Final Message to Conference Participants

Dear Colleague:

This is the final pre-conference mailing for all who have pre-registered
for the "Star Formation, Near and Far" conference.

The 7th Annual October Astrophysics Conference in Maryland will start on
Monday, October 14 at the Inn and Conference Center of the University of
Maryland. We have attempted to keep updated information in our ftp site
which can be accessed by anonymous ftp to ftp.astro.umd.edu.  This information
is also available through our website (http://www.astro.umd.edu).

The following information is in the above noted sites and this is intended as a
quick summary for registrants.

1. Registration will begin on Monday, October 14 at 7:00 am and the science
sessions will start at 8:15 am.  The final schedule of talks is as follows:

    All presentations without asterisks are invited review talks (those 
with asterisks are short oral presentations selected from poster abstracts).

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 - Simulations of Dynamically Triggered Star Formation
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 Biassed 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