=============================================================================== IAU Symposium 207 Extragalactic Star Clusters Pucon, Chile, March 12 to March 16 SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Registration Desk: Open Sunday 19:30 - 20:30 (Foyer - Hotel del Lago) Open Monday - Friday 8am - 1pm and 2pm to 5pm Hospitality Tourism Desk: Monday - Friday 9am to 6pm (Foyer - Hotel del Lago) All other events take place in the Salon Encinas unless otherwise noted. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUNDAY, March 11, 2001 19:30 - 20:30 Registration 20:30 Opening reception: Salon Palguin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MONDAY, March 12, 2001 0. Introduction 8:30 Greetings, Introduction SESSION I. The Galactic Globular Cluster System Chair: Mario Pedreros, Universidad de Tarapaca 8:40 Hesser - Metal-poor globular clusters of the Milky Way and Environs 9:10 Barbuy - Globular clusters of the Galactic center 9:40 Phelps - The Galactic Open Cluster System 10:10 POSTERS (2 min presentations, 10 posters) Piotto - The HST snapshot database on Galactic Globular Cluster color magnitude diagrams Ortolani - Near-IR observations of low galactic latitude star clusters Lee, H.-C. - Relative Ages from Horizontal-Branch Morphology: Revisited Catelan - The Second-Parameter Problem in the Outer Halo: M3 vs. Pal 3 Catelan - Age as the Second Parameter in NGC 288/NGC 362? Pompeia - Detailed Analysis of Bulge-like Stars Phelps - The Palomar-Las Campanas Observatory-NOAO (PLCON) Open Cluster Surve Brandl - NGC3603 - a Local Template for Massive Young Clusters Brooks - The extragalactic-like massive star clusters of the Carina Nebula Stolte - Infrared Imaging of the Arches Cluster - Adaptive Optics in the Densest Region of the Milky Way 10:30 BREAK --------- SESSION II. Star Cluster Formation and Formation Sites Chair: Pierre Demarque, Yale U. 11:00 Clarke - The formation of globular clusters 11:30 Rubio - Giant Molecular Clouds and Cluster Formation 11:55 Fukui - A Revised CO View of the Magellanic Clouds with NANTEN; New Deep Observations 12:20 POSTERS (2 min presentations, 4 posters) Palous - Fragmentation of expanding shells: cluster formation rates and masses Geyer - Formation of Globular Clusters in Turbulent Molecular Clouds Theis - On the Formation of Twin Clusters Mizuno - NANTEN Observations of the LMC; Giant Molecular Clouds as Formation Sites of Stellar Clusters 12:30 LUNCH and POSTER VIEWING ------------------------------------------- SESSION III. Star Clusters in M31 Chair: Carla Cacciari, Oss. Ast., Bologna 14:00 Jablonka - The globular cluster properties in M31 14:30 Lee, M.G. - New CCD Survey of Globular Clusters in M31 14:50 Perrett - The Globular Clusters of M31: Keys to its Formation History 15:10 Barmby - M31 globular cluster metallicities & ages 15:30 POSTERS (2 min presentations, 8 posters) Cacciari - A Survey of M31 Globular Clusters Using WFPC2 on board HST Kim - Washington Photometry of New Globular Clusters in M31 Williams - Star Clusters and Stellar Populations of the M31 Disk as Viewed by HST Brandner - M31 Globular Clusters in the NIR Stephens - The NICMOS view of M31's Metal Rich Globular Clusters Lee, M.G. - HST/WFPC2 observations of ionizing star clusters in M33 Chandar - Distinct Kinematic Cluster Populations in M33 Kravtsov - Second-parameter globular clusters in the Milky Way and in M33 as tracers of mass loss from M31 in the early epoch? 