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


Monday, 16 June


Dust and gas as seeds for metal-poor star formation


09:00-09:25 WELCOME Mayor of Rapallo, Assessor of Culture, Province of Genova
09:25-09:55 Marco Spaans Molecule formation in primordial conditions
09:55-10:15 Simon Glover Modelling the chemistry of very low-metallicity gas
10:15-10:35 Alberto Bolatto The resolved properties of extragalactic Giant Molecular Clouds in low-metallicity systems
10:35-10:55 Juergen Ott Molecular cloud and star formation near the vigorously star-forming 30 Doradus region in the Large Magellanic Cloud
10:55-11:25 COFFEE BREAK AND POSTER VIEWING
11:25-11:55 Elias Brinks The gas phase in a low-metallicity ISM
11:55-12:15 Vianney Lebouteiller Is there any pristine gas in nearby starburst galaxies?
12:15-12:45 Frederic Galliano Dust in a metal-poor ISM
12:45-15:15 LUNCH
15:15-15:35 Takaya Nozawa Destruction and Transport of Newly Formed Dust in Population III Supernova Remnants and Its Affect on the Elemental Composition of Population II.5 Stars
15:35-15:55 Anne Verhamme Constraints on the dust content from Lyman-alpha spectral fitting of star-forming galaxies at redshift 3 to 5
15:55-16:15 Ute Lisenfeld Dust properties and distribution in dwarf galaxies

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


16:15-17:00 Evan Skillman Metal-poor IMFs, stellar evolution, and star-formation histories
17:00-17:30 COFFEE BREAK AND POSTER VIEWING
17:30-18:00 Raphael Hirschi Stellar evolution at low metallicity
18:00-18:20 Monica Tosi SMC in space and time: a project to study the evolution of the prototype interacting late-type dwarf galaxy
18:20-18:50 Pavel Kroupa Low-metallicity star clusters and the IMF in metal-poor environments

Tuesday, 17 June


09:00-09:45 Deidre Hunter Dust and gas as seeds for metal-poor star formation
09:45-10:05 Claus Leitherer Revision of Star-Formation Measures at Low Metallicity
10:05-10:25 Sven De Rijcke Truncated star formation in dwarf spheroidal galaxies and photometric scaling relations
10:25-10:45 Alessandra Aloisi A New Age and Distance for IZw18, the Most Metal-Poor Galaxy in the Nearby Universe
10:45-11:15 COFFEE BREAK AND POSTER VIEWING
11:15-11:45 Eline Tolstoy Star-formation histories at low metallicity in dwarf galaxies
11:45-12:05 Stefania Salvadori Life and times of dwarf spheroidal galaxies
12:05-12:35 Tim Beers Local relics of primordial star formation: the Milky Way halo and local dwarfs
12:35-12:55 Anna Frebel Stellar archaeology: Using metal-poor Galactic halo stars to test theories of the early Universe
12:55-13:15 Yutaka Komiya Galactic Archeology with Extremely Metal-Poor Stars
13:15-15:45 LUNCH

Explosive events in low-metallicity environments


15:45-16:15 Roger Chevalier SNe and their evolution in a low-metallicity ISM
16:15-16:35 Sylvia Ekstrom Powerful explosions at Z=0
16:35-16:55 Ken Nomoto Typical masses of First Stars as constrained from their nucleosynthesis
16:55-17:15 Nozomu Tominaga Supernova nucleosynthesis in the early universe
17:15-17:45 COFFEE BREAK AND POSTER VIEWING
17:45-18:15 Sandra Savaglio Low-mass and metal-poor GRB host galaxies
18:15-18:35 Ruben Salvaterra The Luminosity Function of long Gamma-Ray Bursts and their rate at z>=6
18:35-18:55 Cyril Georgy Wind anisotropy and impact on stellar evolution
18:55-19:15 Francesco Calura The Star formation history of the GRB 050730 host galaxy

