Splinter Meeting StarFormation

Star Formation: From Near to Far — From Local to Global

Time: Wednesday September 17, 16:15-18:00 and Thursday September 18, 14:00-15:45 and 16:15-18:00 CEST (UTC+2)

Room: Benigna - Theater

Convenor(s): Rolf Kuiper
University of Duisburg-Essen

In the past, the extragalactic and galactic star formation communities developed largely independently of each other, due to a lack of overlap in methods and different physical processes under investigation. With the advent of the latest observational facilities and improved computational power, together with extensive efforts in modeling software, this situation has changed significantly, so that studies at the smallest scales include the large-scale conditions, and star formation research at global scales can resolve small-scale effects. These circumstances open a window of opportunity for the two communities to combine our efforts to address the most pressing questions of star formation at and in between both scales. These include

• To what extent is star formation sensitive to or independent of large-scale environmental conditions?
• Can we infer universal properties of star formation? These properties include star formation rates and efficiencies, as well as time and space scales at which the different underlying physical processes are important.
• How does feedback from the smallest scales affect the large-scale environment?

Program

Wednesday September 17, 16:15-18:00 Star Formation: From Near to Far — From Local to Global (Benigna - Theater)

Thursday September 18, 14:00-15:45 Star Formation: From Near to Far — From Local to Global (Benigna - Theater)

Thursday September 18, 16:15-18:00 Star Formation: From Near to Far — From Local to Global (Benigna - Theater)

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