METALS 2007 PROGRAM

Monday Jan 22

17:00 - 19:00

Reception and Registration

 

Tuesday Jan 23

8:00 - 9:00

Registration

 

Session I

Metallicity diagnostic methods

chair: L. Kewley

9:00 - 9:40

The use of sulphur as a metallicity tracer in galaxies

Angeles Diaz

9:40 - 10:20

Measuring abundances in high-metallicity HII regions

Fabio Bresolin

10:20 - 10:40

Break

 

10:40 - 11:20

 

Rolf Kudritzki

11:20 - 12:00

Massive stars as probes of nearby galaxies

Miguel Urbaneja

12:00 - 13:30

Lunch

 

13:30 - 14:10

Empirical calibrations of gas metallicity diagnostics for star-forming galaxies

Tohru Nagao

14:10 - 15:00

Calibration of low-metallicity HII regions

Liese van Zee

15:30

Working groups

 

Wednesday Jan 24

9:00 - 9:40

HII region metallicities from recombination lines

Jorge Garcia-Rojas

9:40 - 10:20

Calibrating metallicities and physical parameters of ensembles of HII regions

Michael Dopita

10:20 - 10:40

Break

 

Session II

Metallicity diagnostic discrepancies

chair: H. Lee

10:40 - 11:20

Large temperature variations in gaseous nebulae and their effect on chemical abundance determinations

Manuel Peimbert

11:20 - 12:30

Discussion (chair: M. Peimbert)

 

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch

 

14:00 - 14:40

 

Grazyna Stasinska

14:40 - 15:20

The effects of spatially distributed sources on the temperature structure of HII regions

Barbara Ercolano

15:20 - 15:50

Break

 

15:50 - 16:30

Metallicity discrepancies and the metallicity history of galaxies

Lisa Kewley

16:30 - 17:10

   

17:10 - 18:00

Discussion (chair: M. Dopita )

 

19:00 - 20:00

Public lecture: Star formation through cosmic time

Michael Dopita

20:00

Workshop dinner

 

Thursday Jan 25

Session III

Metallicities in nearby galaxies

chair: F. Bresolin

9:00 - 9:40

A metalllicity map of M33: the abundance gradient, stellar populations and systematics

Josh Simon

9:40 - 10:20

Mapping enrichment in M33

Erik Rosolowsky

10:20 - 10:40

Break

 

10:40 - 11:20

 

Antonio Peimbert

11:20 - 12:00

 

Elena Terlevich

12:00 - 12:30

Discussion (chair: E. Terlevich )

 

12:30

Free afternoon!

 

Friday Jan 26

9:00 - 9:40

Mass-metallicity relations of dwarf galaxies: oxygen vs. iron

Henry Lee

9:40 - 10:20

 

Roberto Terlevich

10:20 - 10:40

Break

 

10:40 - 11:20

 

Gelys Trancho

11:20 - 12:00

 

Thierry Contini

12:00 - 12:30

Discussion (chair: J. Salzer)

 

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch

 

Session IV

Metallicities at  high redshift

chair: L. van Zee

14:00 - 14:40

The mass-metallicity relation of VVDS galaxies

Fabrice Lamareille

14:40 - 15:20

The metallicity of star-forming galaxies at high redshift

Dawn Erb

15:20 - 15:50

Break

 

15:50 - 16:30

Breaking the R23 degeneracy for zCOSMOS galaxies at z=0.5-1

Christian Maier

16:30 - 17:10

Metallicities in GRB host galaxies

Sandra Savaglio

17:10 - 18:00

Discussion (chair: R . Terlevich )