12th IAU Regional Latin American Meeting of Astronomy
Volumen 35
Junio 2009

• Topic 1: Solar System - Extrasolar Planets
• Topic 2: Star Formation - ISM
• Topic 3: Galactic Structure - Astrometry - Local Group Galaxies
• Topic 4: Stellar Evolution - Stellar Clusters - Evolution of Stellar Populations
• Topic 5: Galaxies - Large Scale Structure - Cosmology
• Topic 6: Astronomical instruments - Surveys
• Topic 7: Outreach

Table of Contents
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Preface
G. Magris, G. Bruzual, & L. Carigi
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Obituary
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Group Photograph
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List of Participants
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Topic 1: Solar System - Extrasolar Planets

Basaltic Asteroids: a New Look on the Differentiation Process in the Main Belt
D. Lazzaro
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Oscillations and Heating of the Solar Corona
C. A. Mendoza-Briceño, A. Parravano, & M. H. Ibáñez
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Starspot detection from planetary transits observed by CoRoT
A. Silva-Válio
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Analytical Model for Mars Crater-Size Frequency Distribution
W. Bruckman, A. Ruiz, & E. Ramos
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A New Dynamical Population of Asteroids
T. Gallardo
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A neo-Newtonian explanation of the Pioneer anomaly
E. D. Greaves
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The terminal Velocity of the Deep Impact dust Ejecta
M. Rengel, M. Küppers, H. U. Keller, P. Gutierrez, & S. F. Hviid
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Topic 2: Star Formation - ISM

OB Associations: new insights from large scale surveys
C. Briceño
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Transitional disks around young low mass stars
P. D'Alessio
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Nebular kinematics of planetary nebulae as tests of possible differences of distribution of permitted and forbidden emission lines
S. Torres-Peimbert, A. Arrieta, L. Georgiev, & M. Richer
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Fast Oscillations in the X-ray light curve of $\eta$ Carinae
Z. Abraham & D. Falceta-Gonçalves
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The molecular complex associated with RCW 121 and RCW 122
E. M. Arnal, N. U. Duronea, & J. C. Testori
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Massive stars in NGC604: an HST/NICMOS+ACS perspective
R. H. Barbá, J. Maíz Apellániz, E. Pérez, M. Rubio, A. D. Bolatto, C. Fariña, G. Bosch, & N. R. Walborn
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Fitting Photoionization Models to Planetary Nebulae
J. Bohigas
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Revealing the Galactic ``Underground'' Star Formation
J. Borissova, V. D. Ivanov, & R. Kurtev
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CVS0 224: a transitional disk in the 10 Myr 25 Ori aggregate
N. Calvet, C. Espaillat, J. Hernández, J. Muzerolle, C. Briceño, P. D'Alessio, L. Hartmann, & D. Watson
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Warping and Precession in Extragalactic Maser Accretion Discs
A. Caproni, Z. Abraham, M. Livio, & H. J. Mosquera Cuesta
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The Substellar Component of the Orion Dispersed Population
J. Downes, C. Briceño, J. Hernández, N. Calvet, & L. Hartmann
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Search for Gamma-Ray Emission from the Supernova Remnant IC 443 with the MAGIC Telescope
R. J. García López
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Do the Various Types of PNe Knots Differ in Terms of their Physical Properties? The case of NGC 7662
D. R. Gonçalves, R. L. M. Corradi, A. Mampaso, & C. Quireza
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Dynamic Star Formation
L. Hartmann, F. Heitsch, & J. Ballesteros-Paredes
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Early stages in the evolution of protoplanetary disks
J. Hernández, N. Calvet, L. Hartmann, C. Briceño, A. K. Vivas, J. Muzerolle, & R. Gutermuth
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Dynamics of Thermal Fronts
M. H. Ibañez
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Spatial Distribution of the High-Velocity Clouds
C. A. Olano
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An Interesting Comparison between PNe and H II Regions in NGC 3109 and NGC 6822
M. Peña & L. Hernández-Martínez
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Determining the Fractal Dimension of the Interstellar Medium
N. Sánchez, E. J. Alfaro, & E. Pérez
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The Star Formation Region NGC 6334
M. Tapia & P. Persi
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Atomic Data Calculations for Fe 0 and Ca 0
J. Troconis & M. Bautista
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Stellar Feedback and the Evolution of Young Embedded Star Clusters
C. Weidner & P. Kroupa
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Topic 3: Galactic Structure - Astrometry - Local Group Galaxies