Wednesday, 18 June


Low-metallicity star formation in the local Universe


09:00-09:45 Trinh Thuan Low-metallicity star formation in local dwarf galaxies
09:45-10:05 Hiroyuki Hirashita The size-density relation of HII regions in blue compact dwarf galaxies
10:05-10:25 Kelsey Johnson Probing Globular Cluster Formation in Low Metallicity Dwarf Galaxies
10:25-10:45 Matteo Monelli The ACS LCID project: accurate measurements of the full star formation history in low metallicity, isolated, Local Group dwarf galaxies
10:45-11:15 COFFEE BREAK AND POSTER VIEWING
11:15-11:45 Grazyna Stasinska Ionized gas in dwarf galaxies: abundances and star-formation indicators
11.45-12.05 Yuri Izotov Broad line emission in dwarf galaxies: the first detection of extremely low-metallicity AGN
12:05-12:25 David Rosario Luminous Low Metallicity Dwarfs at z~0.7: Keys to the Origin of Metallicity Scaling Relations
12:25-12:45 Yuko Kakazu Extremely Metal Poor Galaxies at z<1
12:45-13:15 DEDICATED POSTER SESSION
FREE AFTERNOON

Thursday, 19 June


Metal enrichment, chemical evolution, and feedback


09:00-09:45 Andrea Ferrara Cosmic metal enrichment
09:45-10:05 Filippo Mannucci The Mass-Metallicity Relation at z>3
10:05-10:25 Henry Lee Surprises in the universal galaxy relationship between stellar metallicity and stellar mass
10:25-10:45 Emily Levesque Modeling the ISM Properties of Metal-Poor Galaxies and Gamma-Ray Burst Hosts
10:45-11:15 COFFEE BREAK AND POSTER VIEWING
11:15-11:45 Francesca Matteucci Chemical enrichment and feedback in low-metallicity environments (**galaxies**)
11:45-12:05 Andreea Font Chemo-Dynamical Simulations of Milky Way-type galaxies
12:05-12:25 Andrea Marcolini About the chemical evolution of dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies (and the peculiar Globular Cluster Omega Cen)
12:25-12:45 Andrew Schurer Modeling the effects of dust evolution on the SEDs of galaxies of different morphological type
12:45-13:15 DEDICATED POSTER SESSION
13:15-15:30 LUNCH
15:30-15:50 Britton Smith Three Modes of Metal-Enriched Star Formation at High Redshift
15:50-16:10 Daniel Whalen The Destruction of Cosmological Minihalos by Primordial Supernovae: Triggered Star Formation?
16:10-16:30 Massimo Ricotti Effects of reionization feedback on dwarf galaxy evolution
16:30-17:00 Miroslava Dessauges-Zavadsky Damped Ly-alpha systems as probes of chemical evolution over cosmological timescales
17:00-17:30 COFFEE BREAK AND POSTER VIEWING
17:30-17:50 Regina Schulte-Ladbeck Connecting high-redshift galaxy populations through observations of a local dwarf
17:50-18:10 Elena Sabbi Young Star Clusters in the SMC: impact of local and global conditions on star formation
18:10-18:30 Uli Klein Dwarf galaxies and the magnetisation of the IGM

Friday, 20 June


Population III and metal-free star formation


09:00-09:45 Volker Bromm Pop. III and metal-free star formation
09:45-10:15 Naoki Yoshida Primordial building blocks: from dark matter halos to the first stars (I)
10:15-10:45 Jonathan Tan Population III stars: formation and evolution
10:45-11:15 COFFEE BREAK AND POSTER VIEWING
11:15-11:45 Tom Abel Primordial building blocks: from dark matter halos to the first stars (II)
11:45-12:05 Katherine Freese Dark Stars: Dark Matter Annihilation in the First Stars
12:05-12:25 Fabio Iocco Effects of Dark Matter annihilation on the First Stars
12:25-12:45 Ralf Klessen What can we learn from present-day star formation about stellar birth in the early universe?
12:45-15:15 LUNCH
15:15-15:45 Kazuyuki Omukai Population III to Pop. II transition: chemical vs. radiative feedback
15:45-16:05 Thomas Greif The Formation of the First Galaxies
16:05-16:25 Paul Clark The Formation of the First Stellar Clusters in the Universe
16:25-16:55 COFFEE BREAK AND POSTER VIEWING
16:55-17:25 Daniel Schaerer Searches for Pop. III and very metal-poor populations in the distant universe
17:25-17:45 Tohru Nagao Observational search for Population III stars in high-z galaxies
17:45-18:05 Sperello di Serego Alighieri The HeII 1640 line signature of PopIII stars in a z=6.5 galaxy
18:05-18:15 CLOSING