| S U N D A Y 1 July 2012 |
| 17:00 Start of the registration |
| 17:20 Arrival of the airport shuttle |
| 18:30 Dinner |
| M O N D A Y 2 July 2012 |
| 08:00 - 09:00 Breakfast |
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09:00 - 09:15 Jürgen Steinacker [15] Welcome and Introduction |
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Molecular Clouds: Bound or Unbound, Supported or Collapsing?
Chair: Paolo Padoan |
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09:15 - 10:05
Paul Goldsmith [40+10] Review: Molecular Clouds: Overview of their Structure and Evolution |
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10:05 - 10:35
Mark Keyer [20+10] The Velocity Structure of Molecular Clouds |
| 10:35 - 11:00 Coffee Break [25] |
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11:00 - 11:30
Alyssa Goodman [20+10] Molecular Clouds Under Pressure |
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11:30 - 12:00
Frederique Motte [20+10] Linking the formation of molecular clouds and high-mass stars: the W43 case study |
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12:00 - 12:30
Clare Dobbs [20+10] Unbound molecular clouds and their evolution |
| 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch |
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Role of Filaments in Fragmentation and the Formation of Cores
Chair: Jens Kauffmann |
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14:00 - 14:50
Fabian Heitsch [40+10] Review: Turbulence |
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14:50 - 15:20
Helen Kirk [20+10] Filamentary Flows in the Serpens South Protocluster |
| 15:20 - 15:50 Coffee Break [30] |
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15:50 - 16:20
Leslie Looney [20+10] Changing the Paradigm for the Inner Envelope of Class 0 Protostars |
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16:20 - 17:20 Moderator: Enrique Vazques-Semadeni [5+25] DISCUSSION |
| 17:20 - 18:30 POSTER SESSION [50] |
| 18:30 Dinner |
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| T U E S D A Y 3 July 2012 |
| 08:00 - 08:50 Breakfast |
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Molecular Cloud Cores - Life and Collapse
Chair: Shih-Ping Lai |
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08:50 - 09:30
Joao Alves [30+10] Review: Molecular Cloud Cores - Life and Collapse: Observations |
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09:30 - 10:00
Jürgen Steinacker [20+10] Validity of the Bonnor-Ebert Approximation for B68: A core in 3D based on Herschel data |
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10:00 - 10:30
Malcolm Walmsley [20+10] Interpreting the "infall profile" |
| 10:30 - 10:50 Coffee Break [20] |
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10:50 - 11:20
Michael Dunham [20+10] Protostellar Luminosities and Accretion |
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11:20 - 12:00
Matthew Bate [30+10] Review: Molecular Cloud Cores - Life and Collapse: Theory |
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12:00 - 12:30
Anthony Whitworth [20+10] Mapping the Core Mass Function (CMF) into the Stellar IMF |
| 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch |
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14:00 - 14:30
Phil Myers [20+10] Ages and birthrates of young clusters |
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14:30 - 15:00
Chris McKee [20+10] The Protostellar Luminosity Function: Theory and Simulation |
| 15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break [30] |
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Protostellar Envelopes
Chair: Nami Sakai |
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15:30 - 16:20
John Tobin [40+10] Review: Protostellar Envelopes |
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16:20 - 16:50
Anaelle Maury [20+10] First results from CaLYPSO: the IRAM Plateau de Bure Large Program on Class 0 protostars. A dive into the small-scale physics and chemistry of young envelopes, disks and outflows |
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16:50 - 17:20
Thomas Robitaille [20+10] A new grid of model spectral energy distributions for young stellar objects |
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17:20 - 18:20 Moderator: Andi Burkert [5+55] DISCUSSION |
| 18:30 Dinner |
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| W E D N E S D A Y 4 July 2012 |
| 08:00 - 08:50 Breakfast |
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Early Phases of Disks
Chair: Thomas Troland |
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09:00 - 09:50
Robi Banerjee [40+10] Review: The Early Phases of Disc Formation and Disc Evolution |
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09:50 - 10:20
Eduard Vorobyov [20+10] Implications of the protostellar disk fragmentation |
| 10:20 - 10:50 Coffee Break [30] |
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10:50 - 11:20
Zhi-Yun Li [20+10] hy is it difficult to form rotationally supported disks during the protostellar collapse of magnetized dense cores? |
| 11:20 - 12:40 FOCUS GROUPS [80] |
| 12:40 - 14:00 Lunch |
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14:00 - 15:20 FOCUS GROUPS [80] |
| 15:20 - 15:50 Coffee Break [30] |
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Magnetic Fields
Chair: Alex Lazarian |
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15:50 - 16:40
Ralph Pudritz [40+10] Review: Magnetic fields and the early stages of star formation |
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16:40 - 17:10
Richard Crutcher [20+10] CARMA Studies of Magnetic Fields in Dense Molecular Clouds |
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17:10 - 17:40
Kohji Tomisaka [20+10] Expected Observations of Star Formation Process: from Molecular Cloud Core to First Hydrostatic Core |
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17:40 - 18:30 Moderator: Fumitaka Nakamura [5+25] DISCUSSION |
| 18:30 Dinner |
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| T H U R S D A Y 5 July 2012 |
| 08:00 - 09:00 Breakfast |
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Massive Stars
Chair: Hans Zinnecker |
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09:00 - 09:50
Henrik Beuther [40+10] Review: High-Mass Star Formation |
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09:50 - 10:20
Richard Klein [20+10] The Coupled Effects of Protostellar Outflows and Radiation Feedback on the Formation of Massive Stars |
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10:20 - 10:50
Rolf Kuiper [20+10] Feedback in Massive Star Formation - On the effects of radiation pressure, stellar winds, and ionization on disk accretion, outflow launching, mass loss, and the upper mass limit of stars |
| 10:50 - 11:10 Coffee Break [20] |
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Triggered Star Formation, Feedback and Environment
Chair: Rainer Mauersberger |
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11:10 - 12:00
Mark Krumholz [40+10] Review: Star Formation Feedback: The Good, the Bad, and the Confusing |
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12:00 - 12:30
Aake Nordlund [20+10] Star Formation and Chemical Yields in Giant Molecular Clouds |
| 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch |
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Chemistry
Chair: Eric Keto |
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14:00 - 14:50
Satoshi Yamamoto [40+10] Review: Chemical diagnostics of the early phase of star formation |
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14:50 - 15:20
Ewine van Diskhoeck [20+10] Water: from cores to disks |
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15:20 - 15:50
Aurore Bacmann [20+10] Detection of complex organic molecules in pre-stellar cores |
| 15:50 - 16:20 Coffee Break [30] |
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16:20 - 17:10 Moderator: Thomas Henning [5+45] DISCUSSION |
| 17:10 - 18:30 FOCUS GROUPS [80] |
| 18:30 Dinner |
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| F R I D A Y 6 July 2012 |
| 08:00 - 09:00 Breakfast |
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09:00 - 09:30
Yuri Aikawa [20+10] From prestellar core to protostellar core: time dependence, deuterium fractionation, and disk formation |
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09:30 - 10:10
Al Wootten [25+5] iALMA: Status, early science opportunities, and first results relevant for the early phase of star formation |
| 10:10 - 10:30 Coffee Break [20] |
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10:30 - 11:10 Harold Yorke [40] Conference Summary |
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11:10 - 12:10 Moderator: Ewine van Dishoeck [5+55] FINAL DISCUSSION |
| 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch |
| 14:00 Departure of the airport shuttle |
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