Thursday July 9, 2009

Time Speaker Title
Chairman George Helou
High-z: the gas evolution
8:45-9:10 Prochaska J. Xavier On the (Non)Evolution of HI Disks over Cosmic Time
9:10-9:35 Wolfe Art The Schmidt Law at High Redshifts
9:35-9:55 Rafelski Marc Search for Spatially Extended Star Formation around Lyman Break Galaxies in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field
9:55-10:20 Keres Dusan What Drives the Cosmic Star Formation History?
10:20-10:35 Birnboim Yuval Getting the gas to where we need it the most: cold streams, and their interaction with spiral galaxies
10:35-10:55 Jorgenson Regina Understanding Physics Conditions in Damped Lyman alpha Systems through CI absorption lines
10.55-11.25
Coffee Break in Voliera
11:25-11:50 Blitz Leo The Gas Consumption History of the Universe to z = 5
11:50-12:05 Choi Jun-Hwan Cosmic star formation rate in LCDM cosmological simulation
12:05-12:30 Kravtsov Andrey Modeling star formation in cosmological simulations of galaxy formation
12:30-12:55 Schaye Joop Star formation laws and their role in models of the formation and evolution of galaxies
13:00-14:00
Lunch
Chairman Eve Ostriker Theory on SFR: from the large scale to subgrid physics
14:45-15:00 Wong Tony On the Timescale for Star Formation in Galaxies
15:00-15:25 Mac Low Mordecai-Mark Can't Stop the Music! Does Star Formation Only Quench When Gas is Exhausted?
15:25-15:50 Kim Woong-Tae Giant Cloud Formation and Turbulence Generation by Galactic Spiral Shocks
15:50-16:05 Bonnell Ian Spiral shock triggering of star formation
16:05-16:35
Icecream Break in Cortile
16:35-17:00 Klessen Ralf ISM Dynamics and Star Formation
17:00-17:25 Basu Shantanu Molecular Cloud Fragmentation regulated by Self-Gravity, Magnetic Fields, Ambipolar Diffusion, and Nonlinear Flows
17:25-17:50 Vazquez-Semadeni Enrique Revising Key Star Formation Concepts
19:30-22:30
Cena nel Casale La Sorgente