Monday, 16 June
Dust and gas as seeds for metal-poor star formation
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09:00-09:25
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WELCOME
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Mayor of Rapallo, Assessor of Culture, Province of Genova
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09:25-09:55
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Marco Spaans  |  
Molecule formation in primordial conditions  
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09:55-10:15
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Simon Glover  |  
Modelling the chemistry of very low-metallicity gas  
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10:15-10:35
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Alberto Bolatto  |  
The resolved properties of extragalactic Giant Molecular Clouds in low-metallicity systems  
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10:35-10:55
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Juergen Ott  |  
Molecular cloud and star formation near the vigorously star-forming 30 Doradus region in the Large Magellanic Cloud  
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10:55-11:25
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COFFEE BREAK AND POSTER VIEWING
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11:25-11:55
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Elias Brinks  |  
The gas phase in a low-metallicity ISM  
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11:55-12:15
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Vianney Lebouteiller  |  
Is there any pristine gas in nearby starburst galaxies?  
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12:15-12:45
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Frederic Galliano  |  
Dust in a metal-poor ISM  
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12:45-15:15
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LUNCH
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15:15-15:35
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Takaya Nozawa  |  
Destruction and Transport of Newly Formed Dust in Population III Supernova Remnants and Its Affect on the Elemental Composition of Population II.5 Stars  
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15:35-15:55
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Anne Verhamme  |  
Constraints on the dust content from Lyman-alpha spectral fitting of star-forming galaxies at redshift 3 to 5  
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15:55-16:15
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Ute Lisenfeld  |  
Dust properties and distribution in dwarf galaxies  
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Metal-poor IMFs, stellar evolution, and star-formation histories
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16:15-17:00
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Evan Skillman  |  
Metal-poor IMFs, stellar evolution, and star-formation histories  
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17:00-17:30
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COFFEE BREAK AND POSTER VIEWING
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17:30-18:00
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Raphael Hirschi  |  
Stellar evolution at low metallicity  
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18:00-18:20
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Monica Tosi  |  
SMC in space and time: a project to study the evolution of the prototype interacting late-type dwarf galaxy  
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18:20-18:50
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Pavel Kroupa  |  
Low-metallicity star clusters and the IMF in metal-poor environments  
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Tuesday, 17 June
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09:00-09:45
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Deidre Hunter  |  
Dust and gas as seeds for metal-poor star formation  
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09:45-10:05
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Claus Leitherer  |  
Revision of Star-Formation Measures at Low Metallicity  
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10:05-10:25
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Sven De Rijcke  |  
Truncated star formation in dwarf spheroidal galaxies and photometric scaling relations  
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10:25-10:45
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Alessandra Aloisi  |  
A New Age and Distance for IZw18, the Most Metal-Poor Galaxy in the Nearby Universe  
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10:45-11:15
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COFFEE BREAK AND POSTER VIEWING
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11:15-11:45
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Eline Tolstoy  |  
Star-formation histories at low metallicity in dwarf galaxies  
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11:45-12:05
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Stefania Salvadori  |  
Life and times of dwarf spheroidal galaxies  
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12:05-12:35
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Tim Beers  |  
Local relics of primordial star formation: the Milky Way halo and local dwarfs  
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12:35-12:55
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Anna Frebel  |  
Stellar archaeology: Using metal-poor Galactic halo stars to test theories of the early Universe  
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12:55-13:15
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Yutaka Komiya  |  
Galactic Archeology with Extremely Metal-Poor Stars  
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13:15-15:45
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LUNCH
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Explosive events in low-metallicity environments
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15:45-16:15
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Roger Chevalier  |  
SNe and their evolution in a low-metallicity ISM  
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16:15-16:35
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Sylvia Ekstrom  |  
Powerful explosions at Z=0  
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16:35-16:55
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Ken Nomoto  |  
Typical masses of First Stars as constrained from their nucleosynthesis  
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16:55-17:15
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Nozomu Tominaga  |  
Supernova nucleosynthesis in the early universe  
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17:15-17:45
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COFFEE BREAK AND POSTER VIEWING
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17:45-18:15
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Sandra Savaglio  |  
Low-mass and metal-poor GRB host galaxies  
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18:15-18:35
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Ruben Salvaterra  |  
The Luminosity Function of long Gamma-Ray Bursts and their rate at z>=6  
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18:35-18:55
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Cyril Georgy  |  
Wind anisotropy and impact on stellar evolution  
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18:55-19:15
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Francesco Calura  |  
The Star formation history of the GRB 050730 host galaxy  
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Wednesday, 18 June
Low-metallicity star formation in the local Universe 
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09:00-09:45
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Trinh Thuan  |  
Low-metallicity star formation in local dwarf galaxies  
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09:45-10:05
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Hiroyuki Hirashita  |  
The size-density relation of HII regions in blue compact dwarf galaxies  
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10:05-10:25
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Kelsey Johnson  |  
Probing Globular Cluster Formation in Low Metallicity Dwarf Galaxies  
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10:25-10:45
