Date of birth : 1963/03/08
Nationality : Uruguayan
Address : Depto. Astronomía - Fac. Ciencias
Iguá 4225
Montevideo
Uruguay
Fax : (+598 2) 525 05 80
Tel : (+598 2) 525 86 24/25/26 (int. 319)
Email: gonzalo_at_fisica.edu.uy
Homepage: http://www.fisica.edu.uy/~gonzalo
1) University Degrees
1.1 - Bachellor in Basic Sciences of Engineering (three years programme);
Faculty of Engineering, Montevideo, Uruguay, 1984.
1.2 - Licentiate in Astronomy (four years programme with one year final
thesis); Faculty of Humanities and Sciences, Montevideo, Uruguay, 1989.
1.3 - Ph.D. in Astronomy, Uppsala Observatory, Uppsala University,
Sweden, 1993.
2) PROFESSIONAL WORK
2.1 - Lecturer at Montevideo's Planetarium, since 1984 till 1992.
2.2 - Assistant at the Dept. of Astronomy, Faculty of Humanities and Sciences, Universidad del Uruguay, 1986 - 1993.
2.3 - Guest Scholarship holder of Swedish Institute at the Uppsala Astronomical Observatory, 1989 - 1993.
2.4 - Associated Professor at the Dept. of Astronomy, Faculty of Sciences, Universidad del Uruguay, 1993 - present.
3) PUBLICATIONS
3.1 - ``Lightcurve and Rotation Period of 40 Harmonia''; Gallardo, T.
and Tancredi, G. (1987); Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofíca,
15, 103-105.
3.2 - ``Photometric Program of Asteroids'' ; Tancredi, G. and Gallardo,
T., (1988); Bulletin of the XXXIII Annual Metting of Asociación
Argentina de Astronomía, p. 361-368.
3.3 - ``Pole Determination of Five Asteroids'' ; Gallardo, T. and Tancredi,
T. (1990); Proceedings of ``Asteroids, Comets and Meteors III'',
Eds. C.-I. Lagerkvist, H. Rickman, B.A. Lindblad and M. Lindgren, Upssala,
p. 87-90.
3.4 - ``Temporary Satellite Capture and Orbital Evolution of Comet
PHelin-Roman-Crockett'' ; Tancredi, G.; Lindgren, M. and Rickman, H. (1990);
Astronomy and Astrophysics; 239, 375-380 .
3.5 - ``Recovery of Comet P/Harrington Abell'' ; Rickman, H., Tancredi,
G. and Lindgren, M. (1991); International Astronomical Union Circulars;
No 5129 .
3.6 - ``The Capture of P/Helin-Roman-Crockett by Jupiter'' ; Tancredi,
G. (1991); in Nouveaux Developpements en Planetologie Dynamique,
Eds. D. Benest, C. Froeschle and J.M. Petit, Nice, France, p. 273-279.
3.7 - ``A Comparison of two Pole Determination Methods for Asteroids'';
Tancredi, G. and Gallardo, T. (1991); Astronomy and Astrophysics,
242, 279-285.
3.8 - ``Photometric Observations of Asteroids 31 Euphrosyne, 118 Pheito,
13 Egeria, 196 Philomena and 471 Papagena'' ; Licandro, J.; Gallardo, T.
and Tancredi, G. (1990); VI Reunión Regional de la Unión
Astronómica Internacional, Rev. Mexicana de Astron. y Astrof.,
21, 590-592.
3.9 - ``The angular momenta of the Pluto-Charon System : Considerations
about its Origin ``; Tancredi, G. and Fernández, J.A. (1991); Icarus,
93, 298.
3.10 - ``The vicinity of Jupiter : a region to look for comets''; Tancredi,
G. and Lindgren, M. (1992); Proceedings of ``Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
'91'', Houston, Texas, in press.
3.11 - ``Twentieth century light curves and the nucleus of comet P/Tempel
2''; Rickman, H., Festou, M.C., Tancredi, G. and Kámel, L. (1992);
Proceedings of ``Asteroids, Comets and Meteors '91'', Houston, Texas,
in press.
