Day 1, November 3, 2014
08:30-09:00 Registration
09:00-09:05 Welcome by the Organisers
09:05-09:10 Welcome by Starplan (Jørgensen)
Session I: Star cluster formation, observations (chairs: Dib, Bailey, Hocuk)
09:10-09:35 Probing the physical conditions of massive star cluster formation with ALMA (Johnson)
09:35-10:00 Mini-starburst ridges and instantaneous star formation efficiency (Motte)
10:00-10:25 The ATLASGAL survey: a view on the earliest stages of high mass star and cluster formation
(Csengeri)
10:25-10:50 Revealing the initial conditions of star cluster formation: the case of Serpens South (Nakamura)
10:50-11:15 coffee break
11:15-11:40 The star formation history of embedded clusters (Bik)
11:40-12:05 The structure of young stellar clusters (Gouliermis)
12:05-12:30 Massive stars/clusters in the giant molecular cloud G23.3-0.3 (Messineo)
12:30-14:00 lunch break
14:00-14:25 High mass star formation in the outer Milky Way (Negueruela)
14:25-14:50 Constraining the gas and stellar distributions in NGC 346: the most massive star forming region in
the LMC (Hony)
14:50-15:15 Fragmentation of massive dense cores down to ~1000 AU: relation between fragmentation, density
structure and turbulence (Palau)
15:15-15:45 coffee break
Session II: The dynamics of stars in (young) clusters: observations (chair Haugboelle)
15:45-16:15 The dynamics of young clusters from the Gaia-ESO survey (Jeffries)
16:15-16:45 Runaway massive (and less massive) stars (Gvaramadze)
16:45-17:10 Supernova ejections dominate the massive runaway star production in 30 Doradus
(Henault-Brunet)
17:10-17:35 Tracing the origins of star clusters through their structure and kinematics (Wright)
17:35-18:30 Discussion session A: similarities and differences in the formation of stellar clusters, and as
a function of the environment (chairs: Motte, Jeffries)
18:30-... welcome reception
Day 2, November 4, 2014
Session III: The IMF & binarity: theory, statistics, and observations (chair: Ojha)
08:30-09:00 Observations of stellar multiplicity in star-forming regions and young clusters (Kraus)
09:00-09:30 Analytical models of the initial mass function (Hennebelle)
09:30-09:55 A non-universal IMF in Galactic stellar clusters (Dib)
09:55-10:20 The low-mass initial mass function and dynamical state of Westerlund 1 (Andersen)
10:20-10:35 Poster presentations-part 1-(Czanick, Zeidler, Wu, Frimann, Kuffmeier) 3' each.
10:35-11:05 coffee+posters
Session IV: Theoretical and numerical models of star formation (chair: Motte)
11:05-11:35 The dependence of star cluster formation on initial conditions (Bate)
11:35-12:05 The effect of magnetic fields on fragmentation and the core mass function (Basu)
12:05-12:30 Turbulent fragmentation and the IMF (Haugboelle)
12:30-14:00 lunch break
14:00-14:25 Understanding the role of small and large scale physics in numerical studies of star formation
(Höçük)
14:25-14:50 The binary properties of low-mass stars and brown dwarfs (Stamatellos)
14:50-15:15 Infall-driven protostellar accretion and the solution to the luminosity problem (Padoan)
15:15-15:45 coffee+posters
15:45-16:10 Two stage fragmentation for cluster formation (Bailey)
16:10-16:35 Microphysics modeling with Krome (Grassi)
16:35-17:30 Discussion session B: How much variability is there in the producst of star formation (IMF,
binarity, sub-structure, etc, ..) (chairs: Basu, Bate)
Day 3, November 5, 2014
Session V: The dynamical evolution of stellar clusters (chair: Hony)
09:00-09:30 Stellar clusters: nature or nurture (Goodwin)
09:30-09:55 Formation of very young massive clusters: the case of NGC 3603 young cluster (S. Banerjee)
09:55-10:20 Making sense of mass segregation in clusters, observed and simulated (Parker)
10:20-10:30 Poster presentations-part 2-(Maia, Vincke, Fragione) 3' each
10:30-11:05 coffee+posters
11:05-11:35 Modelling early cluster evolution with AMUSE (Pelupessy)
11:35-12:05 Stellar dynamical remedies to star formation headaches: The triple nucleus of M31 in focus
(Touma)
