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ABSTRACT

1.HOW TO MODEL GALACTIC CHEMICAL EVOLUTION
1.1.The initial conditions
1.2.Birthrate function
1.3.Stellar yields
1.4.Gas flows

2.BASIC EQUATIONS FOR CHEMICAL EVOLUTION
2.1.Yields per Stellar Generation
2.2.Analytical models
2.3.Detailed numerical models

3.THE MILKY WAY
3.1.The formation of the Milky Way
3.2.The two-infall model
3.3.Detailed recipes for the two-infall model
3.4.The chemical enrichment history of the solar vicinity
3.5.The Galactic disk
3.6.The Galactic bulge

4.WHAT WE HAVE LEARNED ABOUT THE MILKY WAY

5.THE TIME-DELAY MODEL AND THE HUBBLE SEQUENCE
5.1.Star formation and Hubble sequence

6.DWARF SPHEROIDALS OF THE LOCAL GROUP
6.1.How do dSphs form?

7.WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED ABOUT dSphs?

8.OTHER SPIRALS
8.1.CHEMICAL MODELS FOR EXTERNAL SPIRALS

9.COSMIC CHEMICAL EVOLUTION

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