Speaker: Judy Cohen, Caltech

Title: The Globular Cluster System of M87

One can reach the young universe both by looking for objects
at high redshift and by looking at the oldest objects in the
local universe.  Here we try the less fashionable but perhaps
more productive second approach.

I analyze a large sample of globular clusters around M87, the
giant elliptical in the Virgo cluster of galaxies.  First
I describe the dynamics of the M87 globular clusters, and what
can be inferred from them, then I analyze their ages and
abundances.