Scientific Programme

The outline

• 1. General ISM Related to Cloud Formation:
  • A. atomic and molecular clouds in the Milky Way and other Galaxies, HI/CO structures, gas radial profiles, cloud properties and properties of ISM turbulence, ISM power spectra, cloud/intercloud structures;

    Leo Blitz: Atomic and Molecular Gas in Galaxies

  • B. shells, worms, & breakouts in our Galaxy and other galaxies, SDW in gas and stars, gas distributions in dwarf galaxies, LMC and SMC gas distributions;

    Snezana Stanimirovic: Dynamics sculpturing of the interstellar medium by star formation

  • C. MHD turbulence, power and dissipation in the ISM, ISM simulations, cloud & star formation on galactic scales;

    Eve C. Ostriker

  • D. cloud formation by the Parker-Jeans Instability, MRI, magneto-Jeans instability, swing amplified instabilities, SDW-gas interactions, cloud-disk impacts.
• 2. GMC Cores and Small-scale Triggering:
  • A. GMC cores, cluster-forming cores, hot and cold molecular cores;

    Philippe Andre: From prestellar condensations to protostars: Evidence of small-scale triggering in cluster-forming regions

  • B. pre-stellar cores (10^8 density), proplyids, disks, final stages, compressional triggering of SF in GMC cores, triggering in bright rims, galactic/LMC census of triggered star formation;

    Anthony Whitworth: Triggered Collapse of Molecular Cores

  • C. formation of massive stars, formation of low mass stars, accretion, binary star formation;
  • D. simulations of small-scale triggered star formation, simulations of turbulence-driven star formation in molecular clouds, simulations of ionization triggering.

    Ralf Klessen: Gravoturbulent Star Formation

• 3. Clusters, Associations, and Large-scale Triggering:
  • A. star complexes and their formation, OB associations and their formation, cluster dispersals, loose stellar aggregates and their formation (e.g., Taurus), embedded clusters and their formation, observations of the environments of massive stars (UCHIIR), observations of protostellar winds;

    Elizabeth Lada

  • B. observations of triggering in giant shells, observations of SDW and galactic bar triggering, observations of galaxy-scale star formation patterns suggestive of sequential triggering, dwarf galaxy star formation history;

    Jan Palous: Triggering in shells and supershells

  • C. formation and disruption of bound clusters, simulations of supershell formation and blow out, theory of shell collapse and triggering, SSPSF theory, theory of saturated/regulated/feedback, star formation on galactic scales.

    Rob Kennicutt: Star Formation on Galactic Scales

    Pavel Kroupa: The formation and disruption of star clusters, and implications thereof for galactic astrophysics

    Guillermo Tenorio-Tagle: The Formation and the Impact of Super Stellar Clusters

• 4. Galaxy-wide Triggering:
  • A. star formation in galaxy mergers and ring galaxies, star formation in tidal tails, globular cluster formation during mergers;

    Pierre-Alain Duc: Star Formation in Tidal Tails

  • B. star formation in high-z galaxies, cluster formation at high-z, globular cluster formation, bulge formation.

    Bruce G. Elmegreen: High-z star formation