This first part of Special Session 5 explored the current status of infrared-based observations of obscured and distant stellar clusters in the Milky Way galaxy...

We describe TRILEGAL, a new populations synthesis code for simulating the stellar photometry of any Galaxy field. The code attempts to improve upon several...

In this paper we present the BV-CCD photometry of three stellar fields of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). They are taken at the center of V-charts of the...

In this contribution we present the first results of an theoretical attempt to address the question of the evacuation time-scale but also the star-formation...

The focus of the present paper is on the detailed description of the internal structures of low mass, population II stars, to clarify some issues about these...

Lipid bilayers are key components of biomembranes; they are self-assembled two-dimensional structures, primarily serving as barriers to the leakage of cell's...

The stellar initial mass function (IMF) is an essential input for many astrophysical studies but only in a few cases has it been determined over the whole...

We present the results of a deep (J˜ 21 at 5σ) infrared photometric survey of a 0.95-deg2 area in the central region of the Upper Sco association. The...

Recent evidence based independently on spectral line strengths and dynamical modelling point towards a non-universal stellar initial mass function (IMF)...