16 - 20 June 2008 Rapallo (GE), Liguria (Italy)


Poster Program


Dust and gas as seeds for metal-poor star formation


- Ekta HI and star formation in the most metal-deficient galaxies
Maud Galametz Studying the Dust Properties of Low-Metallicity Dwarf Galaxies at Submillimetre Wavelengths with LABOCA.
Pierre Gratier Large scale CO(2-1) mapping of Local Group galaxies: the case of the dwarf galaxy NGC 6822
John Hibbard GBT HI Observations of Low-Metallicity Galaxies from the SDSS
Seyit Hocuk Thermodynamic Properties of Molecular Clouds and the IMF in Dwarf Galaxies
Leslie Hunt The Spitzer View of Low-Metallicity Star Formation: Haro3 and Mrk996
Adam Leroy Using THINGS to Compare Star Formation in Nearby Dwarf and Spiral Galaxies
Brian O'Halloran Tracing the [FeII]/[NeII] ratio and its relationship with other ISM indicators within star forming dwarf galaxies: a Spitzer IRS archival study.
Joana Oliveira Ice chemistry in Young Stellar Objects in the Magellanic Clouds
Markus Roellig Modelling the PDR Emission of Dwarf Galaxies

Metal-poor IMFs, stellar evolution, and star-formation histories


Arturs Barzdis High-resolution spectroscopy of metal-poor star HD 187216
Edouard Bernard The ACS LCID Project: RR~Lyrae stars as Tracers of Old Population Gradients in Dwarf Galaxies
Daniel Brito de Freitas Lithium abundances in evolved members of Galactic open clusters
Ines Brott Nitrogen enrichment to understand rotational mixing in Magellanic Cloud O and B stars
Lynn Carlson A Panchromatic View of Magellanic Star Formation: From UV to IR
Michele Cignoni Star formation history in the SMC: the case of NGC602 and NGC346
Sergio Cristallo AGB nucleosynthesis at very low metallicities
Ignacio de la Rosa Galaxy Assembly in the Densest Environments
Bi-Qing For Searching for alpha-poor stars in the Galactic Halo
Claus Goessl ``Blue'' pulsating variable stars in metal poor dwarf galaxies -- some ``northern'' samples
Adam Hosford Lithium Abundances of Halo Dwarfs Based on Excitation-Energy Temperature.
Laura Husti Theoretical interpretation of the low metallicity barium giant HD 123396
Jennifer Johnson The Origin of the Carbon-Rich, Neutron-Capture-Poor, Very Metal-Poor Stars
Sara Lucatello Binaries at low metallicity
Dmitry Makarov Star Formation History Reconstruction of Nearby Dwarf Galaxies
Thomas Masseron Mass constraints on low and intermediate mass metal-poor stars.
Andre Milone Single-aged stellar population models with real variable Mg-enhancement
Vinicius Placco A Search for Metal-Poor Stars Based on Carbon Overabundance
Ian Roederer Nucleosynthetic Signatures in the Stellar Halos of the Galaxy: First Results
Katharine Schlesinger Determining the Low-Mass End of the Initial Mass Function using Metal-Poor Stars
William Schuster SAN PEDRO M'ARTIR SURVEY OF HIGH-VELOCITY AND METAL-POOR STARS
Fernando Selman The Arches, the Tarantula, and the universality of the IMF.
Tammy Smecker-Hane The Star Formation History of the Leo I dSph Galaxy
Jan Snigula AGB stars in metal poor dwarf galaxies - using LPVs and the Fuel Consumption Theorem as tracers of the stellar population
Else Starkenburg What more can we learn from spectroscopy in the CaII Triplet region?
Takuma Suda The Star Formation History of the Milky Way Halo Explored with Stellar Evolution and Nucloeosynthesis of EMP Stars, and with Thier Stellar Abundances Database.
Ovidiu Tesileanu Jets from young stars - radiative MHD simulations
Takuji Tsujimoto New Insights into the First Stars in the Galactic Halo and Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies
George Wallerstein A Comparison of the Globular Clusters Associated with the Sagittarius and Fornax Galaxies
Taras Yakobchuk Relatively young age of the red stellar populations in extremely metal-deficient dwarf galaxies
Laimons Zacs Abundance analysis of extremely metal-poor star HD~112869

Explosive events in low-metallicity environments


Simone Bianchi Dust formation and survival in supernova ejecta
Christa Gall Dust formation modeling in Supernovae ejecta
Evgenii Vasilev First supernovae in dwarf protogalaxies

