Instituto de Física y Astronomía

March 3, 2015 IFA News.

Karina Rojas, student of the PhD in Astrophysics postgraduate program of the Instituto de Física y Astronomía was awarded the "Graduate Student Prize Lecture" by the Sociedad Chilena de Astronomía, Sochias. This is the second year the prize has been awarded, always to the best Thesis for which all postgraduate students in Chile compete. The selected work is then presented in the Plenary Session at the Sochias Anual Conference. Karina Rojas presented her talk "Strong Chromatic Microlensing in HE0047-1756 and SDSS1155+6456", part of her Master´s thesis with which she published a paper with the results last December.