First Stars II

sponsored by the
Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics and the
Eberly College of Science at
Penn State University

State College, PA, May 29-31st 2003

In 1999 a three day workshop entitled the The First Stars was held in Garching, Germany. It summarized the state of knowledge about metal-free (or Pop.III) stars, their existence, formation, evolution, and their relation to primordial structure formation and early galaxy evolution. In a unique way a variety of different subdisciplines of astronomy started to discuss new approaches to the nature of the first objects and the early universe. Four years later we have learned a lot and new discoveries warrant to again assemble the experts in the various fields to discuss the recent progress made.

Click on program for power point files and movies of the talks presented at this meetings. We are currently buying more disk space to be able to accomodate all the movies.

Review Topics covered:
- Searches for Pop. III stars. Characteristics of known stars.
- Observed abundance patterns in metal-poor stars
- Nucleosynthesis in metal-poor stars
- Stellar evolution at zero and very low metallicities
- First Structure Formation
- Star formation at very low metallicities
- Abundance patterns in QSO-absorption systems
- Dwarf galaxies as possible first galaxies
- High redshift Gamma Ray Bursts
- High redshift Galaxies

Scientific Advisory Committee:
T. Beers, V. Hill, A. Ferrara, R. Larson, A. Loeb, J.P. Ostriker, Y.-Z. Qian, M. Rees, S. Ryan, W. Sargent, C. Steidel, E. Tolstoy, A. Weiss, S. Woosley, S.D.M. White
Local Organizing Committee:
Tom Abel (chair)
Laura Sproat (Staff Assistant)
Jane Charlton, Robin Ciardullo, Mike Eracleus, Eric Feigelson, Peter Meszaros, Larry Ramsey, Richard Wade

Quick Reference:

Registration	First Announcement	List of registered participants
Travel Information	Pictures	Accommodation
Program	Poster presentations

For further information please contact: II@TomAbel.com