IAU Special Sessions (GA)
SpS1: Origin and complexity of massive star clusters
Start date/time
August 20, 2012
End date/time
August 24, 2012
Place
Beijing,
China, Nanjing
Contact
Giampaolo Piotto
giampaolo.piotto@unipd.it
Event website
http://www.physics.drexel.edu/~sps1_2012/
Coordinating Division
Division VII Galactic System
SOC Co-Chairs: Giampaolo Piotto (Italy), Enrico Vesperini (United States)
SOC Members: Antonio Aparicio (Spain), Beatrice Barbuy (Brazil), Kenji Bekki (Australia), Torsten Boeker (Netherlands), Corinne Charbonnel (France), Cathie Clarke (United Kingdom), Francesca D'Antona (Italy), Licai Deng (China Nanjing), Bruce Elmegreen (United States), Raffaele Gratton (Italy), Young Wook (Republic of Korea), Steven Majewski (United States), Eline Tolstoy (Netherlands), Hans Zinnecker (United States)
Editors of Proceedings: Enrico Vesperini (United States), Giampaolo Piotto (Italy)
Topics:
- Multiple stellar populations in Galactic and extragalactic globular star clusters
- Multiple population star cluster formation and dynamical evolution
- Stellar evolution and the chemical evolution of star clusters
- Relation between globular clusters, dwarf galaxies, nuclear star clusters
- Relation between globular cluster stellar populations and Galactic halo, disk and bulge stars