Stellar Populations as Building Blocks of Galaxies

The conference is organized by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and will be held from 10-16 December, 2006 at La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain. See here a small map of La Palma, or a more detailed map.

Main Topics

• Stellar tracks and isochrones.
• Theoretical and empirical stellar spectral libraries.
• Simple and complex stellar population models and their calibration.
• Stellar populations in our Galaxy.
• Resolved stellar populations.
• Unresolved stellar populations in nearby early-type galaxies.
• Unresolved stellar populations in nearby late-type galaxies.
• Stellar Populations at higher redshifts.
• New observing facilities and the network, and their implication for stellar populations.

A more detailed programme can be found here.

Invited Speakers

Reviews (Confirmed)

• J. Bland-Hawthorn
• S. Cassisi
• S. Charlot
• R. Cid-Fernandes
• J. Gorgas
• E. Grebel
• B. Gustafsson
• P. Kroupa
• G. Meynet
• J.A. Rose
• E. Tolstoy
• T. Kodama

Guest Lecture on GTC 10.4m Telescope

• J.M. Rodríguez-Espinosa

"Challenge" discussion leaders

• S. Trager
• A. Weiss

Conference Summary

• A. Renzini

Scientific Organizing Committee (SOC)

Antonio Aparicio IAC, Spain
Nobuo Arimoto NAOJ, Japan
Beatriz Barbuy IAG-USP, Brazil
Alessandro Bressan Obs. Astron. Padova, Italy
Gustavo A. Bruzual CIDA, Venezuela
Roger L. Davies Univ. Oxford, UK
Javier Gorgas Univ. Complutense Madrid, Spain
Timothy M. Heckman Johns Hopkins Univ., USA
Guinevere Kauffmann MPA Garching, Germany
Reynier F. Peletier (Co-Chair) Kapteyn Inst., The Netherlands
James A. Rose Univ. North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Donald A. Vandenberg Univ. Victoria, Canada
Alexandre Vazdekis (Co-Chair) IAC, Spain

Local Organizing Committee (LOC, IAC)

Judith de Araoz Carme Gallart
Marc Balcells Artemio Herrero
Michael Beasley Conrado Carretero
John E Beckman Tanja Karthaus
Eva Bejarano Noelia Noël
Nicola Caon Jorge A. Pérez Prieto
José Luis Cervantes Alexandre Vazdekis (Chair)
Adriana de Lorenzo-Cáceres

Sponsors

The Symposium is organized by the IAC and is sponsored and supported by the IAU.

IAC - Instituto de Astrofìsica de Canarias
www.iac.es

IAU - International Astronomical Union
www.iau.org

Additional support has been provided by the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (ING), Cabildo Insular de La Palma, Patronato de Turismo de La Palma, Ayuntamiento de Breña Baja and Ayuntamiento de El Paso. We are seeking for further supporting institutions.

ING - Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes
www.ing.iac.es

Cabildo Insular de La Palma
www.cablapalma.es

Patronato de Turismo de La Palma
www.lapalmaturismo.com

Ayuntamiento de El Paso
www.ayuntamientodeelpaso.org

Ayuntamiento de Breña Baja
www.bbaja.es

Preliminary Scientific Programme

11 december Monday

Session: Model Ingredients: Stellar Evolution Models

Welcome

09:00-09:15

Cassisi, S. (IR)

09:15-09:55

Meynet, G. (IR)

09:55-10:35

VandenBerg, Don

10:35-10:55

Coffee Break

10:55-11:25

Session: Model Ingredients: Stellar Spectral Libraries

Gustaffsson, B. (IR)

11:25-12:05

Gorgas, J. (IR)

12:05-12:45

Peterson, Ruth

12:45-13:05

Lunch

13:05-15:00

Beers, Timothy

15:00-15:20

Gregg, Michael

15:20-15:40

Holmberg, Johan

15:40-16:00

Prugniel, Philippe

16:00-16:20

Session: Model Ingredients: IMF

Kroupa, P. (IR)

