Other academic courses
Undergraduate courses
INCT offers undergraduate courses offered as optional (optativos) to several UDA undergraduate programs and faculties. Following is a list of courses offered over the years:
| Semestre | Nombre del curso | Profesor INCT | Dirigido a las siguientes facultades: | Pre-requisitos |
| 2022-A | La astronomía y su historia | Iván Lacerna | Copiapó | Ninguno |
| 2022-A | Minería de recursos extraterrestres | Giovanni Leone | Ingeniería | Cáculo, Inglés |
| 2021-B | La astronomía y su historia | Iván Lacerna | Copiapó | Ninguno |
| 2021-B | Introducción a la Astronomía | Katherine Vieira | Todas | Ninguno |
| 2021-A | Minería de recursos extraterrestres | Giovanni Leone | Ingeniería | Cálculo, Inglés |
| 2021-A | Astronomía | Mauro Barbieri | Todas | Ninguno |
| 2020-B | Introducción a la astronomía | Katherine Vieira | Cs. de la Salud y Medicina | Ninguno |
| 2020-B | La astronomía y su historia | Iván Lacerna | Tecnológica | Ninguno |
Courses in other Universities
INCT offers especialized graduate courses to other universities in Chile, with which our faculty have research collaborations.
| Semester | Course name | INCT Faculty | University | Program |
| 2020 March-August | Tópicos avanzados en astroquímica | José Gregorio Fernández-Trincado | Universidad de Antofagasta | Magister en Astronomía |
Other academic activities
Online seminars
In 2020, under the COVID19 pandemic conditions, the INCT Galactic Dynamics Group chaired by Dr. José Gregorio fernández Trincado organized a season of online scientific seminars, listed below.
| # | Speaker | Talk title | Date | Affiliation |
| 1 | Dr. Richard Reade Lane | Firing The Cannon at The Monoceros Ring | 26-05-2020 | Universidad de Atacama/Chile |
| 2 | Dr. Javier Alonso Garcia | Unveiling the innermost regions of the Milky Way: A VVV View of the Galactic Bulge | 04-06-2020 | Universidad de Antofagasta/Chile |
| 3 | Dr. Leo Chaves Velasquez | Stellar Orbital Dynamics of Disk Galaxies: Bars and Spiral Arms | 11-06-2020 | Universidad de Nariño/Colombia |
| 4 | Dr. Bruno Dias | The VISCACHA survey – deep and resolved photometry of star clusters in the Magellanics Clouds | 18-06-2020 | Universidad Andrés Bello/Chile |
| 5 | PhD student. Richa Kundu | Extra-tidal stars of Galactic Globular clusters in the Gaia era | 02-07-2020 | University of Delhi/India |
| 6 | Dr. Dante Minniti | Bulge Globular Clusters in the VVVX Survey | 09-07-2020 | Universidad Andrés Bello/Chile |
| 7 | Dr. Camila Navarrete | Revealing Magellanic stars in the Milky Way halo | 17-07-2020 | ESO fellow/Chile |
| 8 | Dr. Patricia B. Tissera | How to build a Milky Way halo analog? | 23-07-2020 | Universidad Andrés Bello/Chile |
| 9 | Dr. Arvind Singh Rajpurohit | The Fundamental Parameters of Very Low Mass Stars | 30-07-2020 | Physical Research Laboratory of India/India |
| 10 | Dr. Doug Geisler | Adventures with Bulge Globular Clusters | 06-08-2020 | Universidad de La Serena/Chile |
| 11 | Dr. Baitian Tang | Tracing Milky Way and globular cluster evolution with chemistry | 13-08-2020 | Sun Yat-sen University/China |
| 12 | Dr. Kathy Vivas | The giant diffuse satellite galaxy Crater II | 20-08-2020 | Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory/Chile |
| 13 | Dr. Thomas Masseron | Discovery of Phosphorus-rich stars | 25-08-2020 | Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias/Spain |
| 14 | Dr. Ricardo Demarco | The Co-Evolution of Galaxies and Environment within the last 10 Gyr | 01-09-2020 | Universidad de Concepción/Chile |
| 15 | Dr. Bernard H. Foing | MoonMars science, exploration and analogue simulations, | 03-09-2020 | European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESA ESTEC) |
| 16 | Dr. Katherine Vieira | Red Be stars in the Magellanic Clouds | 10-09-2020 | Universidad de Atacama/Chile |
| 17 | Dr. Nicola Astudillo Defru | Precise masses of M dwarf planets | 22-09-2020 | Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción/Chile |
| 18 | Dr. Richard Reade Lane | APOGEE: What is was, what it is and what is will become | 24-09-2020 | Universidad de Atacama/Chile |
| 19 | Dr. Mercè Romero-Gómez | Invariant Manifolds & Spiral Structures | 29-09-2020 | Universitat de Barcelona/Barcelona |
| 20 | Dr. Omar López-Cruz | Secondary infall in the Seyfert’s Sextet: A plaussible way out from the short crossing time paradox | 01-10-2020 | Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica/México |
| 21 | Dr. Jos de Bruijne | Overview of the Gaia Mission | 06-10-2020 | European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) |
| 22 | Dr. Millarca Valenzuela | The emergence of Meteoritics in Chile: past, present and future | 14-10-2020 | Universidad Católica del Norte/Chile |
| 23 | Dr. Claudio Mendoza | X-Ray Astronomy of the Eve of XRISM | 15-10-2020 | Western Michigan University/USA |
| 24 | Dr. Jesús Hernández Alarcón | Activity and Rotation of Young Stellar Objects in the Orion Star forming Complex (OSFC) | 22-10-2020 | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México/México |
| 25 | Dr. Octavio Valenzuela | Dynamical Friction: How galaxies merge? | 27-10-2020 | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México/México |
| 26 | Dr. Jennifer Johnson | Outstanding Questions in the Origin of the Elements | 29-10-2020 | The Ohio State University/USA |
| 27 | PhD student Anna Queiroz | The Milky Way’s bar and bulge revealed by APOGEE and Gaia DR2 | 30-10-2020 | Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam/Germany |
| 28 | Dr. Efrain Gatuzz | X-raying the ISM | 03-11-2020 | Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics/Germany |
| 29 | Dr. Gustavo Bruzual | Recent developments in population synthesis modelling | 10-11-2020 | Instituto de Radioastronomía y Astrofísica (IRyA)/México |
| 30 | Dr. Benoit Famaey | The dark matter conundum in galaxies | 12-11-2020 | Obsevatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg/France |
| 31 | Dr. Sten Hasselquist | APOGEE Chemical Abundance Patterns of Massive Milky Way Satellites | 17-11-2020 | The University of UTAH/USA |
| 32 | Dr. Annie C. Robin | Status and on-going developments of the Besançon Galaxy model in the context of large scale surveys | 19-11-2020 | Observatoire de Besançon/France |
| 33 | Dr. Laia Casamiquela | The chemical evolution of the Milky Way and the chemical clocks | 26-11-2020 | Université de Bordeaux/France |
| 34 | Dr. Françoise Combes | Active Galactic Nuclei: fueling and feedback | 03-12-2020 | Observatoire de Paris/France |
| 35 | Dr. Anthony Brown | Gaia: Early Data Release3, mission status and science highlights from the second data release | 08-12-2020 | University of Leiden/Holand |