Madrid node.
Universidad Autonoma de Madrid.

Coordinator:

Angeles I. Diaz (angeles.diaz@uam.es)- hereafter [AID]

Proposed collaborators:

Marcelo Castellanos (marcelo.castellanos@uam.es) [MC]
Enrique Perez-Montero (enrique.perez@uam.es)     [EPM]
Mercedes Molla (mercedes.molla@ciemat.es)        [MML]


Domains of expertise:
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- HII regions
  * Abundance determinations in high  metallicity regions [AID, MC]
  * Abundance determinations in low metallicity regions [AID, EPM]
  * Photoionization models of HII regions [AID, MC, EPM]
  * Study of the ionization structure of HII regions [AID, MC, EPM]
  * Photon escape and ionization of the DIG [AID, MC]

- Stellar populations
  * Evolutionary synthesis models for young stellar populations [AID]
  * Combined starburst-photoionization models [AID, MC]
  * Balmer H profile stellar libraries and models [AID, MML]
  * Stellar populations of spiral disks [MML]
  * Modelling of spectral indices in galactic nuclei [MML]
  * Ionizing populations in circumnuclear star forming regions [AID]

- Studies of chemical evolution of galaxies
  * Nucleosynthesis origin of Nitrogen [MML]
  * Chemical evolution models for disk galaxies [MML, AID]
  * Radial gradients of abundances [MML, AID]
  * Chemical evolution of galactic bulges [MML]

- Active galactic nuclei
  * Stellar populations in Syfert galaxies [AID]
  * Stellar populations in radiogalaxies   [AID]
  * Conection between activity and star formation in AGN [AID]

Proposed topics for research and formation, among others above
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- Study of the stellar populations of post-starburst galaxies
- Spatially resolved observations of LBCG in the Local Universe
- Chemical evolution of low mass galaxies
- Matter bounded photoionization models and photon escape


Main ongoing collaborations with other proposed node members
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- [AID], Enrique Perez (IAA), Rosa Gonzalez Delgado (IAA), Jose M.
Vilchez
(IAA) (Balmer H absorption line profiles for young stellar populations)

- [AID, MC], E. Terlevich (INAOE)(high metallicity HII regions:
ionization structure, abundances, ionizing populations etc ...)

- [AID, MC], G. Tenorio-Tagle (INAOE) (photon escape from HII regions)

- [AID], E. Terlevich (INAOE), R. Terlevich (IoA/INAOE) (stellar
populations in AGN)

- [MML], M. Cervi–o (IAA) (statistical effects in chemical evolution
models)