Prof. Claudio Teitelboim
Centro de Estudios Cientificos de Santiago (CECS)

Av. Presidente Errázuriz 3132
Casilla 16443 - Las Condes, Santiago 9
+56-2-2338342/2060092
+56-2-2338336
teitel@cecs.cl
http://www.cecs.cl

The Center is a non-profit private institution, dedicated to the development, promotion and diffusion of scientific research. It was founded in 1984.

It has a group of first-rate scientists, with high internal cohesion and a clear and definite sense of their mission. The group has developed active links with the scientific community of Latin America, U.S.A. and Europe. It carries out periodical meetings which bring in contact Latin American scientists with their colleages in the northern hemisphere and, at the same time, encourages their regional interaction.

The scientific productivity of its members is at the level of a good group from a developed country. If articles published in international magazines with editorial committees are considered, it ranks among the first five of all scientific and higher education institutions in the country, surpassing many of long-standing tradition with a greater number of faculty members.

If the production per capita is taken into consideration, the figures are even more favourable.

The group of researchers in their various disciplines share a common target, thus enabling them to undertake problems of policy and scientific outreach with the necessary dosis of audacity.

The aim of the Centre is to open a group working in Theoretical Relativistic Astrophysics in close collaboration with international observatories in Chile and local universities.