The MPIA conference series at Ringberg Castle
EPoS 2016Program
S U N D A Y 26 June 2016
17:00 Start of the registration
17:20 Arrival of the airport shuttle
18:30 Dinner
 
M O N D A Y 27 June 2016
08:00 - 09:00 Breakfast
09:00 - 09:15 Organizers [15+0]
Welcome and Introduction
09:15 - 09:45 Hans Zinnecker [20+10]
The legacy of Francesco Palla (1954-2016)
Galactic Star Formation and Molecular Clouds
Chair: Diederik Kruijssen
09:45 - 10:25 Eve Ostriker [30+10]
Review: Galactic-Scale Star Formation
10:25 - 10:50 Coffee Break [25]
10:50 - 11:30 Enrique Vazquez-Semadeni [30+10]
Review: Molecular Clouds: a collapsing paradigm
11:30 - 12:00 Andi Burkert [5+25]
DISCUSSION on Galactic Star Formation and Molecular Clouds
12:00 - 12:30 Poster authors in front of their posters [30]
POSTER SESSION
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
Turbulence and Filaments
Chair: Richard Crutcher
14:00 - 14:40 Jouni Kainulainen [30+10]
Review: The Rise and Fall(?) of Turbulence
14:40 - 15:20 Rowan Smith [30+10]
Review: Beads on a string: Filaments and star formation
15:20 - 15:50 Philippe Andre [20+10]
The role of interstellar filaments in regulating the star formation efficiency in dense gas
15:50 - 16:20 Coffee Break [30]
16:20 - 16:50 Doris Arzoumanian [20+10]
The observed properties of a filament system in Orion B
16:50 - 17:20 Alvaro Hacar [20+10]
Filament kinematics: from low- to high-mass star-forming clouds
17:20 - 17:50 Phil Myers [20+10]
Lumpy filaments in a turbulent medium
17:50 - 18:30 Moderator: Vera Koenyves [5+35]
DISCUSSION on Turbulence and Filaments
18:30 Dinner
T U E S D A Y 28 June 2016
08:00 - 09:00 Breakfast
Cluster Formation
Chair: Eugenio Schisano
09:00 - 09:40 Charles Lada [30+10]
Review: Embedded Clusters and Star Formation
09:40 - 10:10 Matthew Bate [20+10]
Combining radiative transfer and a diffuse ISM model to simulate star cluster formation
10:10 - 10:40 Claudia Cyganowski [20+10]
Simultaneous low- and high-mass star formation in massive protoclusters: ALMA results
10:40 - 11:10 Coffee Break [30]
11:10 - 11:40 Helen Kirk [20+10]
Dense Core Mass Segregation in Orion A and B
11:40 - 12:30 Moderator: Joao Alves [5+35]
DISCUSSION on Cluster Formation
11:40 - 12:30 In-depth discussions with authors [40]
POSTER SESSION
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
Cores, Collapse, and Fragmentation
Chair: Vera Koenyves
14:00 - 14:40 Rachel Friesen [30+10]
Review: Cores and Collapse
14:40 - 15:10 Sibylle Anderl [20+10]
CALYPSO studies of the CO snow line in young low-mass protostars
15:10 - 15:30 Coffee Break [20]
15:30 - 16:00 Michael Dunham [20+10]
MASSES: An SMA Large-Scale Program Surveying Protostars to Reveal How Stars Gain their Mass
16:00 - 16:30 Jürgen Steinacker [20+10]
Modeling the core-filament system L1689B: what to learn from spherical cylinders and the filament mass function
16:30 - 17:10 Qizhou Zhang [30+10]
Review: Fragmentation and protocluster formation
17:10 - 17:40 Moderator: Henrik Beuther [5+25]
DISCUSSION on Cores, Collapse, and Fragmentation
17:40 - 18:30 POSTER SESSION [50]
FREE TIME
18:30 Dinner
W E D N E S D A Y 29 June 2016
08:00 - 09:00 Breakfast
From Low- to High-Mass Star Formation
Chair: Harold Yorke
09:00 - 09:40 Thomas Henning [30+10]
Review: From low- to high-mass star formation
09:40 - 10:10 Eric Keto [20+10]
Comparing Accretion in Low and High Mass Star Formation
