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Thank you very much for your participation. We are looking forward to your co-operation to a timely publication of the proceedings of this conference. The proceedings will be edited by M. Chavez, A. Bressan, A. Buzzoni & D. Mayya and will be published by the Kluwer Academic Publishers. Instructions for preparation of your Manuscript Invited talks, contributed talks and posters are given 8, 4 and 2 pages respectively. Please prepare your contribution using the Latex macros and example files that are available at Kluwer. Alternatively you can dowload an example file (Kluwer example file modified to include a figure) and the macro kluwer.cls directly from here. Click here for guidelines for ftp'ing your manuscript. If you haven't filled and handed over the Consent to Publish & Transfer of Copyright form to us, please download it and send it by FAX to us at 52-2-2472231. Deadline for manuscript submission is 15 May 2001. Stellar astrophysics still provides the basic framework to decipher the imprints left-over by the evolving Universe on all scales. Advances or shortcomings in the former field bear direct consequences in our ability to understand the global properties of the latter. The aim of this conference is to bring together astronomers working in stellar astrophysics and cosmology, with the goal of addressing key problems in those branches that, though independent by themselves, are necessarily connected on a cosmological scale. Among the fields where this link appears outstanding, we have selected the following broad topics. Topics The Role of Stellar Atmospheres Population Synthesis in Cosmology The Oldest Stars Primordial Chemical Composition The Local Universe: Distance Scale The Local Universe: The Star Formation History Cosmology with Supernovae Scientific Organizing Committee Timothy Beers (Michigan State University, USA) Alessandro Bressan (Padova, Italy) Elias Brinks (U. of Guanajuato, Mexico) Alberto Buzzoni (TNG - Canarias, Spain) Luis Carrasco (INAOE, Mexico) Miguel Chavez (INAOE, Mexico) (Chair) George Coyne (Vatican Observatory) Wendy Freedman (Carnegie Obs. USA) Ken Freeman (Mount Stromlo, Australia) Manuel Peimbert (UNAM, Mexico) Alfonso Serrano (INAOE, Mexico) Benjamin Taylor (Brigham Young Univ. USA) Yuzuru Yoshii (U. of Tokyo, Japan) Local Organizing Committee Divakara Mayya (INAOE) (Chair) Jose Ramon Valdes (INAOE) (Co-chair) Soledad del Rio (INAOE) Lino Rodriguez (INAOE) Emanuele Bertone (OAB, Italy and INAOE) The Venue The conference venue is Puerto Vallarta, which is a well-known beach resort of Mexico on the Pacific coast. It enjoys a very pleasant weather in March. The conference will be held at the Fiesta Americana Puerto Vallarta Hotel, which disposes of private beach and wide tourist facilities. The Deadline The deadline for receiving abstracts and information about your Hotel is February 15, 2001. Hotel Addresses +----------------------------------------------+ | Hotel Fiesta Americana | | Av. Francisco Medina Ascencio Km 2.5 | | P.O. Box 270 C.P. 48300 | | Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco | | Tel: 52-322-42010 | | or 01 800 504 5000 (when inside Mexico) | | Fax: 52-322-42108 | |----------------------------------------------| | Hotel Los Arcos | | Olas Altas 380 | | C.P. 48380 | | Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco | | Tel: 52-322-21583 | | Fax: 52-322-22418 | +----------------------------------------------+ Institute Address +-------------------------------------------+ | Attn: Dr. Soledad del Rio | | Instituto Nacional de Astrofisica | | Optica y Electronica (INAOE) | | Luis Enrique Erro 1, Tonantzintla, | | Apartado Postal 51 y 216, Puebla 72840 | | MEXICO | |-------------------------------------------| | Fax: +52 2 2472231 | | Phone: +52 2 2663100, +52 2 2472011 | | Email: costa01@inaoep.mx | | WWW : http://www.inaoep.mx/~costa01/ | +-------------------------------------------+