( T25m+D5m = Talk 25 minutes + Discussion 5 minutes )
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| 11:00 | Start of the registration | ![]() |
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| 12:20 | Arrival of the airport shuttle bus | ||||
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch | ||||
| 14:00-14:15 | T15m | Jürgen Steinacker | Welcome and Introduction | ||
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Molecular Clouds (Chair: Aurore Bacmann) |
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| 14:15-15:05 | T42m+D8m | Neal J. Evans | Molecular Clouds: Basic Properties and Stellar Production | ||
| 15:05-15:35 | T25m+D5m | Enrique Vazquez-Semadeni | Star Formation by Hierarchical Gravitational Fragmentation | ||
| 15:35-16:05 | T25m+D5m | Jens Kauffmann | Mass-Size Studies of Regions of low-mass and high-mass Star Formation | ||
| 16:05-16:35 | Coffee break | ||||
| 16:35-17:05 | T25m+D5m | Robi Banerjee | Star formation efficiency and lifetime of molecular clouds | ||
| 17:05-17:35 | T25m+D5m | Gary A. Fuller | The Properties of A New Catalogue of Spitzer Infrared Dark Clouds | ||
| 17:35-18:30 | D55m | DISCUSSION (Moderator: Ralph Pudritz) | |||
| 18:30 | Dinner | ||||
| 08:00-09:00 | Breakfast | ![]() |
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Turbulence (Chair: Andi Burkert) |
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| 09:00-09:50 | T42m+D8m | Mordecai-Mark Mac Low | What is the role of turbulence in molecular cloud formation and evolution? | ||
| 09:50-10:20 | T25m+D5m | Fabian Heitsch | Setting the Star Formation Rate & Efficiency: Revisiting the Role of Turbulence and Magnetic Fields | ||
| 10:20-10:50 | T25m+D5m | Jaime E. Pineda | Direct Observation of a Sharp Transition to Coherence in Dense Cores | ||
| 10:50-11:10 | Coffee break | ||||
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Herschel: Exciting First Results (Chair: Laurent Pagani) |
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| 11:10-11:40 | T25m+D5m | Philippe Andre | Initial highlights from the Herschel Gould Belt survey td> | ||
| 11:40-12:10 | T25m+D5m | Sergio Molinari | From Clouds to Young Stellar Objects and back again: the all-in-one view from the Herschel infrared Galactic Plane Survey | ||
| 12:10-12:40 | T25m+D5m | S. Thomas Megeath | The Herschel Orion Protostar Survey (HOPS) | ||
| 12:40-14:00 | Lunch | ||||
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Cores & Collapse (Chair: Isabelle Baraffe) |
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| 14:00-14:40 | T33m+D7m | Yancy Shirley | Cores and Collapse: Observations of Cores & Collapse | ||
| 14:40-15:10 | T25m+D5m | Aurore Bacmann | Kinematics of pre-stellar cores: fast infall | ||
| 15:10-15:40 | T25m+D5m | Mario Tafalla | Understanding the origin of outflows and their feedback on cores: the case of IRAS 04166+2706 | ||
| 15:40-16:10 | Coffee break | ||||
| 16:10-16:40 | T25m+D5m | Jürgen Steinacker | "Coreshine" - the New Window to Explore Dust Growth in Cores | ||
| 16:40-17:30 | D50m | DISCUSSION (Moderator: Malcolm Walmsley) | |||
| 17:30-18:30 | 60m | POSTER SESSION | |||
| 18:30 | Dinner | ||||
| 08:00-09:00 | Breakfast | ![]() |
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Cores & Collapse (Chair: Satoshi Yamamoto) |
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| 09:00-09:40 | T33m+D7m | Patrick Hennebelle | Cores & Collapse: Theories | ||
| 09:40-10:10 | T25m+D5m | Eric R. Keto | What the starless cores tell us about the physics of the ISM | ||
| 10:10-10:40 | T25m+D5m | Gilles Chabrier | Understanding the stellar initial mass function | ||
| 10:40-11:10 | Coffee break | ||||
| 11:10-11:40 | T25m+D5m | Phil Myers | How do protostars get their masses? | ||
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Early Phases of Disks (Chair: Satoshi Yamamoto) |