10:10 - 10:40 Coffee Break [30]
10:40 - 11:20 Peter Schilke [30+10]
Review: High-Mass Star Formation
11:20 - 11:50 Katharine Johnstone [20+10]
A Keplerian-like disk around the forming O-type star AFGL 4176
11:50 - 12:30 Moderator: Hendrik Linz [40]
DISCUSSION on From Low- to High-Mass Star Formation
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
Magnetic Fields
Chair: Hans Zinnecker
14:00 - 14:40 Peter Schilke [30+10]
Review: Measurements of Magnetic Fields in the Early Phase of Star Formation
14:40 - 15:10 Richard Crutcher [20+10]
The Next Major Step in Zeeman Studies of Magnetic Fields in Star Formation Regions
15:10 - 15:40 Coffee Break [30]
15:40 - 16:10 Chris McKee [20+10]
The Role of Magnetic Fields in Star Formation
16:10 - 16:40 Juan-Diego Soler [20+10]
The magnetic field morphology in nearby molecular clouds
16:40 - 17:20 Moderator: Fumitaka Nakamura [40]
DISCUSSION on Magnetic Fields
11:40 - 12:30 Tim de Zeeuw (ESO Director General [30+20]
Telescope/Satellite Talk: ESO's program: status and prospects
18:30 Dinner
T H U R S D A Y 30 June 2016
08:00 - 09:00 Breakfast
Disk Formation
Chair: Richard Klein
09:00 - 09:40 John Tobin [30+10]
Review:evealing the Origins of Disks: Delving into Innermost Regions of Protostellar Systems<
09:40 - 10:10 Felipe Alves [20+10]
An ALMA view of B59: from collapsing cores to pre-Kuiper Belt structures
10:10 - 10:40 Coffee Break [30]
10:40 - 11:10 Henrik Beuther [20+10]
Fragmentation and massive disk formation
11:10 - 11:50 Moderator: Mike Dunham [5+25]
DISCUSSION on Disk Formation
Stellar Feedback
Chair: Rolf Kuiper
11:50 - 12:30 Hector Arce [30+10]
Review: Stellar Feedback During the Early Stages of Star Formation
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:30 Joao Alves [20+10]
The Ophiuchus complex and the role of feedback
14:30 - 15:00 Adam Ginsburg [20+10]
The effects and extent of feedback on dense prestellar gas near proto-OB stars
15:00 - 15:30 Moderator: Patrick Hennebelle [5+25]
DISCUSSION on Stellar Feedback
15:50 - 17:10 FOCUS GROUPS [80]
FG1 Richard Klein
Andi Burkert
Hans Zinnecker
The Formation of Star Clusters: Theory Confronts Observation
FG2 Chat Hull
Baobab Liu
Magnetic fields and polarization in young stellar objects: interpreting the next generation of observations and simulations
17:10 - 17:20 Time to change rooms [10]
17:20 - 18:40 FOCUS GROUPS [80]
FG3 Rolf Kuiper
Patrick Hennebelle
Diederik Kruijssen
Anna McLeod
The multi-scale nature and physical mechanisms of stellar feedback
FG4 Matthias Gridschneder
Seamus Clarke
Eugenio Schisano
Ke Wang
Filaments, their formation, properties and evolution
18:30 Bavarian Dinner
F R I D A Y 1 July 2016
08:00 - 09:00 Breakfast
Chemistry
Chair: Nami Sakai
09:00 - 09:40 Ewine van Diskhoeck [30+10]
Review: Astrochemistry: the past and next 10 years
09:40 - 10:10 Aurore Bacmann [20+10]
The spatial distribution of complex organic molecules in prestellar cores
10:10 - 10:40 Coffee Break [30]
10:40 - 11:00 Anna MCLeod [15+5]
Poster Contest Winner: Observing massive star formation feedback: what optical and near-infrared integral field spectroscopy can do for you
11:00 - 11:50 Moderator: Matthew Bate [5+15]
FINAL DISCUSSION
11:50 - 12:30 Harold Yorke [40]
Conference summary
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 Departure of the airport shuttle
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