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- 3rd Announcement E P o S  2 0 2 4
- Registration closes 31st of January 2024 21:00 CET sharp
- All infos under www.mpia.de/~stein/EPoS/epos.php
- There is no registration fee for EPoS 2024.
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- "The Early Phase of Star Formation -
   Answering the Big Questions: Are we making progress?"

- 12 - 17 May 2024

- Max-Planck Society Conference Center Ringberg Castle, 
  Germany
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- Scientific Advisory Committee:
Aurore Bacmann (FR), Cara Battersby (US), Maite Beltran (IT), 
Thomas Henning (DE), Jonathan Henshaw (DE), Helen Kirk (CA), 
Rolf Kuiper (DE), Jaime Pineda (DE), Rowan Smith (UK), 
Juergen Steinacker (DE), Friedrich Wyrowski (DE), 
Catherine Zucker (US)

- Confirmed speakers (more than 20 additional talk slots 
  available):
Matthew Bate, Melanie Chevance, Alvaro Hacar, Fabian Heitsch, 
Tom Megeath, Nagayoshi Ohashi, Stella Offner, Kate Pattle, 
Megan Reiter, Eva Schinnerer, Mario Tafalla, Qizhou Zhang

- organized by J. Steinacker & A. Bacmann
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- Objectives of the Conference:
EPoS The Early Phase of Star Formation is a series of 
conferences for a field where still no paradigm has been 
established and consequently opposing views require intense 
debates. EPoS meetings have an unusual form: they devote 
substantial time to discussions after the presentations, after
 each session, in the poster sessions, and in focus groups.
EPoS 2024 has a focus on the Big Questions and whether we are
making progress in answering them.
Individual astrophysical topics of interest are:
accretion, binarity, chemistry, clustered SF, collapse, CMF, 
cosmic dust, cosmic rays, cores, disks, extra-galactic SF, 
feedback of SF, filaments, fragmentation, high-mass SF, IMF, 
jets, low-mass SF, magnetic fields, molecular clouds, 
outflows, triggered SF, turbulence, and X-rays.
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- Conference Location:
Castle Ringberg, overlooking the Tegernsee at the foothills
of the Bavarian Alps, is a unique place for scientific 
meetings with its relaxed mountain atmosphere high above the 
daily business activities.
Due to its generous architecture, there is ample space to meet
and discuss in small groups, meeting rooms, or in the lecture
hall. Owned by the Max-Planck Society, this center for 
scientific communication also features a dining hall, 
accommodation for the participants as well as a terrace, 
swimming pool, and a garden. 
Wireless LAN is available.
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The Schloessmann-Stiftung will cover 40% of the accommodation
expenses of MPG employees.