Programme

September 14th, Monday
12:00 - 14:00 Registration + buffet lunch in the building of the Academy of Sciences
14:00 - 14:05 Welcome by LOC [mpg]
14:05 - 14:15 Ian Bonnell: Intro by WP2 leader [mpg]
Chair: Richard Wünsch
Signposts to Massive Star Formation
14:15 - 14:45 Sylvain Bontemps: Earliest Phases of Massive Star Formation [pdf] [mpg]
14:45 - 15:05 Maite Beltran: The stellar population and complex structure of the bright-rimmed cloud IC 1396N [mpg]
15:05 - 15:25 Elaine Winston: Spitzer and Chandra observations of RCW 38 [pdf] [mpg]
15:25 - 16:00 Coffee
High-Mass End of the IMF: Observation
16:00 - 16:20 Timea Csengeri: Origin of high-mass stars and clusters in Cygnus-X [mpg]
16:20 - 16:40 Fabrizio Massi: High-mass end of the Initial Mass Function [pdf] [ppt] [mpg]
16:40 - 17:00 Joerg Dabringhausen: Top-heavy IMFs in ultracompact dwarf galaxies [pdf] [mpg]
17:00 - 17:30 Discussion [mpg]
19:30 - 21:30 Meeting of YR and ER with the node leaders - hotel Leonardo, Karolíny Světlé 27, Praha 1

September 15th, Tuesday
Chair: Jim Dale
Analytical and Numerical Hydrodynamics
9:00 - 9:30 Cathie Clarke: Collisional formation of massive stars [pdf] [ppt] [mpg]
9:30 - 10:00 Robi Banerjee: Star formation in numerical simulations [mpg]
10:00 - 11:00 Coffee
11:00 - 11:30 Rowan J. Smith: The simultaneous formation of massive stars and stellar clusters [mpg]
11:30 - 12:00 Patric Hennebelle: An analytical theory for the initial mass function: CO clumps and Prestellar cores [mpg]
12:00 - 12:30 Discussion [mpg]
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch at Café Slavia, Národní 1, Praha 1
Chair: Steffi Walch
Feedback: Observation - Simulation - Theory
14:00 - 14:30 Lise Deharveng: Massive stars - observation of the feedback [mpg]
14:30 - 14:50 Claudio Codella: Extremely high velocity outflow from the high-mass YSO's in IRAS17233-3606 [pdf] [mpg]
14:50 - 15:10 Mario Giuseppe Guarcello: Effects of massive star radiation on circumstellar disks evolution in the Eagle Nebula [pdf] [ppt] [mpg]
15:10 - 15:30 Ana Lopez-Sepulcre: Molecular outflows towards O-type young stellar objects [pdf] [mpg]
15:30 - 15:50 Vojtěch Sidorin: Dusty HI Shells [pdf] [mpg]
15:50 - 16:10 Katharine Johnston: Ionized Gas Towards Molecular Clumps: Physical Properties of Massive Star Forming Regions [mpg]
16:10 - 16:30 Coffee
16:30 - 17:00 Richard Wünsch: Pressure assisted gravitational instability of expanding shells [pdf] [mpg]
17:00 - 17:30 Jim Dale: Mass functions from the fragmentation of expanding shells [pdf] [mpg]
17:30 - 18:00 Discussion

September 16th, Wednesday
Chair: Ian Bonnell (tbc)
Discs, Radiation Transport and Chemistry
9:00 - 9:30 Anthony Peter Whitworth: The Fragmentation of Discs Around Massive Stars [pdf] [chart] [mpg]
9:30 - 10:00 Paul Clark (presented by Ian Bonnell): Discs around massive stars and their companions [mpg]
10:00 - 10:30 Simon Glover: The high-mass slope of the IMF at sub-solar metallicities [pdf] [mpg]
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee
11:00 - 11:30 Thomas Bisbas: SPH simulations of star formation triggered by expanding HII region [pdf] [ppt] [mpg]
11:30 - 12:00 Matthias Gritschneder: The impact of ionization on turbulent molecular clouds [mpg]
12:00 - 12:30 Steffi Walch: Propagation of an HII region into a Structured Molecular Cloud [mpg]
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch at restaurant Století , Karolíny Světlé 21, Praha 1
Chair: Vojtěch Sidorin (tbc)
14:00 - 14:30 Thomas Peters (presented by R. Banerjee): Ionization Feedback in Massive Star Formation [mpg]
Isolated Massive Stars
14:30 - 15:00 Richard Parker: Do massive stars form in isolation? [pdf] [mpg]
15:00 - 16:00 Discussion [mpg]
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee
19:30 - 20:00 Pre-dinner drinks at Petřínské terasy
20:00 - Conference dinner

September 17th, Thursday
Chair: Pavel Kroupa
Cores and Massive Stars
9:00 - 9:30 Thomas Preibisch: New observational constraints on the formation of massive stars from infrared interferometry [pdf] [mpg]
9:30 - 9:50 Riccardo Cesaroni: Kinematics of high-mass star formation: The case of G31.41+0.31 [pdf] [ppt] [mpg]
9:50 - 10:10 Luca Olmi: Candidate high-mass starless cores from BLAST [pdf] [mpg]
10:10 - 10:30 Discussion [mpg]
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee
Star Clusters
11:00 - 11:30 Jan Palouš: The Dense stellar Clusters [pdf] [ppt] [chart] [mpg]
11:30 - 12:00 Thomas Maschberger: Properties of hierachically forming star clusters [pdf] [mpg]
12:00 - 12:30 Simon Goodwin: Formation of Clusters [pdf] [mpg]
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch at the hotel Leonardo, Karolíny Světlé 27, Praha 1
Chair: Thomas Bisbas
14:00 - 14:30 Carsten Weidner: On the relation between the most-massive star and the cluster mass [pdf] [mpg]
14:30 - 15:00 Richard Allison: Dynamical mass segregation on a short timescales [pdf] [mpg]
15:00 - 16:00 General discussion [mpg]
16:00 - 16:30 Ian Bonnell: What should we take home [mpg]
16:30 - 17:00 Coffee [mpg]

Posters
Andrew Burgess: Young Methane Candidates in IC 348
Cátia Cardoso: Dynamical masses for the nearest brown dwarf binary: Eps Indi Ba, Bb
Arabela de la Nuez Cruz:
Philipp Girichidis: Influence of the initial conditions on massive star formation
Vera Konyves: Triggered star formation and the large-scale structure of the interstellar medium [pdf]
Dieter Poelman: Excitation of H2O in- and outside the planetforming region of young circumstellar disks
Javier A. Rodon: The CMF of Massive Star-Forming Regions [pdf]