Formation and Evolution of the Galactic Bulge
M. Zoccali & D. Minniti
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A New 3-Dimensional Orbit for Capella
R. L. Branham Jr.
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The Magellanic Clouds Field Population Chemical Enrichment History
R. Carrera, C. Ga-llart, A. Aparicio, E. Costa, E. Hardy, R. A. Méndez, N. E. D. Nöel, & R. Zinn
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Tidal Stripping of Globular Clusters
V. Coenda, H. Muriel, & C. Donzelli
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Search for new microquasars candidates through VLA/XMM-Newton observations
J. A. Combi, J. F. Albacete-Colombo, & J. Martí
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Chemical evolution of local group dwarf spheroidal galaxies
G. A. Lanfranchi & F. Matteucci
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Astrometric Positioning of Geostationary Satellites (PASAGE)
T. López Moratalla, F. J. Montojo, C. Abad, J. Pizarro, J. L. Muiños, J. Palacio, & P. Galindo
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A pile of new Planetary Nebulae in the Galactic Plane
A. Mampaso, R. L. M. Corradi, K. Viironen, & L. Sabin
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The QUEST RR Lyrae Survey of the Canis Major Overdensity
C. Mateu & A. K. Vivas
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The proper motion of the LMC
R. A. Méndez, E. Costa, M. Moyano, & M. Pedreros
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The Vertical Velocity Dispersion Profile of the Galactic Thick Disk
C. Moni Bidin, T. M. Girard, G. Carraro, R. A. Méndez, W. F. van Altena, V. I. Korchagin, & D. I. Casetti-Dinescu
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Massive Star Formation in the Magellanic Clouds
M. Rubio, F. Boulanger, & R. H. Barbá
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Be Stars in the Milky Way and the LMC
B. E. Sabogal, & R. E. Mennickent
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The Search for SW Sextantis Stars
L. Schmidtobreick, P. Rodríguez-Gil, & B. Gänsicke
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Fundamental Properties of blue compact and high surface brightness star clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud
M. L. Talavera, A. V. Ahumada, J. J. Clariá, J. F. C. Santos Jr., E. Bica, & M. C. Parisi
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Search for Eclipsing Binaries towards the Galactic Bulge with OGLE-II and 2MASS Data
J. Tello & F. Jablonski
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CdC-SF: Proper motion catalogue from Carte du Ciel plates, San Fernando Zone
B. Vicente & C. Abad
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Proper Motions in the Galactic Bulge: Plaut's Window
K. Vieira, D. I. Casetti-Dinescu, R. A. Méndez, R. M. Rich, T. M. Girard, V. I. Korchagin, W. F. van Altena, S. R. Majewski, & S. van den Bergh
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Sub-structures in the Milky Way's Halo towards Virgo
A. K. Vivas, Y. L. Jaffé, R. Zinn, R. Winnick, S. Duffau, & C. Mateu
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Topic 4: Stellar Evolution - Stellar Clusters - Evolution of Stellar Populations

