Published in "The Extragalactic Distance Scale", Space Telescope Science Institute Symposium Series 10, 1997, eds. M. Livio, M. Donahue and N. Panagia

Table of Contents

• INTRODUCTION
• DATING GLOBULAR CLUSTERS
• Use of color-magnitude diagrams
• The ΔV and Δ(B - V) techniques
• Luminosity functions
• Dynamical information
• OBSERVATIONAL INPUT
• Quality color-magnitude diagrams
• Distances of globular clusters
• Abundances
• MODELING INPUT
• Nuclear physics
• Radiative opacities
• Equation of state
• Convection
• Rotation
• Helium diffusion
• The impact of helioseismology
• A MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS
• SUMMARY AND FUTURE PROSPECTS
• REFERENCES