| Monday, 28th of July, 2008 | ||
| 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 |
| Molecular Clouds (Chair: Joao Alves) |
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| 14:10-15:00 | Charlie Lada | The Physical Nature of Dense Cores and the Role of Pressure in the Initial Stages of Star Formation |
| 15:00-15:30 | Clare L. Dobbs | Revealing the formation and properties of GMCs through galaxy simulations |
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee break | |
| 16:00-16:30 | Fabian Heitsch | New Approaches to Understanding the Formation of Molecular Clouds and Stars |
| 16:30-17:20 | DISCUSSION (Moderator: James Di Francesco) | |
| 17:20-18:30 | POSTER SESSION | |
| 18:30 | Dinner | |
| Tuesday, 29th of July, 2008 | ||
| 08:00-9:00 | Breakfast | |
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Clusters, Fragmentation, Early Phases of Disks (Chair: Fumitaka Nakamura) |
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| 09:00-09:50 | S. Thomas Megeath | The Formation and Early Evolution of Clusters and Associations |
| 09:50-10:20 | Paul Clark | The thermodynamic evolution of GMCs and the formation of clusters |
| 10:20-10:50 | Coffee break | |
| 10:50-11:40 | Ralf Klessen | Fragmentation of Turbulent Molecular Clouds and Star Formation |
| 11:40-12:30 | Jes Jorgensen | Observations of the Earliest Stages of Protostellar Disks |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch | |
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Magnetic Fields (Chair: Ralf Klessen) |
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| 14:00-14:50 | Shantanu Basu | Magnetic Fields: Recent Progress and Future Tests |
| 14:50-15:20 | Richard Crutcher | Magnetic Fields and Star Formation: New Observational Tests and Analyses, and Surprising New Results |
| 15:20-15:50 | Coffee break | |
| 15:50-16:20 | Ralph E. Pudritz | The role of magnetic fields in star formation |
| 16:20-16:50 | Fumitaka Nakamura | Magnetically Regulated Star Formation in Low-Mass Star Forming Regions |
| 16:50-17:20 | Helen Kirk | Constraining the Environment of Star-Forming Regions: From Observations to Simulations and Back Again |
| 17:20-18:20 | DISCUSSION (Moderator: Antonella Natta) | |
| 18:30 | Dinner | |
| Wednesday, 30th of July, 2008 | ||
| 08:00-09:00 | Breakfast | |
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Massive Stars (Chair: Richard Klein) |
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| 08:50-09:40 | Henrik Beuther | Massive Star Formation: Major Questions and Potential Answers |
| 9:40-10:10 | Sarah E. Ragan | Constraining Conditions of Cluster Formation: Paving the Way for the ALMA age |
| 10:10-10:40 | Frederique Motte | Properties of high-mass protostars and massive pre-stellar cores at the dawn of Herschel and ALMA |
| 10:40-11:00 | Coffee break | |
| 11:00-11:30 | Thomas Henning | The Earliest Stages of Massive Stars - The Search Continues |
| 11:30-12:00 | Hendrik Linz | Dissecting massive YSOs with MIR interferometry |
| 12:00-12:30 | Rolf Chini | M17 - a test bed for the formation of high-mass stars |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch | |
| Chemistry (Chair: Dmitry Wiebe) |
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| 14:00-14:50 | Sebastien Maret | Chemical evolution during the early phases of low mass star formation |
| 14:50-15:20 | Malcolm Walmsley | Tracing the dense component in prestellar cores |
| 15:20-16:10 | DISCUSSION (Moderator: Thomas Henning) | |
| 16:10-16:40 | Coffee break | |
| 16:30-17:50 |  |
The Role of Magnetic Fields in Star Formation Convenor: Dick Crutcher, 45 minutes of brief talks, 35 minutes of open discussion Brief introduction - Crutcher Future of linear polarization observations - Crutcher Future of Zeeman observations - Troland Cloud formation in the magnetized ISM - Banerjee Testing models of flow-driven cloud formation - Heitsch Modelling turbulence: comparison of different driving schemes - Klessen The correlation of mass-to-flux with scale in MHD turbulence - Pudritz Measuring magnetic criticality from field morphology - Dapp Using velocity anisotropy to measure magnetic field strength - Bate |
| or PROJECT MEETINGS, POSTERS, WALKS... | ||
| 17:50-18:30 | Hans Zinnecker | Multiplicity of Massive Stars |
| 18:30 | Dinner | |
| Thursday, 31st of July, 2008 | ||
| 08:00-9:00 | Breakfast | |
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Low Mass Cores (Chair: Charlie Lada) |
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| 09:00-09:50 | Mario Tafalla | Low-mass cores: achievements and challenges |
| 09:50-10:20 | Eric Keto | Models of Starless Cores |
| 10:20-10:50 | Coffee break | |
| 10:50-11:20 | Joao Alves | The dark future of Star Formation |
| 11:20-12:30 | |
Space Missions for Star- and Planet Formation Convenor: Harold Yorke |
| or PROJECT MEETINGS, POSTERS, WALKS... | ||
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch | |
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Existing and New Roads for Early Phase Star Formation Research: Modeling (Chair: Ralph Pudritz) |
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| 14:00-14:30 | Robi Banerjee | Molecular Cloud Formation out of the magnetized ISM |
| 14:30-15:00 | Alyssa A. Goodman | Ready-to-Eat?: What Early "Taste-Tests" Say about Modern Simulations of Star Formation |
| 15:00-15:30 | Coffee break | |
| 15:30-16:20 | |
Participating in Star Formation Taste Tests Convenor: Alyssa A. Goodman |
| or PROJECT MEETINGS, POSTERS, WALKS... | ||
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Existing and New Roads for Early Phase Star Formation Research: Theory (Chair: Rolf Chini) |
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| 16:20-16:50 | Richard Klein | The Effects of Feedback on the Formation of High Mass Stars |
| 16:50-17:20 | Matthew Bate | Radiation hydrodynamical simulations of the earliest stages of low-mass star formation |
| 17:20-18:20 | DISCUSSION (Moderator: Malcolm Walmsley) | |
| 18:30 | Dinner | |
| Friday, 1st of August, 2008 | ||
| 08:00-9:00 | Breakfast | |
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Existing and New Roads for Early Phase Star Formation Research:
Observations (Chair: Henrik Beuther) |
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| 09:00-09:50 | Leonardo Testi | ALMA - status, capabilities, future possible developments, and outlook on (early phase) star formation research with this facility |
| 09:50-10:20 | Marco Lombardi | The three-dimensional structure of giant molecular clouds: current status and prospects with GAIA |
| 10:20-10:50 | Philippe Andre | Probing the demography of core formation with Herschel surveys |
| 10:50-11:00 |
Presentation by the poster contest winner: |
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| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee break | |
| 11:30-12:00 | Doug Johnstone | Conference Summary |
| 12:00-12:30 | FINAL DISCUSSION (Moderator: Harold Yorke) | |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 | Departure of the airport shuttle bus | |
