Le 9 octobre 2015
De 10h30 à 12h00
Eline TOLSTOY
Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, Groningen
I will talk about how resolved stellar populations in the nearby Local Group dwarf galaxies have been used to study the detailed chemical, kinematic and star formation history of these nearby small systems, and the implications for our general understanding of galaxy formation and evolution. I will talk mainly about the observational results from relatively large VLT/FLAMES spectroscopic surveys and work combining spectroscopy with colour-magnitude diagram analysis to measure the time scale for chemical evolution in the same dwarf galaxies. I will look forward to what we can expect from similar techniques applied to large facilities that are just coming online, like Gaia and beyond to the E-ELT.