General dates and times:
Opening of the registration desk at the Convention Center: Monday, Sept. 10th, 10:00
Start of the meeting: Monday, September 10th, 13:30
End of Scientific talks: Friday, September 14th, 13:00
Panel discussions: Tuesday and Thursday, September 11th and 13th, at the end of afternoon sessions
Reception at the Castle: Monday, September 10th, 19:30
Conference dinner: Wednesday, September 12th at the MPIA, buses will depart from the Convention
                                   Center after the last talk of the day
River cruise: Friday, September 14th, 15:00 from the convention center
Public talk: Friday, September 14th, by Harold Yorke, 19:30 in the University's Old Assembly: Hall
                     Sterne der Supergewichtsklasse: Geburt, Leben und Tod
Talk lengths:
Reviews: 35 minutes talk + 5 minutes discussion
All other talks: 16 minutes talk + 4 minutes discussion

Abstract Book:
The PDF version of the Abstract Book with additional information about the conference is now available here.
(However, every participant will get a printed version of it when coming to the registration desk at the conference site.)

Program
Time Name Title
Monday September 10th
Initial conditions
13:30-13:40 Henning/Beuther Welcome
13:40-14:20 Friedrich Wyrowski Initial conditions for massive star formation pdf
14:20-14:40 Fabian Heitsch Formation of Massive Cores in Converging Flows: Rapid & Efficient? pdf
14:40-15:00 Frederique Motte The earliest phases of high-mass star formation in entire molecular complexes pdf
15:00-15:20 Francesco Fontani Searching for massive pre-stellar cores through observations of N2H+ and N2D+ pdf
15:20-17:20 Poster session and coffee break
17:20-17:40 Matt Redman Models of cold massive cores pdf
17:40-18:00 James Jackson Infrared Dark Clouds: Precursors to High Mass Stars pdf
18:00-18:20 Nicolas Peretto From protocluster to infrared dark clouds pdf
18:20-18:40 Steve Longmore Understanding the early evolutionary stages of massive star formation pdf
19:30 Welcome reception at the castle

Tuesday September 11th
Observational constraints and feedback
09:00-09:20 Qizhou Zhang cm to submm view of disks pdf
09:20-09:40 Arjan Bik Infrared view of massive accretion disk (candidates) pdf
09:40-10:00 Jürgen Steinacker Evidence for disks around young massive stars from 3D radiative transfer image modeling pdf
10:00-10:20 Andrew Walsh Southern surveys of hot cores pdf
10:20-10:40 Diego Mardones Accretion and Expansion from Spectral Line profiles of southern massive cores pdf
10:40-11:10 Coffee break
11:10-11:30 Doug Gies Binaries in massive star formation pdf
11:30-11:50 Floris v. d. Tak The chemistry of high-mass star-forming regions pdf
11:50-12:10 Maite Beltran Infall and the formation of a massive star pdf
12:10-12:30 Hendrik Linz Dissecting massive YSOs with mid-infrared interferometry pdf
12:30-14:30 Lunch break
14:30-14:50 Karl Menten Masers in Regions of High-Mass Star Fomation pdf
14:50-15:10 Wouter Vlemmings Maser polarization and magnetic fields pdf
15:10-15:30 Sharmila Goedhart Periodic variations in Class II methanol masers pdf
15:30-15:50 Thomas Preibisch The innermost circumstellar environment of massive young stellar objects revealed by infrared interferometry pdf
15:50-16:20 Coffee break
16:20-17:00 Mordecai-M. MacLow Feedback Processes pdf
17:00-17:20 John Bally Outflows in Massive Star Formation Regions pdf
17:20-17:40 Pamela Klaassen Outflow and Accretion in Massive Star Forming Regions pdf
17:40-18:00 Hsu-Tai Lee Dynamic Evidence of Triggered Star Formation pdf
18:00-19:00 Moderator: Neal Evans Panel discussion:
What is a massive protostar? Theoretical definitions, observational criteria, and evolutionary sequence
Particpants: F. v. d. Tak, S. Lizano, D. Shepherd, Th. Henning, S. Bontemps 		avi