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| 11:40-12:30 | T42m+D8m | Jes Jorgenson | The formation and early evolution of circumstellar disks | ||
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch | ||||
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Chemistry (Chair: Dmitri Wiebe) |
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| 14:00-14:50 | T42m+D8m | Edwin A. Bergin | Chemistry and Star Formation | ||
| 14:50-15:20 | T25m+D5m | Laurent Pagani | Deuteration of prestellar cores and the role of the ortho/para H2 ratio | ||
| 15:20-15:40 | Coffee break | ||||
| 15:40-16:10 | T25m+D5m | Doug Johnstone | The Problem of Dense Gas Tracers in Perseus: Relating the N2H+, NH3, and Dust Continuum Properties of Pre- and Proto-Stellar Cores | ||
| 16:10-16:40 | T25m+D5m | Nami Sakai | Chemical Diversity of Low-Mass Star Forming Regions; Peculiar Compositions in L1527 and IRAS15398-3359 | ||
| 16:40-17:20 | D40m | DISCUSSION (Moderator: Peter Schilke) | |||
| Session Options 17:20-18:30 |
70m | ![]() |
Large-Scale Structure in Molecular Clouds
(Convenors: Jens Kauffmann, Alyssa Goodman, Mario Tafalla) |
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| 70m | ![]() |
The Herschel satellite: the new observing tool for EPoS aficionados/aficionadas (Convenor: Markus Nielbock, Hendrik Linz) | |||
| 18:30 | Dinner | ||||
| 08:00-09:00 | Breakfast | ![]() |
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Magnetic Fields (Chair: Aake Nordlund) |
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| 09:00-09:50 | T42m+D8m | Richard M. Crutcher | The Role of Magnetic Fields in Star Formation | ||
| 09:50-10:20 | T25m+D5m | Fumitaka Nakamura | A Significant Role of Magnetic Field and Protostellar Turbulence on the Formation and Evolution of Dense Cores in Clustered vs. Distributed Star Formation | ||
| 10:20-10:50 | Coffee break | ||||
| 10:50-11:20 | T25m+D5m | Paolo Padoan | The Magnetic Field Strength in Molecular Clouds | ||
| 11:20-11:50 | T25m+D5m | Thomas H. Troland | Prelude to Star Formation - The Mass-to-Flux Ratio in Galactic GMCs | ||
| Session Options 11:50-12:30 |
40m | TIME FOR PROJECTS | |||
| 11:50-12:40 | 50m | ![]() |
Magnetic Field Observations: Testing Star Formation Theory (Convenor: Dick Crutcher) | ||
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch | ||||
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Massive Stars (Chair: Leonardo Testi) |
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| 14:00-14:50 | T42m+D8m | Henrik Beuther | The formation and early evolution of high-mass stars | ||
| 14:50-15:20 | T25m+D5m | Alyssa A. Goodman | Underappreciated Players? The Role of B-Star Winds in Molecular Clouds | ||
| 15:20-15:50 | Coffee break | ||||
| 15:50-16:20 | T25m+D5m | Richard I. Klein | The Feedback Effects of Protostellar Outflows on High Mass and Low Mass Star Formation | ||
| 16:20-17:10 | D40m | DISCUSSION (Moderator: Thomas Henning) | |||
| Session Options 17:10-18:30 |
80m | ![]() |
The Formation of Rich Clusters (Convenor: Eric Feigelson) | ||
| 80m | ![]() |
Computational Challenges: Where do we go from here? (Convenor: Richard Klein) | |||
| 18:30 | Dinner | ||||
| 08:00-09:00 | Breakfast | ![]() |
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Massive Stars (Chair: Eric Feigelson) |
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| 09:00-09:30 | T25m+D5m | Joao Alves | It's not that massive stars are found in clusters, it's clusters that are found around massive stars | ||
| 09:30-10:00 | T33m+D7m | C. Robert O'Dell | Multiple Centers of Star Formation in the Orion Nebula | ||
| 10:00-10:30 | Coffee break | ||||
| 10:30-11:20 | T42m+D8m | John Bally | Conference Summary | ||
| 11:20-12:20 | D40m | FINAL DISCUSSION (Moderator: Arnold Benz) | |||
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch | ||||
| 14:00 | Departure of the airport shuttle bus | ||||










