Star Formation, Then and Now (Conference)

Coordinators: Tom Abel, Alyssa Goodman, Chris McKee, Paolo Padoan

August 13, 2007 - August 17, 2007

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Monday, August 13, 2007

First Stars
[Review Talks are 30 min + 15 min Discussion]
[All Other Talks are 20 min + 10 min Discussion]

Morning Session Chair: Vanessa Hill (Paris Obs.)
8:50am Martin Einhorn
(KITP Deputy Director) 		Welcome
9:00am Andrea Ferrara
(SISSA) 		Review of Observations
9:45am Volker Bromm
(Univ. Texas-Austin) 		Review of Theory
10:30am MORNING BREAK
11:00am Ken'ichi Nomoto
(Univ. Tokyo) 		Hypernovae and First Stars
11:30am Kazyuyki Omukai
(Nat'l Astro. Obs. of Japan) 		Zero-metallicity Protostar Formation
12:00pm Katie Freese
(Univ. Michigan) 		Dark Matter and the First Stars: A new phase of stellar evolution? [abstract]
12:30pm LUNCH BREAK

Afternoon Session Chair: Daniel Whalen (LANL)
2:00pm Brian O'Shea
(Los Alamos) 		Cosmological Simulations of Pop. III Star Formation [abstract]
2:30pm Vanessa Hill
(Paris Obs.) 		First Stars from Abundance Patterns in Dwarfs
3:00pm Avi Loeb
(Harvard, CfA) 		First Massive Stars and Reionization [abstract]
3:30pm AFTERNOON BREAK
4:00pm Tom Abel
(Stanford, KIPAC) 		First Stars from First Principles
4:30pm Mike Norman
(UCSD) 		The Computational Astrophysics Data Analysis Center (CADAC)
5:00pm DISCUSSION Highlights
Moderators: Mike Norman (UCSD) & Paul Shapiro (Univ of TX, Austin)
5:45pm SHUTTLE TO BWSCI

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Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Magnetic Fields and Turbulence
[Review Talks are 30 min + 15 min Discussion]
[All Other Talks are 20 min + 10 min Discussion]

Morning Session Chair: Bill Langer (Caltech, JPL)
9:00am Mark Heyer
(UMASS) 		Review of Observations [abstract]
9:45am Mordecai Mac Low
(Amer. Museum of Nat. History) 		Review of Theory
10:30am MORNING BREAK
11:00am Edith Falgarone
(ENS-OP) 		Intermittency and Dissipative Structures of ISM Turbulence [abstract]
11:30am Alexei Kritsuk
(UCSD) 		Supersonic Hydrodynamic Turbulence
12:00pm Alex Lazarian
(Univ. Wisconsin-Madison) 		Observable Properties of ISM Turbulence
12:30pm LUNCH BREAK

Afternoon Session Chair: Jongsoo Kim (KASS)
2:00pm Enrique Vazquez-Semadeni
(UNAM) 		Star Formation Efficiency in Turbulent Clouds
2:30pm Richard Crutcher
(UIUC) 		Magnetic Fields in Star Forming Clouds [abstract]
3:00pm Aake Nordlund
(Niels Bohr Inst.) 		Gravitational Collapse in Turbulent Clouds
3:30pm AFTERNOON BREAK
4:00pm Alyssa Goodman
(Harvard, CfA) 		Star Formation Taste Tests [abstract]
4:30pm Fumitaka Nakamura
(Niigata Univ.) 		Protostellar-Driven Turbulence
5:00pm DISCUSSION Highlights
Moderators: Steven Balbus (ENS) & Chris Matzner (Univ. of Toronto)
5:45pm WINE AND CHEESE RECEPTION
6:30pm SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER
8:30pm SHUTTLE TO BWSCI *Time may vary depending on end of dinner.

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Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Various Topics
[Talks are 20 min + 10 min Discussion]

Morning Session Chair: Daniel Price (Univ. Exeter)
9:00am Shu-ichiro Inutsuka
(Nat. Astr. Obs.) 		Triggered Star Formation
9:30am Robi Banerjee
(Univ. Heidelberg) 		Massive Star Formation and Outflows [abstract]

Supernovae or Large-Scale Instabilities?

10:00am Eve Ostriker
(Univ. Maryland) 		Galactic Scale Dynamics and Turbulence
10:30am MORNING BREAK

Direct Collapse or Competitive Accretion?

