Conference Program

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
Chair: Daniel Schaerer

    09:30 Things We Do Not Know About Stars And Model Atmospheres.
    Robert Kurucz (Invited) Full Text (.ps)

    10:10 Modelling of cool stellar atmospheres: an update.
     Peter Hauschildt (Invited) Full Text (.ps)

    10:50   A Precise New Method of Correcting the Temperature in Stellar Atmospheres.
    Octavio Cardona Full Text (.ps)
 

11:10 Coffee Break
 

    11:40 A Grid of LTE Zero-Metallicity Stellar Fluxes
    Miguel Chávez Full Text (.ps)

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) Full Text (.ps)

    12:40 The peculiar evolution of low-mass Pop III stars.
    Helmut Schlattl Full Text (.ps)
 

13:00 Lunch
  Chair: Manuel Peimbert

    16:00 Cosmological Chemistry and the Formation of the First Objects.
    Anton Lipovka Full Text (.ps)

    16:20 The first stars, the IMF and the nucleosynthetic constraints.
    Carlos Abia Full Text (.ps)

    16:40 On the stellar IMF in very metal-poor enviroments.
    Fumitaka Nakamura Full Text (.ps)

    17:00 Cosmological origin of the lowest metallicity halo stars.
    Xavier Hernández Full Text (.ps)
 

17:20 Coffee Break
 

    17:50 Nucleosynthesis of the light elements.
    Ann M. Boesgaard (Invited)

    18:30 The primordial Lithium abundance.
    Piercarlo Bonifacio Full Text (.ps)

    18:50 Poster Discussion

        "A critical appraisal of Atlas9 and Nextgen 5 model atmospheres".
        Emanuele Bertone Full Text (.ps)

        "A grid of synthetic stellar UV fluxes".
        Lino H. Rodríguez-Merino Full Text (.ps)

19:10 End of Session
 
 

Tuesday, 27th of March 2001

Stars in the Milky Way and Local Galaxies
  Chair: Alessandro Chieffi

    09:30 An Update of Globular Cluster Ages.
    Pierre Demarque (Invited) Full Text (.ps)

    10:10 Star formation history in the solar neighbourhood: the link between stars and cosmology.
    Vladimir Avila-Rees (Invited) Full Text (.ps)

    10:50 About the IMF from young stellar clusters.
    Alicia Porras Full Text (.ps)
 

11:10 Coffee Break
 

    11:40 New phenomena discovered in the atmospheres of normal late B-type stars
    Swetlana Hubrig Full Text (.ps)

    12:00 The upper end of the Galactic metallicity scale.
    Benjamin Taylor (Invited) Full Text (.ps)

    12:40 Lick indices for super metal-rich stars
    M. Lucia Malagnini Full Text (.ps)

13:00 Lunch
Chair: Alessandro Bressan

    16:00 Reconstructing star formation episodes in the Local Group.
    David Valls-Gabaud Full Text (.ps)

    16:20 Deep studies of the resolved stellar populations in the outskirts of M31
    Annette Ferguson Full Text (.ps)
 

    16:40 The massive interacting multiple system HD 5980 in the SMC
    Gloria Koenigsberger Full Text (.ps)

    17:00 Estimation of the Hubble constant using Cepheid PL relations at maximum light.
    Shashi Kanbur Full Text (.ps)

17:20 Coffee Break

    17:50 "The proper motion of the globular cluster NGC 6553 and of Bulge stars with HST".
        Manuela Zoccali Full Text (.ps)

    18:20 Poster Discussion

        "A survey of open clusters in the northern hemisphere".
       Andre Moitinho Full Text (.ps)

        "H alpha luminosity function of HII regions: preliminary calibration of a powerful standard candle".
        Maite Rozas & Andrew Cardwell Full Text (.ps)

        "On the behavior of the diffuse nebulae population in NGC 4449".
        Margarita Valdez Full Text (.ps)

        "The NGC 5044-N50: a link between compact blue galaxies and dwarf ellipticals".
        Sergio Cellone Full Text (.ps)

