IAU Symposia
IAUS 292: Molecular Gas, Dust, and Star Formation in Galaxies
Start date/time
August 20, 2012
End date/time
August 24, 2012
Place
Beijing,
China, Nanjing
Contact
Martin Bureau
[email protected]
Event website
http://www.a.phys.nagoya-u.ac.jp/IAUS292/
Coordinating Division
Division VIII Galaxies & the Universe
SOC Co-Chairs: Martin Bureau (United Kingdom), Yasuo Fukui (Japan)
SOC Members:Kate Brooks (Australia), Leonardo Bronfman (Chile), Daniela Calzetti (United States), Paola Caselli (United Kingdom), Françoise Combes (France), François Boulanger (France), Erwin de Blok (South Africa), Yu Gao (China Nanjing), Mark Krumholz (United States), Jürgen Ott (United States), Linda Tacconi (Germany), Enrique Vazquez-Semadeni (Mexico), Tony Wong (United States)
Editors of Proceedings: Tony Wong (United States), Jürgen Ott (United States)
Topics:
- (Giant) molecular clouds (distribution, structure, mass, kinematics, lifetime, formation/evolution) and star formation in the Milky Way
- ISM properties and diagnostics (physical conditions, excitation mechanisms, atomic-molecular transition, PDRs, XDRs, chemistry)
- Atomic and molecular gas in galaxies (Magellanic Clouds; nearby dwarfs, spirals, early-types; cooling flows; radio galaxies; high-redshift galaxies; epoch of reionisation)
- Dust (formation and evolution, PAHs, FIR/sub-mm lines)
- Comparison with other star formation tracers (X-ray, UV, optical/NIR emission lines, etc)
- Star Formation (star formation laws, efficiency, history)
- Gas accretion, feedback, outflows