Tuesday March 14:

17:00 - 21:00 : Early registration at Hotel Caja de Compensacion

Wednesday March 15: THE INTERSTELLAR MEDIUM

8:00 - 09:20 : Registration at Hotel Caja de Compensacion

09:20 - 09:30 : Welcome address

Gerhard Hensler
09:30 - 10:10 : An Inventory of the Components of Galaxies

Jacqueline Van Gorkom
10:20 - 11:05 : Inventory of the ISM: the many phases of gas and dust

11:15 - 11:40 : Coffee-break

Monica Rubio
11:40 - 11:55 : Multiwavelength observations of N66 in the SMC

Michael Dumke
12:00 - 12:15 : Warm molecular gas in nearby galaxies: Mapping of the CO(3-2) emission

Toshikazu Onishi
12:20 - 12:35 : Distribution of Molecular Gas in the Southern Sky by NANTEN

12:40 - 14:00 : Lunch

You-Ha Chu
14:00 - 14:30 :Interactions between phases of the ISM: evolutionary processes from an observational
point of view

Andrea Ferrara
14:40 - 15:10 : The Multiphase Medium of Galaxies

Mordecai-Mark MacLow
15:20 - 15:50 : Modeling tools for the ISM: numerical simulations, nebular gas codes

16:00 - 16:25 : Coffee-break

Ralf Dettmar
16:25 - 16:40 : Gaseous Halos and the Interstellar Disk-Halo Connection

Sally Oey
16:45 - 17:00 : Calibrating nebular diagnostics of T_star and abundance.

Cristina Popescu
17:05 - 17:20 : Radiation fields and grain heating in the edge-on spiral galaxy NGC891

Pierre Cox
17:25 - 17:40 : Gas and dust in the Carina Nebula: an example of interaction between massive stars and the ISM

Sean Points
17:45 - 18:00 : Massive Stars and Large-Scale Distribution of Hot Gas

18:30 - 22:00 : Welcome cocktail

Thursday, March 16: THE STELLAR POPULATIONS AND FEEDBACK

Daniel Schaerer
09:00 - 09:45 : Massive star formation

Robert Blum
10:00 - 10:15: The Stellar Content of Obscured Galactic Giant HII Regions

Gloria Dubner
10:20 - 10:35: Interactions between SNRs and the ISM

Josef Gochermann
10:40 - 10:55: The HR Diagram of Early Stars in the > LMC from UBV Photometry

11:00 - 11:25 : Coffee-break

Carme Gallart
11:25 - 12:10 : The star formation history of resolved galaxies: composite HR diagram

David Valls-Gabaud
12:20 - 12:35: Euler, Hipparcos and the five dwarfs:reconstructing the star formation history of the solar neighbourhood and of nearby dwarf galaxies.

Jeff Kenney
12:40 - 12:55: Spatially Resolved Stellar and Gas Kinematics in the Two-Way Galaxy NGC 4550

13:00 - 14:00 : Lunch

Doug Geisler
14:00 - 14:15: Field and Cluster Stars in the Local Group Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies NGC185 and NGC205

Eva Grebel
14:20 - 14:35: An HST Snapshot Survey for Dwarf Galaxies in the Local Volume

Lauren Jones
14:40 - 14:55: The source of infrared radiation in spiral galaxies

Uta Fritze-v. Alvensleben
15:00 - 15:45 : Modelling Tools: Stellar Population and Evolutionary Synthesis

15:55 - 16:20 : Coffee-break

Gian Luigi Granato:
16:20 - 17:05 : The dusty SF history of distant galaxies and modelling tools

Claudia Moeller
17:15 - 17:30: Models for Spectral Galaxy Evolution Including Dust

Laura Silva
17:35 - 17:50: The early evolution of elliptical galaxies

Karen O'Neil
17:55 - 18:10: The Color, Gas, and Stellar Population of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies

Eduardo Telles
18:15 - 18:30: High Resolution Spectroscopy of HII Galaxies

Thaisa Storchi-Bergmann
18:35 - 18:50: The frequency of nuclear starbursts in Seyfert 2 Galaxies

Friday, March 17: THE LINKS

Catherine Cesarsky
09:00 - 09:40 : Galaxies through IR eyes

Miriani Pastoriza
09:50 - 10:05: Mid IR observations of early-type galaxies

Lia Athanassoula
10:10 - 10:50 : Dynamics and kinematics of galaxies: N-body simulations

Bernd Vollmer
11:00 - 11:15: Galaxy orbits, ram pressure stripping, and galaxy histories

