Programme of the 7th Annual October Astrophysics Conference in Maryland

Star Formation, Near and Far

Monday, 14 October 1996

8:15 -- Session #1 -- Introduction (Chair: S. Holt)

• V. Trimble - The Fourth Day of Creation (The Search for a Theory of Star Formation)
• J. Silk - Current Issues in Star Formation

10:00 -- Coffee (provided outside lecture hall in poster area)

10:30 -- Session #2 -- Close-Up Views of Star Formation (Chair: R. Brown)

• P. Myers - Pre-Stellar Cores and Beginnings of Stellar Collapse
• E. Ostriker - Turbulence and Magnetic Fields in Star Formation
• L. Mundy - Observations of Circumstellar Disks and Infall
• A. Sargent* - Evolution of Circumstellar Disks

12:30 -- Lunch (provided at the Conference Center)

2:00 -- Session #3 -- Circumstellar Disks in Different Environments -- (Chair: A. Sargent)

• J. Hester - HST Images of Disks and Clusters
• P. Hartigan - The Inner Accretion Disk
• J. Stone - Theory of Circumstellar Disks

4:00 -- Tea (provided outside lecture hall in poster area)

4:30 -- Session #4 -- Brown Dwarfs and the Very Low End of the IMF (Chair: S. Maran)

• S. Kulkarni - Obs of Brown Dwarfs and the Low End of the IMF
• D. Lin - Formation of Low Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs
• G. Basri - Observations of the Substellar Mass Function

6:30 -- Poster Session (with refreshments -- until 9:30)

Tuesday, 15 October 1996

8:00 -- Session #5 -- Clusters and Multiple Star Systems (Chair: M. Hauser)

• R. Mathieu - Binaries/Multiple Star Systems
• C. Clarke - Star Formation in Clusters
• H. Richer - IMF in Clusters
• A. Whitworth* - Binary Multiplication: The Formation of Close Binaries from Wide Ones

10:00 -- Coffee (provided outside lecture hall in poster area)

10:30 -- Session #6 -- Galactic Star Formation (Chair: S. Neff)

• R. Humphreys - High Mass Stars in Local Galaxies
• S. Heap - Extragalactic IMF and Star Formation Modes
• E. Skillman - Controlling Factors for Global Star Formation
• F. de Pablos* - Efficiency and Biased Star Formation in Spirals

12:30 -- Lunch (provided at the Conference Center)

2:00 -- Session #7 -- Dynamical Processes Influencing Star Formation (Chair: D. Spergel)

• J. Kenney - Dynamical Processes Influencing Star Formation
• J. Hibbard - Mergers, Interactions, and Fueling of Starbursts
• T. Heckman - Starbursts
• V. Surdin* - Young Stellar Aggregates Embedded in Expanding Supershells

4:00 -- Tea (provided outside lecture hall in poster area)

4:30 -- Session #8 -- Star Formation History in Spirals (Chair: E. Churchwell)

• R. O'Connell - Star Formation History in Low-z Spirals
• P. Madau - Star Formation History in High-z Spirals
• H. Teplitz* - IR Discoveries of Star Forming Galaxies at 2.3<z<2.5

7:00 -- Banquet -- R. Giacconi

Wednesday, 16 October 1996

8:30 -- Session #9 -- Star Formation History in Ellipticals (Chair: E. Dwek)

• G. Worthey - Star Formation History in Low-z Ellipticals
• A. Dressler - Star Formation History in High-z Ellipticals

10:00 -- Coffee (provided outside lecture hall in poster area)

10:30 -- Session #10 -- Star Formation History in Irregular and Dwarf Spheriodal Galaxies (Chair: J. Graham)

• D. Hatzidimitriou - Star Formation History in Irregular Galaxies
• T. Smecker-Hane - Star Form'n History in Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies
• S. Kim* - HI Mosaic and H-alpha Survey in the LMC

12:00 -- Session #11 -- Summary

• R. Larson -- Rapporteur

1:00 -- Lunch (provided at the Conference Center)

End of Conference