Wednesday September 12th
Theoretical concepts
09:00-09:40 Harold Yorke Massive Star Formation Theory pdf
09:40-10:00 Mark Krumholz From Massive Cores to Massive Stars pdf
10:00-10:20 Paul Clark The conditions for competitive accretion pdf
10:20-10:40 Robi Banerjee Collapse of Massive Cloud Cores pdf
10:40-11:10 Coffee break
11:10-11:30 Eric Keto The Formation of the Most Massive Stars in the Galaxy pdf
11:30-11:50 Susana Lizano Theory of UC HII regions pdf
11:50-12:10 Takashi Hosokawa Evolution of the massive protostar with the high accretion rate pdf
12:10-12:30 Kaitlin Kratter Global Models for the Evolution of Embedded Accreting Protostellar Disks pdf
12:30-14:30 Lunch break
14:30-14:50 Enrique Vazquez-Semadeni Properties of dense cores and collapsed objects in numerical simulations of turbulent clouds pdf
14:50-15:10 Marc Freitag The role of stellar collisions in massive star formation pdf
15:10-15:30 Andrea Urban SPH Simulation of Clustered Star Formation with Dust and Gas Energetics pdf
15:30-15:50 Sami Dib The Evolution of the Protostellar Mass Distribution: A Coalescence-Accretion Scenario pdf
15:50-16:50 Poster session and coffee break
16:50-17:10 Thomas Robitaille SED modeling and massive star formation pdf
17:10-17:30 Mayra Osorio Models for the molecular and dust emission of high-mass protostars pdf
17:30-17:50 Ian Bonnell The formation of massive stars in 30 Doradus pdf
17:50-18:30 Richard Klein The Future of Theory and Simulation in Massive Star Formation pdf
18:45 Bus departure for conference dinner

Thursday September 13th
Clustered star formation and massive star formation throughout the Galaxy
09:00-09:40 Lori Allen Clustered Star Formation pdf
09:40-10:00 Wolfgang Brandner The Milky Way starburst cluster Westerlund 1 and its siblings pdf
10:00-10:20 Nanda Kumar Spitzer-IRAC GLIMPSE of high mass protostellar objects pdf
10:20-10:40 Lise Deharveng Massive-star formation triggered by Galactic HII regions pdf
10:40-11:10 Coffee break
11:10-11:30 Lincoln Greenhill Orion Revisited pdf
11:30-11:50 Jonathan Tan Turmoil in Orion: The Nearest Massive Protostar pdf
11:50-12:10 Norbert Schulz X-Ray Properties of Young Massive Stars in the Orion Trapezium Cluster pdf
12:10-12:30 Sidney Wolff Angular Momentum and the Formation of Massive Stars pdf
12:30-14:30 Lunch break
14:30-15:10 Oliver Krause Surveys of the Galactic plane (Cancelled) pdf
15:10-15:30 Ed Churchwell Triggered Star Formation via OB Stars pdf
15:30-15:50 Elena Puga Probing the Early Evolution of Young High-Mass Stars pdf
15:50-16:10 Chris Brunt High Spatial Dynamic Range Molecular Cloud Surveys pdf
16:10-17:00 Poster session and coffee break
17:00-17:20 Robert Benjamin The Spiral Arms of the Galaxy: Stars and Star Formation pdf
17:20-17:40 James Urquhart A Galaxy-wide Sample of Massive Young Stellar Objects pdf
17:40-18:00 Farhad Yusef-Zadeh Massive Star Formation in the Galactic Nuclear Disk pdf
18:00-18:20 Cormac Purcell The CORNISH Survey of the Galactic Plane pdf
18:20-19:20 Moderator: Hans Zinnecker Panel discussion:
Theoretical models and observational constraints 
Participants: I. Bonnell, C. McKee, M. Walmsley, H. Yorke, F. Palla 		avi

Friday September 14th
Extragalactic star formation
09:00-09:40 Jay Gallagher Extragalactic Star Formation pdf
09:40-10:00 Eva Grebel Star formation in dwarf galaxies pdf
10:00-10:20 Adam Leroy Testing star formation recipes with THINGS pdf
10:20-10:40 Yancy Shirley Connecting The Properties of Dense Molecular Gas in Galactic and Extragalactic Star Forming Regions pdf
10:40-11:10 Coffee break
11:10-11:30 You-Hua Chu Are All Massive Stars Born in OB Associations or Clusters? pdf
11:30-11:50 Tom Abel How the first massive stars shape the first galaxies pdf
11:50-12:20 Malcolm Walmsley Posters summary talk pdf
12:20-12:30 Poster prize winner Vehoff Hyodo
12:30-13:00 Thomas Henning Talks summary talk pdf
Afternoon Neckar boat cruise
19:30 Public talk by Harold Yorke in the University's Old Assembly Hall
Sterne der Supergewichtsklasse: Geburt, Leben und Tod