Stellar Evolutionary Models: challenges from observations of stellar systems

Abstract

We briefly review some constraints (Owing to the limited number of pages of present review, only a sub-sample of the topics discussed during the talk are briefly summarized. For the interested readers we are pleased to send them upon request the complete presentation file.) for stellar models in various mass regimes and evolutionary stages as provided by observational data from spectroscopy to multi-wavelenghts photometry. The accuracy of present generation of stellar models can be significantly improved only through an extensive comparison between theory and observations.

8 pages, 4 figures, invited review at the IAU Symposium 241 "Stellar Populations as Building Blocks of Galaxies", A. Vazdekis, et al. (eds)

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