Category Archives: TF1 funded projects

Final Report

Copperbelt University is primarily a teaching university in the Copperbelt region of Zambia. As with universities everywhere and in tune with the Government understanding that research is necessary for the countries development, they are actively trying to improve their research productivity. My proposal was to use astronomy to provide a path to implementing a research […]

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This is a pilot project to support students all over Africa who want to study Astronomy but where the university in their home country does not offer astronomy courses. We pay for their UNISA (University of South Africa) applications and the astronomy modules for the first and second year. In other words, this is a multi-year project. The project started slow […]

Final Report

Goal NIATW was addressed to advanced students and researchers, mainly from South-East Asian countries where such training opportunities and adequate facilities are not always readily available. The focus of this first NIATW was about time-variable phenomena in Astrophysics, with emphasis on short time scales from days to sub-seconds. Examples are: stellar pulsation, oscillations, occultations, transits, […]

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The Andean Cosmology School took place at Uniandes in Bogota. In a month-long school 20 students from 5 different countries in the region met with instructors from Colombia, Israel, Germany and the United States. The school had lectures on theoretical, computational, observational and instrumentational aspects of contemporary cosmology. Lectures – https://github.com/forero/AndeanCosmologySchool/tree/master/lectures Website – http://forero.github.io/AndeanCosmologySchool/