Speaker: 
　  Professor Eric Peng 

Time: 
　  2:00PM, March 23 (Tuesday)

Location: 
　　 middle conf. room, 3rd floor

Abstract：
Globular clusters are our most easily accessible local window onto the high redshiftUniverse.While the ability to resolve field stellar populations in local galaxies islimited to the Milky Way And nearby galaxies, globular clusters are visible out todistances of hundreds of Mpc. HST and ground-based surveys of nearby galaxyclusters are transforming our view of these halo populations.　I will present recentobservational results on the properties of globular cluster systems in nearby galaxies,compare them to models,and show new evidence for a large intergalactic populationof globular clusters in the core of the Coma cluster of galaxies.I will discuss how these results are shaping our view of early star formation and theprocess of galaxy assembly.