March 14th - 18th
Jicamarca Week 2011

Jicamarca Week started on 14 to 18 March. We wanted to celebrate with what defines us as Jicamarquinos: science, sports, technology and celebration.

For 4 consecutive days there were science conferences by renowned professionals such as Dr. Paul Rodriguez, Director of the Masters of Digital Processing of Signals and Images from the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru; Dr. Benjamin Castañeda, Professor Department of Electricity and Electronics of the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru; Dr. Roberto Lavarello, Postdoctoral Research Associate Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Brady Ohanlon and Robert Miceli, Graduate students at Cornell University (USA), and Dr. Edgardo Pacheco (ex Jicamarca), Postdoctoral Fellowship at Utah State University. But in addition to our invited, we close the cycle of scientific expositions with the participation of 3 partners Jicamarquinos who chosen as Best of the Year 2010, we refer to Marcos Inoñan , Luis Navarro and Daniel Suarez and, of course, the presence of Dr. Ronald Woodman.

The sport was present with two weeks in advance. The competitions between the teams of both red and blue groups, began at noon with games ping pong, volleyball, soccer and basketball. The bars in each group encouraged their teams in an attempt to lift the spirits every time you were losing, good players and not so good, experienced or not, all parties were joining with the aim of passing a healthy and fun time.

Finally we get to Friday 18 and closed the week with an Integration Lunch at the restaurant Cerro Colorado - Cieneguilla. The final football match was played during the morning while each bar encouraged his team to the rhythm of the drawer. Dr. Chau had the pleasure of refereeing the match and set the victory for Team Red. After the game, the pool became the focus of attention and we all enjoyed a dip ... but some do not exactly by choice.

A little more relaxed lunch began with some words of Dr. Woodman in honor of the anniversary. Dr. Chau made a recognition to 3 of older workers of Radio Observatory, and several of our colleagues took the opportunity to express their appreciation and admiration for those years of teamwork. Also prize was for the Red team, the champions. And to close the afternoon, new talents were released with a musical show of both groups that sang and danced to rhythm our Peruvian music.

In short, it was a nice week and hope to repeat forever and getting better every year.