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Symposium 241
Symposium 241
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.
Invited Speakers
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Guest Lecture on GTC 10.4m Telescope
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"Challenge" discussion leaders
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Poster Summaries
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Conference Summary
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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.
Additional support has been provided by the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (ING), Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia, Patronato de Turismo de La Palma, Ayuntamiento de Los Llanos de Aridane, Ayuntamiento de El Paso and Ayuntamiento de Breña Baja. We are seeking for further supporting institutions.
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