MONDAY 22 SALON FLAMBOYANT SALON MANZANILLO I SALON MANZANILLO II
08:00 – 08:30 Poster Session Poster Session Poster Session
08:30 – 09:00 Opening Remarks


Cosmology/The Galactic Bulge (Chair: Silvia Torres-Peimbert)

09:00 – 09:30 Mario Hamuy – Measuring the Universe with Supernovae (IT)

09:30 – 10:00 Emilio Falco – Doing Cosmology with Gravitational Lenses (IT)

10:00 – 10:30 Vladimir Avila-Reese - Gamma-ray Bursts: new cosmological lighthouses (IT)

10:30 – 11:00 Manuela Zoccali - The formation and Evolution of the Galactic Bulge (IT)

11:00 – 11:20 Beatriz Barbuy - Metal-poor globular clusters in the Galactic bulge

11:20 – 11:50 Coffee Break


Stars & Chemistry (Chair: Roberto Cid Fernandes) Astrometry & Galactic Structure (Chair: Julio Fernández) Structure formation in Galaxies (Chair: Manuel Bautista )
11:50 – 12:10 Cristina Chiappini - Hunting for the imprints of the First Stars René Méndez – The proper motion of the Large Magellanic Cloud Jura Borissova – Revealing the Galactic “Undergound'' Star Formation: Photometry and Spectroscopy of Obscured Clusters near the Galactic Center
12:10 – 12:30 Gustavo Lanfranchi – Chemical evolution of local group dwarf spheroidal galaxies Carlos Abad – Absolute Proper Motions from Carte du Ciel Plates, San Fernando Zone Ivanio Puerari – Formation of rings by galactic collisions
12:30 – 12:50 Ricardo Carrera – The Magellanic Clouds Chemical Enrichment History Katherine Vieira – Proper Motions in the Galactic Bulge: Plaut's Window Eduardo Telles - 3D Optical and IR spectroscopy of exceptional starburst dwarf galaxies
12:50 – 13:10 Duilia De Mello – Blue blobs: star-forming regions outside galaxies Teodoro López Moratalla - Astrometric Positioning of Geostationary Satellites (PASAGE). Precise Ephemerides and Orbital Parameters Determination Lorena Talavera – Fundamental properties of blue compact and high surface brightness star clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud
13:10 – 15:00 Beach Break Beach Break Beach Break
15:00 – 16:00 Poster Session Poster Session Poster Session

Black Holes & Active Galaxies (Chair: Itziar Aretxaga) Galactic Structure (Chair: René Méndez) Galaxies: Kinematics & Star Formation (Chair: César Mendoza )
16:00 – 16:20 Félix Mirabel – Black Holes in the Universe Christian Moni Bidin – Kinematical and chemical vertical structure of the Galactic Thick Disk Eréndira Huerta – Rotation curves in mixed pairs of galaxies and effects of interaction.
16:20 – 16:40 Andrés Escala – On the Fueling of Massive Black Holes and the Origin of the Relations Between Host Spheroids and Black Holes Beatriz Sabogal – Be Stars in the Milky Way and the LMC Rodolfo Barbá – The New Generation of Massive Stars in NGC 604: a HST/ACS and Nicmos Perspective
16:40 – 17:00 Andrés Jordan – The Central Regions and the Globular Clusters of Early-Type Galaxies Kathy Vivas – Sub-structures in the Milky Way's Halo toward Virgo Horacio Dottori - IR Star Forming Knots in Grand Design Spiral Galaxies
17:00 – 17:20 Rosa Amelia González López-Lira – Surface brightness fluctuation measure-ments as tracers of stellar mass loss. Cecilia Mateu – The QUEST RR Lyrae survey in the Canis Major Overdensity Mario A. Higuera G. - PAH emission in Starburst, Seyfert, Liner and Quasar objects, and their relation with the infrared, X-ray and radio continuum emission
17:20 – 17.40 Susan Ridgway – A Comparison of the Mid-Infrared Spectral Properties of Type 1 and Type 2 Quasars Julio C. Tello Gálvez – Search for Eclipsing Binaries Towards the Galactic Bulge With OGLE-II and 2MASS Data Discussion Topic I
17:40 – 18:00 Carlos Bornancini - Clustering and properties of galaxies around high redshift radio sources Margarita Valdez Gutiérrez – Kinematics of Local Dwarf Irregular Galaxies Discussion Topic I
18:00 – 18:20 Juan Andrés Sánchez - Type 2 AGN in the Local Universe: two new invariances? Daniel Diego Carpintero – Determination of the Total Number of Isolating Integrals Using the Correlation Integral Discussion Topic I
19:30 - 21:00 J. M. Rodríguez Espinoza – GTC: El mayor telescopio óptico del mundo (PO) Javier Ballesteros - En búsqueda de vida extraterrestre (PO) Miriam Rengel – Impactando a un Cometa: La Misión Impacto Profundo (PO)
TUESDAY 23 SALON FLAMBOYANT SALON MANZANILLO I SALON MANZANILLO II
08:00 – 08:45 Poster Session Poster Session Poster Session

