To appear on the Proceedings of the 37th Saas-Fee Advanced Course of the Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy, "The Origin of the Galaxy and the Local Group", eds. E. Grebel and B. Moore
astro-ph/0804.1492

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Table of Contents

• HOW TO MODEL GALACTIC CHEMICAL EVOLUTION
• The initial conditions
• Birthrate function
• Stellar yields
• Gas flows
• BASIC EQUATIONS FOR CHEMICAL EVOLUTION
• Yields per Stellar Generation
• Analytical models
• Detailed numerical models
• THE MILKY WAY
• The formation of the Milky Way
• The two-infall model
• Detailed recipes for the two-infall model
• The chemical enrichment history of the solar vicinity
• The Galactic disk
• The Galactic bulge
• WHAT WE HAVE LEARNED ABOUT THE MILKY WAY
• THE TIME-DELAY MODEL AND THE HUBBLE SEQUENCE
• Star formation and Hubble sequence
• DWARF SPHEROIDALS OF THE LOCAL GROUP
• How do dSphs form?
• WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED ABOUT dSphs?
• OTHER SPIRALS
• CHEMICAL MODELS FOR EXTERNAL SPIRALS
• COSMIC CHEMICAL EVOLUTION
• REFERENCES