3.12 - ``The evolution of Jupiter family comets over 2000 years'';
Tancredi, G. and Rickman, H. (1992); in Proceedings of IAU Symposium 152
``Chaos, Resonance and Collective Dynamical Phenomena in the Solar System'',
Ed. S. Ferraz-Mello, Kluver Acad. Press, p. 269.
3.13 - ``Monte Carlo simulations of Jupiter family evolution''; Rickman,
H., Bailey, M.E., Hahn, G. and Tancredi, G. (1992); in ``Periodic Comets'',
(Eds. J.A. Fernández and H. Rickman), Montevideo, Uruguay, p. 55.
3.14 - ``Recovery of Comet P/Tuttle'' ; Tancredi, G. and Lindgren,
M. (1992); International Astronomical Union Circulars; No
5604 .
3.15 - ``A search for comets encountering Jupiter - The connection
to the dust stream detected by Ulysses''; Lindgren, M. and Tancredi, G.
(1992); in 30th Liège International Astrophysical
Colloquim, Belgium, p.121.
3.16 - ``Transfer probabilities between Jupiter and Saturn-family orbits
: application to 1992AD = 5145''; Bailey, M.E.; Chambers, J.E.; Hahn, G.;
Scotti, J. and Tancredi, G. (1992) in 30th Liège International
Astrophysical Colloquim, Belgium, p. 285.
3.17 - ``Searching for comets encountering Jupiter: First campaign'';
Tancredi. G and Lindgren, M. (1994), Icarus; 107, 311-321.
3.18 - ``Lightcurves and pole determinations for asteroids 31 Euphrosyne,
196 Philomena and 471 Papagena''; Licandro, J.; Gallardo, T. and Tancredi,
G. (1994), Rev. Mexicana de Astron. y Astrof., 28, 91-96.
3.19 - ``Thermochemistry of cometary nuclei: the Jupiter family case'';
Tancredi, G., Rickman, H. and Greenberg, M. (1994), Astron. & Astroph.;
286, 659-682.
3.20 - ``Physical and dynamical evolution of Jupiter family comets:
simulations based on the observed sample''; Tancredi G. (1994),
Planetary
and Space Sciences; 42, 421-433.
3.21 - ``The dynamical memory of Jupiter Family comets''; Tancredi
G. (1995),
Astron. & Astroph. 299, 288-292.
3.22 - ``Asteroid Positions''; Lagerkvist, C.-I., Hernius, O., Lindgren,
G., Tancredi, G. (1994), Minor Planet Circ. 23435-23477, 23619-23633,
23829-23842.
3.23 - ``Astrometry of outer Jovian satellites from the Uppsala-ESO
Survey of Asteroids and Comets (UESAC)''; Hernius, O., Lagerkvist, C.-I.,
Lindgren, M., Williams, G.V. and Tancredi, G. (1995), Astron. &
Astroph. Suppl. Ser.; 115, 295.
3.24 - ``UESAC - The Uppsala-ESO Survey of Asteroids and Comets'',
Lagerkvist, C.-I., Hernius, O., Lindgren, M. and Tancredi, G. (1995), in
Proccedings of the Third International Workshop on Positional Astronomy
and Celestial Mechanics (ed. A. López Garcia et al.), Valencia,
pp 9-18.
3.25 - ``UESAC - The Uppsala-ESO survey of asteroids and comets'',
Lagerkvist, C.-I., Hernius, O., Lindgren, M. and Tancredi, G. (1996),
Earth,
Moon & Planets, 73, 267-274, and Small bodies in the
solar system and their interactions with the planets (eds. H. Rickman
and M. Valtonen), Kluwer,p. 267-274.
3.26 - ``Searching for comets encountering Jupiter: Second campaign
observations and further constraints on the size of the Jupiter family
population'', Lindgren, M., Tancredi, G. ,Lagerkvist, C.-I. and Hernius,
O. (1997), Astron & Astroph. Suppl. Ser. 118, 293-301.
3.27 - ``UESAC - The Uppsala-ESO survey of asteroids and comets'',
Hernius, O., Lagerkvist, C.-I., Lindgren, M., Tancredi, G. and Williams,
G. (1997),
Astron & Astroph 318, 631-638.
