Ricardo Bustos

Name: Ricardo Arturo Bustos Placencia
Date of Birth: February 16, 1972
Citizenship: Chilean
E-mail: rbustos at physics.miami.edu

Education:

Colegio Concepción, Concepción.
1989-90. AFS Exchange Student at Chapel Hill High School, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
1991-98. Electrical Engineer. University of Chile.
Thesis: "Wave Propagation Through an Atmospheric Duct and Episodes of High Pollution Days over Santiago".
2003-08. Ph. D. in Electrical Enginnering. Universidad de Concepción. Thesis in .pdf format here.
Astronomy studies at California Institute of Technology, Caltech.

Work Experience:

Since April 2008. Post-Doc. Physics Department, University of Miami, Miami, USA.
Since July 2005. Co-founder member of Astro-Norte.
2001-2008. Senior Engineer. CBI Radio Telescope, San Pedro de Atacama, II Region, Chile.
2000-2002. External consultant for ESO (European Southern Observatory). List of reports
1996-2001. Meteorological research and data analysis in several meteorological projects. Department of Geophysics, Meteorology Section, Universidad de Chile. Dr. José Rutllant.
December 1998. Coverage measurement campaign for BellSouth in northern Chile. Santiago to Arica.
1997. Assistant in radiosonde launch campaigns. Department of Geophysics, Meteorology Section, Universidad de Chile. Michilla (II Region), Melipilla and Cajón del Maipo (RM).
April 1996. Assistant in seismological measurements campaign. Department of Geophysics, Seismology Section, Universidad de Chile. Cauquenes, VII Region.
1995-1996. Assistant in the Solid State Sensors Laboratory of the Department of Electrical Engineering. Dr. Nicolas Beltran.
January 1994. Professional Practice at the Electronic Laboratory of the Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory. La Serena, IV Region.
Assistant Professor in the following courses: Contemporary Physics, Electromagnetism, Electronic Circuits and Telecommunication Systems.

Publications:

Sievers et al., 2007: "Implications of the Cosmic Background Imager polarization data". Astrophysical Journal, 660, 976-987.
Reeves R., Bustos R., Torres S., Readhead A.C., 2006: "Polarization spectrum of CMB obtained from the CBI". RevMexAA (Serie de Conferencias), 26, 121-122.
Bustos R., 2005: "The CBI project and latest results". The Cool Universe: Observing the Cosmic Down. ASP Conference Series. Vol. 344, pp. 37-44.
Readhead et al., 2004: "Polarization Observations with the Cosmic Background Imager". Science, 306, 836-844.
Readhead et al., 2004: "Extended Mosaic Observations with the Cosmic Background Imager". Astrophysical Journal, 609, 498-512.
Bustos R., 2002: "2002: The driest and coldest summer". ALMA Memo Serie # 433.
Bustos R., 2001: "Summer climate over Chajnantor". ALMA Memo Serie # 379.
Bustos R., Delgado G., Nyman L., and Radford S., 2000: "52 Years of climatological data for the Chajnantor area". ALMA Memo Serie # 333.
Bustos R. and Rutllant J., 2000: "UHF radio propagation experiment through the (Chile) during an air pollution episode". Environmental Technology, Vol. 21, pp. 809-814. Abstract.

Seminars:

Seminario Astronomía: Chile, Ventana al Universo. Talk: "Proyecto CBI". Ministerio Relaciones Exteriores, Santiago, Chile, December 5-6, 2007.
4th Advanced Chilean School of Astrophysics: Interferometry in the epoch of ALMA and VLTI. Talk: "Radio-Interferómetro CBI". Santiago, Chile, December 4-8, 2006.
11th Latin-American Regional IAU Meeting. Talk: "Polarization spectrum of CMB obtained from the CBI". Pucón, Chile, December 12-16, 2005.
2004 IAOC International Workshop: The Cool Universe: Observing Cosmic Dawn. Talk: "CBI project and latest results". Valparaíso, Chile, October 4-8, 2004.
International workshop: Physics of AGN at all scales. ESO-Santiago, December 3-6, 2003.
NAIC/NRAO Summer School on Single Dish Radio Astronomy: Techniques and Applications. Green Bank, WV, USA. August 10-15, 2003.
Congreso Internacional de Astronomía Aficionada CIAA. Talk: "Cosmología con el CBI". U. Católica del Norte, Antofagasta, Chile. October 8-11, 2002.
Seminarios en el DGF. Talk: "Caracterización atmosférica para el proyecto ALMA". DGF-U. Chile, June 22, 2001.
Topical Meeting: "New facilities for astronomy in Chile". ESO-Santiago, December 12-13, 2000.

Participation on the PBS TV show Nova Origins (Chapter 3): See Windows Media Player or QuickTime
Article in chilean newspaper El Mercurio. December 20, 2004. Photo.
Article in Engineering & Science magazine of Caltech. Volume LXVII, No. 4, 2004.

Last modified: April 02, 2008