16:20-17:00

Coffee Break

17:00-17:30

Poster Session

17:30-17:40

Stellar Evol. Challenge - convener: Achim Weiss

17:40-19:00

12 december Tuesday

Session: Stellar Population Models

Charlot, S. (IR)

09:00-09:40

Bruzual, Gustavo

09:40-10:00

Vazdekis, Alexandre

10:00-10:20

Coelho, Paula

10:20-10:40

Coffee Break

10:40-11:10

Maraston, Claudia

11:10-11:30

Lancon, Ariane

11:30-11:50

Gibson, Brad

11:50-12:10

Poster Session

12:10-12:20

Session: Stellar Populations in the Milky Way

Zoccali, Manuela

12:20-12:40

Reddy, Eswar

12:40-13:00

Lunch

13:00-15:00

Pompeia, Luciana

15-00-15:20

de Jong, Jelte

15:20-15:40

Carretta, Eugenio

15:40-16:00

Sarajedini, Ata

16:00-16:20

Calamida, Annalisa

16:20-16:40

Grocholski, Aaron

16:40-17:00

Coffee Break

17:00-17:30

Poster Session

17:30-17:40

Stellar Pops. Challenge - convener: Scott Trager

17:40-10:00

13 december Wednesday

Session: Resolved Stellar Populations in the Local Group

Grebel, E. (IR)

09:00-09:40

Valls-Gabaud, David

09:40-10:00

Aparicio, Antonio

10:00-10:20

Lee, Myung Gyoon

10:20-10:40

Coffee Break

10:40-11:10

Skillman, Evan

11:10-11:30

Chapman, Scott

11:30-11:50

Ferguson, Annette

11:50-12:10

Cioni, Maria-Rosa

12:10-12:30

Lunch and Excursion

12:30

14 december Thursday

Tolstoy, E. (IR)

09:00-09:40

Gallart, Carme

09:40-10:00

Aloisi, Alessandra

10:00-10:20

Cole, Andrew

10:20-10:40

Coffee Break

10:40-11:10

Session: Stellar Populations in Early-type Galaxies

Rose, J. (IR)

11:10-11:50

Sánchez-Blázquez, Patricia

11:50-12:10

Yi, Sukyoung

12:10-12:30

Bressan, Alessandro

12:30-12:50

Poster Session

12:50-13:00

Lunch

13:00-15:00

McDermid, Richard

15:00-15:20

Lisker, Thorsten

15:20-15:40

Session: Extragalactic Globular Cluster Systems

Larsen, Soeren

15:40-16:00

Beasley, Michael

16:00-16:20

Geisler, Doug

16:20-16:40

Cenarro, A. Javier

16:40-17:00

Coffee Break

17:00-17:30

Parallel discussion sessions

17:30-18:30

Conference Banket

18:30

15 december Friday

Session: Stellar Populations in Late-type Galaxies

Cid-Fernandes, R. (IR)

09:10-09:50

Gonzalez Delgado, Rosa

09:50-10:10

Van Der Marel, Roeland

10:10-10:30

MacArthur, Lauren

10:30-10:50

Coffee Break

10:50-11:20

Peletier, Reynier

11:20-11:40

Sarzi, Marc

11:40-12:00

Parallel discussion sessions

12:00-13:00

Lunch

13:00-15:00

Session: Stellar Populations at Higher Redshifts

Kodama, T. (IR)

15:00-15:40

Arimoto, Nobuo

15:40-16:00

Thomas, Daniel

16:00-16:20

Schiavon, Ricardo

16:20-16:40

Gallazzi, Anna

16:40-17:00

Coffee Break

17:00-17:30

Session: New observing facilities

Bland-Hawthorn, J. (IR)

17:30-18:10

Rodriguez-Espinosa, J.M (IT)

18:10-18:40

Conference Summary - Alvio Renzini

18:40-19:10

Meeting Closure

19:10