15:50 BREAK --------- SESSION IV. Star Clusters in Local Group Spirals and Dwarf Ellipticals Chair: George Wallerstein, U Washington 16:20 Hardy - The Globular Clusters of the Fornax dSph Galaxy 16:40 Armandroff - The Globular Cluster Systems of NGC 185 & 205 17:00 Minniti - Comparing Globular Cluster Systems with the Milky Way 17:20 Sarajedini - The Formation Chronology of Local Group Spiral Galaxies 17:50 POSTERS (2 min presentations, 5 posters) Held - Cluster ages in dwarf spheroidal galaxies: the Sagittarius cluster Ter 7 Cacciari - The RR Lyrae variables in M54 and the Sgr dwarf galaxy Wallerstein- Element Abundances in Terzan 7, a young globular cluster associated with the Sagittarius Galaxy Kim, S.C. - Surface Photometry of Star Clusters in the Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies NGC 185 and NGC 205 Pedreros - New Cluster Candidates in Dwarf Galaxies of the Local Group 18:00 DISCUSSION 18:30 END 20:30 PUBLIC LECTURE Forte - La Astronomia del Siglo XXI: El Fin de la Infancia ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TUESDAY, March 13, 2001 SESSION V. The Magellanic Clouds and Irregular Galaxies Chair: Jon Holtzman, New Mexico State U. 8:30 Da Costa - Star Clusters in the Magellanic Clouds 9:00 Wilkinson - Dynamical evolution of rich star clusters in the LMC 9:20 Grebel - Star Clusters in Irregular Galaxies in the Local Group 9:50 POSTERS (2 min presentations), 10 posters) Yatsyk - Comparative classification of Globular Clusters in the Galaxy and LMC Brocato - A large and homogeneous sample of CMDs of LMC stellar clusters Johnson - HST Observations of 3 More Old LMC Clusters Marconi - Optical and Infrared observations of LMC old stellar clusters: the Reticulum cluster Claria - Ages and metallicities of five intermediate-age star clusters projected towards the SMC Hill - Globular clusters as tracors of the LMC chemical evolution Barba - Near Infrared imaging of LMC N11A Niemela - Massive Binary Stars in Open Clusters of the Magellanic Clouds Borissova - Deep near infrared photometry of new galactic globular clusters 2MASS GC01 and 2MASS GC02 10:10 BREAK --------- SESSION VI. Mass Functions and Distances Chair: Wolfgang Gieren, Universidad de Concepcion 10:40 Sagar - Mass function of young star clusters 11:10 Santiago - LF & MF of LMC clusters 11:30 Zinnecker - The infrared luminosity function of the 30 Doradus starburst cluster 11:50 Walker - Variable Stars in Clusters and the Distance Scale 12:10 POSTERS (2 min presentations, 7 posters) Sirianni - The low end of the Initial Mass Function in the young SMC cluster NGC330 Maiz-Apellaniz - A view of 30 Doradus with HST/WFPC2 Brandl - Observational Evidence for Dynamical Ejection of Massive Stars from R136 Grillmair - Evolution of Globular Cluster Sizes in Early-Type Galaxies Maiz-Apellaniz - The Size Distribution of Massive Young Clusters Larsen - HST and Keck observations of a young globular cluster in the spiral galaxy NGC 6946 Vera - The Black and Luminous Star Clusters and Galaxies Predicted from the Equivalence Principle and Gravitational Tests 12:30 LUNCH and POSTER VIEWING ------------------------------------------- SESSION VII. Mass and Dynamical Evolution of Star Clusters Chair: Eileen Friel, NSF 14:00 Meylan - Mass Determinations of Star Clusters 14:25 Fall - Formation and Disruption of Globular Clusters 14:50 Lee, H.M. - The Life and Death of Globular Clusters 15:15 Lotz - Dynamical Friction in dE Globular Cluster Systems 15:30 POSTERS (2 min presentations, 10 posters) Lamers - The Disruption time of Extragalactic Star Clusters Chen - An absolute proper motion study of globular cluster M13 Boeker - The HST census of nuclear star clusters Homeier - Properties of Super Star Clusters in Nearby Starburst Galaxies Johnson - The Discovery of Newly Born Clusters in Nearby Starburst Galaxies Gilbert - Near-IR Spectroscopy & Spectral Population Synthesis of Super Star Clusters in NGC 1569 Borne - HST Observations of Young Star Clusters in Interacting Galaxies de Grijs - Tidally-induced super star clusters in M82 