Final Announcement

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## You can still propose for a contribution:        ##
## The deadline for abstract submission is May 31   ##
## The deadline for registration is June 9          ##
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Dear colleague,

   we are pleased to announce the first 
   international conference in the CRAL Conference Series, 
   titled "Chemodynamics: from first stars to local galaxies"
   to be held July 10-14 2006 in the beautiful city of
   Lyon, France.

   There will be five large sessions:
      * First stars and early metal production
      * Galaxy winds and inter galactic medium enrichment at
        intermediate redshifts
      * The intra cluster medium as a laboratory for galaxy
        chemodynamics
      * Self-regulation processes in the interstellar medium of
        local and not so local galaxies
      * Detailed stellar feedback processes in the Milky Way
      
   Reviewers and invited speakers for these 5 sessions will
   include:

   * Andrea Ferrara, Vanessa Hill, Raffaella Schneider,
     Raphael Hirschi 
   * Anthony Aguirre, Dawn Erb, Philip Richter
   * Sabine Schindler, Stefano Borgani, Brad Gibson
   * Greg Bryan, Adrianne Slyz, Françoise Combes, Fabian Walter
   * Nikos Prantzos, Kim Venn, Keiichi Wada, Julien Devriendt,
     Hervé Wozniak 
   * and Colin Norman for the summary talk.

   Registrations are opened, and we *encourage* you to apply
   *early*.
   See our web site for information and registration:
          http://cralconf.univ-lyon1.fr 

   Looking forward to seeing you in Lyon!

      The Local Organizing Committee
    
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   Scientific Rationale:
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   Chemodynamical evolutionary models were invented to provide a
   global dynamical description of the interplay between the major
   physical components of galaxies: in a gravitational potential
   essentially dominated by dark matter, stars structure the
   multi-phase ISM through radiation, winds and supernovae and
   enrich it in heavy elements. From a cosmological perspective,
   these models should begin with the formation of the first
   structures. Heavy elements formed by the very first generation
   of stars pollute the early IGM, thus allowing for more
   efficient radiative cooling during the formation of the next
   astrophysical objects: galaxies are born.

   Chemodynamical models yield quantitative predictions for the
   observable consequences of the violent physical mechanisms that
   occur within galaxies. Perhaps the most remarkable one is that
   the ISM self-regulates which implies that the star formation
   rate in galaxies is ultimately controlled by feedback
   processes. In other words, they argue that observations over a
   wide range of wave-lengths should be linked: X-ray emission of
   the relatively low density supernova heated gas that permeates
   the entire ISM, impacts on the far infrared cooling emission
   lines present in the densest molecular cores.
   
   Forthcoming instruments such as MUSE, JWST, ALMA and SKA will
   shed light on the high redshift Universe population of
   proto-galaxies whereas XMM, Chandra, GALEX and Spitzer are now
   probing galaxies panchromatically at lower redshifts. On the
   other hand, current computational power allows us to
   numerically explore the first ages of structure formation. It
   also makes it possible to follow in greater detail the
   chemodynamics of individual objects. As a consequence, we now
   feel that we lie at a crossroad between two epochs, and the
   time has come to review where chemodynamical models stand.

   Scientific Organising Committee
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      Greg Bryan
      Françoise Combes
      Andrea Ferrara
      Bruno Guiderdoni
      Gerhard Hensler
      Max Pettini
      Eline Tolstoy  (chair)
      Keiichi Wada 

   Local Organising Committee
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      Nicolas Champavert, Hélène Courtois, Julien Devriendt,
      Eric Emsellem (chair), Jean-François Gonzalez,
      Gérard Massacrier, Jimmy Paillet, Hervé Wozniak 

   Practical Issues
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   We encourage you to register as soon as possible as we will
   limit the total number of participants : 
     ** the deadline for submitting an abstract is May 31 
     ** the deadline for registering is June 9.
   
   We also encourage you to reserve your hotel a.s.a.p. 
   since July is certainly a busy time in Lyon (and a nice
   period for sight-seeing).

   Fees are 250 euros (including the conference dinner, and
   proceedings), and 300 euros for late payment (after June 9).
   The fees can be paid BEFORE June 9, via bank wiring 
   (a procedure to pay via Credit Card will soon be implemented):
   see the registration section on the web site for details.

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