EPoS 2010 Program

EPoS 2010 Program

M O N D A Y 14 June 2010
11:00	Start of the registration
12:20	Arrival of the airport shuttle bus
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch
14:00 - 14:15	15 + 0	Jürgen Steinacker	Welcome and Introduction
Molecular Clouds Chair: Aurore Bacmann
14:15 - 15:05	42 + 8	Neal Evans	Molecular Clouds: Basic Properties and Stellar Production
15:05 - 15:35	25 + 5	Enrique Vazquez-Semadeni	Star Formation by Hierarchical Gravitational Fragmentation
15:35 - 16:05	25 + 5	Jens Kauffmann	Mass-Size Studies of Regions of low-mass and high-mass Star Formation
16:05 - 16:35	Coffee break
16:35 - 17:05	25 + 5	Robi Banerjee	Star formation efficiency and lifetime of molecular clouds
17:05 - 17:35	25 + 5	Gary Fuller	The Properties of A New Catalogue of Spitzer Infrared Dark Clouds
17:35 - 18:30	5 + 50	DISCUSSION (Moderator: Ralph Pudritz)
18:30	Dinner

T U E S D A Y 15 June 2010
08:00 - 09:00	Breakfast
Turbulence Chair: Andi Burkert
09:00 - 09:50	42 + 8	Mordecai-Mark Mac Low	What is the role of turbulence in molecular cloud formation and evolution?
09:50 - 10:20	25 + 5	Fabian Heitsch	Setting the Star Formation Rate & Efficiency: Revisiting the Role of Turbulence and Magnetic Fields
10:20 - 10:50	25 + 5	Jaime Pineda	Direct Observation of a Sharp Transition to Coherence in Dense Cores
10:50 - 11:10	Coffee break
Herschel: Exciting First Results Chair: Laurant Pagani
11:10 - 11:40	25 + 5	Philippe Andre	Initial highlights from the Herschel Gould Belt survey
11:40 - 12:10	25 + 5	Sergio Molinari	From Clouds to Young Stellar Objects and back again: the all-in-one view from the Herschel infrared Galactic Plane Survey
12:10 - 12:40	25 + 5	Thomas Megeath	The Herschel Orion Protostar Survey (HOPS)
12:40 - 14:00	Lunch
Cores & Collapse Chair: Isabelle Baraffe
14:00 - 14:40	33 + 7	Yancy Shirley	Cores and Collapse: Observations of Cores & Collapse
14:40 - 15:10	25 + 5	Aurore Bacmann	Kinematics of pre-stellar cores: fast infall
15:10 - 15:40	25 + 5	Mario Tafalla	Understanding the origin of outflows and their feedback on cores: the case of IRAS 04166+2706
15:40 - 16:10	Coffee break
16:10 - 16:40	25 + 5	Jürgen Steinacker	"Coreshine" - the New Window to Explore Dust Growth in Cores
16:40 - 17:30	5 + 45	DISCUSSION (Moderator: Malcolm Walmsley)
17:30 - 18:30	POSTER SESSION)
18:30	Dinner

W E D N E S D A Y 16 June 2008
08:00 - 08:50	Breakfast
Cores & COllapse Chair: Satoshi Yamamoto
09:00 - 09:40	33 + 8	Patrick Hennebelle	Cores & Collapse: Theories
09:40 - 10:10	25 + 5	Eric Keto	What the starless cores tell us about the physics of the ISM
10:10 - 10:40	25 + 5	Gilles Chabrier	Understanding the stellar initial mass function
10:40 - 11:10	Coffee break
11:10 - 11:40	25 + 5	Phil Myers	How do protostars get their masses?
Early Phases of Disks Chair: Satoshi Yamamoto
11:40 - 12:30	42 + 8	Jes Jorgensen	The formation and early evolution of circumstellar disks
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch
Chemistry Chair: Dmitry Wiebe
14:00 - 14:50	42 + 8	Edwin Bergin	Chemistry and Star Formation
14:50 - 15:20	25 + 5	Laurent Pagani	Deuteration of prestellar cores and the role of the ortho/para H2 ratio
15:20 - 15:40	Coffee break
15:40 - 16:10	25 + 5	Doug Johnstone	The Problem of Dense Gas Tracers in Perseus: Relating the N2H + , NH3, and Dust Continuum Properties of Pre- and Proto-Stellar Cores
16:10 - 16:40	25 + 5	Nami Sakai	Chemical Diversity of Low-Mass Star Forming Regions; Peculiar Compositions in L1527 and IRAS15398-3359
16:40 - 17:20	5 + 35	DISCUSSION (Moderator: Peter Schilke)
Session Options 17:20 - 18:30	15 + 55	FOCUS GROUP	Large-Scale Structure in Molecular Clouds Convenors: Jens Kauffmann, Alyssa Goodman, Mario Tafalla
Session Options 17:20 - 18:30	15 + 55	FOCUS GROUP	The Herschel satellite: the new observing tool for EPoS aficionados and aficionadas Convenors: Markus Nielbock, Hendrik Linz
18:30	Dinner

T H U R S D A Y 17 June 2010
08:00 - 09:00	Breakfast
Magnetic Fields Chair: Aake Nordlund
09:00 - 09:50	42 + 8	Richard Crutcher	The Role of Magnetic Fields in Star Formation
09:50 - 10:20	25 + 5	Fumitaka Nakamura	A Significant Role of Magnetic Field and Protostellar Turbulence on the Formation and Evolution of Dense Cores in Clustered vs. Distributed Star Formation
10:20 - 10:50	Coffee break
10:50 - 11:20	25 + 5	Paolo Padoan	The Magnetic Field Strength in Molecular Clouds
11:20 - 11:50	25 + 5	Thomas Troland	Prelude to Star Formation - The Mass-to-Flux Ratio in Galactic GMCs
Session Options 11:50 - 12:40	50	TIME FOR PROJECTS
Session Options 11:50 - 12:40	10 + 40	FOCUS GROUP	Magnetic Field Observations: Testing Star Formation Theory Convenor: Richard Crutcher
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch
Massive Stars Chair: Leonardo Testi
14:00 - 14:50	42 + 8	Henrik Beuther	The formation and early evolution of high-mass stars
14:50 - 15:20	25 + 5	Alyssa Goodman	Under- appreciated Players? The Role of B-Star Winds in Molecular Clouds
15:20 - 15:50	Coffee break
15:50 - 16:20	25 + 5	Richard Klein	The Feedback Effects of Protostellar Outflows on High Mass and Low Mass Star Formation
16:20 - 17:10	5 + 45	DISCUSSION (Moderator: Thomas Henning)
Session Options 17:10 - 18:30	15 + 65	FOCUS GROUP	The Formation of Rich Clusters Convenors: Eric Feigelson
Session Options 17:10 - 18:30	15 + 65	FOCUS GROUP	Computational Challenges: Where do we go from here? Convenors: Richard Klein
18:30	Dinner

F R I D A Y 18 June 2010
08:00 - 09:00	Breakfast
Massive Stars Chair: Eric Feigleson
09:00 - 09:30	25 + 5	Joao Alves	It's not that massive stars are found in clusters, it's clusters that are found around massive stars
09:30 - 10:00	25 + 5	Robert O'Dell	Multiple Centers of Star Formation in the Orion Nebula
10:00 - 10:30	Coffee break
10:30 - 11:20	50 + 0	John Bally	Conference summary
11:20 - 12:20	5 + 25	FINAL DISCUSSION (Moderator: Arnold Benz)
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch
14:00	Departure of the airport shuttle bus