-Object Optical and Near-IR Spectrograph for the Very Large Telescope 26 Mayo 3 Florencio Utreras, UTTICA. Title: The Copernicus satellite constellation, and the Copernicus hub in Chile 10 Ricardo Demarco, Departamento de Astronomia, Universidad de Concepcion: Galaxy pre-processing in substructures around galaxy clusters 17 Konstantina Boutsia, Carnegie Observatories: Looking for the sources of reionization 24 Philipp Lang, MPIA: Revealing the star formation versus stellar distribution of submillimeter galaxies at high redshift 25 Seminario especial Dr. Dr. Alassandro Lupi, Instituto de Astrofisca de Paris (IAP): Kinematics and dynamics of molecular gas in high redshift galaxies 31 Junio 7 Jixing Ge, DAS. Title: Astro-chemical modeling of the interstellar medium. 14 Radostin Kurtev, U. de Valparaiso. Title: VVV astrometry: QSOs, proper motions and parallaxes 21 Jorge Lillo-Box, ESO. Title: TROY - The search for exotrojan planets 28 Julio 5 Stephane Blondin, UMI-LFCA/PUC. Title: Predicting the radiative display of Type Ia Supernovae: The case for multiple progenitor channels 12 Felipe Santana, Apogee/DAS: Title: Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE): Overview, Main Goals, Data, and main Science Results 19 Demian Arancibia, Director Ejecutivo, Iniciativa Astroinformatica/CORFO. Title: Astroinformatics Progam: introduction and progress report 26 Fabien Louvet, DAS. Title: Short review on high-mass star formation Agosto 2 Jose Fernandez-Trincado, UdeConce. Title: The exotic chemical composition of giant stars discovered in the H-band of APOGEE 9 Guillermo Blanc, Carnegie Obs - Title: Next Generation IFU Surveys of Nearby Galaxies: Resolving the Physics that Drive Galaxy Evolution 16 Patricio Cubillos, Austrian Academy of Sciences: Title: An Homogeneous Retrieval Study of Exoplanet Transmission Spectra 23 Daniel Wang, UMass. Title: Multi-wavelength views of the Galactic Center 30 IAU GA Septiembre 6 Matias Vidal, UdeCh. Diffuse Galactic emission in the microwave range 13 Many thesis defenses this week!... 20 == Blocked == 27 Elyar Sedaghati, ESO Title: Ground-based detection of exoplanetary atmospheres using medium to high resolution spectroscopy Octubre 2 Tuesday Special Seminar.Rebecca McElroy, Max Planck Institute for Astronomy. Physics at High Angular resolutio in Nearby Galaxies: A MUSE and ALMA view of the outflow in NGC1672 4 Pre-reserved, contact DMardones 11 Frederique Motte. Title: High-mass star and cluster formation in the Milky Way: the Herschel/HOBYS, IRAM/W43-HERO and ALMA-IMF view 17 T. M. Klapwijk, Kavli Institute Nanoscience: The alliance between superconductivity and submillimeter astronomy 18 25 Myriam Benisty, UMI. Title: Scattered light imaging of protoplanetary disks Noviembre 1 == Blocked == 8 Virginie Faramaz, Exoplanetary Science Initiative, Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Title: Eccentric Planets & Debris Disks Interactions 15 Miller Goss, NRAO, Title: Under the Radar, the First Woman in Radio Astronomy, Ruby Payne-Scott 22 Felipe Olivares, MAS/DAS: Title: Core-collapse Supernovae for Cosmology 29 Lorena Hernandez Garcia, UV. Title: The peculiar case of the active galactic nucleus PBC J2333.9-2343 Diciembre 6 Sebastian Perez, DAS/MAS: Title: Observing ongoing planet formation 13 Christopher Russell, Institute of Astrophysics, PUC, Title: 360-degree videos: Immersive visualizations of astrophysical simulations from the Galactic Center to the Cosmic Web 20 Daniela Opitz, U. del Desarrollo & Telefónica I+D From Astronomy to Data Science 27 == Blocked == Enero (2019) 3 == Blocked == 10 Mario Riquelme, DFI/UCh, Title (Stochastic?) Particle Acceleration in Sgr A* Accretion Disk 17 Nicolas Tejos, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso. Title: Stochastic Order Redshift Technique (SORT) 24 31 == Blocked ==