Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica Serie de Conferencias, Vol. 37, Enero 2010

Series Editor: Silvia Torres-Peimbert
Associate Editor: William Henney

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A Long Walk Through Astronomy: A Celebration of Luis Carrasco's 60th Birthday

Huatulco, Oaxaca, México, October 15 - 17, 2008
Proceedings Editors:E. Recillas, A. Luna & Y. D. Mayya

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THIS ISSUE IN ADS

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE
Mario Armando Higuera Garzón & Santiago Vargas Domínguez
GROUP PHOTOGRAPH
PARTICIPANTS

Invited and Oral Contributions

• Diffusion Coefficients of a Non-Linear Astrophysical Process: Luis Carrasco's Scientific (and other) Contributions
  L. A. Aguilar
• The Role of the Gran Telescopio Milimétrico in Studies of Star Formation
  M. H. Heyer
• Spitzer-IRAC imagery and photometry of ultracompact H II regions with extended emission
  E. de la Fuente, A. Porras, J. M. C. Grave, M. S. N. Kumar, M. A. Trinidad, S. Kurtz, S. Kemp, J. Franco, & G. Quevedo
• The Myth of the IMF
  J. Melnick
• The large scale molecular environment towards Westerlund 1
  A. Luna, Y. D. Mayya, L. Carrasco, L. H. Rodríguez-Merino, & L. Bronfman
• Runaway Stars. Then and Now
  A. Poveda
• M82 as a Galaxy: Morphology and Stellar Content of the Disk and Halo
  Y. D. Mayya & L. Carrasco
• Age and Extinction of the Ultraviolet Emitting Regions in M82
  L. H. Rodríguez-Merino, D. Rosa-González, Y. D. Mayya, L. Carrasco, A. Luna, & R. Romano
• Probing the link between dynamics and stellar evolution: Blue Straggler Stars in Globular clusters
  F. R. Ferraro & B. Lanzoni
• Downsizing among disk galaxies and the role of the environment
  G. Gavazzi
• Barred Galaxy Photometry: Comparing results from the Cananea sample with N-body simulations
  E. Athanassoula, D. A. Gadotti, L. Ca-rras-co, A. Bosma, R. E. de Souza, & E. Recillas
• Multi-Wavelength Modelling of Dusty Galaxies. GRASIL and Applications
  L. Silva
• The energetic environment and the dense interstellar medium in ULIRGs
  O. Vega, M. S. Clemens, A. Bressan, G. L. Granato, L. Silva, & P. Panuzzo
• On the Early Evolution of Young Starbursts
  D. Rosa-González, H. Schmitt, E. Terlevich, & R. Terlevich
• The Fundamental Plane of Rich Abell Clusters
  H. J. Ibarra & O. Lopez-Cruz
• Spectroscopic Gradients in Early-type Galaxies
  A. Buzzoni, C. Battistini, L. Carrasco, & E. Recillas
• AGN and starburst in bright seyfert galaxies: from IR photometry to IR spectroscopy
  L. Spinoglio, S. Tommasin, & M. A. Malkan
• Optical and near infrared studies of $ \gamma$-ray bright WMAP
  A. Carramiñana & L. Carrasco
• Phase closure nulling: Theory and practice
  A. Chelli, G. Duvert, F. Malbet, & P. Kern

  Poster Constributions

• Age-Metallicity Degeneracy at mid-UV Wavelengths
  E. Bertone, M. Chavez, & A. Buzzoni
• 12CO (1-0) and (2-1) Observations of Isolated Early-Type Galaxies
  M. Chavez, W. Wall, A. Apponi, E. Brinks, & L. Ramirez-Garduño
• Bolometric Arrays for Millimeter Wavelengths
  E. Castillo, A. Serrano, & A. Torres-Jácome
• A Design of an Acousto-optical Spectrometer
  G. Herrera-Martínez, A. Luna, L. Ca-rras-co, A. Shcherbakov, D. Sánchez, E. Mendoza, & F. Re-ne-ro
• M33: The existence of a bar
  I. Hernández-López, E. Athanassoula, R. Mújica, & A. Bosma
• The metallicity of the most distant quasars
  Y. Juárez, R. Maiolino, & R. Mújica
• Embedded young stellar population in the galactic molecular cloud associated with IRAS 18236-1205
  R. Retes, A. Luna, Y. D. Mayya, & L. Carrasco
• Searching for Compact Star Clusters in M81 using HST/ACS images
  M. Santiago-Cortés, Y. D. Mayya, & D. Rosa-González
• Cosmic Ray elimination using the Wavelet Transform
  M. T. Orozco-Aguilera, J. Cruz, L. Altamirano, & A. Serrano
• Mass dust evolution in high redshift quasars
  Y. Juárez, R. Maiolino, & R. Mújica
• Accurate diameter measurement of Betelgeuse using the VLTI/AMBER instrument
  O. Hernandez Utrera & A. Chelli

• Author Index