IAU Symposium 207 on
EXTRAGALACTIC STAR CLUSTERS
Date:
March 12 - 16, 2001
Venue:
Hotel del Lago, Pucón, Chile
Host:
Universidad de Concepción,
Chile
Contact:
starclus@mpia-hd.mpg.de
IAU Symposium 207 had ~180 attendees and featured ~60 science talks
and ~94 posters. Many thanks to all the participants and sponsors
for making this such an active and enjoyable event.
The proceedings will be published in the IAU Symposium Series by
the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. They are currently being
printed and expected to be mailed out by the end of 2002.
Knut
Olsen and Jon Holtzman set up a great web page with pictures taken
during the banquet. Also,
Jesús
Maíz-Apellániz put together a
very nice page, as did
Michael
Hilker. Enjoy!
Purpose
of the meeting:
This IAU Symposium aims at exploring the diversity and common
properties of star clusters ranging from ancient globulars to young starburst
clusters in different environments. We want to bring together researchers
working on the many different aspects of extragalactic star clusters in a
variety of different wavelength ranges in order to gain a comprehensive picture
of star cluster formation and evolution and their role in the evolutionary
framework of their parent galaxies.
Topics to be addressed include:
- Star cluster formation in its entirety ranging from short-lived,
low-density OB associations to open clusters, rich populous clusters, and
to very massive, dense super star clusters, the possible progenitors of
today's globular clusters.
- Star cluster formation in all possible environments including low-mass
dwarf galaxies, irregular and spiral galaxies, starburst galaxies,
interacting and merging galaxies or galaxies that suffered such events on
a large scale in the past, isolated ellipticals and ellipticals in galaxy
cluster environments.
- The preconditions for cluster formation as a function of environment and
external influences, questions of variations of the initial mass function,
the question of the existence and length of a period of preferred globular
cluster formation, cluster life times and destruction mechanisms.
- The use of star clusters, especially globular clusters, to study galaxy
formation and evolution, galaxy dynamics, and the distance scale.
In preparation for this meeting
a one-day topical session was held at the
Centennial Meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Chicago in June
1999. The program of this session contained
several of our planned topics in a very compressed format.
These webpages will no longer be maintained. Most of the links have
been removed. Most of the remaining links below are still working.
The meeting's e-mail account, starclus@mpia.de, has been disabled.
Links:
Eva Grebel & Doug Geisler
Last update: Sep 20, 2002
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