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Preface	p. xi
Organizing committees	p. xiii
Conference photograph	p. xiv
Conference participants	p. xvi
Address by the organizing committees	p. xvii
Starformation History of Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies
Near-field cosmology with Local Group dwarf spheroidals	p. 1
The stellar populations of local dwarfs	p. 11
Modeling of star formation histories of dwarf ellipticals	p. 17
The star formation history of the Fornax dSph galaxy using the new synthetic color-magnitude diagram code IAC-STAR	p. 25
Carbon stars in the M 31 dwarf spheroidals: evolutionary implications	p. 30
The stellar populations of dSph galaxies in nearby groups	p. 35
A recent merger in the Fornax dwarf spheroidal galaxy	p. 42
A near infrared view of Local Group dwarf galaxies	p. 47
Near IR imaging of Centaurus group dwarf elliptical galaxies	p. 49
Kinematics of Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies
Kinematics of dSph and dE galaxies	p. 52
Kinematics and M/L ratios of dwarf spheroidals	p. 60
Rotationally supported Virgo dwarf elliptical galaxies	p. 68
Internal kinematics and stellar populations of dE galaxies: clues to their formation/evolution	p. 73
On the origin of dwarf spheroidal galaxies. Clues from cosmological simulations	p. 77
Andromeda and the seven dwarfs	p. 84
A case for extended dark matter halos in dwarf spheroidal galaxies	p. 92
The Canis Major dwarf galaxy as the progenitor of the Monoceros tidal stream	p. 97
The Sagittarius dwarf mass-to-light ratio	p. 101
3D spectroscopic studies of dE galaxies	p. 105
Dwarf spheroidal kinematics with large radial velocity samples	p. 107
Chemical Evolution of Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies
Chemodynamical evolution of dwarf elliptical galaxies	p. 109
The chemical composition of Local Group dwarf spheroidals	p. 118
Galactic chemical abundance distributions in a ACDM universe	p. 126
IMF variations in dwarf galaxies	p. 130
The chemical evolution of subpopulations in the Carina dwarf spheroidal	p. 134
Physical Processes in Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies
The Origins of dEs	p. 139
The effects of early reionization on the formation of dwarf galaxies	p. 147
Making compact elliptical satellite galaxies: a conceptual model for M32	p. 151
Faint blue galaxies revisited	p. 156
Galaxies at high redshifts: where are the progenitors of today's dwarf ellipticals?	p. 164
Does the counter-streaming instability produce lopisded dE,Ns?	p. 173
Evolution of field dwarf galaxies with GEMS	p. 177
Giant halos in dwarf irregular galaxies versus dwarf elliptical galaxies	p. 181
Clues to dwarf galaxy formation from clustering and kinematics	p. 185
Modified newtonian dynamics: success and problems on globular cluster scale	p. 189
3D Simulations of the ISM pollution by SNII and SNI in dwarf spheriodal galaxies	p. 198
The near-IR luminosity-metallicity relation of dwarf irregular galaxies	p. 202
Can satellite dwarfs excite galactic warps?	p. 207
Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy Evolution and Dark Matter
Evolution of CDM halos and the Milky Way satellites	p. 211
The environment of dwarf spheroidal satellites; ram pressure, tides and external radiation fields	p. 220
Dwarf galaxies are among the best places to probe the nature of dark matter	p. 229
The mass of dwarf spheroidal galaxies and the missing satellite problem	p. 235
Substructure in dwarf spheriodals - a star cluster connection?	p. 240
Detailed kinematics and morphological features in tidally heated disks	p. 244
Dwarf "transition" types: searching for the holy grail(s)	p. 249
Neutral hydrogen in early-type dwarf galaxies of the Sculptor Group	p. 255
Discovery of remote star clusters in the halo of the irregular galaxy NGC 6822N. Hwang and M.G. Lee and J.C. Lee and W.-K. Park and H.S. Park and J.-H. Park and S.T. Sohn and S.-G. Lee and H.M. Lee and M.-S. Chun and Y.-W. Lee and Y.-J. Sohn and I.-S. Yuk and S.C. Kim and H.-I. Kim and W. Han
Anisotropies of the satellite systems around the Milky Way and Andromeda	p. 259
Are violent events responsible of a galaxy morphological loop?	p. 261
Dark matter or tidal disruption? The case for the Leo I dSph	p. 263
dEs and the dI fundamental plane	p. 265
The Tully-Fisher relation of spiral galaxies	p. 267
Dwarf Ellipticals in Groups and Clusters
An HST/ACS survey of early-type galaxies in the Virgo cluster	p. 269
Constraining galaxy formation models with dwarf ellipticals in clusters	p. 277
Low luminosity and ultra low surface brightness galaxies in the Virgo cluster	p. 285
The counterparts of Local Group dwarf spheroidals in nearby clusters	p. 290
Dwarf spheroidal galaxies in nearby groups imaged with HST	p. 295
Structural properties of dwarf ellipticals and the connection with (ordinary) elliptical galaxies	p. 303
The colours of Virgo dEs as seen by SDSS	p. 311
Formation and evolution of dwarf elliptical galaxies: structural and kinematical properties	p. 316
The impact of accurate distances to dwarf elliptical galaxies on cosmology	p. 322
Environmental dependencies in the luminosity function of galaxies	p. 331
Diffuse light in z [tilde] 0.25 galaxy clusters: constraining tidal damage and the faint end of the luminosity function	p. 337
Optimizing the tip of the red giant branch distance estimator	p. 342
RASS-SDSS galaxy cluster survey: a ubiquitous dwarf galaxy population in clusters	p. 346
The faint end of the HI mass function	p. 351
Kinematic properties and stellar populations of dwarf and faint early-type galaxies in the Coma cluster	p. 355
Resolving stellar populations using broad band photometry	p. 361
SAPAC: a SBF analysis pipeline for the astronomical community	p. 365
The ACS Fornax cluster survey	p. 368
A multicolour view of the nuclei of dEs	p. 370
N-body/SPH study of dEs in a cluster environment	p. 372
Dwarf galaxy candidates in the NGC 3665 galaxy group	p. 374
Charting the neighbourhood	p. 376
Infra-red studies of dwarf galaxies in the Fornax cluster	p. 378
NIR observations of dEs in the Virgo cluster: a structural continuity with giant ellipticals	p. 380
Globular Clusters, Nuclei and Ultra Compact Dwarfs
Globular clusters and nuclei in dwarf ellipticals	p. 382
Age and metallicity estimations in old stellar populations from Stromgren photometry	p. 390
Ultra-compact dwarf galaxies: a new component of galaxy clusters and groups	p. 398
UCDs in Fornax and Abell 1689	p. 404
Globular clusters in low mass galaxies	p. 409
The origin of ultra-compact dwarf galaxies in the Virgo cluster	p. 413
Faint stellar systems in the Virgo cluster: ultracompact dwarfs and globular clusters	p. 416
Abundances from a large spectroscopic survey in [omega] Centauri	p. 418
Ending the Colloquium
Summary from an observational perspective	p. 420
Author index	p. 427