IX Reunión Regional Latinoamericana

    Tonantzintla, 1998


        PRELIMINAR PROGRAM

        This program can be modified even at the meeting's week...

        Minisymposia on the focal points
        . Information Center

        		Conference Room
        MONDAY Compact Stars and Supernovae progenitors

        		Dynamics of the Solar System
        TUESDAY Formation and evolution of galaxies Stellar ejecta and their interaction with the interstell ar medium
        WEDNESDAY Instrumentation: large projects Stellar populations
        THURSDAY Active nuclei and galaxies Binary stars
        FRIDAY Stellar formation Clusters and stellar associations

        • List of posters

        • Discussions

        • Thesis' presentations

        • Panels

        FOCAL POINT 1a. Dynamics of the Solar System
        Monday, november 9, 9:30-12:50

        Review

        • Global influences of the accretion process of the outer solar system
          Adrian Brunini
          9:30-10:20

        Oral contributions

        • Collisional Planetary Rings: The Role of the Width and the Optical Depth
          Espresate & Lissauer
          10:20-10:40

        • Neptune's Trojans
          Gallardo
          10:40-11:00

        • Size and fraction of active surface area of some Jupiter family comets: Implications with respect to their physical evolution
          Fernandez, Tancredi, Rickman & Licandro
          11:30-11:50

        • Busca 97 and 98: Uruguayan Search of Satellites, Asteroids and Comets
          Tancredi & Sosa
          11:50-12:10

        • Encuentros entre asteroides producidos en el siglo XX
          Mammana & Orellana
          12:10-12:30

        FOCAL POINT 2a. Binary stars
        Thursday, november 12, 9:00-12:40

        Review

        • A short history of binary stars
          Virpi Niemela
          9:00-9:50

        Oral contributions

        • Dynamical Evolution of Wide Binaries
          Mallada & Fernandez
          9:50-10:10

        • Observed and Intrinsic Properties of Binary Stars Orbits
          Bosch & Meza
          10:10-10:30

        • El Evento Eruptivo en el Sistema WR/LBV HD 5980 de la Pequeña Nube de Magallanes
          Koenigsberger
          10:30-10:50

        • The Colliding Wind Binary Eta Carinae
          Damineli, Conti & Lopes
          11:20-11:40

        • Study of the symbiotic star AR pavonis
          Quiroga, Brandi, Ferrer, García & Barba
          11:40-12:00

        • High spectral and time resolution observations of eclipsing polar RX J0719.2+6557
          Tovmassian, Szkody, Greiner, Vrielmann, Kroll, Howell, Saxton, Ciardi, Mason & Hastings
          12:00-12:20

        • Wide Binaries among High-Velocity and Metal-Poor Stars
          Allen, Herrera & Poveda
          12:20-12:40

        FOCAL POINT 2b. Compact Stars and Supernovae progenitors
        Monday, november 9, 9:30-12:50

        Review

        • Compact stars and their progenitors
          Dany Page
          9:30-10:20

        Oral contributions

        • The mass - radius relation for white dwarf stars of different internal composition
          Panei, Althaus & Benvenuto
          10:20-10:40

        • Radio silent pulsars among unidentified gamma-ray sources
          Carramiñana, Brazier, Reimer & Kanbach
          10:40-11:00

        • A Possible Conection Between Magnetars and Gamma-Ray Bursts
          Allen, Horvath & de Freitas Pacheco
          11:30-11:50

        • Compact stars cooling by means of heat waves
          Falcón
          11:50-12:10

        • Determination of Stellar Parameters of Massive Stars: Aplication to Carbon Wolf-Rayet Stars and LBVs
          Machado
          12:10-12:30

        • Photometric history of some LBV candidates of M33
          Corral, Kurtev, Georgiev
          12:30-12:50

        FOCAL POINT 3a. Stellar ejecta and their interaction with the interstellar medium
        Tuesday, november 10, 9:00-12:40

        Review

        • Stellar ejecta and their interaction with the the interstellar medium
          Alejandro Raga
          9:00-9:50

        Oral contributions

        • Soluciones analiticas al problema de jets con velocidad de eyección variable en el tiempo
          Cantó, Raga, D'Alessio
          9:50-10:10

        • Magnetized and Rotating Winds in Planetary Nebulae
          García-Segura, Franco, Langer, Rozyczka
          10:10-10:30

        • Lineas de emision de una capa de mezcla
          Binette, Raga & Cantó
          10:30-10:50

        • High resolution HI observations of the ISM local to Galactic WR stars
          Arnal
          11:20-11:40

        • VLA HI and continuum observations of the Wolf-Rayet ring nebula NGC 2359
          Cappa
          11:40-12:00

        • Destruction of the Environment of the BN-KL Nebula
          Salas, Rosado, Cruz-Gonzalez, Gutierrez, Valdez, Bernal, Luna, Ruiz & Lazo
          12:00-12:20

        • Planetary Nebulae with [WR] nuclei
          Peña & Stasisnka
          12:20-12:40

        FOCAL POINT 3b. Stellar formation
        Friday, november 13, 9:30-13:10

        Review

        • The environment of newly-formed massive stars
          Guido Garay
          9:30-10:20

        Oral contributions

        • Shock-Induced Star Formation in the Galactic Halo
          Martos, Allen & Franco
          10:20-10:40

        • Interactions of HVCs with a Magnetized Thick Disk
          Franco, Santillan, Martos & Kim
          10:40-11:00

        • Clouds as Turbulent Density Fluctuations. Implications for Pressure Confinement and Production of Hydrostatic
          Vázquez-Semadeni & Ballesteros-Paredes
          11:00-11:20

        • Partially Ionized Zone in Orion
          Peimbert, Esteban & Torres-Peimbert
          11:50-12:10

