Authors
                Dr.
            
                        Divakara Mayya
            
  Date and time
                                    29 Jan 2014 - 11:30 Europe/London
                            Address
                                    Aula
Talk language
                                    English
                            Serie number
                                    1
                            Description
                                    The nearby spiral galaxy M81 contains a population of 3 kinds of stellar clusters - super star clusters, globular clusters and fuzzy clusters. Over the past few years, we have taken GTC longslit spectra of around 20 of these clusters, with the intention of obtaining their spectroscopic ages. These spectra have allowed us to understand the nature of the brightest globular cluster in this galaxy. In addition, we were able to address the problem of the origin of the fuzzy clusters. In the talk, I will summarize the results we have obtained so far.