The Sun, Planetary Nebulae & IYA2009 (Chair: Nuria Calvet)

08:45 – 09:15 César Mendoza – Heating and Oscillations of the Solar Corona (IT)

09:15 – 09:45 Manuel Bautista – Atomic Processes in HII Regions and Planetary Nebulae (IT)

09:45 – 10:05 Miriam Peña – An interesting comparison between PNe and HII regions in NGC 3109 and NGC 6822

10:05 – 10:25 Denise Gonçalves – Do the Various Types of PNe Knots Differ in Terms of Their Physical Properties?

10:25 – 10:45 Silvia Torres-Peimbert – IYA 2009

10:45 – 11:15 Enrique Torres/ Francisco Diego – UNAWE: Universe Awareness for young children / Legacy project for IYA 2009

11:15 – 11:50 Coffee Break


Planetary Nebulae (Chair: Miriam Peña) Galaxies: Chemical Evolution & Dynamics (Chair: Vladimir Avila-Reese) Education in Astronomy (Chair: Eloy Sira)
11:50 – 12:10 Silvia Torres-Peimbert - Nebular kinematics of NGC 7009 and NGC 6543 María Emilia De Rossi – Chemical Evolution of Milky Way Type Galaxies in the Millennium Simulation Francisco Diego – Astronomy in the media
12:10 – 12:30 Joaquín Bohigas Bosch – Fitting photoionization models to planetary nebulae Sofía Cora – ICM Metallicity Evolution: effects of dynamical processes Enrique Torres – Programa Nacional de Divulgación Astronómica en Escuelas
12:30 – 12:50 Romano Corradi – New-generation optical/NIR Galactic Plane surveys Roberto González – Using Voronoi Tessellations to identify groups in N-body Simulations Horacio Tignanelli – Integral Programme of Basic Astronomic Literacy Development
12:50 – 13:10 Antonio Mampaso – A Pile of New Planetary Nebulae in the Galactic Plane Nelson Falcón – The Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect in Clusters of Galaxies and the Hubble Constant Gonzalo Santos – Desarrollo de Planetario Venezolano
13:10 – 15:00 Beach Break Beach Break Beach Break
14:30 – 16:00 SUN Microsystems - Grid Computing y su aplicabilidad en Astronomía