The Star Formation Histories of Galaxies: A tour through the STARLIGHT-SDSS database
R. Cid Fernandes, W. Schoenell, J. M. Gomes, N. V. Asari, M. Schlickmann, A. Mateus, G. Stasinska, L. Sodré Jr., & J. P. Torres-Papaqui
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Model stars for the modelling of galaxies: $\alpha$-en-hance-ment in stellar populations models
P. Coelho
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Neutron Stars and their Magnetic Fields
A. Reisenegger
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Integrated spectral evolution of galactic open clusters: new template spectra for studies of composite stellar populations
A. V. Ahumada, J. J. Clariá, & E. Bica
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On the variability of HD 170699 - a possible COROT Target
M. Álvarez, J. P. Sareyan, L. Parrao, J. H. Peña, L. Fox-Machado, E. Poretti, S. Martin, P. Amado, R. Garrido, C. Aerts, Z. Csurby, & M. Paparo
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Metal-poor Globular Clusters of the Galactic bulge
B. Barbuy, B. Dias, A. Alves-Brito, M. Zoccali, D. Minniti, J. Meléndez, M. Asplund, S. Ortolani, A. Renzini, V. Hill, A. Gómez, & E. Bica
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Hydrodynamical Models of Type II-P Supernova Light Curves
M. C. Bersten, O. Benvenuto, & M. Hamuy
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TP-AGB Stars and the Mass of Galaxies
G. Bruzual
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Fueling-Controlled the Growth of Massive Black Holes
A. Escala
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Possible Sources of UV Radiation in Elliptical Galaxies
F. C. Hernández & G. Bruzual
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Hidden Milky Way star clusters hosting Wolf-Rayet stars
R. Kurtev, J. Borissova, V. D. Ivanov, & L. Georgiev
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Constraining the Determination of the Star Formation History of Galaxies
G. Magris
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Recovering Fossil Records from Galaxy Spectra Using a 2D Dynamical Base
J. Mateu
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Unveiling the phenomenon of Double Periodic Variables
R. E. Mennickent & Z. Koaczkowski
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The High Mass End of the Initial Mass Function
A. Parravano, C. F. McKee, & D. Hollenbach
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Low mass stellar and substellar companionship among nearby white dwarfs
M. Radiszcz & R. A. Méndez
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CNO Anomalies in O2 Spectra
N. R. Walborn
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Supernova neutrinos: unveiling the hidden interior of the stellar core-collapse
J. I. Zuluaga
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Topic 5: Galaxies - Large Scale Structure - Cosmology

Numerical Simulations of Galaxy Formation in a $\Lambda$ Cold Dark Matter Universe
M. G. Abadi
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Wide extragalactic (sub-)millimeter surveys with SCUBA and AzTEC
I. Aretxaga & D. H. Hughes
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Gamma-Ray Bursts, new cosmological beacons
V. Avila-Reese, C. Firmani, G. Ghisellini, & J. I. Cabrera
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Cosmology with gravitational lenses
E. E. Falco
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Discovery of a Small Group that Drives the Evolution of the Edge-On Spiral Galaxy UGC 10043
P. Aguirre, J. M. Uson, & L. D. Matthews
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Clustering and properties of galaxies around high redshift radio sources
C. G. Bornancini
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Optical and X-ray properties of galaxy clusters at intermediate reshifts
E. R. Carrasco, E. S. Cypriano, G. B. Lima Neto, L. Sodré Jr., C. Mendes de Oliveira, H. Cuevas, & A. Ramirez
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Hunting for the imprints of the First Stars
C. Chiappini, S. Ekström, G. Meynet, R. Hirschi, & A. Maeder
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ICM Metallicity Evolution: Effects of Dynamical Processes
S. Cora, L. Tornatore, P. Tozzi, & K. Dolag
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Blue Blobs: Star-Forming Regions Outside Galaxies
D. F. de Mello
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Chemical Evolution of Milky Way Type Galaxies in the Millennium Simulation
M. E. De Rossi, G. De Lucia, P. B. Tissera, & G. Kauffmann
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IR star forming knots in Grand Design spiral galaxies: spiral structure star formation connection
H. Dottori & P. Grosbøl
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The Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect in Clusters of Galaxies and the Hubble Constant
N. Falcón & R. Genova-Santos
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The Low-Redshift Carnegie Supernova Project
G. Folatelli
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Clustering of Intermediate Luminosity X-ray selected AGN at z $\sim$ 3
H. Francke, E. Gawiser, P. Lira, E. Treister, S. Virani, C. Cardamone, C. M. Urry, P. van Dokkum, & R. Quadri
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Using Voronoi Tessellations to identify groups in N-body Simulations
R. E. González & T. Theuns
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PAH emission in Starburst, Seyfert, ULIRGs, QSOs and Quasar objects, and their relation with the infrared, X-ray and radio continuum emission
M. A. Higuera, A. Rodríguez-Ardila, & J. M. Tejeiro
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Rotation curves in (E+S) isolated galaxy pairs
E. M. Huerta & J. J. González
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Probing cluster galaxies with background QSOs
S. López & the QbC Collaboration
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Triggered star formation in spiral arms
E. E. Martínez-García, R. A. González-Lópezlira, & G. Bruzual
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The Araucaria Project. Improving the Cosmic Distance Scale
G. Pietrzynski & W. Gieren
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High-z X-ray AGN Clustering & Cosmological Inference
M. Plionis
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Formation of rings by galactic collisions
I. Puerari & L. Aguilar
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Type 1 and Type 2 Quasars in the Mid-Infrared
S. E. Ridgway, C. Harrison, M. Lacy, A. Sajina, A. Petric, N. Seymour, L. Storrie-Lombardi, L. Armus, & G. Canalizo
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Type 2 AGN in the Local Universe: Two New Invariances?
J. A. Sánchez & A. Bongiovanni
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Large-Scale Structures around Quasar Pairs at z $\sim$ 1
L. Sodré Jr., N. V. Boris, G. B. Lima Neto, E. S. Cypriano, W. A. Santos, C. Mendes de Oliveira, & M. West
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C IV Absorbers Along the Sightlines to Gamma-Ray Bursts
N. Tejos, S. Lopez, J. X. Prochaska, H.-W. Chen, & M. Dessauges-Zavadsky
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3D Optical and IR spectroscopy of exceptional HII galaxies
E. Telles
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The Local Dwarf Irregular Galaxy IC10: Ionized Gas Behavior
M. Valdez-Gutiérrez, M. Rosado, & I. Puerari
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Topic 6: Astronomical instruments - Surveys

