Seminar+Calendar

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= = || 12:00 || //SSR// || Philippe Andre Alex Lazarian ||  || 12:00 || //AUD// || Enrique Vazquez-Semadeni Eve Ostriker || //Formation and Lifetime of Molecular Cloud Cores// //Formation of Giant Molecular Clouds// || 12:00 || //MSR// || Naoki Yoshida Ellen Zweibel || //Introduction to Primordial Star Formation FIR Emission from Clumpy Clouds// || Reference: [| ARAA review (McKee & Ostriker)] ||
 * Tue, Aug 7 || 11:30
 * Wed, Aug 8 || 11:30
 * ~ " ||> 2:00 || //AUD// || Reinhard Genzel || KITP Colloquium: //The Nuclear Star Cluster and Central Massive Black Hole// ||
 * Thu, Aug 9 || 3:40 || //AUD// || Reinhard Genzel || //Star Formation at High Redshift// ||
 * Fri, Aug 10 || 11:30
 * Fri, Aug 10 || 11:30
 * Mo, Aug 20 || 12:15 || //AUD// || Paolo Padoan || //Director's Blackboard Lunch Seminar// ||
 * " || 2:45 || //SSR// || Rick Wagner || CADAC, discussion, proposals, immediate future.... ||
 * " || 3:40 || //SSR// || All || //Discussion of BIG SF questions// (see wiki page).
 * Tue, Aug 21 || 11:30

2:00 || //SSR

SSR// || Christine Wilson Steve Balbus

Chris McKee || //Luminous Infrared Galaxies with the Submillimeter Array: Probing the Extremes of Star Formation// //Stability of Turbulent States in Protostellar Disks// Discussion of the IMF || 11:30 || Founder's AUD || Paolo Padoan Ralf Klessen || //Discussion of Cosmic Rays The Importance of Thermodynamics on Fragmentation and Star Formation// (30 min Tutorial + Talk) || 4:30 || SSR || Paola Caselli Caroline Terquem || //Chemistry in Star Formation: What's it for? The Effect of Planet Formation on Disk Evolution// || 12:00 || AUD || Art Wolfe Bruce Elmegreen || //Empirical tests of the Kennicutt-Schmidt Law for Star Formation at High Redshift Star formation then and now: major differences for large and small scales// || 4:10 || SSR || Chris Matzner attendees || //Dynamical Feedback in Star Formation// Discussion on the Stellar Upper Mass Limit ||
 * Wed, Aug 22 || 10:00
 * Thu, Aug 23 || 3:40
 * Fri, Aug 24 || 11:30
 * Mon, Aug 27 || 3:40
 * Tue, Aug 28 || 11:30 || SSR || Jonathan Tan

