Contacto

• Información de Pregrado

Márcio Catelan

mcatelan at astro.uc.cl

• Información de Postgrado

Julio Chanamé

jchaname at astro.uc.cl

+56 2 2354 4990

• Extensión y web

Thomas Puzia

tpuzia at astro.uc.cl

+56 2 2354 1645

• Prensa

difusion at astro.uc.cl

• General

Carmen Gloria Cordovez

ccordove at astro.uc.cl

+56 2 2354 4940

• Código Postal: 8970117

• ¿Cómo llegar?

Por taxi: dígale al conductor que vaya al Campus San Joaquín de la Universidad Católica en Vicuña Mackenna 4860, Macul. 

Por Metro: el campus esta en la estación "San Joaquín" de la línea 5 del metro (línea verde). Si viene de Las Condes o Providencia, tome la línea 1 del metro (línea roja) hacia el poniente. Cámbiese a la línea 5 (línea verde) en la estación Baquedano (hay que bajar un piso). Tome la línea 5 en dirección a la estación Vicente Valdés; la estación San Joaquín es la octava desde Baquedano. El precio del ticket de Metro depende de la hora del día. Ponga atención en las horas punta (07:15-09:30 /18:30-21:30) porque debe tomar solo trenes expreso (Ruta Roja) de otra forma no podrá bajarse en la estación San Joaquín. Por favor asegúrese de no ir a la estación Universidad Católica que está en la línea 1. En esa estación está la casa central de la Universidad y no es el campus en el que estamos ubicados.

¿Cómo llegar al instituto una vez en la entrada del campus? Desde la entrada principal, en donde hay una estatua de Jesucristo, diríjase hasta el final del camino, en donde encontrará una iglesia de arquitectura moderna. Vaya entonces 100 metros hacia la derecha hasta que vea el edificio del Instituto de Astrofísica. 

Contact

• Bachelor information
  

Márcio Catelan

mcatelan at astro.uc.cl

• Postgraduate information

       Julio Chanamé

jchaname at astro.uc.cl

+56 2 2354 4990

• Outreach and web

Thomas Puzia

tpuzia at astro.uc.cl

+56 2 2354 7061

• Press

difusion at astro.uc.cl

• General information
  

Carmen Gloria Cordovez

ccordove at astro.uc.cl

+56 2 2354 4940

• Zip code: 8970117

• How to get to the IA
  • Taxi: tell the driver to go to the Campus San Joaquin of the Universidad Católica in Vicuña Mackenna 4860, Macul.

• • Subway: The Campus San Joaquin is in the subway station with the same name (San Joaquín) in the Line 5 (green line). If you are coming from Las Condes or Providencia, take the subway Line 1 (red line) to San Pablo. Switch to Line 5 (green line) in Baquedano station (one floor down). Take Line 5 in the direction of Vicente Valdés station; San Joaquin station is the eighth from Baquedano. The price of the Metro ticket depends on the time of day. Pay attention to peak hours (07: 15-09: 30/18: 30-21: 30) because you must take the express trains (Red Route) otherwise you can not get off at San Joaquín station. Please make sure you do not go to the Universidad Catolica station which is on Line 1. At that station is the main house of the University and it is not the campus where we are located.

• • How to get to school once the entrance to the campus? From the main entrance , where there is a statue of Jesus, go to the end of the road, where you will find a church of modern architecture. Then go 100 meters to the right until you see the building of the Institute of Astrophysics .

Postgraduate

The Institute for Astrophysics has two graduate programs:

• Magister in Astrophysics
• Doctorate Astrophysics

Facilities and resources

The Institute of Astrophysics is located in the San Joaquín campus of the UC. The offices of teachers and students are distributed in a two-story building. The Institute has access to all the facilities of the Faculty and University, including libraries, multiple rooms, laboratories, internet, video conferencing, banks and other services. The university has online access to the major journals in Astronomy.

The Institute of Astrophysics has two clusters of 512 and 520 cores each. These are for high capacity and multi calculations work, which is mainly used for cosmological simulations. The Institute houses astronomical databases, including a mirror of the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS).

Members of the Institute have access to 10% of the time in all chilean observatories in northern Chile. These include the four VLT telescopes at Paranal, Gemini South on Cerro Pachon, the two Magellan telescopes at Las Campanas Observatory and sub-millimeter interferometer ALMA at Chajnantor plateau.

The Institute has a Teaching Observatory and a radiotelescope for teaching. It also has the historic observatory Manuel Foster at Cerro San Cristóbal and a workshop in the San Joaquín campus to repair, upgrade and improve our telescopes.

About the AI

The Institute of Astrophysics of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile is part of the Faculty of Physics, and its primary mission is both the research development in Astrophysics, and teaching for undergraduate and postgraduate level. The members of our Institute conduct research on a variety of issues, which involve from the closest stars and planets to distant galaxies in the Universe.

The research at the Institute is theoretical and observational. Much of the latest make use of telescopes in the north of our country, in which the chilean astronomers have guaranteed 10% of the observing time. Examples of telescope one which the Institute has access are the four VLT telescopes at Paranal, Gemini South on Cerro Pachon, the two Magellan Telescopes at Las Campanas Observatory, and the sub-millimeter interferometer ALMA at Chajnantor plateau.

The Institute is constituted of 15 academics, approximately 40 postdoctoral researchers, 35 graduate students and 9 members of technical and administrative support. Researchers maintain close relations with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Physics Institute, places where additional research in astronomical instrumentation and general relativity is performed.

Photo: European Southern Observatory (ESO).

Estudiantes de Postgrado

Magíster y doctorado.