15:00 – 16:00 Poster Session Poster Session Poster Session

Gas & Stars in Galaxies (Chair: Claudio Mendoza) Cosmology & the Physical Universe (Chair: Paula Coelho) Education in Astronomy (Chair: Francisco Diego)
16:00 – 16:20 Carlos Olano – Spatial Distribution of the High-Velocity Clouds José F. Fandiño C. - Spin as a Source of Gravity in General Relativity Oscar Alvarez – Using Astronomy for the Formation of a Scientific Culture in the General Public
16:20 – 16:40 Mauricio Tapia – The infrared story of Northern NGC 6334 E .D. Greaves - A neo-Newtonian explanation of the Pioneer anomaly Erquinio Taborda – Education Experimental of Astronomy across the Seedbeds of Investigation in Sciences
16:40 – 17:00 Eric Martínez – Triggered Star Formation in Spiral Arms Laerte Sodré Jr. - Large-scale structures around quasar pairs at z ? 1 Johnny Cova – Sign Language in Astronomy and Space Sciences
17:00 – 17:20 Paula Aguirre – HI Observations of the Edge-On Spiral Galaxy UGC100043 Nicolás Tejos – CIV Absorbers Along the Sightlines to Gamma-Ray Bursts Gilbert Sánchez - Space baptism: ”Put in orbit your school''
17:20 – 17.40 Edmundo Arnal - The Molecular Complex Associated With RCW 121 and RCW 122 Anderson Caproni – Warping And Precession In Extragalactic Maser Accretion Discs Pedro Chalbaud - Attempts to Establish an Astronomical Observatory in the Universidad de Los Andes (Venezuela) en los últimos 100 años: dificultades, proyectos y realidades
17:40 – 18:00 Antonio Parravano – An Effective Initial Mass Function for Galactic Disks Harold Francke – AGN and LBG clustering at z=3 in MUSYC-ECDFS Domingo Sánchez – Astronomical and Related Knowledge of Venezuelan Indigenous Population
18:00 – 18:20 Néstor Sánchez – Determining the Fractal Dimension of the Interstellar Medium Manolis Plionis – Luminosity Dependent X-ray AGN Clustering
19:30 - 21:00 Félix Mirabel - Agujeros Negros en el Universo (PO) Daniel Altschuler - Ciencia y Pseudociencia: Vida extraterrestre y extraterrestres (PO) Humberto Campins - Los Cometas y el Origen del Agua en la Tierra (PO)
WEDNESDAY 24 SALON FLAMBOYANT SALON MANZANILLO I SALON MANZANILLO II
08:00 – 08:45 Poster Session Poster Session Poster Session

The origin and fate of Stars (Chair: Beatriz Barbuy)

08:45 – 09:15 Andreas Reisenegger – Neutron stars and their magnetic fields (IT)

09:15 – 09:45 Paola D'Alessio – Agujeros en discos en torno a estrellas jóvenes (IT)

09:45 – 10:15 César Briceño – OB associations: new insights from large scale surveys (IT)

10:15 – 10:35 Alberto Bolatto – Molecular Cloud Properties and Star Formation in Primitive Galaxies

10:35 – 10:55 Mónica Rubio – Massive Star Formation in the Magellanic Clouds

10:55 – 11:15 Jorge Zuluaga - Supernova Neutrinos: unveiling the hidden interior of the stellar core-collapse

11:15 – 11:50 Coffee Break

The Distance Scale & Supernovae (Chair: Mario Hamuy) Astrophysical Plamas (Chair: Andreas Reisenegger) Galaxy Clusters (Chair: Rosa A. González)
11:50 – 12:10 Grzegorz Pietrzynski – The Araucaria Project. Toward an Accurate Calibration of the Distance Scale Ramón García López – Search for gamma-ray emission from the Supernova Remnant IC443 with the MAGIC Telescope Hernán Muriel – Tidal Stripping of Globular Clusters in the Virgo Cluster
12:10 – 12:30 Gastón Folatelli – The Low-Redshift Carnegie Supernova Project: First Results Gabriela Castelleti - The low radio frequency properties of the SNR Kes 79 Sebastián López Morales – How Much Cold Gas in Galaxy Clusters? A Survey of Quasar Absorbers in Cluster Galaxies
12:30 – 12:50 Melina Bersten – Hydrodynamical Models of Type II-P Supernova Light Curves Miguel Ibáñez – Dynamics of Thermal Fronts Miriani Pastoriza – The cluster of galaxies LCDCS-S001: basic spectroscopic and photometric data and stellar population analysis
12:50 – 13:10 Matías Jones – Distance Determination To Type II Supernovae Using The Expanding Photosphere Method (EPM) Jorge Troconis – Atomic Data Calculations for Fe II and Ca II Rodrigo Carrasco – Optical and X-ray properties of galaxy clusters at intermediate redshifts
13:10 – 13:30 Felipe Olivares Estay – The Standardized Candle Method for Type II-Plateau Supernovae

