| SUNDAY, 11th June | |
| 18:00-20:30 | Registration |
| 18:30-20:00 | Welcome Cocktail |
| MONDAY, 12th June | |
| 09:00 - 09:15 | Welcome and formal opening of the conference |
| SESSION 1: Observations - Abundances in the Galaxy Subsession 1: Field Stars Chair: Garik Israelian | |
| 09:15 - 09:45 | Invited Talk: Metal rich stars and stellar populations (M. Rich) |
| 09:45 - 10:15 | Invited Talk: The metal-rich nature of stars with planets (N.C. Santos) |
| 10:15 - 10:35 | Solar Chemical Peculiarities? (C. Allende-Prieto) |
| 10:35 - 10:55 | Kinematics of metal-rich stars (A. Ecuvillon) |
| 10:55 - 11:30 | Coffee-break and Poster Session |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Invited Talk: Elemental abundance trends in the metal-rich thin and thick disks (S. Feltzing) |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Invited Talk: Metal rich massive stars - how metal rich are they? (D. Lennon) |
| 12:30 - 12:50 | Hercules stream stars and the metal-rich thick disk (T. Bensby) |
| 12:50 - 13:10 | Elemental abundance survey of the Galactic thick disk ( B.E. Reddy / C. Allende-Prieto) |
| 13:10 - 15:00 | Poster Session and Lunch break |
| SESSION 2: Observations - Abundances in the Galaxy Subsession 2: Galactic Stars in Clusters, Bulges and Centre Chair: Michael Rich | |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Invited Talk: Galactic open clusters with super solar metallicities (S. Randich) |
| 15:30 - 15:50 | Old and very metal-rich open clusters (A. Bragaglia) |
| 15:50 - 16:10 | Massive stars vs. nebular abundances in the Orion nebula (S. Simon-Díaz) |
| 16:10 - 16:40 | Coffee-break and Poster Session |
| 16:40 - 17:10 | Invited Talk: Optical Abundance Surveys of Metal-Rich Galactic Bulge Stars (J. Fulbright) |
| 17:10 - 17:40 | Invited Talk: Metal abundances in the Galactic Center (F. Najarro) |
| 17:40 - 18:00 | Light elements in the Galactic Bulge (A. Lecureur) |
| 18:00 - 18:20 | Metallicity and ages of a sample of nearby G-K Giants (L. Pasquini) |
| TUESDAY, 13th June | |
| SESSION 3: Observations - Abundances in Extragalactic Contexts Chair: Roberto Maiolino | |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Invited Talk: Stellar Abundances of Early-type Galaxies and Galactic Spheroids: Evidence for Metal-Rich Stars (S. Trager) |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Invited Talk: Measuring chemical abundances in extragalactic metal-rich HII regions (F. Bresolin) |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | Oxygen abundance in metal-richest spiral galaxies (J.M. Vílchez) |
| 10:20 - 10:50 | Coffee-break and Poster Session |
| 10:50 - 11:20 | Invited Talk: Starbursts and their contribution to metal enrichment (D. Kunth) |
| 11:20 - 11:50 | Invited Talk: High metallicities at high redshifts? (M. Pettini) |
| 11:50 - 12:10 | Evolution of Dust and Elemental abundances in quasar DLAs and GRB afterglows as a function of cosmic time (B. Penprase) |
| 12:10 - 12:30 | Dust, Metals and Diffuse Interstellar Bands in Damped Lyman Alpha Systems (S. Ellison) |
| 12:40 - 14:30 | Poster Session and Lunch break |
| SESSION 4: Stellar Populations and Mass Functions Chair: Max Pettini | |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Invited Talk: The stellar IMF for metal-rich populations (P. Kroupa) |
| 15:00 - 15:20 | IMF Effects on the Metallicity and Colour Evolution of Disk Galaxies (P. Westera) |