        "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 Full Text (.ps)
 

19:10 End of Session
 

Wednesday, 28th of March 2001

Population Synthesis and Galaxy Models
Chair: Max Pettini

    09:30 On the properties of massive Pop III stars and metal-free stellar population.
    Daniel Schaerer Full Text (.ps)

    09:50 Recent star formation in galaxies
    Alessandro Bressan (Invited) Full Text (.ps)

    10:30 Population Synthesis in the Blue.
    Ricardo Schiavon Full Text (.ps)

    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) Full Text (.ps)

    12:20 Modelling the X-ray to radio SED of galaxies.
    Laura Silva Full Text (.ps)

    12:40 Dust and nebular emission in star-forming galaxies.
    Pasquale Panuzzo Full Text (.ps)
 

13:00 End of Session
13:00 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
Chair: Paolo Molaro

    09:30 Explosive nucleosynthesis and yields of low-metallicity massive stars.
    Marco Limongi Full Text (.ps)

    09:50 Evolution of Cosmological Type Ia Supernovae and the gravitation constant G.
    Enrique Gaztañaga (Invited) Full Text (.ps)

    10:30 Gamma-ray bursts as the collapse of massive stars: mapping the Universe to greater depths.
    Enrico Ramírez-Ruiz Full Text (.ps)

    10:50 The First Detection of Cobalt in a Damped Lyman Alpha System
    Sara Ellison Full Text (.ps)
 

11:10 Coffee Break
 

Stellar Environments in High-Redshift Galaxies. I.

    11:40 Stars and gas in high-redshift galaxies.
    Max Pettini (Invited) Full Text (.ps)

    12:20 From protostars to galaxies with the LMT
    Luis Carrasco (Invited)

    13:00 Cosmological parameters from CMB and galaxy fluctuations.
    Enrique Gaztañaga Full Text (.ps)
 

13:20 Lunch
  Chair: Miguel Chavez

    16:00 Stellar metallicities beyond the Local Group with VLT/FORS.
    Norbert Przybilla Full Text (.ps)

    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 Full Text (.ps)

17:20 Poster discussion

    "The Creation and Evolution of Galaxies in the Universe: Millimetre cosmology @ INAOE".
    Enrique Gaztañaga Full Text (.ps)

    "Simulated Millimetre and Submillimetre Galaxy Surveys".
    Edward Chapin Full Text (.ps)

    "HI Emission from the Damped Lyman-$\alpha$ absorber SBS $1543+593$"
    D.V. Bowen and Elias Brinks Full Text (.ps)

    "Are type Ibc Supernovae time clocks of Seyfert galaxies ?"
    Alessandro Bressan Full Text (.ps)
 

    "Star formation in Ring galaxies"
    Divakara Mayya and Roberto Romano Full Text (.ps)

    "Optical Identification of X-ray sources in a High X-ray flux sensitivity area from the RASS"
    Raúl Mújica Full Text (.ps)

    Photometric and Medium resolution Hbeta Spectroscopic monitoring of 3C 390.3. Further Evidence of a Nuclear Accretion Disk"
    Jose Ramón Valdés Full Text (.ps)
 

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.
Chair: Alberto Buzzoni

    10:20 On the calibration of star formation rates.
    Daniel Rosa-González Full Text (.ps)

    10:40 Abundances in high-redshift damped Ly$\alpha$ systems.
    Paolo Molaro (Invited) Full Text (.ps)

    11:20 Dust-Penetrated morphology in the high-redshift universe
    Ivanio Puerari Full Text (.ps)
 

11:40 Coffee Break
 

    12:10 The dusty star formation history of distant galaxies and modelling tools.
    Luigi Granato (Invited) Full Text (.ps)

    12:50 The Value of Omega.
    Roman Juszkiewicz (Invited)

13:30 Concluding Remarks by Pierre Demarque and Luis Carrasco
 

14:00 End of Session, End of Conference and Lunch