(all abstracts)
| Monday, 28th of August, 2006 | ||
| 11:00 | Start of the registration | |
| 12:20 | Arrival of the airport shuttle bus | |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00-14:10 | Jürgen Steinacker | Welcome and Introduction |
| Clusters I (Chair: Enrique Vazquez-Semadeni) |
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| 14:10-15:10 | Phil Myers | How Do Molecular Clouds Make Clusters? |
| 15:10-15:40 | Lori Allen | The formation and early evolution of the nearest embedded clusters |
| 15:40-16:10 | Coffee break | |
| 16:10-16:40 | Matthew Bate | New Hydrodynamical Simulations of Star Cluster Formation |
| 16:40-17:10 | Ralf Launhardt | The early phase of binary star formation |
| 17:10-17:40 | Stefan Umbreit | Disks Around Ejected Brown Dwarfs |
| 17:40-18:30 | DISCUSSION (Moderator: Harald Yorke) | |
| 18:30 | Dinner | |
| Tuesday, 29th of August, 2006 | ||
| 08:00-9:00 | Breakfast | |
| Clusters II (Chair: Ian Bonnell) |
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| 09:00-10:00 | Lee Hartmann | Formation of molecular clouds and star clusters |
| 10:00-10:30 | Doug Johnstone | Understanding How Star Formation Proceeds in the Perseus Molecular Cloud |
| 10:30-11:00 | Thomas Megeath | Spitzer Identified Protostars in the Orion A and Maddalena's Molecular Clouds |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee break | |
| 11:30-12:30 | FREE TIME | |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch | |
| Cores I (Chair: Joao Alves) |
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| 14:00-15:00 | Philippe Andre | Observations of Low-Mass Dense Cores |
| 15:00-15:30 | Alyssa Goodman | Bias and Uncertainty in Measures of Star-Forming Regions' Structure: from Dark Clouds to Dense Cores |
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee break | |
| 16:00-16:30 | Tyler Bourke | Spitzer discovery of low-luminosity embedded objects in dense cores |
| 16:30-17:00 | Jennifer Hatchell | Prestellar and protostellar lifetimes from submm surveys |
| 17:00-17:30 | Yancy Shirley | Developing an Evolutionary Sequence for Low-mass Starless Cores |
| 17:30-18:30 | DISCUSSION (Moderator: Matthew Bate) | |
| 18:30 | Dinner | |
| Wednesday, 30th of August, 2006 | ||
| 08:00-09:00 | Breakfast | |
| Cores II (Chair: Joao Alves) |
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| 09:00-09:30 | Jürgen Steinacker | Challenge and Promise of Revealing the 3D Structure of Star Formation Regions by Radiative Transfer |
| 9:30-10:00 | Dirk Froebrich | Protostellar Evolution - Confronting Models and Observations |
| Turbulence (Chair: Tom Ray) |
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| 10:00-11:00 | Mordecai-Mark Mac Low | Turbulence in Star-Forming Molecular Clouds |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee break | |
| 11:30-12:00 | Aake Nordlund | Problems with numerical studies of turbulent fragmentation |
| 12:00-12:30 | Ralf Klessen | Gravoturbulent Star Formation |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00-15:00 | POSTER SESSION | |
| 15:00-16:00 | FREE TIME | |
| 16:00-16:30 | Coffee | |
| Chemistry (Chair: Dmitry Wiebe) |
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| 16:30-17:30 | Aurore Bacmann | Chemistry in low-mass cores |
| 17:30-18:00 | Paola Caselli | The last phases of prestellar cores |
| 18:00-18:30 | DISCUSSION (Moderator: Alyssa Goodman) | |
| 18:30 | Dinner | |
| Thursday, 31st of August, 2006 | ||
| 08:00-9:00 | Breakfast | |
| Magnetic Fields (Chair: Rolf Chini) |
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| 09:00-10:00 | Dick Crutcher | Magnetic Fields: Observations |
| 10:00-10:30 | Telemachos Mouschovias | Observational Evidence for Turbulence-Induced and Ambipolar-Diffusion-Initiated Star Formation and the Ages of Molecular Clouds: A Critical Review |
| 10:30-11:30 | Coffee break/POSTER SESSION | |
| 11:30-12:00 | Shantanu Basu | Magnetic Fields and Star Formation |
| 12:00-12:30 | Tomoaki Matsumoto | Alignment of Ouflows with Magnetic Fields in Cloud Cores |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00-14:30 | Kohji Tomisaka | Contraction of a Magnetized Rotating Cloud |
| Massive Stars I (Chair: Paola Caselli) |
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| 14:30-15:30 | Ed Churchwell | Massive Star Formation: Recent Observational Results |
| 15:30-16:00 | Eric Keto | The formation of massive stars: accretion, disks and the development of hypercompact HII regions |
| 16:00-17:00 | Coffee break/POSTER SESSION | |
| 17:00-17:30 | Henrik Beuther | Chemical properties of young massive star-forming regions |
| 17:30-18:30 | DISCUSSION (Moderator: Lori Allen) | |
| 18:30 | Dinner | |
| Friday, 1st of September, 2006 | ||
| 08:00-9:00 | Breakfast | |
| Massive Stars II (Chair: Malcolm Walmsley) |
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| 09:00-10:00 | Harald Yorke | Theoretical Considerations of Massive Star Formation |
| 10:00-10:30 | Rolf Chini | 2.3 micron emission and absorption from young stars in M17 |
| 10:30-10:40 | Eduard I. Vorobyov | Presentation by the poster contest winner: The Burst Mode of Protostellar Accretion |
| 10:40-11:10 | Coffee break | |
| 11:10-11:40 | Ian Bonnell | Conference Summary |
| 11:40-12:10 | FINAL DISCUSSION (Moderator: Shantanu Basu) | |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 | Departure of the airport shuttle bus | |