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Matteo Monelli  |  
The ACS LCID project: accurate measurements of the full star formation history in low metallicity, isolated, Local Group dwarf galaxies  
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10:45-11:15
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COFFEE BREAK AND POSTER VIEWING
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11:15-11:45
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Grazyna Stasinska  |  
Ionized gas in dwarf galaxies: abundances and star-formation indicators  
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11.45-12.05
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Yuri Izotov  |  
Broad line emission in dwarf galaxies: the first detection of extremely low-metallicity AGN  
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12:05-12:25
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David Rosario  |  
Luminous Low Metallicity Dwarfs at z~0.7: Keys to the Origin of Metallicity Scaling Relations  
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12:25-12:45
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Yuko Kakazu  |  
Extremely Metal Poor Galaxies at z<1  
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12:45-13:15
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DEDICATED POSTER SESSION
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FREE AFTERNOON
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Thursday, 19 June
Metal enrichment, chemical evolution, and feedback
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09:00-09:45
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Andrea Ferrara  |  
Cosmic metal enrichment  
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09:45-10:05
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Filippo Mannucci  |  
The Mass-Metallicity Relation at z>3  
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10:05-10:25
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Henry Lee  |  
Surprises in the universal galaxy relationship between stellar metallicity and stellar mass  
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10:25-10:45
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Emily Levesque  |  
Modeling the ISM Properties of Metal-Poor Galaxies and Gamma-Ray Burst Hosts  
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10:45-11:15
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COFFEE BREAK AND POSTER VIEWING
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11:15-11:45
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Francesca Matteucci  |  
Chemical enrichment and feedback in low-metallicity environments (**galaxies**)  
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11:45-12:05
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Andreea Font  |  
Chemo-Dynamical Simulations of Milky Way-type galaxies  
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12:05-12:25
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Andrea Marcolini  |  
About the chemical evolution of dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies (and the peculiar Globular Cluster Omega Cen)  
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12:25-12:45
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Andrew Schurer  |  
Modeling the effects of dust evolution on the SEDs of galaxies of different morphological type  
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12:45-13:15
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DEDICATED POSTER SESSION
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13:15-15:30
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LUNCH
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15:30-15:50
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Britton Smith  |  
Three Modes of Metal-Enriched Star Formation at High Redshift  
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15:50-16:10
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Daniel Whalen  |  
The Destruction of Cosmological Minihalos by Primordial Supernovae: Triggered Star Formation?  
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16:10-16:30
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Massimo Ricotti  |  
Effects of reionization feedback on dwarf galaxy evolution  
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16:30-17:00
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Miroslava Dessauges-Zavadsky  |  
Damped Ly-alpha systems as probes of chemical evolution over cosmological timescales  
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17:00-17:30
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COFFEE BREAK AND POSTER VIEWING
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17:30-17:50
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Regina Schulte-Ladbeck  |  
Connecting high-redshift galaxy populations through observations of a local dwarf  
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17:50-18:10
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Elena Sabbi  |  
Young Star Clusters in the SMC: impact of local and global conditions on star formation  
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18:10-18:30
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Uli Klein  |  
Dwarf galaxies and the magnetisation of the IGM  
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Friday, 20 June
Population III and metal-free star formation
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09:00-09:45
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Volker Bromm  |  
Pop. III and metal-free star formation  
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09:45-10:15
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Naoki Yoshida  |  
Primordial building blocks: from dark matter halos to the first stars (I)  
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10:15-10:45
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Jonathan Tan  |  
Population III stars: formation and evolution  
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10:45-11:15
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COFFEE BREAK AND POSTER VIEWING
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11:15-11:45
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Tom Abel  |  
Primordial building blocks: from dark matter halos to the first stars (II)  
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11:45-12:05
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Katherine Freese  |  
Dark Stars: Dark Matter Annihilation in the First Stars  
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12:05-12:25
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Fabio Iocco  |  
Effects of Dark Matter annihilation on the First Stars  
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12:25-12:45
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Ralf Klessen  |  
What can we learn from present-day star formation about stellar birth in the early universe?  
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12:45-15:15
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LUNCH
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15:15-15:45
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Kazuyuki Omukai  |  
Population III to Pop. II transition: chemical vs. radiative feedback  
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15:45-16:05
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Thomas Greif  |  
The Formation of the First Galaxies  
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16:05-16:25
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Paul Clark  |  
The Formation of the First Stellar Clusters in the Universe  
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16:25-16:55
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COFFEE BREAK AND POSTER VIEWING
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16:55-17:25
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Daniel Schaerer  |  
Searches for Pop. III and very metal-poor populations in the distant universe  
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17:25-17:45
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Tohru Nagao  |  
Observational search for Population III stars in high-z galaxies  
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17:45-18:05
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Sperello di Serego Alighieri  |  
The HeII 1640 line signature of PopIII stars in a z=6.5 galaxy  
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18:05-18:15
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CLOSING
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