Program

Fifty Years of Wide Field Studies in the Southern Hemisphere: Resolved Stellar Populations in the Galactic Bulge and the Magellanic Clouds

 

La Serena, Chile, May 06-09, 2013

 

Social Events:

Opening Reception at Inacap:  May 05, 17:30-19:00

Tour of Archaeological Museum La Serena: May 07, 16:30-18:00

Conference Dinner at Bakulic Restaurant:  May 08, 19:00 - 22:00

Tour of Tololo: May 10

Oral Contributions

GREEN: CTIO/Historical Talks (20 + 10 min)
BLUE: Invited Review Talks (30 + 10 min)
BLACK: Contributed Talks (20 + 10 min)
BLACK: Contributed Talks (10 + 5 min)

Monday, May 06 2013

08:00-09:00   Registration Open
     
09:00-09:15 N. van der Bliek Welcome Address
Session 1 Bulge Popuation (1)  
09:15-09:55 J. Hesser CTIO under Victor Blanco's Directorship (1968- 1977)
09:55-10:35 R. M. Rich The Galactic Bulge
10:35-10:50 R. Poleski Bulge Proper Motions Based on the OGLE-III Data
10:50-11:05 C. Britt The Chandra Galactic Bulge Survey
     
11:05-11:30   COFFEE BREAK AND POSTER VIEWING
     
11:30-12:00 D. Minniti The VVV Survey of the Milky Way Bulge
12:00-12:15 F. Mauro The VVV-SkZ Pipeline: How to Get Automatic PSF-fitting Photometry from the VVV Survey
12:15-12:45 V. Ivanov Survey Operations at ESO: VISTA and VST Public Surveys
     
12:45-14:15   LUNCH BREAK
     
Session 2 Bulge Clusters  
14:15-14:45 A. Walker CCD Imagers at CTIO: From 0.16 to 520 Megapixels
14:45-15:25 D. Geisler New Breakthroughs in the Battle of the Bulge Using Globular Clusters
15:25-15:40 R. Cohen Near-Infrared Photometric Parameters of Bulge Globular Clusters from the VVV Survey
     
15:40-16:00   COFFEE BREAK AND POSTER VIEWING
     
16:00-16:15 M. Hempel Globular Clusters as Age Probes
16:15-16:45 I. Dekany A First View of Stellar Variability in the VVV ESO Public Survey
16:45-17:00 A. Kunder The RR Lyrae Instability Strip in the Split Horizontal Branch Globular Cluster NGC 6569
17:00-17:15 J. Alonso-García Searching for Variable Stars in the VVV Globular Clusters

Tuesday, May 07 2013

08:00-09:00   Registration Open
     
Session 3 Bulge Metallicity  
09:00-09:30 K. Vivas Jürgen Stock: From One End of the Andes to the Other
09:30-10:10 M. Zoccali Chemical Abundances in the Galactic Bulge
10:10-10:25 A. Sippel Globular Cluster Sizes and Metallicities
10:25-10:40 B. Dias
     
10:40-11:00   COFFEE BREAK AND POSTER VIEWING
     
Session 4 Bulge Population (2)  
11:00-11:30 T. Beers The HK Survey of Beers, Preston, & Shectman
11:30-12:10 G. Bono The Transition between the Inner Disk and the Galactic Bulge
12:10-12:40 A. Calamida Detection of a Large Population of White Dwarfs in the Direction of the Galactic Bulge
     
12:40-14:00   LUNCH BREAK
     
Session 5 Formation Models  
14:00-14:30 P. Seitzer The Curtis Schmidt Telescope and CTIO
14:30-15:10 O. Gerhard Formation Models of the Galactic Bulge
15:10-15:40 D. Nataf The Age and Helium Abundance of the Galactic Bulge
15:40-15:55 M. Gennaro The IMF and SFH of the Galactic Bulge from HST
     
15:55-16:15   COFFEE BREAK AND POSTER VIEWING
     
16:15-18:00   Tour of the La Serena Archaeological Museum

Wednesday, May 08 2013

08:00-09:00   Registration Open
     
Session 6 Cosmology  
09:00-09:30 P. Osmer Highlights of Science, Instrumentation, and Operations at CTIO: 1969 - 1986
09:30-10:10 M. Hamuy The Acceleration of the Universe in the Light of Supernovae
10:10-10:40 J. Mould 100 Million Years after the Big Bang
     
