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Simons Studentship Program
RESULTS:
On behalf of Simons Observatory, I am pleased to announce that our 2024 Chilean graduate student support awards will go to Javier Urrutia (PUC Valparaiso) and Alejandro Cartes (U. Chile). These awards will enable Javier and Alejandro to spend time in residence at one of the Simons Observatory member institutions; specific destinations are presently being arranged, accounting for research interests and potential scientific advisors.Congratulations Javier and Alejandro, and best wishes for productive research visits.
Arthur KosowskyCollaboration Spokesperson, Simons Observatory
The call for proposals for the Simons Studentship Program will have its first version this year and will select projects to be executed during 2025.
The Simons Observatory (SO) Collaboration will host visits of graduate students from Chilean universities to SO institutions in the US during 2025.
Simons Observatory is an international collaboration of nearly 400 scientists which is constructing and operating the world’s leading microwave observatory at an altitude of 5200 meters on Cerro Toco in Chile’s Atacama Desert. During 2025, we anticipate having 3 small-aperture telescopes and 1 large-aperture telescope operating at the site. Together they will be instrumented with over 60,000 superconducting bolometer detectors and produce 2 terabytes of data per day. Key science goals include constraints on the basic cosmological model and possible extensions; the search for primordial gravitational waves through B-mode polarization; constraints on the growth of cosmic structure and neutrino masses via gravitational lensing; detection of galaxy clusters and distribution of ionized gas in the universe via the thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect; cosmic velocities via the kinematic Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect and the moving lens effect; novel probes of the Milky Way galaxy; properties of galactic dust; and transient and time-variable sources including stars, active galactic nuclei, and rare objects.
