This IAU Colloquium provides a multidisciplinary forum where international researchers can map out strategies and set priorities, initiate collaborations and projects, and set in place a framework for progress on important problems related to near-field cosmology with dwarf elliptical galaxies.

Topics

• Dwarf Surveys and Samples
• Faint-End of the Galaxy Luminosity Function: Implications for CDM Models
• Distance and Velocity Measurements, Spatial Distribution
• Luminosity Structure and Morphological Variants
• Star Clusters and Nuclei
• Photometric Scaling Relations: Local Benchmarks for High Redshift Cosmology
• From Gas to Stars: Content and Structure of Dwarf Ellipticals
• Galaxy Transformation Processes: Outflows, Winds, and the Fate of Dwarfs
• Kinematics and Dynamics, Dark Matter Halos
• Star-Formation Histories of dEs and Their Possible Contribution to Faint Galaxy Counts
• The First Galaxies