12:05-13:35 lunch break
Session VI: The formation of the Solar system, planets, in stellar clusters (chair: Pelupessy)
13:35-14:00 The birth stellar cluster of the Solar system (Church)
14:00-14:30 Close encounters in the birth environments of planetary systems (Davies)
14:30-14:55 Stellar encounters and protoplanetary disc evolution (Rosotti)
14:55-15:20 coffee+posters
15:20-16:20 Discussion session C: stellar dynamics and the reverse engineering of the cluster formation
process (chairs: Goodwin, Touma)
16:30 departure to Louisiana museum
18:00-21:00 conference dinner, and visit of the Louisiana museum
Day 4, November 6, 2014
Session VII: The role of feedback in the evolution and disruption of stellar clusters (chair: Touma)
09:00-09:30 Triggered star formation in molecular clouds (Ojha)
09:30-09:55 Evidence of sequential star formation processes involving mid-size embedded clusters. The
examples of RCW 121, IRAS 12272-6240 and Trumpler 14-N4 (Tapia)
09:55-10:25 Disc Formation and Feedback from YSOs (R. Banerjee)
10:25-10:37 Poster presentations-part 3-(Frostholm, Castellanos, Estrella, Persi) 3' each
10:37-11:05 coffee+posters
11:05-11:35 Feedback from massive stars on molecular cloud scales (Nordlund)
11:35-12:00 Before the supernovae-effect of ionisation and winds on embedded clusters (Dale)
12:00-12:25 The dynamics of superbubbles driven by star cluster winds and supernova explosion
(Rodriguez-Gonzalez)
12:25-14:00 lunch break
14:00-14:25 Impact of ionoization compression on turbulent molecular clouds, and dating of OB associations
(Tremblin)
14:25-14:55 Discussion session D: feedback on clusters scales, effects and modelling (chair: Nakamura)
14:55-15:30 coffee+posters
Session VIII: Star formation, stellar populations, and feedback on galactic scales (chair: S. Banerjee)
15:30-16:00 Galactic flows and the formation of stellar clusters (Bonnell)
16:00-16:30 The stellar populations of galaxies from their fundamental building blocks (Kroupa)
16:30-16:55 Kiloparsec-scale simulations of star formation in disk galaxies: structure and dynamics of filaments
and clumps in giant molecular clouds (Butler)
16:55-17:20 Formation of massive stellar clusters in galaxy mergers (Escala)
17:20-18:20 Discussion session E: Feedback, from local to galactic scales (chairs: Bonnell, Ojha)
Day 5, November 7, 2014
Session IX: Globular clusters (chair: Gouliermis)
09:30-10:00 The turbulent dawn of globular clusters (Charbonnel)
10:00-10:30 Observational constraints on globular cluster formation scenarios (Larsen)
10:30-11:00 coffee+posters
11:00-11:25 Dynamical models for the remote halo globular clusters Pal 4 and Pal 14 (Hasani-Zonoozi)
11:25-11:50 How does the gas expulsion phase affect the initial conditions of star clusters (Haghi)
11:50-14:00 lunch break
14:00-14:30 Discussion session F: what do globular clusters tell us about the formation of massive
clusters and about their early evolution (chair: Kroupa)
14:30-15:30 Summary of workshop and future outlooks (chair: Nordlund)
15:30 End of workshop
Posters
part 1
P1- A very interesting high mass star forming region RCW 34 (Czanik)
p2- A Hubble Space Telescope multi-band survey with WFC3 and ACS of the young massive star cluster
Westerlund 2 (Zeidler)
p3- The massive stellar population of W49: a spectroscopic survey (Wu)
p4- Zooming in on star formation (Kueffmeier)
p5- Bridging the gap between large-scale simulations and observations of star forming cores (Frimann)
part 2
p6- Gravity and thermodynamics: fundamental principles and gravothermal instability (Fragione)
p7- How the dynamics of young clusters influence the properties of forming planetary systems (Vincke)
p8- Near infrared study of the fainter population in Cygnus OB2 (Maia)
part 3
p9- Ray Tracing Radiative Transfer with Ramses (Frostholm)
p10- The soft and hard X rays thermal emission into massive stellar cluster winds with a supernova
explosion (Castellanos)
p11- Models of cold low velocity clouds (Estrella)
p12- The complex star forming region IRAS15507-5359 (Persi)