Low-metallicity star formation in the local Universe


Hakim Atek Lyman-alpha emission regulators in star-forming galaxies
Jonathan Braine Star Formation in M33, a very nearby subsolar-metallicity galaxy
Robert Cumming Stellar kinematics in blue compact galaxies: local clues to processes at intermediate {sl z}
Gary Da Costa Exploring the Virgo Stellar Stream
Dimitrios Gouliermis The Magellanic Clouds as Templates of Star Formation at Low Metallicities: The Cencus of Pre-Main Sequence Stars.
Natalia Guseva Most metal-deficient emission-line galaxies: new discoveries
Ana Hidalgo-Gamez Luminosity functions and SFRs in dwarf spiral galaxies
Michael Hood Kinematics of the Stellar Populations of M33
Bethan James Spectral Mapping of Anomalous Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxies
Luc Jamet Surprising results of a probabilistic analysis of I Zw 18
Carolina Kehrig A STUDY OF VERY LOW METALLICITY HII GALAXIES USING INTEGRAL FIELD SPECTROSCOPY
Carolina Kehrig (2) The star-forming dwarf galaxy population in the Local Universe and beyond: the first 3D spectroscopic study of a large sample of Blue Compact Dwarf galaxies
Mina Koleva Stellar populations in dEs from high quality integrated spectroscopy
Ryan Leaman First Metallicity Distribution from VLT FORS2 CaT Spectroscopy of RGB Stars in the Dwarf Irregular Galaxy WLM
Vianney Lebouteiller MIR Properties of Giant HII Regions
Lidia Makarova Ancient and Recent Epoch of Star Formation in Nearby Dwarf Galaxies
Mariluz Martin-Manjon POPStar, a new grid of evolutionary synthesis models: Emission-line Diagnostics for Evolving HII Regions.
Mariluz Martin-Manjon (2) Modelling Starbursts in HII Galaxies: From Chemical to Spectro-photometric Evolutionary Self-consistent Models
Polychronis Papaderos Stellar Populations and Extended Ionized Gas Emission in Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxies
Simon Pustilnik DDO 68 as a testbed for models of very low metallicity star formation, massive stars and cosmological mergers
Zhengyi Shao The radial gradient of stellar population of dwarf galaxies
Caroline Simpson VII Zw 403: A BCD Case Study
Eon-Chang Sung Photometric properties of blue compact dwarf galaxies (BCDGs) from SDSS DR6
Eduardo Telles Optical and Near-Infrared IFU kinematics and the interplay with the ISM phases in the prototype HII galaxy II Zw 40
Brent Tully The Offset between Dwarf Irregulars and Spheroidals in Luminosity--Metallicity Plots
Sander Valcke Simulations of the formation and evolution of isolated dwarf galaxies

Metal enrichment, chemical evolution, and feedback


Aycin Aykutalp Star formation and their feedback effects in the early Universe
Gabriele Cescutti Inhomogeneous chemical evolution models: from the Galactic halo to the dwarf spheroidal galaxies
Nicolas Champavert Chemical evolution of galaxies using a new multiphase chemodynamical code
Andrey Doroshkevich The observed metal systems and reionization of the Universe
Denise Goncalves Planetary Nebulae: enlightening the luminosity-metallicity relation of Local Group dwarf galaxies.
Torgny Karlsson The Hidden Chemical Remains from the First Stars
Gustavo Lanfranchi The evolution of {alpha/Fe} in Carina dwarf spheroidal galaxy: constraints from new data.
Kenta Matsuoka Cosmic Metallicity Evolution traced by Radio Galaxies
Carlos Rodriguez-Rico VLA H53alpha Observations of the Central Region of the SSCs Galaxy NGC 5253
Sukyoung Yi First stars as a possible origin for the extreme helium populations in globular clusters

Population III and metal-free star formation


Ena Choi The Chemical Enrichment of the Early Building Blocks
Kenji Hasegawa Secondary star formation in a Pop III object: Dependence of UV feedback on the mass of source star
Anne-Katharina Jappsen The Influence of Metallicity on Fragmentation of Protogalactic Gas
Jarrett Johnson The Occurence of Metal-free Galaxies in the Early Universe
Jaime Klapp Evolution and Nucleosynthesis of the First Stars
Jiri Krticka CNO driven winds of hot first stars
Umberto Maio Primordial star formation
Dominik Schleicher The Dark Ages of the Universe
Athena Stacy Protostellar Accretion in the Early Universe
Luca Tornatore Population III stars: hidden or disappeared ?
Masayuki Umemura First Star Simulations down to CDM Damping Scales