        • CO(J=2-1) in-plane survey of the 4th GALACTIC quadrant
          Luna, Bronfman, Carrasco, Handa & Hasegawa
          12:10-12:30

        • Faint Emission Lines and Temperature Fluctuations in M8
          Torres-Peimbert, Peimbert, Esteban, García Rojas & Rodríguez.
          12:30-12:50

        • Detección de gas fotodisociado en la region HII GGD12-15
          Gómez, Lebrón, Rodríguez, Garay, Lizano, Escalante & Cantó
          12:50-13:10

        FOCAL POINT 4a. Stellar populations
        Wednesday, november 11, 9:00-12:40

        Review

        • Stellar Populations in Galaxies
          Dante Minniti
          9:00-9:50

        Oral contributions

        • A model for the infrared brightness distribution of the Galaxy
          Lepine & Leroy
          9:50-10:10

        • A Homogeneous Stellar Sample for the Study of Metal-Rich Populations
          Chávez, Malagnini, Buzzoni & Morossi
          10:10-10:30

        • Uncertainties in Population Synthesis Models: Effects on the Interpretation of Distant Galaxies
          Gustavo Bruzual
          10:30-10:50

        • The Stellar Populations of Elliptical Galaxies
          Jesus Gonzalez, Gerardo Vazquez y Lorenzo Olguin
          11:20-11:40

        • Quantitative Stellar Spectral Classification
          Stock & Stock
          11:40-12:00

        • Correction of the galactic luminosity function for opacity
          Leroy & Portilla
          12:00-12:20

        • Artificial Neural Networks in Stellar Astronomy
          Gulati, Altamirano, Bravo & Padilla
          12:20-12:40

        FOCAL POINT 4b. Clusters and stellar associations
        Friday, november 13, 9:30-13:10

        Review

        • Open Clusters and Associations: a Review
          Anthony Brown
          9:30-10:20

        Oral contributions

        • Survey of stellar associations using proper motions
          Abad, Romero & Bongiovanni
          10:20-10:40

        • Searching for Moving Groups with HIPPARCOS
          Aguilar & Hoogerwerf
          10:40-11:00

        • Stellar kinematics in 30Dor: The mass of the ionising cluster
          Bosch, Terlevich, Melnick, Selman
          11:00-11:20

        • Galactic tidal shock effects in globular clusters
          Cruz
          11:50-12:10

        • Star Cluster Encounters: a possible explanation for elliptical clusters
          de Oliveira, Bica & Dottori
          12:10-12:30

        • On the Limits of Applicability of Chandrasekhar's Dynamical Friction Formula
          Ostrov
          12:30-12:50

        FOCAL POINT 5a. Formation and evolution of galaxies
        Tuesday, november 10, 9:00-12:40

        Review

        • Galaxy Formation and Evolution
          Julio Navarro
          9:00-9:50

        Oral contributions

        • Formation of disks in hierarchical clustering models
          Tissera, Saiz, Dominguez-Tenreiro
          9:50-10:10

        • The Galactic Halo Formation and the Evolution of Bias
          Colín, Klypin, Kravtsov, & Khokhlov
          10:10-10:30

        • Physical interpretation of asymmetry in galaxies
          Mayya & Romano
          10:30-10:50

        • The Chemical Evolution of Dynamically Hot Galaxies
          Richer, McCall, Stasinska
          11:20-11:40

        • Dark matter and the chemical evolution of irregular galaxies
          Carigi, Colín & Peimbert
          11:40-12:00

        • HII Galaxies as cosmological probes
          Terlevich, Terlevich, Melnick, Benoit & Joguet
          12:00-12:20

        • NGC 404, a galaxy without dark matter
          Del Rio, Brinks & Cepa
          12:20-12:40

        FOCAL POINT 5b. Active nuclei and galaxies
        Thursday, november 12, 9:00-13:00

        Review

        • Nuclear Activity in Galaxies
          Thaisa Storchi-Bergmann
          9:00-9:50

        Oral contributions

        • AGN Frequency in a Sample of Interacting Galaxies
          Donzelli & Pastoriza
          9:50-10:10

        • New insights on the Starburst-AGN connection
          Cid Fernandes & Schmitt
          10:10-10:30

        • Hot Haloes of Young Galaxies and the QSO Absorbers
          Viegas, Gruenwald & Friaca
          10:30-10:50

        • The host galaxies of high-redshift QSOs: a search for spheroid formation
          Aretxaga
          11:20-11:40

        • Observaciones Infrarrojas de Galaxias Activas.
          Guichard, Malkan & Mc Lean
          11:40-12:00

        • Seyfert Galaxies at the IR: the ISO perspective
          Perez Garcia & Rodríguez Espinoza
          12:00-12:20

        • Kinematics of the Central Regions of NGC 1672
          Diaz, Dottori, Carranza
          12:20-12:40

        • Beaming and precession in the inner jet of 3C273
          Abraham & Romero
          12:40-13:00

        FOCAL POINT 6a. Instrumentation: large projects
        Wednesday, november 11, 9:00-12:20

        • GTM/LMT: technical aspects
          Luis Carrasco
          9:00-9:40

        • Mexican Infrared-Optical New Technology Telescope: The TIM project
          Luis Salas
          9:40-10:20

        • The SOAR 4 m telescope and instruments
          Jacques Lepine
          10:20-10:50

        • Array of CCD's for the 1m. Schmidt telescope
          GerardoSánchez, Carlos Abad & Cesar Briseño
          11:20-11:50

        • The GTC: An Advanced 10 m. Telescope for the ORM
          José Miguel Rodríguez Espinosa, P. Alvarez y Francisco Sánchez
          11:50-12:20

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