Roger Leiton-Thompson   Astronomy Group   Departamento de Fisica   Facultad de Ciencias Fisicas y Matematicas   Universidad de Concepcion   Casilla 160-C, Concepcion.   Office: A-617.   Phone: +56 (041)-220 3366 ; Fax: +56 (041) 222 4520   Email: roger.leiton AT astro-udec.cl
INTERESTS & PROJECTS: - Magellanic Cloud Emission-line Survey (MCELS) - Supernova Remnants in the LMC - NASA's Space Interferometry Mission (SIM):  Galactic Globular Clusters -  Light Pollution and Sky Brightness - Chilean Section of the International Dark-Sky Association (IDA-Chile) - Astronomy Outreach: International Year of Astronomy 2009 in Chile. My CV  (June 2007) Publications in ADS Talks and outreach material (mostly in Spanish): - Efecto Casimir - Supernovas, Aficionados y el destino del Universo - Contaminacion Luminica Last Update: August 2007	Welcome to my web page! Current Location:  Universidad de Concepcion, Chile Previous Location: Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory, Chile. Next Location: Who knows!      Since 2005 I work in the Astronomy Group of the Universidad de Concepcion (UdeC), Chile, as research assistant for Dr. Doug Geisler in the  NASA's Space Interferometry Mission (SIM) Key Project:"Taking the Measure of the Milky Way".  I am also currently enrolled in the UdeC's Ph.D. program of Physical Sciences and in charge of the in-campus observatory. Before 2005 I was working in the Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory (CTIO) with Dr. Chris Smith  and I am still collaborating in the Magellanic Cloud Emission-line Survey (MCELS), a joint project between CTIO and University of Michigan. I am interested in finding and studying supernova remnants in the Magellanic Clouds using the MCELS dataset.  I also worked with other CTIO staff members in different short projects (Dr. A. Tokovinin on "Incrementing the 9th Catalog of Radial Velocities for Spectrophotometric Binary Systems"; Dr. Patrice Bouchet doing "Infrared Photometry of SNe"; and Dr. Mark Phillips "Measuring the Sky Brightness in CTIO" ) and also as support staff for visiting astronomers. Since 2002, I represent the International Dark-Sky Association (IDA) in Chile (www.ida.cl). The mission of the IDA is to preserve and protect the nighttime environment and our heritage of dark skies through quality outdoor lighting. UdeC's Astronomy Group NASA's Space Interferometry Mission MCELS IDA Chile