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


Population III and metal-free star formation -
  • Primordial building blocks: from dark matter halos to the first stars
  • Population III stars: formation and evolution
  • Population III to Pop. II transition: chemical vs. radiative feedback
  • Searches for Pop. III and very metal-poor populations in the distant universe
Metal-poor IMFs, stellar evolution, and star-formation histories -
  • Local relics of primordial star formation: the Milky Way halo and local dwarfs
  • Star-formation histories at low metallicity in dwarf galaxies
  • Stellar evolution at low metallicity
  • Low-metallicity star clusters and the IMF in metal-poor environments
Low-metallicity star formation in local dwarf galaxies -

Dust and gas as seeds for metal-poor star formation -
  • Dust in low-metallicity ISMs
  • The gas phase in a low-metallicity ISM
  • Molecule formation in primordial conditions
Explosive events in low-metallicity environments: SNe and GRBs -
  • SNe and their evolution in a metal-poor ISM
  • Low-mass and metal-poor GRB host galaxies
Metal enrichment, chemical evolution, and feedback -
  • Chemical evolution and feedback constraints on galaxy formation and IGM enrichment
  • Feedback and mechanical energy input in chemical and stellar evolution
  • Damped Lyman-alpha systems as probes of chemical evolution over cosmological timescales
Dwarf galaxies in a cosmological context: proxies for primordial star formation?