Dear colleagues,

The Star Cluster meeting at ESO is approaching. We have received an 
overwhelming response (38 speakers and 3 attendants) from people from 
all over Chile and we believe that the we have realised a very 
interesting program of 2.5 days.

Hereby we send you the final program (attached) and some details that may 
be of interest for you. Please check carefully the dates and times of your 
talk, since we have shuffled a bit here and there as compared to the 
previous versions you have seen.

- The meeting starts at 09:00 on Monday March 9th at ESO (Alonso de Cordoba 
3107, Vitacura). The meeting will be in the library which is situated in the 
Main building of ESO at Alonso de Cordova 3107

- We assume everybody knows how to travel to and from ESO and find 
accommodation. If you still look for accommodation: Hotel El Director 
on the corner of Alonso de Cordova and Avenida Vitacura has a special 
ESO rate (USD $78,-) including breakfast. Contact Paulina Jiron 
(pjiron@eso.org) to make the reservation.

- ESO provides coffee and tea during the breaks and lunches. On Tuesday 
evening we are planning to go for dinner somewhere in Vitacura. The costs 
will be around $20.000,- and we ask you to confirm with hsana@eso.org 
before March 1st if you are interested in joining.

- Students and post-docs of Chilean Universities outside of Santiago can 
get reimbursement of their bus ticket and 1 night of hotel. This can be 
arranged while you are here with Paulina Jiron. Please bring receipts. 

- We would like to receive all the talks in PDF format before the start 
of the session. If you can not convert your presentation to PDF (because
 of movies etc.) we ask you to check the connection before the start of 
the session and make sure your screen resolution etc. are all set correctly 
in order to make the transitions between the talks as smooth as possible. 

- Talks are 15 minutes and 5 minutes questions, but we have also reserved 
discussion sessions before lunch and at the end of the day. The session 
moderators will collect unanswered questions and/or unfinished discussions
 on a white board and they will be shifted to these discussion moments. 

- Lastly, since this is an informal meeting, you dont need to send an 
abstract. We also have not made name badges. Since we have quite a number 
of people, it would still be nice to have some sort of identification, so 
you can bring a badge from a previous conference. They are probably lying 
around peoples desks :-)

All information can also be found here:

http://www.eso.org/sci/activities/santiago/projects/ClusterGroup/conference/index.html

We are looking forward to seeing you at ESO!

Hugues Sana, Steffen Mieske, Giovanni Carraro and Mark Gieles