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Venue: Room Madrid, Melia Hotel, Puerto Vallarta

Sunday 15th of April 2007

19:30

Welcome cocktail and registration at Room Alicante of the Melia Hotel, Puerto Vallarta

Monday 16th of April 2007

  Chair: Miguel Chávez
09:00 Welcome addresses: Yolanda Cuevas, Miguel Chávez, Hector Ulloa
09:30

Rest-frame visible and UV properties of red galaxies at 1 < z < 2 (part I).
Patrick McCarthy

10:00

Rest-frame visible and UV properties of red galaxies at 1 < z < 2 (part II).
Alvio Renzini

10:30

Effects of reionization on high-z stellar populations.
Daniel Babich

10:50

Rest-frame near-UV properties of early-type galaxies at z~1.
Sperello di Serego Alighieri

11:10 Coffee Break
11:40

Photoionization, recombination and radiative decays of atoms and ions.
Sultana Nahar

12:40 Science planning for the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope.
Leonardo Ubeda
13:00 Lunch
 

Chair: Luis Carrasco

16:00

Population synthesis at short wavelength: a few things one has to know for understanding high-redshift galaxy evolution.
Alberto Buzzoni

16:30

Metallicity dependence of UV upturn among evolved stellar populations.
Paul Goudfrooij

17:00

Near-UV merger signatures in early-type galaxies.
Jodie Martin

17:20

Vimos U-band observations of massive elliptical galaxies at z~1 in the field
(GOODS-S)
and in clusters (RDCS1252 at z=1.24).
Alessandro Rettura

17:40 End of session


Tuesday 17th of April 2007

  Chair: Sally Heap
09:00

GALEX studies of early type galaxies: the UV rising flux and residual star formation.
Michael Rich

10:00

Stellar populations in field early-type galaxies.
Francesca Annibali

10:20

Synthetic UV spectroscopic indices of stars and stellar populations.
Miguel Chávez

10:40

GALEX UV observations of elliptical galaxies in Abell clusters at z < 0.25.
Chang Hee Ree

11:00 Coffee Break
11:30

A morphological study of M81: a comparison between Galex and Spitzer images.
Ivanio Puerari

11:50

The UV bright globular clusters with extended horizontal-branch as remaining cores of galaxy building blocks.
Young Wook Lee

12:20

UV observations of hot stellar populations in galactic globular clusters.
Francesco Ferraro

12:50

Infant mortality of star clusters: the origin of the diffuse UV emission.
Anne Pellerin

13:10

Are the compact star clusters in M82 evolving towards globular clusters?
Divakara Mayya

13:30 Lunch, End of session
20:00

Dinner at the Terraza of the La Palapa restaurant (in the Hotel).
Live SAX music performed by Pablo Ramirez


Wednesday 18th of April 2007

  Chair: Gustavo Bruzual
09:00

The World Space Observatory.
Ana Ines Gomez de Castro & Mikhail Sachkov

10:00

The focal-plane instruments on board WSO-UV.
Mikhail Sachkov

10:30

A binary model for UV-upturn of elliptical galaxies.
Zhanwen Han

11:50 Poster session
12:20 Coffee, End of session, Lunch & Free Afternoon

NOTE:Those willing to go on a pre-hispanic boat trip, please contact the travel agency within the Hotel or Rosario Sanchez at the Conference registration desk. For more info check this site www.marigalante.com.mx/esp/default.asp


Thursday 19th of April 2007

  Chair: Divakara Mayya
09:00

Recent progress in modeling stellar atmospheres.
Ivan Hubeny

10:00

White dwarfs as photometric calibrators for wide field surveys.
Jay Holberg

10:30

A precise new method for correcting the temperature in stellar atmospheres. II. An iterative algorithm.
Octavio Cardona

10:50

Ultraviolet stellar and cluster spectra compared to theoretical templates.
Ruth Peterson

11:10 Coffee Break
11:40

Absolute UV fluxes from the Sun and other late-type stars.
Carlos Allende-Prieto

12:10

New model atmospheres: testing the solar spectrum in the UV.
Lino Héctor Rodríguez Merino

12:30

Subdwarf B and subdwarf O stars: Which evolutionary pathways?
Ralf Napiwotzki

13:00 Lunch
16:00

The BSS radial distribution: clues on the formation mechanisms.
Barbara Lanzoni

16:20

UV excess in elliptical galaxies: the AGB connection.
Rosa Amelia Gonzalez

16:40

Magnetic Structure of the Dynamic Chromosphere.
Alan Title

17:00

Horizontal Branch Stars and the Ultraviolet Universe.
Marcio Catelan (ia)

17:30 End of session
18:30 Folk Ballet @ the Hotel Melia
21:00 Get together @ El Faro ( Lighthouse) of Marina Vallarta


Friday 20th of April 2007

  Chair: Carlos Allende Prieto
10:00

Constraining galaxy evolution using observed UV-optical spectra.
Sally Heap

11:00

Spectral indices from the UV to the far red.
Gustavo Bruzual

11:30

Synthesis models in a probabilistic framework.
Miguel Cerviño

12:00 Coffee Break
12:30

Extended emission of ultra compact HII regions.
Eduardo de la Fuente

12:50

Colours of the envelopes of cD galaxies.
Simon Kemp

13:10 Concluding remarks by Carlos Allende Prieto
14:00 End of session, End of Conference and Lunch


Poster presentations

  • P1. High redshift simulations with the UV images of GALEX nearby galaxies survey.
    Bum-Suk Yeom et al.
  • P2. An atlas of GALEX UV spectra selected from the CDFS.
    Martha Bello & Daniel Rosa Gonzalez
  • P3. Spectroscopic UV indices of galactic globular clusters.
    Javier Morales-Hernández et al.
  • P4. Age and metallicity of elliptical galaxies through UV spectroscopic indices.
    Gerardo Ramos-Larios et al.
  • P5. Weak X-ray galaxies in the Chandra Deep Field South: catching an early stage of star formation.
    Jesus Lopez et al.
  • P6. The impact of encounters on the members of local group analogs. A view from GALEX.
    Lucio Buson et al.
  • P7. Astronomy at the University of Guadalajara.
    Miguel Chávez et al.
  • P8. NGC 4214 cluster properties derived from multi-band photometry.
    Leonardo Ubeda
  • P9. GALEX UV observations of globular clusters in M31.
    Soo Chang Rey
  • P10. GALEX UV spectroscopy of extended objects: the case of NGC3079.
    Daniel Rosa Gonzalez
  • P11. Recombination rates, resonance strengths and line profiles of dielectronic satellite lines of He-like Ca, Fe.
    Sultana N. Nahar & Anil K. Pradhan
  • P12. Spectroscopic study of pulsations in CP stars.
    M. Sachkov & T. Ryabchikova
  • P13. Efficiency of selected UV space based spectrometers.
    V. Klochkova, V. Panchuk, M.Sachkov, M. Yushkin
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