Alistair Walker

Astronomer

Contact Information

CTIO/NOAO
Casilla 603
La Serena
Chile
phone: +56-51-2205200
fax: +56-51-2205212
email: awalker _AT_ ctio.noao.edu

Support Duties

• DECam Instrument Scientist
  
• NOAO rep. on the DES Management Committee
  
• NOAO Office of Science rep. at CTIO
  
• Member of the NOAO Promotion and Tenure Committee
  
• Member of CTIO Advisory Committee on Technical Resources (ACTR)
  

External Committees

• Various Dark Energy Survey (DES) Committees
  

Research Interests

• Resolved Stellar Populations
  
• The Magellanic Clouds
  
• The Distance Scale
  
• Astronomical Instrumentation and Detectors
  

Current Research Projects

• SMASH - a survey of the LMC-SMC and environs with DECam, P.I. David Nidever [2013 ->]
  
• MagLites - Mag. Clouds extension survey, P.I. Keith Bechtol [2016 ->]
  
• Study of the Galactic Bulge with DECam P.I. Abi Saha [2013 ->]
  
• The Dark Energy Survey (DES) P.I. Josh Frieman [2013 ->]
• Galactic Satellites with Kathy Vivas, Clara Mairtinez-Vazquez, Matteo Monelli and others [2015 ->]
• Trans-Neptunian search P.I. David Gerdes [2017 ->]
• EM counteparts of Graviational Wave events P.I. Marcelle Soares-Santos [2017 ->]