[AAA] Conference Announcement "Small Stellar Systems in Tuscany"

[Favio Raul Faifer]

Estimados socios,

les copio aqui debajo el primer anuncio de la reunion cientifica:

Small Stellar Systems in Tuscany: from Globular Clusters to Dwarf Galaxies 
and everything in between.

Imagino que puede ser de interes para algunos socios. La misma tendra 
lugar en Prato, Italia, los dias 10-14 de junio de 2013. La pagina web 
del evento es:

http://www.moca.monash.edu/conferences/compact

alli pueden pre-registrarse para recibir mas informacion.
Saludos,
 			Favio



---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 14:17:23 +1000
From: Duncan Forbes <dforbes en swin.edu.au>
To: Duncan Forbes <dforbes en astro.swin.edu.au>,
     Samantha Penny <samantha.penny en monash.edu>
Subject: Conference Announcement "Small Stellar Systems in Tuscany"

FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT Small Stellar Systems in Tuscany:
from Globular Clusters to Dwarf Galaxies and everything in between

http://www.moca.monash.edu/conferences/compact

10 - 14th June 2013
Prato, Italy

To receive further annnouncements please register at the conference 
website location.

The conference will be located in beautiful Tuscany. It will be held at 
the Monash Teaching Centre in Prato. The historic town of Prato lies a 
short distance north of Florence. The facilities enable a conference of 
~100 people to attend. We are planning to organise an excursion one 
afternoon to the Tuscan countryside. Scientific Rationale

The distinction between dwarf galaxies and massive star clusters has 
become increasingly blurred. The parameter space of size and luminosity 
for small stellar systems is rapidly filling as one type of object 
overlaps with another. The stellar populations of massive star clusters 
are no longer "simple" with multiple populations of differing chemistry 
now commonly observed. Star clusters may appear to be dark matter free 
today and obey Newtonian dynamical laws, but there is less agreement over 
the presence and degree of dark matter in dwarf galaxies. The situation 
for intermediate-sized objects, such as Ultra Compact Dwarfs, is largely 
unknown. Sample sizes are often small limiting any statistical analysis.

The fundamental properties of these types of objects hold important clues 
to the origin and evolution of dwarf galaxies and massive star clusters. 
For example, are they ancient objects formed in a cosmological setting ? 
Have they been recently modified via merging of smaller subunits or by the 
stripping of their outer layers? Or are they products of the later stages 
of galaxy building and clustering?

The aim of this conference is to bring together observers and theorists to 
discuss the latest observations and simulations of the "zoo of little 
things" including massive globular clusters (GCs), extended clusters 
(ECs), Ultra Compact Dwarfs (UCDs), dwarf galaxy transition objects 
(DGTOs), intermediate mass objects (IMOs), tidal dwarf galaxies (TDGs), 
dwarf elliptical (dE), dwarf spheroidals (dSph), and compact ellipticals 
(cE). Format

The conference will consist of 4.5 days of Talks (and Posters). Regular 
Contributed talks and Invited talks will be chosen on the basis of the 
submitted abstracts. Ample question time will be allocated after each 
talk. We also intend to allocate some time to short presentations on "hot 
topics", such as: "What is the origin of Ultra Compact Dwarfs?". 
Registration fees are yet to be finalised but we intend to offer a 
discount to all current PhD students. The fee will be inclusive of the 
half day excursion and the conference dinner. Important Dates

Now: register your interest on the conference website
19 Jan 2013: Talk and Poster abstracts due
30 Jan 2013: Selected Talks and Posters announced
28 Feb 2013: Registration Fee due (details to be announced)
10-14 June 2013: Conference
SOC

Duncan Forbes (co-chair)
Samantha Penny (co-chair)
Jay Gallagher
Jean Brodie
Pavel Kroupa
Chris Conselice
Giampaolo Piotto
Thorsten Lisker

Please circulate this email within your own institution.

Sincerely
Duncan Forbes, on behalf of the SOC