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<div>Dear Colleagues,</div>
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<div>IAU has recently announced that a proposal for a IAU Symposium on 'Star Clusters: from the Milky Way to the Early Universe' has been approved. The Symposium will be held in Bologna (Italy) 27-31 May 2019.<br>
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<div>We attach below some information about the key topics and the SOC.</div>
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<div>We propose that this Symposium be the MODEST-19 meeting.</div>
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<div>We will send another message to this list when preliminary registration is open.</div>
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<div>Best regards</div>
<div>Enrico Vesperini and Angela Bragaglia</div>
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<div>IAU Symposium 351</div>
<div>Star Clusters: from the Milky Way to the Early Universe</div>
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<div>27-31 May 2019 Bologna (Italy)</div>
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<div>Key Topics:</div>
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<div>* Formation and evolution of globular clusters at high and low-redshift</div>
<div>∗ Multiple stellar populations in stellar clusters</div>
<div>∗ Dynamics and evolution stellar content and exotic populations (BHs,gravitational waves sources, compact remnants and X-ray sources) of massive clusters</div>
<div>∗ Links between globular clusters, massive open clusters, young massive clusters, nuclear star clusters, ultra-faint dwarfs, ultra-compact dwarfs, and dwarf galaxies</div>
<div>∗ Globular clusters and satellite systems in the Local Group and beyond</div>
<div>∗ Extragalactic globular clusters: constraints on the formation and evolution from integrated light and integrated spectroscopy</div>
<div>∗ Star clusters and dwarfs as building blocks of galactic halos</div>
<div>∗ The Gaia revolution for star clusters</div>
<div>∗ Galactic archeology with ongoing and future large surveys</div>
<div>∗ The future instrumentation from the ground and space</div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">SOC:</span><br>
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<div>Angela Bragaglia (co-chair)</div>
<div>Enrico Vesperini (co-chair)</div>
<div>Gary Da Costa</div>
<div>Melvyn Davies</div>
<div>Michiko Fujii</div>
<div>Mirek Giersz</div>
<div>Young-Wook Lee</div>
<div>Michela Mapelli</div>
<div>Nadine Neumayer</div>
<div>Genevieve Parmentier</div>
<div>Eric Peng</div>
<div>Giampaolo Piotto</div>
<div>Thomas Puzia</div>
<div>Maurizio Salaris</div>
<div>Alison Sills</div>
<div>Eline Tolstoy</div>
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