| 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) | ||||||||