Kazuyuki Omukai || //Giant molecular cloud collisions: implications for cloud formation, lifetimes, turbulence and global star formation rates// //The role of dust in metal-poor star formation// || Shu-Ichiro Inutsuka || //Magnetic fields via polarimetry: advances and challenges// //Dynamics of Multi-Phase Interstellar Medium// || Aake Nordlund || //ORBITS!// //Discussion of Larson's Laws// || 19 || 11:30 || AUD || Ivo Labbé || //The star formation histories, stellar masses, and sizes of massive galaxies at z > 2// || 26 || 11:30 3:30 || AUD Founder's || Shantanu Basu
 * Wed, Aug 29 || 11:30 || AUD || Alex Lazarian
 * Thu, Aug 30 || 3:40 || SSR || Fred Adams
 * Fri, Aug 31 || 11:30 || AUD || None || Sukanya Chakrabarti talks at noon at the Astrophysics Seminar in Broida 3302 on the infrared view of galaxy mergers ||
 * Mon, Sept 3 || 3:40 || SSR || Labor Day Holiday ||  ||
 * Tue, Sept 4 || 11:30 || SSR || Fumitaka Nakamura || //The Dispersed Mode of Star Formation// ||
 * Wed, Sept 5 || 11:30 || AUD || Rychard Bouwens || //Galaxy Build-up in the First 2 Billion Years of the Universe// ||
 * Thu, Sept 6 || 3:40 || SSR || Simon Glover || //Molecule Formation in the Turbulent ISM// ||
 * Fri, Sept 7 || 11:30 || AUD ||  ||   ||
 * Mon, Sept 10 || 3:40 || AUD ||  ||   ||
 * Tue, Sept 11 || 11:30 || AUD || Wolfram Schmidt || //**Discussion:** Properties of supersonic turbulence: Does the forcing make a difference?// ||
 * Wed, Sept 12 || 11:30 || AUD || Erik Rosolowsky || //The Dialogue with Observation: New Tools and Data Sets to Study Molecular Cloud Evolution// ||
 * Thu, Sept 13 || 3:40 || AUD || Patrick Hennebelle || //Collapse of magnetized dense cores: Is there a fragmentation crisis?// ||
 * Fri, Sept 14 || 11:30 || AUD ||  ||   ||
 * Mon, Sept 17 || 3:40 || SSR || Simon Glover || //**Discussion:** What don't we know about first and second generation star formation?// ||
 * Tue, Sept 18 || 11:30 || SSR || Kai Noeske || //Star formation in field galaxies since z=1: a quiescent, mass-dependent history from the deepest surveys// ||
 * Wed, Sept
 * Thu, Sept 20 || 3:40 || SSR || Asantha Cooray || //Searching for Signatures of Reionizing Sources in the Unresolved Infrared Background// ||
 * Fri, Sept, 21 || 11:30 || AUD || Patrick Hennebelle || //Are the molecular clouds 2-phase objects ?// ||
 * Mon, Sept, 24 || 3:40 || SSR || Mika Juvela || //Galactic cold cloud cores// ||
 * Tue, Sept, 25 || 11:30 || SSR ||  || //Channel Islands Outing// ||
 * Wed, Sept,

Schmidt & Hennebelle || //The Effect of Magnetic fields, Ambipolar Diffusion, and Turbulence on Fragmentation 27 || 3:40 || SSR || Benoit Commercon || //Protostellar collapse : a comparison between SPH and AMR calculations// || 3:40 || AUD SSR || **Tom Abel Wolfram Schmidt** || **//Director's blackboard talk Self-Gravity in AMR Simulations (30 min)//** || 3:00 || Founders || None Konstantinos Tassis || **//Turbulence, Feedback, and Slow Star Formation//** Star formation law and the structure of the ISM || Mitch Begelman || Self-regulated gravitational accretion in protostellar disks Quasi-stars ||
 * Discussion**: Turbulence controls gravitational collapse?// ||
 * Thu, Sept
 * Fri, Sept, 28 || 11:30 || AUD || Nick Gnedin || //Circumnuclear disks: a case for star NON-formation// ||
 * Mon, Oct 1 || 12:15
 * Tue, Oct 2 || 11:30
 * Simon Glover** || **//H2 in the Galactic ISM//** ||
 * Wed, Oct 3 || 3:40 || AUD ||  ||   ||
 * Thur, Oct 4 || 3:40 || SSR || **Chuck Steidel** || **//Gas Cooling, Star Formation, and Feedback in High Redshift Galaxies//** ||
 * Fri, Oct 5 || 11:30 || AUD || **Mark Krumholz**
 * Mon, Oct 8 || 3:40 || SSR || Eric Feigelson || //X-ray insights into the formation of young stellar clusters// ||
 * Tue, Oct 9 || 11:30 || SSR || Shantanu Basu
 * Wed, Oct 10 || 3:40 || AUD || Zhi-Yun Li

