Ricardo Bustos

• 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.
  Special student of Astronomy at California Institute of Technology, Caltech.

• 2009- . Post-Doc. Astronomy Department, Universidad de Concepción.
• 2009- . Millimeter Wavelength Laboratory. Astronomy Department, Universidad de Chile.
• 2008-2009. 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:

• Dickinson et al., 2010: "IR-correlated 31 GHz radio emission from Orion East". Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 407, 2223-2229.
• Angelakis et al., 2009: "Multi-frequency measurements of the NVSS foreground sources in the Cosmic Background Imager fields. I. Data release". Astronomy & Astrophysics, 501, Issue 2, 801-812.
• Sievers et al., 2009: "Cosmological results from five years of 30 GHz CMB intensity measurements with the Cosmic Background Imager". Preprint arXiv:0901.4540.
• 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 inversion capping Santiago (Chile) during an air pollution episode". Environmental Technology, Vol. 21, pp. 809-814. Abstract.
  

Seminars:

• Atmospheric data from astronomical site testing in Chile. Talk: "Radiometer development at Universidad de Concepción and PWV data at Chajnantor". Valparaíso, December 1-3, 2010.
• VIII Annual SOCHIAS meeting. Talk: "Radio-Astronomy instrumentation development in Chile". Concepción, January 18-20, 2010.
• Galaxy Clusters in the Early Universe: Poster: "Scientific prospectives with ALMA Band-1". Pucón, November 9-12, 2009.
• 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.

Others:

• 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.