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The archaeological record of the Milky Way is being unveiled through measurements of its stars. This is an endeavour across a huge range of scales, where both individual stellar atmospheres and million star surveys are revealing the connection of present to past. I will present my recent work that makes measurements of stellar ages, and uses these ages as the fundamental variable to learn the formation and evolutionary properties of the Galaxy: where stars were born, how they have moved over time, and how individual abundances can quantify the diversity of the environment in which they formed. The overarching goal of this ensemble of studies is to link the chemical to the structural evolution of the Milky Way, showing relationships that directly enable comparisons to other galaxies. |
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