| 15:20 - 15:40 | The metallicity of circumnuclear star forming regions (A.I. Díaz) |
| 15:40 - 16:10 | Coffee-break and Poster Session |
| 16:10 - 16:40 | Invited Talk: The stellar population of bulges (P. Jablonka) |
| 16:40 - 17:10 | The metallicity distribution of the stars in elliptical galaxies (A. Pipino) |
| 17:10 - 17:30 | Invited Talk: Wolf-Rayet Populations in metal-rich environments(P. Crowther) |
| 17:30 - 17:50 | The Stellar Populations of High Metalicity Star-forming Galaxies: The frequency of Wolf-Rayet Stars (J.R. Souza Leao) |
| WEDNESDAY, 14th June | |
| SESSION 5: Physical Processes at High Metallicity Chair: Sylvie Vauclair | |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Invited Talk: Association of stellar metallicity and planetary systems (D. Lin) |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Invited Talk: Stellar winds in solar metallicity and metal rich massive stars – What are the mass-loss rates? (J. Puls) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Invited Talk: Perspective for determining surface abundances and physical parameters of Metal-Rich Stars (Y. Takeda) |
| 10:30 - 10:50 | Are WNL stars tracers of high metallicity? (G Gräfener) |
| 10:50 - 11:10 | Coffee-break and Poster Session |
| 11:10 - 11:30 | The observable Metal-enrichment of Radiation+wind-driven HII Regions in the Wolf-Rayet Stage (G. Hensler) |
| 11:30 - 11:50 | Metal-rich A-type supergiants in M31 (N. Przybilla) |
| 12:15 - 20:00 | Visit to the Observatorio del Roque de Los Muchachos |
| THURSDAY, 15th June | |
| SESSION 6: Formation and Evolution of Metal-Rich Stars and Stellar Yields Chair: Francesca Matteucci | |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Invited Talk: Massive star evolution at Fe/H> 0 (G. Meynet) |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Invited Talk: Core Collapse Supernovae: The explosion mechanism and primary and secondary nucleosynthesis processes (C. Frohlich) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Invited Talk: Progenitor evolution of Type I supernovae and implications for SNeIa yields (S.C. Yoon) |
| 10:30 - 10:50 | Metal rich stars orbiting black holes and neutron stars (R. Rebolo) |
| 10:50 - 11:20 | Coffee-break and Poster Session |
| 11:20 - 11:50 | Invited Talk: Star Formation at High Metallicities (I. Bonnell ) |
| 11:50 - 12:20 | Invited Talk: Metallicity of low mass stars: Accretion, diffusion, mixing and seismological tests (S. Vauclair) |
| 12:20 - 12:40 | Hints to the star formation history of early-type galaxies through the study of their chemical composition (P. Sánchez-Blazquez) |
| 12:40 - 13:00 | Metal-rich droplets and the enrichment of the ISM (G. Stasinska) |
| 13:05 - 15:00 | Poster Session and Lunch break |
| SESSION 7: Chemical and Photometric Evolution beyond Solar Metallicity Chair: Georges Meynet | |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Invited Talk: Models of the Milky Way: the metal rich stage (L. Carigi) |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Invited Talk: Models of Ellipticals and Bulges (F. Matteucci) |
| 16:00 - 16:20 | Chemodynamical Models of Elliptical Galaxies (B. Gibson) |
| 16:20 - 16:50 | Coffee-break and Poster Session |
| 16:50 - 17:20 | Invited Talk: How do Galaxies get metal rich?: An examination of the yield problem (M. Edmunds) |
| 17:20 - 17:40 | Abundance Trends in the Thin/Thick Disk: models vs. observations (C. Chiappini) |