Smith - The Top-Heavy IMF of the Young Super Star Cluster M82-F Kassin - Stellar Populations in the Antennae (NGC 4038/9): Exploring a Galaxy Merger Pixel By Pixel 15:50 BREAK --------- SESSION VIII. Super Star Clusters Chair: Kirk Borne, GSFC 16:20 Telles - Super Stellar Clusters in HII Galaxies 16:50 Whitmore - The Formation and Evolution of Young Star Clusters in the Antennae 17:20 Mengel - IFS and IR Observations of Star Clusters in the Antennae 17:40 O'Connell - Super Star Clusters in M82 18:00 DISCUSSION 18:30 END ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WEDNESDAY, March 14, 2001 SESSION IX. Associations and Complexes Chair: Linda Smith, University College London 8:30 Elmegreen - Triggering the Formation of Young Clusters 9:00 Efremov - Complexes of star clusters in galaxies 9:30 Kennicutt - Systematic Properties of Young Clusters and Associations in Galaxies 10:00 Larsen - Open, massive and globular clusters - part of the same family? 10:20 POSTERS (2-min presentations, 4 posters) Buta - Star Clusters in Galactic Resonance Rings Gusev - The Young Star Clusters Parameters in Late Type Spiral Galaxies Sakhibov - Star formation properties of 100 extragalactic star clusters in 20 galaxies Borissova- IC 1613 OB associations and star cluster candidates 10:30 CONFERENCE PHOTOGRAPH 10:40 BREAK --------- SESSION X. Extragalactic Giant HII Regions Chair: Sergiy Silich, INAOEA, Puebla 11:10 Gonzalez-Delgado - Clusters in extragalactic HII regions and their modelling 11:40 Yu - Star clusters in giant extragalactic HII regions 12:00 POSTERS (2-min presentations, 4 posters) Silich - Star cluster blown superbubbles: X-ray emission and the intrinsic bubble metallicities Barba - Massive stars in NGC 604: where is the next generation? Bosch - Giant HII Regions: Can we use them as distance indicators? Vanzi - Star Formation in Low Metallicity Blue Dwarf Galaxies 12:10 LUNCH and POSTER VIEWING ------------------------------------------- FREE AFTERNOON Optional tours 20:30 PUBLIC LECTURE Gieren - Cumulos Estelares y las Distancias hacia las Galaxias ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THURSDAY, March 15, 2001 SESSION XI. Globular Cluster Systems - Overviews Chair: Leopoldo Infante, PUC 8:30 Kissler-Patig - Metal-rich and metal-poor globular clusters in ellipticals: did we learn anything? 9:00 Brodie - GCSs of Early-Type Galaxies: Insights into galaxy formation 9:30 Kundu - New Insights from a study of the GCSs of 60 Early- Type Galaxies and the GCLF 9:55 Forbes - Similarities in the Globular Cluster Systems of Ellipticals and Spirals 10:20 BREAK --------- SESSION XII. Globular Cluster Systems - Individual Chair: Carl Grillmair, SIRTF/Caltech 10:50 Goudfrooij - The Star Cluster System Of The 3 Gyr Old Merger NGC 1316: Ages, Metallicities, and Optical-to-IR Photometric Properties 11:10 Forte - The GC Specific Frequency in NGC 1399 and 4486: A Comparative Study 11:30 POSTERS (2-min presentations, 9 posters) Miller - Globular Clusters in Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies Buta - Discovery of Likely Globular Clusters in Maffei 1 Harris, G. - NGC 5128 - A Deep Wide-Field CMT1 Imaging Study of the GCS Peng - The Globular Cluster System of NGC 5128 (Cen A) Rejkuba - The Globular Cluster System of NGC 5128 Beasley - Globular Clusters in M 49 Gomez - The globular cluster system of NGC 1316 Dirsch - Globular clusters in the outer halo of NGC 1399 Lee, M.G. - A comparative study of globular cluster systems UGC 9799 and NGC 1129 11:50 POSTER VIEWING 12:30 LUNCH -------------------------------------------------------------- SESSION XIII. Globular Cluster Systems: Kinematics and Other Properties Chair: Junliang Zhao, Shanghai Observatory 14:00 Bridges - Kinematics of Globular