10:40-11:10   COFFEE BREAK AND POSTER VIEWING
     
Session 7 MC Clusters  
11:00-11:40 A. Piatti The Magellanic Clouds' Star Cluster Populations: The SMC
11:40-11:55 T. Palma
11:55-12:10 C. Parisi Age and Metallicity Analysis of the Small Magellanic Cloud from Star Clusters
12:10-12:40 M. Smith The Turn of the Millennium - CTIO 1993-2003
     
12:40-14:10   LUNCH BREAK
     
Session 8 MC Structure  
14:10-14:50 A. Rest Light Echos from Historical SNe in the Magellanic Clouds
14:50-15:20 K. Olsen A Stellar Heist in the Magellanic Clouds
15:20-15:35 L. Inno The 3D Structure of the Magellanic Clouds Traced by Classical Cepheids
15:35-15:50 C. Moni Bidin Exploring Star Formation in the Leading Arm of the Magellanic Stream
     
15:50-16:20   COFFEE BREAK AND POSTER VIEWING
     
Session 9 MC Variable Stars  
16:20-17:00 A. Udalski Variable Stars Toward The Magellanic Clouds and the Galactic Bulge
17:00-17:30 N. Matsunaga A Near-Infrared Variable Star Survey in the Magellanic Clouds

Thursday, May 09 2013

09:00-09:00   Registration Open
     
Session 10 MC Stellar Populations  
09:00-09:30 R. C. Smith CTIO - The Next 50 Years
09:30-10:10 Y.-H. Chu Young Stellar Objects in the Large Magellanic Cloud
10:10-10:40 F. Selman The Central Density of R136
     
10:40-11:10   COFFEE BREAK AND POSTER VIEWING
     
11:10-11:40 M. Drout The Yellow Supergiant Cntent of the Magellanic Clouds
11:40-12:20 A. Saha The Old Stellar Populations of the Magellanic Clouds
     
12:20-14:00   LUNCH BREAK
     
Session 11 Galaxies  
14:00-14:30 P. F. Winkler The Interstellar Medium in the Small Magellanic Cloud: Results from MCELS
14:30-15:00 C. Martayan Spectroscopic Survey of H-alpha Emission-line Stars of the Magellanic Clouds
15:00-15:30 K. Vivas The Extended View of Pulsating Stars in the Carina Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy
15:30-15:45 J. Melnick The Genesis of Galactic Bulges
     
15:45-16:15   COFFEE BREAK AND POSTER VIEWING
     
16:15-17:15 R. Blum Closing Remarks

Poster Presentations

Galactic Studies:
G01 J. Cummings Washington Photometry of the Multiple Populations of the Globular Cluster NGC 1851
G02 C. Muñoz The Origin and Chemical Evolution of the Exotic Globular Cluster NGC 3201
G03 N. Marcionni Determination of Fundamental Astrophysical Properties of Poorly Known Galactic Open Clusters from Washington Photometry
G04 R. Barbá Multiplicity Survey on Faint Wolf-Rayet Stars
G05 A. Jara Composición Química del Halo Galáctico
G06 H. Frelijj GAIA and Galactic Structure
G07 N. Guerrero Estudio sobre Agujero Negro Supermasivo en el Centro de la Galaxia
Magellanic Cloud Studies:
M01 D. Nidever Survey of the MAgellanic Stellar History – SMASH
M02 G. Aguayo Preliminary Results of Be Stars Proportion in LMC Open Clusters and Application to the NGC 1850 Star Formation Region
M03 R. Barbá Spitzer Infrared View of the Massive Star Formation in the 30 Doradus Nebula
M04 P. Pessev Near-Infrared Integrated-Light Photometry of Magellanic Clouds Clusters
M05 B. Dias Self-Consistent Physical Parameters for 5 Intermediate-age SMC Stellar Clusters from CMD Modeling 
M06 R. Barbá Follow-up Observations of Three Current LBV Outbursts in the LMC
M07 L. Paredes The MCELS Data Reduction Pipeline and Its Application to PNe Searches in the LMC