Jason Tumlinson || Magnetic Braking and Protostellar Disk Formation IMF signatures in metal-poor halo stars and their connection to star formation at high z || Romain Teyssier || Turbulent Gravitational Collapses in Protogalaxies Cosmic star formation rate : the role of diffuse gas accretion || An Observer's View. || Brian O'Shea || The Evolution of Infrared Bubbles Simulations of Population III star formation: what's next? || 22 || 3:40 || AUD || Debra Shepherd || //An examination of the opening angles of ionized outflows from massive young stellar objects// || Elena Pian || //Critical hydromagnetic processes in star formation: ambipolar diffusion in 3D Gamma-Ray Bursts and Massive Star Formation// || Telemachos Mouschovias || //Outflow Driven Feedback on Meso and Macro-scales Top Thirteen Myths on the Role of Magnetic Fields in Star Formation: Part I// || 12-3 || SSR Founder's || Richard Crutcher Padoan & Crutcher || Discussion of Magnetic Fields || Telemachos Mouschovias || //Top Thirteen Myths on the Role of Magnetic Fields in Star Formation: Part II// ||
 * Thu, Oct 11 || 3:40 || SSR || Crystal Martin || //Spectroscopic Searches for High-Redshift Lyman Alpha Emission// ||
 * Fri, Oct 12 || 11:30 || AUD || John Wise
 * Mon, Oct 15 || 3:40 || AUD || Ed Churchwell || The Formation and Early Evolution of Massive Stars:
 * Tue, Oct 16 || 11:30 || SSR || Raul Jimenez || Evidence for short-lived SN Ia progenitors ||
 * Wed, Oct 17 || 2:00 || AUD || Katharina Jappsen || The Influence of Metallicity on Star Formation in Protogalaxies ||
 * Thu, Oct 18 || 3:40 || SSR || Margaret Hanson || The Search for Young Massive Clusters in the Galaxy ||
 * Fri, Oct 19th || 11:30 || AUD || Ed Churchwell
 * Mon, Oct
 * Tue, Oct 23 || 11:30 || SSR || Ralph Pudritz
 * Wed, Oct 24 || 3:40 || AUD || Adam Frank
 * Thur, Oct 25 || 10:00
 * Fri, Oct 26 || 11:30 || AUD || Colin Norman
 * Mon, Oct 29 || 3:40 || AUD ||  ||   ||
 * Tue, Oct 30 || 11:30 || SSR || David Hollenbach

Vasiliki Pavlidou || Dispersal of Disks around Low Mass Stars Constraining the cosmic star formation history with gamma-ray observations in the era of GLAST || Neal Evans || Part 1: What do we hope to discuss this week? Part 2: Evolution and Star Formation Rates in Nearby Molecular Clouds Studied by the Spitzer c2d Project || Neal Evans/Enoch Rahul Shetty || Survey Summaries & Status, Part 1: COMPLETE & c2d & Taste-Testing ||
 * Wed, Oct 31 || 4:00 ||  ||   || Astrophysics Seminar ||
 * Thur, Nov 1 || 3:40 || SSR || Doug Johnstone || Understanding How Star Formation Proceeds in the Perseus and Ophiuchus Molecular Clouds ||
 * Fri, Nov 2 || 11:30 || AUD || Edith Falgarone || Observed Signposts of Dissipation of Turbulence in Molecular Clouds ||
 * Mon, Nov 5 || 3:40 || AUD || Alyssa Goodman
 * Tue, Nov 6 || 9:30 || SSR || Alyssa Goodman
 * Wed, Nov 7 || 10:00

3:40 || AUD

AUD || Paul Goldsmith Tom Megeath Debbie Padgett Scott Schnee Francesco Palla || Survey Summaries & Status, Part 2: Taurus & Clusters

Ages and age spreads in young stellar clusters || Edith Falgarone Richard Crutcher || Why Do Core Mass Functions Resemble the IMF? What to extract from cloud molecular line surveys Magnetic Field Surveying ||
 * Thur, Nov 8 || 9:30 || SSR || Phil Myers
 * Fri, Nov 9 || 11:30 || AUD || Phil Myers, all || Wrap-up: What did we learn this week? ||
 * Mon, Nov 12 ||  ||   ||   || Holiday ||
 * Tue, Nov 13 || 11:30 || SSR || **Nicolas Scoville** || //Self-limiting star formation and AGN accretion in Starburst Regions// ||
 * Wed, Nov 14 || 12:00

