:: Home
:: Rationale
:: Key Topics
:: Invited Speakers
:: Committee
:: Scientific Program
:: Posters
:: Registration
:: Contact


Scientific Program

_________________________________

IR: Invites Review
IT: Invited Talk
CT: Contributed Talk


Session 1: August 27 (Mon) 10:30 - 12:30

10:30 Opening statement

OBSERVATIONS OF THE ISM

10:35 IR John Dickey A Historical Perspective on the Interstellar Medium
11:15 IT Naomi McClure-Griffiths HI in the Milky Way
11:40 IT George Heald HI in Nearby Galaxies
12:05 IT Robert Braun Cosmic Evolution of the Atomic ISM

Session 2: August 27 (Mon) 14:00 - 15:30

14:00 IT Alex Hill Warm Ionized Gas in the Galaxy
14:25 CT Kwang-Il Seon On the Origins of the Diffuse Halpha Emission: Ionized Gas or Dust...?
14:45 IT Mika Juvela Cold Cores of Molecular Clouds
15:10 CT Laszlo Viktor Toth A Statistical View on the Galactic Cold ISM Distribution

Session 3: August 27 (Mon) 16:00 - 18:00

16:00 CT Cornelia Lang Molecular Gas in the Galactic Center
16:20 CT Michael Burton The Formation of Molecular Clouds
16:40 IT Takashi Onaka IR Observations of Interstellar Dust Based on Recent IR Space Telescopes
17:05 CT Maria Fernanda Nieva The Chemical Composition of the Local Interstellar Dust
17:25 CT Takao Nakagawa AKARI All-Sky Far-IR Map
17:45 CT Rosine Lallement 3D Mapping of Gas and Dust in the Milky Way

Session 4: August 28 (Tue) 10:30 - 12:30

INTERPLAY BETWEEN ISM AND STARS: STAR FORMATION AND FEEDBACK

10:30 IR Enrique Vazquez-Semadeni Molecular Clouds and Star Formation Paradox
11:05 IT Richard Klein The Coupled Effects of Protostellar Outflows, Radiation Feedback and Turbulence on the Formation of Massive Stars and Orion-Like Clusters
11:30 CT E. de Gouveia Dal Pino Star Formation and the Transport of Magnetic Flux: a New Paradigm
11:50 IT Hans Zinnecker Star Formation and the IMF
12:15 CT Steven Longmore Variations in the Galactic Star Formation Rate and Density Thresholds for Star Formation

Session 5: August 28 (Tue) 14:00 - 15:30

14:00 IR Jane Arthur Stellar Energy Feedback - from HII Regions to SNR
14:35 IT Jeonghee Rho Dust and Molecule Formation and Processing in Supernovae and their Remnants
15:00 CT You-Hua Chu 10^6 K Hot Gas
15:15 CT Julian Pittard Stellar Wind and SN Feedback from Massive Stars

Session 6: August 28 (Tue) 16:00 - 18:00

16:00 IT Sally Oey HII Radiative Transfer Revealed by Ionization Parameter Mapping
16:25 CT Pascal Tremblin Formation of Structures around HII Regions: Ionization Feedback...
16:45 CT Philipp Carlhoff Molecular Cloud Structure and Star Formation in the W43 Complex
17:05 CT Viviana Guzman Physics and Chemistry of UV Illuminated Neutral Gas: the Horsehead
17:25 IT Vladimir Dogiel Cosmic Rays
17:50 Discussion

Session 7: August 29 (Wed) 10:30 - 12:20

OBSERVATIPNS PF DISK-HALO CONNECTION, ISM-IGM CONNECTION

10:30 IT Ralf-Juergen Dettmar Gas in galactic halos
10:55 IT Bart Wakker Infall, High-Velocity Clouds and the Galactic Fountain
11:20 CT Vanessa Moss The Galactic All Sky Survey HVC Catalogue
11:40 CT Claudio Melioli Galactic Outflows from pc to kpc Scales and the SF Feedback
12:00 CT Jingqi Miao The Beauty of Radiation Driven Implosion Model: for Different Structure...


Session 8: August 29 (Wed) 14:10 - 15:25

OBSERVATIONAL CONSTRAINTS TO MODELS

14:10 IT Mark Wolfire Observational Constraints on Multiphase ISM
14:35 IT Bryan Gaensler Direct Imaging of Turbulence in the Diffuse ISM
15:00 IT Edith Falgarone Warm Chemistry in the Diffuse ISM: a Tracer of Turbulent Dissipation

Session 9: August 29 (Wed) 16:00 - 18:00

THEORY/MHD SIMULATION OF THE ISM IN A GALAXY

16:00 IR Miguel de Avillez Simulations of the ISM: An Overview of Models
16:40 IT Stanislav Boldyrev Hydrodynamic and MHD Turbulence in the ISM
17:05 IT Chang-Goo Kim Numerical Modeling of Multiphase, Turbulent Galactic Disks with SF Feedback
17:30 CT Jennifer Stone Stability Properties of Phase Transition Layers in the Diffuse ISM Revisited

Session 10 August 30 (Thu) 10:30 - 12:30

ISM IN NEARBY GALAXIES
10:30 CT Julia Kamenetzky The Cool and Warm Molecular Gas in M82 with Herschel-SPIRE
10:50 CT Richard Wunsch Gravitational Fragmentation of the Carina Flare Supershell
11:10 CT Michael Pavel The Resolved Magnetic Fields of the Quiescent Cloud GRSMC 45.60+0.30
11:30 CT Abdul Asvarov Size distribution of Supernova Remnants and the ISM
11:50 CT Jonathan Braine The ISM in the Small Local Group Spiral M33
12:10 CT Moses Mogotsi Gas Velocity Dispersions of the 3 ISM Phases in Nearby Galaxies

Session 11 August 31 (Fri) 8:30 - 10:00

8:30 CT Xuan Fang Very Deep Spectroscopy of Planetary Nebula NGC7009
8:50 CT Toshihiro Handa Gas Density Histograms of Galaxies: the Observational Density...
9:10 CT A. de Ugarte Postigo Statistical Study of the ISM of GRB Host Galaxies at All Redshifts
9:30 IT Jan Tauber The Planck View of the ISM

Session 12 August 31 (Fri) 10:30 - 12:30

10:30 CT Sun Kwok Chemical Enrichment of the ISM by Stellar Ejecta
10:50 CT Tobias Albertsson Deuterium Chemistry in Hot and Cold Molecular Environments...
11:10 CT Robert Rubin Spitzer Observations of Extragalatic HII Regions: NGC6822
11:30 IT Julian Pittard Commemorating John Dyson