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* New quests in stellar astrophysics: *
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* T H E L I N K B E T W E E N S T A R S A N D C O S M O L O G Y *
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* March 26 - 30, 2001 *
* Puerto Vallarta, Mexico *
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* FINAL ANNOUNCEMENT *
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Dear Participant,
This is the final announcement for the conference:
"New quests in stellar astrophysics:
THE LINK BETWEEN STARS AND COSMOLOGY",
to be held in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico on March 26 - 30, 2001.
In this announcement you will find the Final Scientific Program,
information about cultural activities during the conference days
and other logistic information.
TALKS and POSTER CONTRIBUTIONS
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We have done a strong effort to allocate time for oral presentations
to as many participants as possible. Invited talks will have 40-minutes
and a contributed talk 20-minutes, including discussion time.
We will be having modern facilities such as laptops
with Powerpoint and Star Office for electronic presentations. Please
contact us at costa01@inaoep.mx regarding modes for transferring your files
to the conference laptops.
A space of 1-meter by 1-meter will be available for each poster.
You are expected to put your poster before the session starts
on Monday and remove it on Friday. Ample time is provided during the coffee
breaks for poster viewing and each poster will be given 5-minutes time
for brief oral presentation.
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM
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Venue: Salón Vallarta 3. Hotel Fiesta Americana.
Sunday, 25th of March 2001
19:30 Welcome cocktail at the Hotel Fiesta Americana and Registration.
Monday, 26th of March 2001
09:00: Welcome addresses: Miguel Chávez,Jose Guichard,Arturo Chávez,
Gregorio Robles, Antonio Ponce
Model Atmospheres
09:30 Things We Do Not Know About Stars And Model Atmospheres.
Robert Kurucz (Invited)
10:10 Modelling of cool stellar atmospheres: an update.
Peter Hauschildt (Invited)
10:50 A Precise New Method of Correcting the Temperature in Stellar
Atmospheres.
Octavio Cardona
11:10 Coffee Break
11:40 A Grid of LTE Zero-Metallicity Stellar Fluxes
Miguel Chávez
Primeval Stars and the Cosmic Nucleosynthesis
12:00 The evolutionary properties of the first stellar generation
(from the intermediate to the massive stars) and their final yields.
Alessandro Chieffi (Invited)
12:40 The peculiar evolution of low-mass Pop III stars.
Helmut Schlattl
13:00 Lunch
16:00 Cosmological Chemistry and the Formation of the First Objects.
Anton Lipovka
16:20 The first stars, the IMF and the nucleosynthetic constraints.
Carlos Abia
16:40 On the stellar IMF in very metal-poor enviroments.
Fumitaka Nakamura
17:00 Cosmological origin of the lowest metallicity halo stars.
Xavier Hernández
17:20 Coffee Break
17:50 Nucleosynthesis of the light elements.
Ann M. Boesgaard (Invited)
18:30 The primordial Lithium abundance.
Piercarlo Bonifacio
18:50 Poster Discussion
"A critical appraisal of Atlas9 and Nextgen 5 model atmospheres".
Emanuele Bertone
"A grid of synthetic stellar UV fluxes".
Lino H. Rodríguez-Merino
19:10 End of Session
Tuesday, 27th of March 2001
Stars in the Milky Way and Local Galaxies
09:30 An Update of Globular Cluster Ages.
Pierre Demarque (Invited)
10:10 Star formation history in the solar neighbourhood: the link
between stars and cosmology.
Vladimir Avila-Rees (Invited)
10:50 About the IMF from young stellar clusters.
Alicia Porras
11:10 Coffee Break
11:40 New phenomena discovered in the atmospheres of normal late B-type
stars
Swetlana Hubrig
12:00 The upper end of the Galactic metallicity scale.
Benjamin Taylor (Invited)
12:40 Lick indices for super metal-rich stars
M. Lucia Malagnini
13:00 Lunch
16:00 Stellar abundances in dwarf galaxies.
Kim Venn
16:20 Reconstructing star formation episodes in the Local Group.