11:20 - 11:45 : Coffee-break

John Gallagher
11:45 - 12:30 : The Local Group, a laboratory for exploring the links

Magdalen Normandeau
12:40 - 12:55: The W4 superbubble/chimney

13:00 - 14:00 : Lunch

14:00 - 15:00 : Poster Session (see List of Posters)

Felix Mirabel
15:10 - 15:25: Stars, gas, and dust in merger-driven galaxies

Roberto Rampazzo
15:30 - 15:45: X-ray emission from galaxy pairs

Lutz Wisotzki
15:50 - 16:05: Spectroscopy of QSO host galaxies-investigating the feedback from the black hole

16:10 - 16:35 : Coffee-break

Dennis Zaritsky
16:35 - 17:10 : Mass and energy budgets: the diverse jungle

20:30 - 24:00 : Workshop Dinner and Salsa

Saturday, March 18: BRAINSTORMING SESSION

10:00 - 12:30 : Working Groups in parallel sessions (see Burning Questions)

13:00 - 14:00 : Lunch

15:00 - 16:30 : Working Group reports and Panel discussion

17:00 - 18:00 : Farewell pisco sour

APPENDIX : List of posters

Summary of burning questions proposed by the registrants

This is an ordered compilation of the questions raised by the attendees. We have placed them in five working groups according to their topics. The job of the working groups will be to choose and focus on some of these questions during their discussion. Enjoy !

Working group 1: Star formation in various types of environments

- Star formation and dust in young open clusters

- SNe induced star formation

- Features of star formation in low density environments

- Can massive stars be formed away from molecular clouds ?

- All about population III stars

- The role of metallicity in star formation

- What is the evolution of star formation regions over successive stellar generations

- The relationship between star cluster properties and their galaxy hosts

- Massive star cluster formation: conditions, efficiency

- The role of magnetic fields and cosmic rays

Working group 2: Understanding stellar populations in galaxies

- Imperfect evolutionary models and their impact on deriving star formation and chemical evolution histories

- How comparable are the results of different groups who use different synthetic CMD codes ?

- Will new tracks that take into account rotation change things?

- Impact of binarity - Disentangling age and metallicity effects in composite populations

- What stars are the best tracers of age and metallicity ?

- How unique or ambiguous are integrated colors in deriving star formation histories?

- Can we safely assume a constant Salpeter-like IMF ?

- How sensitive is our understanding of the stellar content of nearby galaxies to uncertain distances ?

Working group 3: Interplay stars/ISM, chemical enrichment

- All about interstellar bubbles

- How well do we understand chemical evolution ?

- What is the amount of gas expelled from galaxies by massive stars ?

- Can massive stars account for the diffuse X-ray emission in galaxies or does the hot gas come from
elsewhere ? - Latest news about the UV-upturn phenomenon (UV emission in ellipticals)

- Enrichment vs. metal loss vs. global gas loss: what is the observational evidence from stellar populations

- Where is the gas in dSph and how did it get there ? Evolution dIrr <--> dSph ?

- Contribution of SNe in galactic dust production

Working group 4: Large scale phenomena in galaxies

- Contribution of X-ray emitting hot gas to the energy budget/balance ?

- Role played by ISM in determining the structure of early type galaxies

- The role of dark matter in the kinematics and overall shape of a galaxy

- Which mechanisms govern the spread of heavy elements on galactic scales ?

- If galaxies form through the merging of elementary clumps, how do they reach some standard shapes ?

- Is the energy budget balanced locally ?

- Dust content of galaxies on cosmological time-scales, on what does it depend ?

- How much gas in galaxies has still escaped detection ? What is the dominant phase of this gas ?

- Relationship between AGNs and starbursts

- Role of the dynamics in spiral galaxies (especially bars and arms)

- Nature of LSB galaxies

- How are the scales and strengths of the physical links set in different types of galaxies?

Working group 5: Beyond...

- Newton, the next generation...(does Newtonian physics need to be modified at Galactic and cosmological distances)

- What will the coming 10 Gyr look like ?

- New windows for detecting still undiscovered matter in the universe

- What kind of observations do we need to complement our current knowledge ?

- Which surveys for special types of stars do we need ? (W-R, C, PNe, variables...)

- Spectroscopic surveys (What instrumental requirements do we need ?)

- Role of other wavelength ranges; what exists already instrumentally and observationally, and what are desiderata for the future ? In particular IR, sub-mm (ALMA), all-sky HI surveys (HIPASS)...

- Wide-field coverage vs. high spatial resolution

- Promises of adaptive optics and interferometry