Lecturers#

  • Stellar Astrophysics, Alessandro Bressan (SISSA, Italy)

  • Compact Objects, Jorge Rueda (ICRA, Italy)

  • Interstellar Medium, Laurence Sabin (IA-UNAM, Mexico)

  • Galaxies, Itziar Aretxaga (INAOE, Mexico)

  • Cosmology, David Mota (U. Oslo, Norway)

  • Radio Astronomy, Helga Dénes (Yachay Tech U., Ecuador)

  • Python for Astrophysics, Wladimir Banga-Barragán (Yachay Tech U., Ecuador)

  • Optical Observational Astronomy, Karín Menénde-Delmestre (Obs. Valongo, Brazil)

  • Virtual Observatory, Thiago Signori (Obs. Valongo, Brazil)

  • Machine Learning, Juan Rafael Martínez Galarza (CfA, Harvard, USA)

  • Cultural Astronomy, Nicolás Vásquez (EPN, Ecuador)

Tutors and student projects#

  • Clara Rojas (Yachay Tech U., Ecuador) Inflationary cosmology models

    Study of the scalar power spectrum for the Hilltop inflationary model using the uniform approximation method.

    Study of the tensor power spectrum for the Hilltop inflationary model using the uniform approximation method.

  • Helga Dénes (Yachay Tech U., Ecuador)

    Gaussian decomposition of spectral line data cubes

    Analysing galaxy kinematics with radio data

  • Wladimir Banda-Barragán (Yachay Tech U., Ecuador)

    Characterising shock waves in ISM collisions

    Synthetic spectra from galactic wind simulations

  • Nicolás Vásquez (EPN, Ecuador) Studies on gamma-ray bursts

  • Daniela Galárraga-Espinosa (MPA Garching, Gemrmany)

  • David Andrade (Yachay Tech U., Ecuador)