3.28 - ``A survey of main-belt asteroids I. Position and improved orbital
elements for 75 numbered asteroids'', Lagerkvist, C.I., Hahn, G., Lundstrom,
M., Lagerros, J., Hernius, O., Tancredi, G. (1997) Astronomische Nachrichten
318, 135-139.
3.29 - ``A Survey of main-belt asteroids. II. Positions and improved
orbital elements for 62 unnumbered asteroids.'', Lagerkvist, C.-I.; Hahn
,G.; Lundstrom, M.; Lagerros, J.S.V.; Hernius, O.; Tancredi, G. (1997)
Astronomische Nachrichten 318, 185.
3.30 - "The activity of comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 monitored
through the CO J(2-1) emission line at 230 GHz", Festou M., Gunnarson M.,
Winnberg A., Rickman H., Tancredi G. (1997), The Messenger, 89,
18-20
3.31 - ``An asteroid in an Earth-like orbit'', Tancredi G. (1998),
Celestial Mechanics, 69, 119-132.
3.32- ``Chaotic dynamics of planet-encountering bodies'', Tancredi
G. (1998), Celestial Mechanics, 70, 181-200.
3.33 - ``What can be learned from asteroids surveys?'', Tancredi G.
(1998), en ``Solar System Formation and Evolution'', Astronomical
Society of the Pacific Conference Serie, Eds. D. Lazzaro et al., vol. 149,
135-148.
3.34 - ``The population, magnitudes, and sizes of Jupiter family comets'',
Fernández, J.A., Tancredi, G., Rickman, H., and Licandro, J. (1999)
Astron. & Astroph., 352, 327-340.
3.35 - ``Dynamical Taxonomy of Comets and Asteroids based on the Lyapunov
Indicator: An Analysis of the Relevance of Splittings'', Tancredi G., Motta
V. and Froeschlé, C. (2000), Astron. & Astroph., 356,
339-346.
3.36 - ``CCD Photometry of Cometary Nuclei I: Observations from 1990-1995'',
Licandro J., Tancredi G., Lindgren M., Rickman H., Gil Hutton R. (2000),
Icarus, 147, 161-179.
3.37 - ``A catalog of observed nuclear magnitudes of Jupiter family comets"; Tancredi, G., Fernández, J.A., Rickman, H., and Licandro, J. (2000) Astron. & Astroph. Suppl. Ser., 146, 73-90.
3.38 - ``A comparison between methods to calculate Lyapunov exponents'',
Tancredi G., Sánchez A., Roig. F., (2000) Astron. J., 121
3.39 - ``The activity of comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 monitored
through the CO J=(2-1) radio line'', Festou M., Gunnarson M., Winnberg
A., Rickman H., Tancredi G. (1997), accepted in Icarus.
4) PARTICIPATION AT CONFERENCES
Participation in more than 25 International Conferences, including 4 IAU General Assemblies, 3 ``Asteroids, Comets and Meteors'' meetings, 1 IAU Symposium, 1 IAU Colloquium and more than 10 regional meetings.
5) MEMBERSHIP
Member of the:
* International Astronomical Union (Commissions 15 and 20, and Working Group on Near Earth Objects)
* Uruguayan Society of Astronomy
* Uruguayan Society of Physics
* Astronomical Society of Uppsala
* American Astronomical Society
* Astronomical Society of the Pacific
* Spaceguard Foundation (founding member)
6) SCIENTIFIC ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
6.1 - Denomination of asteroid 5088 - 1979 QZ1 as Tancredi.
6.2 - President of the Local Organizing Comitte of the VIII Latinoamerican
Regional Meetting.
6.3 - Discovery and nomination of asteroid 6252 - Montevideo.
6.4 - Member of Local Organizing Comitte of the IX Reunión Latinoamericana
de Astronomía, Noviembre 1998, Puebla, México.
6.5 - Researcher of Fondo Nacional de Investigadores, CONICYT, Uruguay
Montevideo, December, 2000.