Preliminary Program

All talks have 20 minutes (very sharp) of length plus 10 minutes of discussion. Every poster presenter has the chance to prepare one single slide and can present the poster on Monday afternoon, just before we have the general poster viewing session with an optional wine tasting.

The programme and abstracts as a PDF booklet can be downloaded HERE .

Schedule:

Programme

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Sunday, March 1st
18.00 - 21.00 Welcome Cocktail and Registration, Hotel Araucania
Monday, March 2nd
8.30 - 9.00 Late Registration
9.00 - 9.30 Welcome Adresses
topic: Initial Mass Function
9.30 - 10.00 Pavel Kroupa
Is the IMF a probability density distribution function?
10.00 - 10.30 Mark Gieles
What does the mass-to-light ratio of globular clusters tell us about the IMF?
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee Break
topic: Merging Sub-Systems
11.00 - 11.30 Juan Pablo Farias Osses
Can we predict the survival of an hierarchical formed star cluster?
11.30 - 12.00 Elena Gavagnin
Star cluster formation through merger of sub-clusters
12.00 - 12.30 Alison Sills
Dynamical Evolution of Very Young Stellar Sub-Clusters
12.30 - 14.30 Lunch Break
topic: Mass Segregation
14.30 - 15.00 Sambaran Banerjee
Very young massive clusters: formation and activity
15.00 - 15.30 Nathan Leigh
The Properties of Galactic Globular Clusters at Birth
15.30 - 16.00 Jincheng Yu
Mass Segregation of Young Star Clusters
16.00 - 16.30 Coffee Break
16.30 -17.00 Hossein Haghi
Possible smoking-gun evidence for initial mass segregation in re-virialized post-gas expulsion star-burst clusters
17.00 - approx. 18.00 Poster Presentation
approx. 18.00 -19.00 Poster Viewing
Tuesday, March 3rd
topic: Multiple Stellar Populations
9.00 - 9.30 Steven McMillan
Evolution of Binary Stars in Multiple-Population Globular Clusters or Simulating Young Star Clusters with AMUSE
9.30 - 10.00 Richard de Grijs
Massive cluster defies multiple stellar population concept in apparent paradigm reversal
10.00 - 10.30 Ivan Cabrera-Zini:
Constraining globular cluster formation through studies of young massive clusters
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee Break
11.00 - 11.30 Douglas Geisler
Uncovering Multiple Populations in Globular Clusters with Washington Photometry
topic: Binaries
11.30 - 12.00 Hans Zinnecker
The orbital evolution of close binaries near the Galactic Center (Kozai effect).
12.00 - 12.30 Emanuele Dalessandro
The primordial binary fraction in low-density Galactic globularclusters
12.30 - 14.30 Lunch Break
topic: Rotation, High Velocity Stars / Kicks
14.30 - 15.00 Anna Lisa Varri
Early evolution of rotating star clusters
15.00 - 15.30 Sverre Aarseth
Velocity kicks and mass segregation
15.30 - 16.00 Roberto Capuzzo-Dolcetta
High velocity stars from galactic centers
16.00 - 16.30 Coffee Break
topic: Star Cluster / Globular Cluster
16.30 -17.00 Licai Deng
Time-domain studies of star clusters using 50BiN
17.00 - 17.30 Andrea Dieball
Hunting for Brown Dwarfs in Globular Clusters: M4
17.30 -18.00 Sandro Villanova
Chemical constrains for Modeling Dense Stellar Systems
18.00 - 19.00 (TBC) Visiting the new Astronomy Building (all participants)
Wednesday, March 4th
topic: Star Cluster / Globular Cluster
9.00 - 9.30 Alessio Mucciarelli
Rotational Velocities in Globular Cluster Blue Straggler Stars
9.30 - 10.00 Francesco Ferraro
An empirical clock to measure the dynamical age of stellar systems
10.00 - 10.30 Edwin van der Helm
Creating Arches
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee Break
11.00 - 11.30 Alice Zocchi
Pressure anisotropy in globular clusters
11.30 - 12.00 Paolo Bianchini
From models to observations: understanding IFU observations of globular clusters
topic: VVV
12.00 - 12.30 Sebastian Ramirez Alegria
Young clusters with massive stellar population in the VVV-survey
12.30 - 14.30 Lunch Break
14.30 - 20.30 Conference Excursion to Lota
Thursday, March 5th
topic: Computational Methods
9.00 - 9.30 Mirek Giersz
The newest developments of the MOCCA code and the Astro-data tools
9.30 - 10.00 Abbas Askar
Simulating Observations of MOCCA Star Cluster Simulations with COCOA
10.00 - 10.30 Graeme Candlish
Putting MOND to the test
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee Break
11.00 - 11.30 Yohei Meiron
Expansion Techniques for Collisionless Stellar Dynamical Simulations
11.30 - 12.00 Rainer Spurzem
Astrophysical N-body and other computer models on the path to Exascale
12.00 - 12.30 Long Wang
The million-body problem: hybrid parallel direct NBODY6++ simulations of globular clusters
12.30 - 14.30 Lunch Break
topic: Elliptic Orbits
14.30 - 15.00 Douglas Heggie
Dynamics of star clusters on elliptical orbits
15.00 - 15.30 Andreas Kuepper
The Influence of Eccentric Orbits on Cluster Evolution
topic: Planets
15.30 - 16.00 Thijs Kouvenhoven
The formation and dynamical evolution of free-floating planets in star clusters
16.00 - 16.30 Coffee Break
topic: UCDs
16.30 -17.00 Steffen Mieske
UCDs
17.00 - 17.30 Joerg Dabringhausen
Low-mass X-ray binaries as tracers for a varying stellar initial mass function in ultra-compact dwarf galaxies
17.30 -18.00 Jarrod Hurley
TBD
20.00 - 24.00 Conference Dinner: Hacienda Patagonia
Friday, March 6th
topic: Globular Cluster Systems
9.00 - 9.30 Thomas Puzia
The Scale Sizes of GCs in NGC 1399
9.30 - 10.00 Richard Lane
Dwarf companions and globular cluster systems of isolated elliptical galaxies
10.00 - 10.30 Matthew Taylor
Observational Evidence for a Dark Side to NGC 5128's Globular Cluster System
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee Break
11.00 - 11.30 Jeremy Webb
The Orbital Anisotropy and Tidal Filling Profiles of Globular Clusters in Giant Galaxies
11.30 - 12.00 Florent Renaud
Star cluster evolution in the cosmological context
12.00 - 12.30 Juan Madrid
Coevolution of Globular Clusters and Host Galaxies
12.30 - 14.30 Lunch Break
topic: Black Holes
14.30 - 15.00 Barbara Lanzoni
Searching for IMBHs in globular clusters through the radial velocity of individual stars
15.00 - 15.30 Nora Luetzgendorf
Testing black-hole accretion from stellar winds in star clusters using AMUSE
15.30 - 16.00 Danor Aharon
Formation and evolution of nuclear star clusters with in-situ star-formation:Nuclear cores, age segregation and TDEs history.
16.00 - 16.30 Coffee Break
16.30 -17.00 Peter Berczik
Galaxy collsion simulations with central Post Netwonian Binary Black Hole.
17.00 - 17.30 Shuo Li
Tidal disruption evolution of supermassive black holes in merging stellar system
17.30 -18.00 Paulina Assmann:
Post-Newtonian Dynamics of Black Holes with spin in star clusters simulations with NBody6 ++

