15th Annual October Astrophysics Conference in Maryland

New Windows on Star Formation in the Cosmos

FINAL PROGRAMME

Monday, October 11, 2004

8:30	Session #1: Introduction -- Chair: Steve Holt
	Virginia Trimble: Through the Isinglass: Old Windows on Star Formation Eve Ostriker: Large-Scale Processes Governing Star Formation Richard Larson: The Consensus View of the IMF
10:30	Coffee Break
11:00	Session #2: New Surveys of Star Forming Regions in the Galaxy -- Chair: Stuart Vogel
	Lee Mundy: Deep Spitzer Surveys of Star-Forming Regions Erick Young: Spitzer Surveys of Clusters of Varying Ages Mark Heyer: Interior Dynamics of Star-Forming Clouds Tom Megeath: The Spitzer View of Young Stellar Clusters in Nearby Molecular Clouds (15 minutes) Poster Summaries
1:00	Lunch
2:00	Session #3: Young Stars and Debris Disks -- Chair: Paul Ho
	Michael Meyer: Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems: Placing Our Solar System in Context Geoff Blake: Chemical Composition of Protoplanetary and Debris Disks Alycia Weinberger: Models and Evolution of Debris Disks Michael Liu: AU Mic (GJ 803): The Nearest Young Debris Disk System (15 minutes) Poster Summaries
4:00	Tea
4:30	Session #4: Mapping of Star Formation in the Galaxy -- Chair: Lee Mundy
	Ed Churchwell: Global Mapping of Milky Way Star Formation with Spitzer Luciana Bianchi: Global Mapping of Milky Way Star Formation with Galex James Jackson: Global Mapping of Milky Way Star Formation at Radio Wavelengths Frederic Schuller: Exploring the Star Formation in the Galactic Centre: from ISO to ALMA (15 minutes) Poster Summaries
6:30	Poster Session with wine and refreshments (until 10:00 pm)

Tuesday, October 12, 2004

8:30	Session #5: Census of Star Formation in the Local Universe -- Chair: Luciana Bianchi
	Andrew Cole: SFR History from Resolved Stellar Populations Uta Fritze-v. Alvensleben: Global Distributions of Star Formation Activity Stephane Charlot: Global Distributions of Stellar Mass, Age, Metallicity, etc. Sukyoung Yi: Recent Star Formation History of Early-type Galaxies (15 minutes) Poster Summaries
10:30	Coffee Break
11:00	Session #6: Starbursts vs. Normal Galaxies -- Chair: Sylvain Veilleux
	Richard de Grijs: Normal vs. Starburst Galaxies: Modes of Star Formation Gerhardt Meurer: Star Formation in an HI-selected Starburst Sample Harry Ferguson: Star Formation in Elliptical and Dwarf Galaxies Swara Ravandranath: Star Formation in Low Surface Brightness Galaxies (15 minutes) Poster Summaries
1:00	Lunch
2:00	Session #7: The Rest of the Local Universe Story -- Chair: Harvey Moseley
	Tim Heckman: Star Formation in Active Galaxies Rob Kennicutt: Composite Nature of Star Formation in Galaxies Ivan Baldry: Global Histories of Star Formation Rolf Jansen: An HST ACS/WFC H-alpha Imaging Survey of Nearby Galaxies (15 minutes) Poster Summaries
4:00	Tea
4:30	Session #8: New Surveys of Star Formation at z < 2 -- Chair: Mark Dickinson
	Laurence Tresse: Results from Redshift Surveys Chris Martin: Results from Galex Carol Lonsdale: Results from Spitzer Philip Choi: Optical vs. Infrared SFR of SPITZER 24um-detected Galaxies in the FLS (15 mintues) Poster Summaries
7:00	Banquet (provided at conference site and included in registration fee)
	Michael Werner: Banquet Speaker

Wednesday, October 13, 2004

8:30	Session #9: Star Formation at 2 < z < 6 -- Chair: Michael Werner
	Chuck Steidel: New Results on Lyman Break Galaxies Jason Glenn: Dust-obscured Star Formation Mark Dickinson: Dust-obscured Star Formation and Stellar Mass Content Jerry Ostriker: Cosmic Star Formation History from Hydro Simulations with Feedback: Constraints from the Extra Galactic Background Light (15 minutes)
10:30	Coffee Break
11:00	Session #10: Star Formation at z > 6 -- Chair: Steve Holt
	Yoshiaki Taniguchi: Observational Surveys (multi-wavelength, multi-mission review) Andrea Ferrara: Reionization as a Constraint on High-z Star Formation Jason Tumlinson: The First Stars
12:30	Rapporteur: Mike Shull
1:00	Post-Conference Lunch
2:30	Adjourn

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