Cluster Systems in Giant Ellipticals (M49&M87) 14:20 Richtler - Spectroscopy of globular clusters in NGC 1399 - a progress report 14:40 Held - Ages and metallicities of globular clusters in NGC 5128 15:00 Harris, W - Mass Distributions: Fact and Legend 15:30 POSTERS (2-minute presentations, 7 posters Zepf - Globular Clusters as Probes of the Formation History of Elliptical Galaxies Romanowsky - Dynamics of Globular Cluster Systems in Elliptical Galaxies Hanes - The Dynamics of the M87 Globular Cluster System da Rocha - Globular Clusters around galaxies in groups Bassino - Search for globular clusters in the surroundings of dwarfs in Fornax: intracluster globulars? Marin Franch- Globular cluster specific frequencies in Coma 15:50 BREAK --------- SESSION XIV. GCSs in Groups and Clusters Chair: David Hanes, Queen's U., Kingston 16:20 Olsen - The Globular Cluster Systems of the Sculptor Group 16:40 Hilker - Globular Cluster Systems in the Hydra I Galaxy Cluster 17:00 Drinkwater - A New Class of Compact Stellar System Discovered in the Fornax Cluster 17:20 Puzia - Extragalactic Globular Cluster Systems in the Near-IR 17:40 DISCUSSION 18:30 END 19:30 No-host bar 20:00 BANQUET ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FRIDAY, March 16, 2001 SESSION XV. Evolutionary Models of Star Clusters; Resolved and Integrated Chair: Monica Rubio, Universidad de Chile 8:30 D'Antona - Old and new tools for understanding the evolution of stars in clusters 9:00 Vazdekis - 47Tuc: the spectroscopic versus CMD age discrepancy 9:20 Bruzual - Stellar Populations in Extragalactic Star Clusters 9:50 Girardi - Broad-band photometric evolution of star clusters 10:10 Frogel - GC abundances from integrated light (IR) 10:30 POSTERS (2 min presentations, 9 posters) Demarque - Towards Better Age Estimates for Stellar Populations: The Y^2 Isochrones Gallart - Testing intermediate-age stellar evolution with Magellanic Clouds' clusters Rengel - Estimation of the age of Globular Clusters from Color-Magnitude Diagrams Kravtsov - Age dating of globular clusters using UBV(RI) main-sequence photometry in the two-color diagram: Age of NGC 6397 Lee, H.C. - The H beta Index As a Chronometer of Extragalactic Globular Cluster Systems Ahumada - Dating SMC Clusters from Integrated Spectroscopy Santos - Template Integrated Spectra of Star clusters Bernstein - A New Method for Measuring the Detailed Chemical Composition of Globular Clusters from High Resolution Integrated Light Spectra Fellhauer - Building dwarf galaxies out of merged young star clusters 10:50 BREAK --------- SESSION XVI. GCSs in Mergers Chair: Christian Theis, Universitaet Kiel 11:20 Schweizer - Evolution of Globular Clusters Formed in Mergers 11:50 Fritze v. Alvensleben - Predicting metallicities and colors for secondary GCs forming in spiral galaxy mergers at various redshifts 12:10 Weilbacher - Star Clusters versus Dwarf Galaxies in Tidal Tails 12:30 LUNCH and POSTER VIEWING ------------------------------------------- SESSION XVII. Scenarios Chair: Henny Lamers, Utrecht University 14:00 Zepf - Formation Scenarios for Globular Clusters and Their Host Galaxies 14:30 Vesperini - Evolution of globular cluster systems in elliptical galaxies SESSION XVIII. Future Observations 15:00 Gallagher - Extragalactic Star Cluster Futures 15:30 BREAK --------- SESSION XIX. Conclusion 16:00 FINAL DISCUSSION Chair: Georges Meylan, STScI, Baltimore 17:10 Harris, W. - Conference Summary 17:40 END 20:30 PUBLIC LECTURE Hesser - Los Descubrimientos del Telescopio Espacial Hubble desde Marte hasta los confines del Universo ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SATURDAY, March 17, 2001 Optional tours -------------------------------------------------------------------------------