David Valls-Gabaud
16:40 Deep studies of the resolved stellar populations in the outskirts
of M31
Annette Ferguson
17:00 Surveys for variable stars in M31 and M33.
David Bersier
17:20 Coffee Break
17:50 The massive interacting multiple system HD 5980 in the SMC
Gloria Koenigsberger
18:10 Calibrating the cosmic meter stick: the distance to the LMC using
eclipsing binaries.
Edward F. Guinan
18:30 Estimation of the Hubble constant using Cepheid PL relations at
maximum light.
Shashi Kanbur
18:50 Poster Discussion
"The proper motion of the globular cluster NGC 6553 and of Bulge
stars with HST".
Manuela Zoccali
"A survey of open clusters in the northern hemisphere".
Andre Moitinho
"H alpha luminosity function of HII regions: preliminary calibration
of a powerful standard candle".
Maite Rozas & Andrew Cardwell
"On the behavior of the diffuse nebulae population in NGC 4449".
Margarita Valdez
"The NGC 5044-N50: a link between compact blue galaxies and dwarf
ellipticals".
Sergio Cellone
"Reconstructing star formation history in the halo of NGC 5128".
Francine Marleau
"Heating the Quiet Corona by Nanoflares: Results from SUMER on board
SOHO".
Juan Pablo Torres-Papaqui
19:10 End of Session
Wednesday, 28th of March 2001
Population Synthesis and Galaxy Models
09:30 On the properties of massive Pop III stars and metal-free stellar
population.
Daniel Schaerer
09:50 Recent star formation in galaxies
Alessandro Bressan (Invited)
10:30 New SSP models with enhanced mix of alpha-elements. A study of
elliptical's age and metallicity.
Rosaria Tantalo
10:50 Extinction and Star Formation Histories of Nearby Starburst
Galaxies
Divakara Mayya
11:10 Coffee Break
11:40 Population Synthesis and the diagnostics of high-redshift
galaxies.
Alberto Buzzoni (Invited)
12:20 Population Synthesis in the Blue.
Ricardo Schiavon
12:40 Modelling the X-ray to radio SED of galaxies.
Laura Silva
13:00 Dust and nebular emission in star-forming galaxies.
Pasquale Panuzzo
13:20 End of Session
13:30 Lunch
Afternoon free. Those willing to go on a boat trip please contact
the secretaries at the registration desk of the conference
Thursday, 29th of March 2001
High--Mass Stellar Products and Cosmology
09:30 Explosive nucleosynthesis and yields of low-metallicity massive
stars.
Marco Limongi
09:50 Evolution of Cosmological Type Ia Supernovae and the gravitation
constant G.
Enrique Gaztańaga (Invited)
10:30 Gamma-ray bursts as the collapse of massive stars: mapping the
Universe to greater depths.
Enrico Ramírez-Ruiz
10:50 The First Detection of Cobalt in a Damped Lyman Alpha System
Sara Ellison
11:10 Coffee Break
Stellar Environments in High-Redshift Galaxies. I.
11:40 Stars and gas in high-redshift galaxies.
Max Pettini (Invited)
12:20 From protostars to galaxies with the LMT
Luis Carrasco (Invited)
13:00 Cosmological parameters from CMB and galaxy fluctuations.
Enrique Gaztańaga
13:20 Lunch
16:00 Stellar metallicities beyond the Local Group with VLT/FORS.
Norbert Przybilla
16:20 Where did the gas and stars in the intracluster medium come from?.
Omar López-Cruz (Invited)
17:00 High-redshift galaxies and the intergalactic medium.
Rupert Croft
17:20 Poster discussion
"The Creation and Evolution of Galaxies in the Universe: Millimetre
cosmology @ INAOE".
Enrique Gaztańaga
"Simulated Millimetre and Submillimetre Galaxy Surveys".
Edward Chapin
"HI Emission from the Damped Lyman-$\alpha$ absorber SBS $1543+593$"
Elias Brinks
"Are type Ibc Supernovae time clocks of Seyfert galaxies ?"
