Program
MONDAY: Stellar population studies from resolved Galactic stellar clusters
Morning chair: Hugues Sana
Afternoon chair: Giovanni Carraro
| 09:15 | Welcome | ||
| 09:30 | Valery Kravtsov | U. Catolica del Norte | Signs of the complexity of the stellar population in the differentially reddened Galactic globular cluster NGC 3201 |
| 09:50 | Christian Moni Bidin | U. de Concepcion | What we would like to know about hot HB stars in globular clusters |
| 10:10 | Aldo Valcarce | U. Catolica | Study of the He-Enrichment in Globular Clusters |
| 10:30 | Sandro Villanova | U. de Concepcion | Multiple populations in Globular Clusters as traced by the chemical content of stars |
| 10:50 | Coffee break | ||
| 11:20 | Ivo Saviane | ESO | Stellar abundances of Palomar 1 |
| 11:40 | Alistair Walker | CTIO | Luminosity Functions of Evolved Populations in Galactic Globular Clusters |
| 12:00 | Steve Margheim | Gemini South | Lithium In Hyades K dwarfs |
| 12:30 | Giovanni Carraro | ESO | Binary star clusters in the Milky Way |
| 12:40 | Discussion | ||
| 13:00 | Lunch | ||
| 14:00 | Michelle Edwards | Gemini South | Near-Infrared Narrow-Band Imaging Survey to Search for Massive Stars in Cl 1806-20 |
| 14:20 | Hugues Sana | ESO | A MAD view of the Tr-14 young open cluster |
| 14:40 | Christian Nitschelm | U. Catolica del Norte | Study of the duplicity and multiplicity in the Sco-Cen Complex |
| 15:00 | Karen Kinemuchi | U. de Concepcion | First Results of the Southern Open Cluster Study |
| 15:20 | Coffee break | ||
| 15:50 | Jura Borissova | U. de Valparaiso | Hidden star clusters in our Galaxy |
| 16:10 | Radostin Kurtev | U. de Valparaiso | Massive stellar population of the hidden Milky Way clusters |
| 16:30 | Valentin Ivanov | ESO | Milky Way cluster census |
| 16:50 | Discussion |
TUESDAY: Extra-galactic star clusters
Morning chair: Steffen Mieske
Afternoon chair: Mark Gieles
| 09:30 | Chris Evans | UK ATC Edinburgh | Exploring open clusters in the Magellanic Clouds with VLT-FLAMES |
| 09:50 | Celeste Parisi | U. de Cordoba (Arg) | Abundances and Kinematics of 16 SMC clusters determined from CaT Spectroscopy |
| 10:10 | Andrea Ahumada | ESO | Integrated spectral properties of compact star clusters of the Magellanic Clouds |
| 10:30 | Peter Pessev | Gemini South | Multi-wavelength integrated-light view of the cluster systems in the Magellanic Clouds.Some implications to the SSP models |
| 10:50 | Coffee break | ||
| 11:20 | Ricardo Schiavon | Gemini North | The metallicities and abundance patterns of globular clusters in M31 |
| 11:40 | Iraklis Konstantopoulos | UCL/ESO/Gemini | M33 as a test-case for star cluster population statistics |
| 12:00 | Marcelo Mora | U. de Valparaiso | The young and old cluster population of NGC45 |
| 12:20 | Doug Geisler | U. de Concepcion | The NGC 5128 globular cluster system |
| 12:40 | Discussion | ||
| 13:00 | Lunch | ||
| 14:00 | Andres Jordan | U. Catolica | Results from the ACS/Virgo Cluster Survey |
| 14:20 | Gelys Trancho | Gemini South | Star Clusters in Galaxy Mergers |
| 14:40 | Bryan Miller | Gemini South | Globular Clusters and Nuclei in Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies |
| 15:00 | Michael West | ESO | Intergalactic Globular Clusters in Abell 1185 |
| 15:20 | Coffee break | ||
| 15:50 | Steffen Mieske | ESO | The most massive star clusters |
| 16:10 | Joerg Dabringhausen | Bonn | The mass-to-light ratios of ultra compact dwarf galaxies - indication for a top-heavy IMF? |
| 16:30 | Igor Chilingarian | Paris Observatory | Analysis of UCD and GC spectra: effects of IMF vs dark matter |
| 16:50 | Discussion |
WEDNESDAY: Star formation in (embedded) clusters and dynamics
Morning Chair: Ivo Saviane
| 09:30 | Luis Chavarria | U. de Chile | Spitzer-NIR study of massive embedded clusters |
| 09:50 | Dieter Nuernberger | ESO | Ongoing Star Formation in IRAS 19410+2336 |
| 10:10 | Saurabh Sharma | U. de Valparaiso | Galactic open clusters: IMF and Star-formation |
| 10:30 | Michael Fellhauer | U. de Concepcion | Merging sub-clumps in embedded star clusters |
| 10:50 | Coffee break | ||
| 11:20 | Mark Gieles | ESO | Formation and Disruption of Star Clusters |
| 11:40 | Tom Richtler | U. de Concepcion | Dynamics of Globular Cluster Systems |
| 12:00 | Hans Zinnecker | AIP Potsdam | R136 cluster in 30 Doradus |
| 12:20 | Discussion | ||
| 12:40 | Lunch |
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