The Large Millimeter Telescope
D. H. Hughes & F. P. Schloerb
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New generation optical and near-infrared surveys of the Galactic Plane
R. L. M. Corradi & A. Mampaso
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Ganas: a hybrid anastigmatic aspherical prime-focus corrector
F. Della Prugna & H. Schenner
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Massive data reduction for massive surveys: SPM and NDWFS
D. Herrera
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VISTA Milky Way Public Survey
D. Minniti, P. Lucas, A. V. Ahumada, M. Zoccali, M. Catelan, L. Morelli, C. Tapper, G. Pignata, I. Toledo, M. T. Ruiz, G. Carraro, S. Casassus, L. Bronfman, R. H. Barbá, R. Gamen, W. Gieren, D. Geisler, G. Pietrzynski, R. E. Mennickent, R. Kurtev, J. Borissova, F. Mirabel, V. D. Ivanov, I. Saviane, L. Vanzi, L. Monaco, M. Rejkuba, M. Messineo, L. Bedin, A. Stephens, B. Barbuy, E. Bica, J. J. Clariá, CASU (VDFS) team, WFAU (VDFS) team, J. Emerson, J. Drew, M. López-Correidora, E. Martin, B. Goldman, T. Gianinni, J. Eisloeffel, P. Groot, J. Fabregat, N. Hambly, A. Longmore, N. Walton, R. de Grijs, M. Hoare, A. Schroeder, T. Naylor, M. Barlow, A. Zijlstra, G. White, A. Gosling, K. McGowan, A. Adamson, R. Bandyopadhyay, M. Thompson, M. Cropper, J. Lucey, E. Kerins, S. Hodgkin, & D. Pinfield
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The ALMA Project
L.-Å. Nyman
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Topic 7: Outreach

Public Outreach in Astronomy
J. Fierro
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Using Astronomy to Promote a Scientific Culture in the Public
O. Alvarez
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Attempts to Establish an Astronomical Observatory in the Universidad de Los Andes in the Last 100 Years
P. Chalbaud Cardona
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Sign Language in Astronomy and Space Sciences
J. Cova, V. Movilio, Y. Gómez, F. Gutiérrez, R. García, H. Moreno, F. González, J. Díaz, C. Villarroel, E. Abreu, D. Aparicio, J. Cárdenas, L. Casneiro, N. Castillo, D. Contreras, N. La Verde, M. Maita, A. Martínez, J. Villahermosa, & A. Quintero
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Astrophysics, cosmology and astrobiology at a popular level as a legacy of IYA2009
F. Diego
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Contest ``Let your School go into Orbit''- Space Baptism 2007
G. Sánchez
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Integral Programme of Basic Astronomic Literacy Development
H. Tignanelli
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Mobile Planetarium System Sidereum I
E. Torres & G. Santos
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National Program for Popularization of Astronomy at Schools (ProNDAE)
E. Torres
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Abstracts of Contributed Papers
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Author Index
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