Alessandro Bressan
"Star formation in Ring galaxies"
Roberto Romano
17:45 End of Session
18:00 Public conference
19:30 Folk Ballet at the Fiesta Americana Hotel (next to the pool)
20:45 Closing dinner at the "El Set" restaurant
Friday, 30th of March 2001
Stellar Environments in High-Redshift Galaxies. II.
10:00 On the calibration of star formation rates.
Daniel Rosa-González
10:20 Far IR SED of Seyfert Galaxies: detecting star formation at high
redshift.
Jose Miguel Rodríguez-Espinosa
10:40 Abundances in high-redshift damped Ly$\alpha$ systems.
Paolo Molaro (Invited)
11:20 Dust-Penetrated morphology in the high-redshift universe
Ivanio Puerari
11:40 Coffee Break
12:10 The dusty star formation history of distant galaxies and modelling
tools.
Luigi Granato (Invited)
12:50 The Value of Omega.
Roman Juszkiewicz (Invited)
13:30 Concluding Remarks
14:00 End of Session, End of Conference and Lunch
ABSTRACT BOOK AND PROCEEDINGS
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All the submitted abstracts will be included in the abstract booklet, which
will be distributed at the time of registration. The abstracts will also be
available in the ADS.
All the invited talks and contributions (either talks or posters) will be
included in the conference proceedings.
Instructions to the authors for the preparation of the manuscripts will be
given during the conference.
REGISTRATION
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Registration of the participants for the conference will begin at 7:30 PM
on Sunday at the Conference Hotel. The registration will continue on
Monday morning.
IMPORTANT:
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| PLEASE NOTE THAT PAYMENTS OF REGISTRATION FEE AND FOR
| BOTH THE HOTELS SHOULD BE MADE AT THE CONFERENCE REGISTRATION DESK
| NOT LATER THAN WEDNESDAY, 28 MARCH 2001. ONLY CASH PAYMENTS ARE ACCEPTED
| (in US dollars or Mexican pesos; no checks or credit cards).
| You will have to set your service bills (telephone, bar etc.) at the
| hotel desk when you check out. PLEASE NOTE THAT WE HAVE ALREADY
| PAYED FOR YOUR FIRST NIGHT AT THE HOTEL YOU HAD OPTED FOR.
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Please enter our webpage to check if your arrival and departure dates
are correct, and send us an email if they aren't. We would also
appreciate if you could send us your flight schedule which will enable
us to keep the hotel informed about your arrival time.
PLANNED SOCIAL EVENTS
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SUNDAY 7:30 PM at Hotel Fiesta Americana ---- WELCOME COCKTAIL
The registration at Hotel Fiesta Americana will be
accompanied by A WELCOME COCKTAIL with music.
WEDNESDAY afternoon --- Free and Optional Boat Trip.
THURSDAY 07:30 PM --- Folklore Dance
8:45 PM at "El Set" --- CONFERENCE DINNER
The conference dinner is OPTIONAL and will have a cost of
US$40.00 or equivalently 400 Mexican pesos. The dinner will be
accompanied by piano and a dancing with live music afterwards.
HOTEL ADDRESSES
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Hotel Fiesta Americana
Av. Francisco Medina Ascencio Km 2.5
P.O. Box 270 C.P. 48300
Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco
Tel: 52-322-42010
or 01 800 504 5000 (when inside Mexico)
Fax: 52-322-42108
Hotel Los Arcos
Olas Altas 380
C.P. 48380
Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco
Tel: 52-322-21583
Fax: 52-322-22418
Contact Persons at Puerto Vallarta: Dr. Miguel Chavez and members of LOC
will be available at the conference Hotel starting from Friday, the 23rd.
HOW TO REACH YOUR HOTELS FROM THE PUERTO VALLARTA AIRPORT
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You can easily reach your hotels from the Airport in Taxis available at
the airport. These taxis will cost you around 10.00 US$ and are safe.
Both the Hotels are well-known among the taxi drivers. A map indicating
the airport and the two hotels is available on our web page.
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