Title: Uncovering the accretion history of the MW using star clusters and dwarf galaxies.

Abstract:
Recent analyses of the age and chemical properties of dwarf galaxies and globular clusters in 
and around our Milky Way are yielding new opportunities to constrain its mass assembly 
history to unprecedented levels of detail.  The distribution of ages, chemical abundances, and 
orbital properties of globular clusters can not only help reveal the nature of old accretion events 
in the Milky Way, but also provide clues to the formation and survival of the star clusters 
themselves.  In particular I will discuss how newly derived ages for stars in globular clusters and 
dwarf galaxies can be used with empirical scaling relations (such as the galaxy mass-
metallicity relation) and numerical simulations of CDM structure assembly to give coarse 
reconstructions of the distribution of accreted satellites during the Milky Way''s history.