11:00am Philippe Andre
(CEA, Saclay) 		Probing the Initial Conditions of Clusters
11:30am Ian Bonnell
(Univ. St. Andrews) 		Competitive Accretion
12:00pm Mark Krumholz
(Princeton) 		From Massive Cores to Massive Stars [abstract]
12:30pm LUNCH BREAK
2:00pm FREE AFTERNOON

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Thursday, August 16, 2007

Massive Stars and Stellar Clusters
[Review Talks are 30 min + 15 min Discussion]
[All Other Talks are 20 min + 10 min Discussion]

Morning Session Chair: Paola Caselli (INAF, Arcetri/CfA)
9:00am Jonathan Tan
(Univ. Florida) 		The Formation of Star Clusters
9:30am James Graham
(UC Berkeley) 		Observations of Supermassive Clusters
10:00am Fred Adams
(Univ. Michigan) 		Effects of Young Embedded Clusters on their Constituent Solar Systems [abstract]
10:30am MORNING BREAK
11:00am Maite Beltran
(Univ. Barcelona) 		The Search for Massive Protostars [abstract]
11:30am Richard Klein
(UC Berkeley) 		The formation of Massive Stars [abstract]
12:00pm Debra Shepherd
(NRAO) 		Massive Molecular Outflows and Outflow Clusters [abstract]
12:30pm LUNCH BREAK

Afternoon Session Chair: David Collins (UCSD)
2:00pm Charlie Lada
(Harvard, CfA) 		Review of Observations
2:45pm Frank Shu
(UCSD) 		Review of Theory
3:30pm AFTERNOON BREAK
4:00pm Ed Churchwell
(Univ. Wisconsin) 		Impact of Massive Star Formation on their Environment [abstract]
4:30pm Matthew Bate
(Univ. Exeter) 		MHD SPH Simulations of Cluster Formation
5:00pm DISCUSSION Highlights
Moderators: Ralf Klessen (Univ. Heidelberg) & Chris Matzner (Univ. of Toronto)
5:45pm WINE AND CHEESE RECEPTION
6:30pm SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER
8:30pm SHUTTLE TO BWSCI *Time may vary depending on end of dinner.

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Friday, August 17, 2007

Redshift Evolution of Galaxy-Scale Star Formation
[Review Talks are 30 min + 15 min Discussion]
[All Other Talks are 20 min + 10 min Discussion]

Morning Session Chair: Leonidas Moustakas (Caltech, JPL)
9:00am Reinhard Genzel
(MPE) 		Review of Observations
9:45am Bruce Elmegreen
(IBM, Watson) 		Redshift Evolution of Galaxy-Scale Star Formation: Review of Theory [abstract]
10:30am MORNING BREAK
11:00am Art Wolfe
(UCSD) 		Star Formation in Damped Lya Galaxies
11:30am Naoki Yoshida
(Nagoya Univ.) 		Second-Generation Star Formation in Proto-Galaxies [abstract]
12:00pm Leo Blitz
(UC Berkeley) 		Radial Gas Distributions and the Das Depletion Time Problem [abstract]
12:30pm LUNCH BREAK

Afternoon Session Chair: Maite Beltran (Univ. Barcelona)
2:00pm Andrey Kravtsov
(Univ. of Chicago) 		Star Formation in Cosmological Simulations
2:30pm Raul Jimenez
(UPenn) 		Primordial Star Formation at High Redshift
3:00pm Ellen Zweibel
(Univ. Wisconsin-Madison) 		Cosmic Ray and Magnetic Field Histories of Galaxies
3:30pm AFTERNOON BREAK
4:00pm Crystal Martin
(UCSB) 		Evolution of Galactic Winds [abstract]
4:30pm Philip Hopkins
(Harvard, CfA) 		Merger-Driven Star Formation History of the Universe
5:00pm DISCUSSION Highlights
Moderators: Chirs McKee (UC Berkeley) & Fred Lo (NRAO)
5:45pm SHUTTLE TO BWSCI Shuttle also available to the SB Airport and SB Airbus, Goleta location. See Jocelyn.

ABSTRACTS/POSTER PRESENTATION
Woong-Tae Kim
(Seoul Nat'l Univ.) 		Cloud Formation and Turbulence Generation in Two-Component Galactic Disks [abstract]
Kaitlin Kratter
(Univ. Toronto) 		Global Models for the Evolution of Embedded Accreting Protostellar Disk [abstract]
Seong-Jae Lee
(Chungnam Nat'l Univ.) 		Rotational Instability in Accretion Shock [abstract]
Nickolas Moeckel
(Univ. Colorado) 		Massive Binaries via Disk Assisted Capture [abstract]
Nicolas Petitclerc
(McMaster Univ.) 		Star Cluster Formation SPH Simulations
Stella Offner
(UC Berkeley) 		Turbulent Core Kinematics: Simulation vs. Observation [abstract]
Robert Piontek
(AIP) 		Multiphase ISM Simulations with MRI Driven Turbulence: Comparing NIRVANA and ZEUS [abstract]
Romar Sese
(Univ. Tsukuba) 		TBA
Rahul Shetty
(Univ. MD, College Park) 		Global Modeling of Cloud Formation and Supernovae Driven Feedback in Disk Galaxies [abstract]
Martin Stringer
(Caltech) 		Density Dependence of Supernova Feedback Efficiency [abstract]
Kefeng Sun
(Univ. Koeln) 		The Photon Dominated Region in the IC 348 Molecular Cloud [abstract]
Elizabeth Tasker
(Univ. Florida) 		Modeling the ISM is Galactic Disk Simulations [abstract]
Enrico Vesperini
(Drexel Univ.) 		TBA

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