The suggested contributions have been sent to the SAC.
Its decision about participation and oral contributions is expected for the end of February.



Sessions Speakers
Molecular Clouds: Bound or Unbound, Supported or Collapsing? Goldsmith
Role of Filaments in Fragmentation and the Formation of Cores Heitsch
Molecular Cloud Cores - Life and Collapse Alves & Bate
Protostellar Envelopes Johnstone
Early Phases of Disks Banerjee
Chemistry Yamamoto
Magnetic Fields Pudritz
Massive Stars Beuther
Triggered Star Formation, Feedback and Environment Krumholz



What is new compared to EPoS 2010?
+EPoS 2012 will start on a Sunday with a shuttle bus arriving before 6 p.m.
+Contributed talks will be 20 minutes followed by a 10 minute discussion.
+The chairs will be asked to support a balance between contributions from observers and theoreticians during the discussions.
+The two first questions will be reserved to young participants.
+A second shuttle bus at 11 p.m. bringing participants down to the hotel is planned to further support the social activities in the evening.