Report on the ESO-FONDAP Conference on Globular Clusters - Guides to Galaxies (held in Concepción, Chile, 6-10 March 2006)

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Jun 2006

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The Messenger, volume 124, page 39

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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The role of ESO in the development of astronomy in Chile is difficult to overstate. However, the Chilean government is also well aware of the significance of science for the development of the country and has created large programmes for Chilean science to grow and maintain a sci-entific productivity competitive with that of countries with a longer scientific tradition. One of these programmes is called FONDAP (Fondo de Investigación Avanzado en Areas Prioritarias) and there is no question that astronomy is a priority field in Chile. The astronomy FONDAP pro-gramme (www.cenastro.cl) unites groups from Santiago (Universidad de Chile, Universidad Católica) and Concepción (Universidad de Concepción). One of the FONDAP goals is to support schools and conferences. Since globular clusters play an important role in the research of the Concepción group, we had the feeling that a small workshop of two or three days on globular cluster research would be due. But the reaction from the community was overwhelming and within a short time we had to drop the idea of an intimate workshop and instead had to face the challenge of a full-scale international conference, which would stretch our organisational and infrastructural capabilities to the limit. As so often, ESO was very generous and so a joint ESO-FONDAP conference on Globular Clus-ters in Concepción became reality.

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