09:00-09:05 Welcome by the Organisers
09:05-09:10 Welcome by Starplan (Jørgensen)
Session I: Star cluster formation, observations (chairs: Dib, Bailey, Hocuk)
09:10-09:35 Probing the physical conditions of massive star cluster formation with ALMA (Johnson)
09:35-10:00 Mini-starburst ridges and instantaneous star formation efficiency (Motte)
10:00-10:25 The ATLASGAL survey: a view on the earliest stages of high mass star and cluster formation
(Csengeri)
10:25-10:50 Revealing the initial conditions of star cluster formation: the case of Serpens South (Nakamura)
10:50-11:15 coffee break
11:15-11:40 The star formation history of embedded clusters (Bik)
11:40-12:05 The structure of young stellar clusters (Gouliermis)
12:05-12:30 Massive stars/clusters in the giant molecular cloud G23.3-0.3 (Messineo)
12:30-14:00 lunch break
14:00-14:25 High mass star formation in the outer Milky Way (Negueruela)
14:25-14:50 Constraining the gas and stellar distributions in NGC 346: the most massive star forming region in
the LMC (Hony)
14:50-15:15 Fragmentation of massive dense cores down to ~1000 AU: relation between fragmentation, density
structure and turbulence (Palau)
15:15-15:45 coffee break
Session II: The dynamics of stars in (young) clusters: observations (chair Haugboelle)
15:45-16:15 The dynamics of young clusters from the Gaia-ESO survey (Jeffries)
16:15-16:45 Runaway massive (and less massive) stars (Gvaramadze)
16:45-17:10 Supernova ejections dominate the massive runaway star production in 30 Doradus
(Henault-Brunet)
17:10-17:35 Tracing the origins of star clusters through their structure and kinematics (Wright)
17:35-18:30 Discussion session A: similarities and differences in the formation of stellar clusters, and as
a function of the environment (chairs: Motte, Jeffries)
18:30-... welcome reception
Day 2, November 4, 2014
Session III: The IMF & binarity: theory, statistics, and observations (chair: Ojha)
08:30-09:00 Observations of stellar multiplicity in star-forming regions and young clusters (Kraus)
09:00-09:30 Analytical models of the initial mass function (Hennebelle)
09:30-09:55 A non-universal IMF in Galactic stellar clusters (Dib)
09:55-10:20 The low-mass initial mass function and dynamical state of Westerlund 1 (Andersen)
10:20-10:35 Poster presentations-part 1-(Czanick, Zeidler, Wu, Frimann, Kuffmeier) 3' each.
10:35-11:05 coffee+posters
Session IV: Theoretical and numerical models of star formation (chair: Motte)
11:05-11:35 The dependence of star cluster formation on initial conditions (Bate)
11:35-12:05 The effect of magnetic fields on fragmentation and the core mass function (Basu)
12:05-12:30 Turbulent fragmentation and the IMF (Haugboelle)
12:30-14:00 lunch break
14:00-14:25 Understanding the role of small and large scale physics in numerical studies of star formation
(Höçük)
14:25-14:50 The binary properties of low-mass stars and brown dwarfs (Stamatellos)
14:50-15:15 Infall-driven protostellar accretion and the solution to the luminosity problem (Padoan)
15:15-15:45 coffee+posters
15:45-16:10 Two stage fragmentation for cluster formation (Bailey)
16:10-16:35 Microphysics modeling with Krome (Grassi)
16:35-17:30 Discussion session B: How much variability is there in the producst of star formation (IMF,
binarity, sub-structure, etc, ..) (chairs: Basu, Bate)
Day 3, November 5, 2014
Session V: The dynamical evolution of stellar clusters (chair: Hony)
09:00-09:30 Stellar clusters: nature or nurture (Goodwin)
09:30-09:55 Formation of very young massive clusters: the case of NGC 3603 young cluster (S. Banerjee)
09:55-10:20 Making sense of mass segregation in clusters, observed and simulated (Parker)
10:20-10:30 Poster presentations-part 2-(Maia, Vincke, Fragione) 3' each
10:30-11:05 coffee+posters
11:05-11:35 Modelling early cluster evolution with AMUSE (Pelupessy)
11:35-12:05 Stellar dynamical remedies to star formation headaches: The triple nucleus of M31 in focus
(Touma)
12:05-13:35 lunch break
