Nuclei in the Cosmos - IX

Early galactic chemical evolution: the Milky Way in a cosmological context

30 Jun 2006, 11:30

30m

CERN, Geneva

Invited Element production, stellar evolution and stellar explosions 15 Galactic and stellar evolution

Speaker

Nikos Prantzos (IAP, Paris)

Description

I will present an overviw of recent work on the early chemical evolution of galaxies. Available information on the early Milky Way (derived from observations of abundances, abundance ratios, metallicity distributions etc.) will be compared to information about the distant Universe (derived from e.g. metallicity, star formation rate, supernova rates, abundance patterns, etc. as a function of redshift).