Posters:

  1. Ahmed Abdullah:
    The specific frequency of globular clusters in elliptical galaxies
  2. Angela Adamo:
    Probing the role of galactic environment during cluster formation: a link between young star clusters and ancient globular clusters
  3. Matthew Benacquista:
    Extragalactic Black Hole Binaries as Low-frequency Gravitational Wave Sources
  4. Clio Bertelli Motta:
    Chemical abundances of open clusters in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
  5. Jura Borissova:
    Star clusters in VVV
  6. Michael Brewer:
    Investigating the Spitzer Instability Using AMUSE Codes
  7. Maxwell Xu Cai:
    Simulations of planetary systems in star clusters
  8. Julio Carballo Bello
    Stellar clusters as tracers of the formation and structure of the Milky Way
  9. Nelvy Cristina Choque Challapa:
    Pre- and postprocessing of galaxies
  10. Chul Chung:
    The evolutionary population synthesis model for calcium infrared triplet of simple stellar populations
  11. Filippo Contenta
    Neutron star natal kicks and the long-term survival of star clusters
  12. Raul Esteban Dominguez Figueroa:
    Finding a progenitor of Segue 1
  13. Heinz Frelijj Rubilar:
    TBD
  14. Akram Hassani Zonoozi:
    Did violent early residual-gas expulsion play a dynamical role for Pal 14 and Pal 4?
  15. Jongsuk Hong:
    Evolution of binary stars in multiple-population globular clusters
  16. Nataly Nicole Ibarra Vara:
    Which gravitational waves we should expect from a Globular Clusters?
  17. Yara Jaffe:
    A phase-space view of gas stripping and galaxy quenching in clusters
  18. Christian Knigge:
    Multiple options -- (1) Cataclysmic Variables in -- -- Globular Clusters; (2) Blue Stragglers in -- -- Open and Globular Clusters; (3) -- -- Far-ultraviolet Surveys of Globular -- -- Clusters
  19. Michael Kuhn:
    Mass Segregation in Star-Forming Regions with Subclustered Stellar Populations
  20. Dongwook Lim:
    Low resolution spectroscopy for the Globular Clusters with Signs of Supernova Enrichment
  21. Alessandra Mastrobuono Battisti:
    A primordial origin for the composition similarity between the Earth and the Moon
  22. Nicolas Medina:
    Variability of YSOs in BRC 89
  23. Bryan Miller:
    The Stellar Populations of Nuclei and Globular Cluster Clusters in dE Galaxies in Virgo and Fornax
  24. Cesar Munoz:
    TBD
  25. Claudio Navarro:
    A search for YSO in the Galactic center using VVV data
  26. Christian Nietschelm:
    Study of the duplicity and the multiplicity in the Sco-Cen Complex (Sco OB2)
  27. Alexander Rassakazov:
    Rotational Brownian Motion of a Supermassive Binary in a Rotating Galactic Core
  28. Tom Richtler:
    TBD
  29. Jenna Ryon:
    Sizes and Shapes of Star Clusters in Nearby Galaxies
  30. Sara Saracino:
    GEMINI observations reveal the structure of Liller 1
  31. Mirco Simunovic:
    CMD Properties of Blue Straggler Stars in Globular Clusters from HST Survey Data
  32. Anna Sippel:
    Slicing and dicing globular clusters
  33. Margaryta Sobolenko:
    Merging time for interacting galaxies with central post-Newtonian black holes
  34. Piera Andrea Soto King:
    Tau-square fitting the Age and Distance of the Blanco 1 Open Cluster
  35. Maria Tiongco:
    Lifetimes and kinematics of rotating star clusters in a tidal field
  36. Rodrigo Adolfo Vejar Asem:
    Properties of Tidal Tails in a NFW potential
  37. Joshua Wall:
    Modelling Massive Cluster Formation with Stellar Feedback using Flash and AMUSE
  38. Peter Zeidler:
    A Hubble Space Telescope multi-band survey with WFC3 and ACS of the young massive star cluster Westerlund 2