Session VI: The formation of the Solar system, planets, in stellar clusters (chair: Pelupessy)
13:35-14:00 The birth stellar cluster of the Solar system (Church)
14:00-14:30 Close encounters in the birth environments of planetary systems (Davies)
14:30-14:55 Stellar encounters and protoplanetary disc evolution (Rosotti)
14:55-15:20 coffee+posters
15:20-16:20 Discussion session C: stellar dynamics and the reverse engineering of the cluster formation
process (chairs: Goodwin, Touma)
16:30 departure to Louisiana museum
18:00-21:00 conference dinner, and visit of the Louisiana museum
Day 4, November 6, 2014
Session VII: The role of feedback in the evolution and disruption of stellar clusters (chair: Touma)
09:00-09:30 Triggered star formation in molecular clouds (Ojha)
09:30-09:55 Evidence of sequential star formation processes involving mid-size embedded clusters. The
examples of RCW 121, IRAS 12272-6240 and Trumpler 14-N4 (Tapia)
09:55-10:25 Disc Formation and Feedback from YSOs (R. Banerjee)
10:25-10:37 Poster presentations-part 3-(Frostholm, Castellanos, Estrella, Persi) 3' each
10:37-11:05 coffee+posters
11:05-11:35 Feedback from massive stars on molecular cloud scales (Nordlund)
11:35-12:00 Before the supernovae-effect of ionisation and winds on embedded clusters (Dale)
12:00-12:25 The dynamics of superbubbles driven by star cluster winds and supernova explosion
(Rodriguez-Gonzalez)
12:25-14:00 lunch break
14:00-14:25 Impact of ionoization compression on turbulent molecular clouds, and dating of OB associations
(Tremblin)
14:25-14:55 Discussion session D: feedback on clusters scales, effects and modelling (chair: Nakamura)
14:55-15:30 coffee+posters
Session VIII: Star formation, stellar populations, and feedback on galactic scales (chair: S. Banerjee)
15:30-16:00 Galactic flows and the formation of stellar clusters (Bonnell)
16:00-16:30 The stellar populations of galaxies from their fundamental building blocks (Kroupa)
16:30-16:55 Kiloparsec-scale simulations of star formation in disk galaxies: structure and dynamics of filaments
and clumps in giant molecular clouds (Butler)
16:55-17:20 Formation of massive stellar clusters in galaxy mergers (Escala)
17:20-18:20 Discussion session E: Feedback, from local to galactic scales (chairs: Bonnell, Ojha)
Day 5, November 7, 2014
Session IX: Globular clusters (chair: Gouliermis)
09:30-10:00 The turbulent dawn of globular clusters (Charbonnel)
10:00-10:30 Observational constraints on globular cluster formation scenarios (Larsen)
10:30-11:00 coffee+posters
11:00-11:25 Dynamical models for the remote halo globular clusters Pal 4 and Pal 14 (Hasani-Zonoozi)
11:25-11:50 How does the gas expulsion phase affect the initial conditions of star clusters (Haghi)
11:50-14:00 lunch break
14:00-14:30 Discussion session F: what do globular clusters tell us about the formation of massive
clusters and about their early evolution (chair: Kroupa)
14:30-15:30 Summary of workshop and future outlooks (chair: Nordlund)
15:30 End of workshop
Posters
part 1
P1- A very interesting high mass star forming region RCW 34 (Czanik)
p2- A Hubble Space Telescope multi-band survey with WFC3 and ACS of the young massive star cluster
Westerlund 2 (Zeidler)
p3- The massive stellar population of W49: a spectroscopic survey (Wu)
p4- Zooming in on star formation (Kueffmeier)
p5- Bridging the gap between large-scale simulations and observations of star forming cores (Frimann)
part 2
p6- Gravity and thermodynamics: fundamental principles and gravothermal instability (Fragione)
p7- How the dynamics of young clusters influence the properties of forming planetary systems (Vincke)
p8- Near infrared study of the fainter population in Cygnus OB2 (Maia)
part 3
p9- Ray Tracing Radiative Transfer with Ramses (Frostholm)
p10- The soft and hard X rays thermal emission into massive stellar cluster winds with a supernova
explosion (Castellanos)
p11- Models of cold low velocity clouds (Estrella)
p12- The complex star forming region IRAS15507-5359 (Persi)
