Program

Stellar Populations in Galaxies (Gustavo Bruzual)

I - Stellar populations: history, physical properties, different populations in different galaxies, evolutionary tracks, dependence on the chemical composition.

II - Stellar populations synthesis: aims, spectral synthesis, IMF, libraries, spectral resolution.

III - Evolutionary Models: spectral evolution models, dependence on the chemical composition and libraries.

IV - Aplications: globular and open clusters, local galaxies, age and metallicity, star formation rates, large surveys.

V - Conclusions

Chemical Evolution of Galaxies (Francesca Matteucci)

I - Basic principles of galactic chemical evolution: main ingredients.

II - Analytical models for chemical evolution, their solutions and shortcomings, and the necessity of numerical solutions

III - The Hubble sequence and its possible interpretation: different star formation histories in galaxies.

IV - Chemical evolution of spheroids: elliptical galaxies and dwarf spheroidal galaxies.

V - Chemical evolution of irregular galaxies including the Magellanic Clouds and cosmic chemical evolution.

Simulating Galaxies (Cristiano Porciani)

I - Dark matter and N-body simulations.

II - Numerical fluid dynamics I.

III - Numerical fluid dynamics II.

IV - Subgrid physics.

V - State of the art and future perspectives.

Formation and Evolution of Galaxies (Joseph Silk)

I - Initial mass function and star formation rate.

II - Disk galaxy formation.

III - Spheroidal galaxy formation.

IV - Super Massive Black Hole and galaxy formation.

V - Mass assemble through cosmic history and on different scales.