Sp12-EWASS 2013

Special Session 12: Programme


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Thursday, July 11th, 2013

16:00 – 16:30 P. Kroupa IMF variations at the lowest and highest masses
16:30 – 16:45 C. Weidner The IGIMF in dwarf late-type to massive early-type galaxies
16:45 – 17:00 R. Läsker Bottom-heavy initial mass function in a nearby compact L* galaxy
17:00 – 17:15 C. Spiniello The XLENS Project: Do massive ETGs have more internal dark matter or a steeper IMF?
17:15 – 17:30 C. Tortora Is the initial mass function universal?
17:30 – 17:45 N. Podorvanyuk The new estimates of the IMF in compact stellar systems
17:45 – 18:00 D. Chulkov Testing the mass distribution of binaries from the magnitude difference of visual binary stars
18:00 – 18:05 M. Orsi Using synthetic spectra to construct population synthesis models for IMF studies
18:05 – 18:10 Ph. de Meulenaer Metallicity effects on the derivation of age, mass and extinction of unresolved clusters


Friday, July 12th, 2013

11:45 – 12:15 M. Cappellari Constraining the IMF via galaxy mass determinations
12:15 – 12:30 F. La Barbera Systematic variation of the IMF from a variety of spectral features
12:30 – 12:45 I. Martín Navarro IMF variation in massive early-type galaxies
12:45 – 13:00 A. Ferré Mateu Baby elliptical galaxies or non-universal IMF?
13:00 – 13:15 L. A. Díaz García Stellar population and the IMF of ALHAMBRA early-type galaxies


14:30 – 15:00 R. Schiavon Constraining the low-mass end of the IMF of galaxies from integrated light spectroscopy
15:00 – 15:15 A. Vazdekis MILES stellar population synthesis models with varying IMF and abundance ratio
15:15 – 15:30 C. Bertelli Motta New insights into the non-universality of the IMF
15:30 – 16:00 Discussion
Sp12-EWASS2013, Turku, Finland, 11-12 July 2013