19:30 - 21:00 Francisco Diego - Influencia de las estrellas en la vida humana: de la Astrología a la Astronomía (PO) Nuria Calvet - Formación de estrellas y planetas: ¿qué nos ha enseñado Spitzer? (PO) Nelson Falcón - Crónicas del Cosmos: Curiosidades de Astronomía y Astrofísica (PO)
THURSDAY 25 SALON FLAMBOYANT SALON MANZANILLO I SALON MANZANILLO II
08:00 – 08:45 Poster Session Poster Session Poster Session
Planetary Science, Instrumentation & Public Outreach (Chair: Esperanza Carrasco)

08:45 – 09:15 Julieta Fierro – La Educación Informal en Ciencia (IT)

09:15 – 09:45 Daniela Lazzaro – Basaltic asteroids: a new look on the differentiation process in the Main Belt (IT)

09:45 – 10:15 Tatiana Michtchenko – Dynamics of Extra-solar Planetary Systems (IT)

10:15 – 10:45 Adriana Silva – Starspot detection from planetary transits observed by CoRoT (IT)

10:45 – 11:15 David Hughes – El Gran Telescopio Milimétrico: estatus y sendero a la primera ciencia (IT)

11:15 – 11:50 Coffee Break


Large Astronomical Facilities (Chair: David Hughes) Star Formation (Chair: César Briceño) Comets & the Solar System (Chair: Gonzalo Tancredi)
11:50 – 12:10 Lars Nyman - The ALMA Project Lee Hartmann – Investigations of Dynamical Star Formation Horst Uwe Keller – Properties of Cometary Nuclei
12:10 – 12:30 Diego Mardones – ALMA Opportunities During the First Years of Operation Carsten Weidner – Stellar feedback and the evolution of young embedded star clusters Miriam Rengel – The terminal Velocity of the Deep Impact dust Ejecta
12:30 – 12:50 José Miguel Rodríguez Espinosa – First Light on the GTC 10.4m telescope Javier Ballesteros – Seis mitos del Teorema Virial aplicado a nubes interestelares Julio Fernández – The flux of long-period comets in Jupiter-crossing orbits and the population of the Oort cloud
12:50 – 13:10 Daniel R. Altschuler – El Futuro Incierto del Observatorio de Arecibo Nuria Calvet - Transitional disks: the first phases of planet formation? Humberto Campins – Near-Infrared Spectral Similarities Between Cometary Nuclei and Trojan Asteroids
13:10 – 13:30 Andrea Ahumada - VISTA Milky Way Public Survey and Extrasolar Planetary Transits
Paul Hartogh – Solar System Research with Herschel
13:30 – 15:00 Beach Break Beach Break Beach Break
15:00 – 16:00 Poster Session Poster Session Poster Session

