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Unab-Udp Joint Seminar Series
Fecha
2017Autor
Universidad Diego Portales
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Resumen
The Astronomy Groups at Universidad Andres Bello (UNAB) and Universidad Diego Portales (UDP) have joined efforts to run a series of seminars, alternating venue and sparking the interest not only from their faculty, postdocs and students, but also from the Chilean astronomical community. This UNAB-UDP Joint Seminar Series is having a direct impact in the science carried out at our institutes, and we expect several new collaborations to start in the nearby future as a direct consequence of the interaction with the speakers as well as among ourselves. While our institutions are committed to boost research in astronomy as one of their high-priority activities, they are only able to provide us with little financial support to run these events. In order to expand our activities by inviting scientists from abroad as well as astronomers working outside Santiago we requested support from ALMA- CONICYT in the amount of CLP$5,010,000 per year, for a total of two years, to help fund our UNAB-UDP Joint Seminar Series.