4:00 || Founder's

3302 Broida || **Freese & Spolyar

Lisa Kewley** || Discussion on role of dark matter annihilation on the formation of the first stars

Astrophysics Seminar: //the starburst/AGN connection// ||
 * Thur, Nov 15 || 11:30

3:40 || SSR

SSR || **Thomas Henning

Pierre Hily-Blant

Lisa Kewley** || //The Hot in the Cold: Searching for the Earliest Stages of Massive Star Formation Density and Velocity Fields in Filaments: An Observational Study The star formation and metallicity history of galaxies// || Stella Offner** || //Massive, Accreting Protostellar Disks Kinematics of MC cores in driven and decaying turbulence: Comparison with Observations// ||
 * Fri, Nov 16 || 11:30 || AUD || **Kaitlin Kratter
 * Mon, Nov 19 || 12:15

3:40 || AUD

AUD || **Blackboard Talk

Daisuke Kawata** Stanislav Boldyrev || //How Difficult is Quantum Many-Body Theory, Matthew Hastings Strangulation in Galaxy Groups// Recent results on MHD turbulence ||
 * Tue, Nov 20 || 11:30

4:00 || SSR

1640 Broida || Matthew Bate Sami Dib

Tom Abel || The impact of radiative transfer on star formation The Unusual Stellar Mass Function of Starburst Clusters

Galaxy Formation: One Star at a Time ||
 * Wed, Nov 21 || 3:40 || AUD || Hans Zinnecker

Ralph Pudritz || 30 Doradus, NGC 2070, and R136: a brief review of a resolved starburst The formation of cores, filaments, and disks in magnetized molecular clumps || 12:00 3:30 || SSR
 * Thur, Nov 22 ||  ||   ||   || Holiday ||
 * Fri, Nov 23 ||  ||   ||   || Holiday ||
 * Mon, Nov 26 || 10:00

SSR FR || Padoan and Kritsuk: Daily Intro & Agenda P. Padoan & A. Kritsuk All || Theme: Power spectra & structure functions ||
 * Tue, Nov 27 || 10:00

12:00 2:00 3:30 || SSR

SSR AUD FR || Krumholz and Nordlund: Daily Intro & Agenda M. Krumholz & A. Nordlund Leo Blitz

All || Theme: Self-gravity & sink particles

Revisiting Two Old Issues: The Characteristic Mass of the IMF and the Formation of Clusters || 12:00
 * Wed, Nov 28 || 10:00

3:00

4:00 || SSR SSR

FR 3302 Broida || Brandenburg and Price: Daily Intro & Agenda A. Brandenburg & D. Price All

Astrophysics seminar || Theme: MHD & dynamos

From the very first Pop III to z~6 galaxies and quasars, Michele Trenti ||
 * Thur, Nov 29 || 3:40 || SSR || Henrik Beuther || Constraining massive star formation with interferometry observations ||
 * Fri, Nov 30 || 11:30 || AUD || Eric Blackman

Hubert Klahr || Gravity Driven Molecular Cloud Cascade and Some Comments on Feedback Turbulence, Dust and Gravity - Gravoturbulent Fragmentation in Circumstellar Disks ||
 * Mon, Dec 3 || 3:40 || AUD || Lee Hartmann || Making star clusters ||
 * Tue, Dec 4 || 11:30 || SSR || Yu Gao ||  ||
 * Wed, Dec 5 || 11:30

4:00 || AUD 3302 Broida || Floris van der Tak Astrophysics seminar || Submillimeter observations of high-mass star formation [|Stellar Remnants as Cosmological Probes], Jason Kalirai ||
 * Thur, Dec 6 || 12:30

3:40 || SSR

SSR || Aake Nordlund

Paul Clark Rubin Krasnopolsky || Understanding the Star Formation Rate

The competitve accretion debate ||
 * Fri, Dec 7 || 11:30 || AUD || Tom Abel, Paolo Padoan, Chris McKee || Workshop Summary ||