Instrumentation & Data Analysis (Chair: Ramón García López) Circumstellar Disks & Brown Dwarfs (Chair: Lee Hartmann) Stellar Population Synthesis (Chair: Miriani Pastoriza)
16:00 – 16:20 José Cecatto – Development of the First Latin-American Radio Interferometer Jesús Hernández – Early stages in the evolution of protoplanetary disks Andrea V. Ahumada – Integrated spectral evolution of galactic open clusters: new template spectra for studies of composite stellar populations
16:20 – 16:40 Franco Della Prugna – GanAs: a Hybrid Anastigmatic - Aspherical Prime Focus Corrector Liza Videla – On the IR properties of dusty torus Juan Mateu – Recovering fossil records from galaxy spectra using a 2D Dynamical Base
16:40 – 17:00 David Herrera – Massive Data Reduction for Massive Surveys: NDWFS and SPM Matias Radiszcz – Sub-stellar companionship around nearby white dwarfs Fabiola Hernández – Study of Possible Ultraviolet Radiation Sources in Elliptical Galaxies using Models of Stellar Populations Synthesis
17:00 – 17:20 Bernardo Vargas – Mexican Space Weather Monitoring Station Juan José Downes – The Substellar Component of the Orion Dispersed Population Gladis Magris – Constraining the determination of the star formation history of galaxies
17:20 – 17.40 Jorge A. Combi – Search for new microquasars candidates through VLA/XMM–Newton observations Discussion Topic II Gustavo Bruzual – New look at the TP-AGB and other aspects of population synthesis models
17:40 – 18:30 Coffee Break

18:30 – 19:30 General Assembly

19:30 - 21:00 Katherine Vieira - Danza de las Estrellas: Historias del Sistema Solar y la Vía Láctea (PO) Carlos Abad – Perdiendo el tiempo (PO) Gerardo Sánchez – CCDs: ojos electrónicos de la astronomía moderna (PO)
FRIDAY 26 SALON FLAMBOYANT SALON MANZANILLO I SALON MANZANILLO II
08:00 – 09:00 Poster Session Poster Session Poster Session

Galaxies & Cosmology (Chair: Gustavo Bruzual)

09:00 – 09:30 Mario Abadi – Galaxy Formation in a LAMBDA-Cold Dark Matter Universe (IT)

09:30 – 10:00 Itziar Aretxaga – El Censo de medio grado cuadrado de SCUBA (IT)

10:00 – 10:30 Roberto Cid Fernandes – Star formation and mass-assembly evolution of galaxies (IT)

10:30 – 11:00 Paula Coelho – Model stars for the modelling of galaxies: alpha-enhancement in stellar population models (IT)

11:00 – 11:20 Eduardo Martín – Current Results and Future Prospects for the Detection of Planets around Very Low-Mass Primaries

11:20 – 11:50 Coffee Break


Solar System (Chair: Daniela Lazzaro) Massive Stars (Chair: Horacio Dottori) Variable Stars (Chair: Adriana Silva)
11:50 – 12:10 Tabaré Gallardo – A New Dynamical Population of Asteroids Nolan Walborn – Multiwavelength Spectra, Multiplicities, and Environments of the Most Massive Stars Linda Schmidtobreick – The search for SW Sextantis stars
12:10 – 12:30 William A. Bruckman – A Theoretical Model for Mars Crater-Size Frequency Distribution Zulema Abraham – Fast Oscillations in the X-RAY Light Curve of Eta Carinae Richard Branham, Jr. - A New 3-Dimesional Orbit for Capella
12:30 – 12:50 Gonzalo Tancredi – Which are the dwarfs in the Solar System? Radostin Kurtev – New young Milky Way clusters hosting WR stars Ronald Mennickent Cid – Unveiling the phenomenon of Double Periodic Variables
12:50 – 13:10 Orlando Naranjo - Observation of Star Occultations by Titan and asteroids (1263) Varsavia y (53) Kalypso Hugo Levato – Precise Redetermination of Projected Rotational Velocities Among A-type Stars Manuel Alvarez – HD 170699-Photometric Results of this COROT Target
13:10 – 13:30 Closing Remarks

19:30 - 21:00 Julieta Fierro – El Origen del Universo (PO) Ramón García López - ¿Qué nos enseña la física estelar? (PO) Néstor Sánchez - Fractales en la Naturaleza (PO)
19:30 - 21:00 Franco Della Prugna – La Contaminación Lumínica (PO)