New Quests in Stellar Astrophysics: The Link Between Stars and Cosmology

Proceedings of the International Conference held in Puerto Vallarta, México, 26-30 March 2001

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A Few Things We Do Not Know About Stars and Model Atmospheres.- Cool Stellar Atmospheres.- A Critical Appraisal of ATLAS9 and NextGen5 Model Atmospheres.- A Precise New Method to Correcting Temperature in Stellar Atmospheres.- New Phenomena Discovered in the Atmospheres of Normal Late-B Type Stars.- Heating the Quiet Corona by Explosive Events in UV: Results from SUMER on board SoHO.- A Grid of Synthetic Stellar UV Fluxes.- A Grid of LTE Zero-Metallicity Stellar Fluxes.- The Evolutionary Properties of Zero-Metal Stars in the Mass Range Between 4 and 100 M?.- The Peculiar Evolution of Low-Mass Pop III Stars.- Zero-Metal Stellar Yields, the IMF for Population III and Nucleosynthetic Constraints.- The Stellar IMF in Very Metal-Deficient Gas.- Cosmological Origin of the Lowest Metallicity Halo Stars.- Cosmological Chemistry and the Formation of the First Objects.- The Primordial Li: New Observations.- Star Formation History in the Solar Neighborhood: the Link Between Stars and Cosmology.- Carbon and Oxygen Galactic Abundance Gradients Predicted by Different Stellar Yields.- The Upper End of the Galactic Metallicity Scale.- Spectral Indices of Stars at Super-solar Regime.- The Proper Motion of the Globular Cluster NGC 6553 and of Bulge Stars with HST.- Update on Globular Cluster Ages.- A Survey of Open Clusters at San Pedro Mártir.- About the IMF in Young Stellar Clusters.- Reconstructing Star Formation Episodes in the Local Group.- Deep Studies of the Resolved Stellar Populations in the Outskirts of M31.- Comments on Binary Star Evolution and the Small Magellanic Cloud System HD 5980.- Stellar Metallicities Beyond the Local Group with VLT/FORS.- An Estimate of H0 using Cepheid Period Luminosity Relations at Maximum Light.- H? Luminosity Function of H II Regions:Preliminary Calibration of a Powerful Standard Candle.- On the Behavior of the Ionized Gas in NGC 4449.- NGC 5044-N50: a Link Between Blue Compact Galaxies and Dwarf Ellipticals.- Star Formation in Ring Galaxies.- Recent Star Formation in Galaxies.- Extinction and Star Formation Histories of Nearby Starburst Galaxies.- Dust and Nebular Emission in Star Forming Galaxies.- Modeling the Radio to X-ray SED of Galaxies.- Population Synthesis in the Blue and the Spectroscopic Age of 47 Tucanae.- On the Properties of Population III Stars and "Galaxies".- Population Synthesis and the Diagnostics of High-Redshift Galaxies.- Explosive Yields of Metal Free SNII and the Abundances in Extremely Metal Poor Stars.- The First Detection of Cobalt in a Damped Lyman Alpha System.- Type Ib-Ic Supernovae: Time Clocks of Seyfert Galaxies?.- On the Evolution of Cosmological Type I Supernovae and the Gravitational Constant.- Lifting the Veil: ?-Ray Bursts as Beacons for Cosmic Star Formation.- Stars and Gas in High Redshift Galaxies.- Abundances in Damped Ly? Systems.- High Redshift Galaxies and the Intergalactic Medium.- Dust Penetrated Morphology in the High Redshift Universe.- The Dusty Star Formation History of High-z Galaxies, Modeling Tools and Future Prospects.- On the Calibration of Star Formation Rates.- Excursions into the Evolution of Early-type Galaxies.- Optical Identification of X-ray Sources in a High X-ray Flux Sensitivity Area from the RASS.- Intermediate Resolution H? Spectroscopy and Photometric Monitoring of 3C 390.3 ABCD.- From protostars to galaxies with GTM/LMT.- Searching for an Early Epoch of Star Formation with mm/sub-mm Blank Field Surveys.- The Creation and Evolution of Galaxies in the Universe: Millimeter Cosmology @ INAOE.- 21-cm Emission from the DampedLyman-? Absorber SBS 1543+593 ABCD.- Cosmological Parameters and the Baryon Density from CMB and Galaxy Fluctuations.- List of Participants.