| 17:40 - 18:00 | The chemical evolution of the Galactic bulge (S.K. Ballero) |
| 20:00 - 24:00 | Closing Dinner |
| FRIDAY, 16th June | |
| SESSION 8: Future Prospectives Chair: Artemio Herrero | |
| 09:00 - 09:20 | Science and technology of ELTs: The European view (R. Gilmozzi) |
| 09:20 - 09:40 | The GTC, preparing First Light (J.M. Rodríguez Espinosa ) |
| 09:40 - 10:00 | ALMA (R. Laing) |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | The metal rich universe and the James Webb Space Telescope (R. Maiolino) |
| 10:20 - 10:50 | Coffee-break and Poster Session |
| 10:50 - 11:10 | Summary: (B. Pagel) |
| 11:10 - 12:10 | General Discussion |
| 12:10 | Workshop Closing |
| Authors | Title of poster |
| M. Abrahamyan | Anisotropic Inhomogeneous Riemann S-Ellipsoid in Halo as a model of the Galaxy |
| A. Bragaglia, E. Carretta, R. Gratton, et al. | Abundances of the metal-rich bulge globular clusters NGC 6388 and NGC 6441 |
| R. Carrera, C. Gallart; E. Hardy; E. Costa; E. Mendez | The Chemical Enrichment History of the Magellanic Clouds |
| G. Cescutti, F. Matteucci, P. Francois, C. Chiappini | Abundance gradients in the Milky Way |
| C. Chavero, R. de la Reza, C.A. Torres, G.R. Quast, L. da Silva | Metallicity evolution in young stars |
| J.I. González Hernández, R. Rebolo, G. Israelian, E.T. Harlaftis, A.V. Filippenko, R. Chornock | On the origin of the black hole in the X-ray binary XTE J1118+480 |
| G. Hägele, A.I. Díaz, M. Cardaci, E. Terlevich, R. Terlevich | Kinematics of metal rich circumnuclear star forming regions in NGC3351 |
| U. Heiter, R. Earle Luck | The metallicity of nearby stars |
| C. Kehrig, J.M. Vílchez, E. Telles, F. Cuisinier, E. Pérez-Montero | A Spectroscopic Study of the Near-IR [SIII] Lines in a Sample of Star-Forming Galaxies: chemical abundances |
| C. Kehrig, J.M. Vílchez, L. López-Martín, E. Pérez-Montero, E. Telles | 3D Spectroscopy of Star-forming Galaxies |
| C. Ledoux, P. Petitjean, J.P.U. Fynbo, P. Móller, R. Srianand, P. Noterdaeme | Velocity-metallicity correlation for high-z DLA galaxies: Evidence for a mass-metallicity relation? |
| A. MacDonald, B. Gibson, M. Lugaro, D. Argast, Y. Fenner, L. Carigi | Isotopic Abundances in the Metal Rich Solar Neighbourhood |
| M.L. Malagnini, Franchini, Morossi, Di Marcantonio, Chavez | Search for MR cool stars contaminating the metallicity distribution of the SDSS database |
| M. Mollá, J.M. Vílchez, M. Gavilan, A.I. Díaz | The N/O evolution on galaxies: the effect of the star formation rate |
| P. Noterdaeme, P. Petitjean, C. Ledoux, R. Srianand | High metallicity and molecular hydrogen in Damped Lyman-alpha systems |
| Pérez Montero E | Sulphur Abundances in Ionized Gaseous Nebulae |
| C. Pilachowski, H. R. Jacobson | Finding Members in Trumpler 37 |
| I. Ramirez, C. Allende Prieto, D. L. Lambert, M. Asplund | Observing Granulation in K Dwarfs |
| S. Recchi, C. Theis, P. Kroupa, G. Hensler | Early evolution of tidal dwarf galaxies |
| Ryde N | Galactic Chemical Evolution of Sulfur in the Disk |
| P. Sestito, S. Randich, A. Bragaglia | Old open clusters as key tracers of Galactic chemical evolution: Fe and other element abundances in the metal rich NGC 6253 |
| J.S. Sobeck, C. Sneden, J.E. Lawler | Chromium Abundances of Metal-Rich Stars |
| S.G. Sousa, N.C. Santos | Spectroscopic Parameters for a sample of metal-rich solar-type stars |
| C. Trundle, P.L. Dufton, D.J. Lennon, S.J. Smartt, A. Zurita | Massive stars and nebulae in M31: Metal rich? |