Program

Monday, September 10, 2012
AM Session Chair: Frank Bertoldi, Bonn University
8:55am	Imke de Pater, UC Berkeley	Welcome
9:00am - 10:30am	Carl Heiles, UC Berkeley	The Phases of the Diffuse ISM
	Mark Wolfire, University of Maryland	Perpectives on the Multiphase ISM
	Fred Adams, University of Michigan	Magnetic Controlled Flows: from disk accretion to exoplanet winds
10:30am - 11:00am	Break
11:00am - 12:30am	Richard Klein, UC Berkeley	The Effects of Feedback in Massive Star Formation: From High Mass Cores to High Mass Clusters
	Richard Crutcher, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign	Magnetic Field Observations and Star Formation
	Ellen Zweibel, University of Wisconsin, Madison	Magnetic flux transport in the interstellar medium
12:30pm - 2:00pm	Lunch Break
PM Session Chair: Mitch Begelman, JILA / University of Colorado
2:00pm - 3:30pm	Kevin McKeegan, UCLA	Whence the Solar System's First Rocks?
	Uma Gorti, NASA Ames Research Center	Photoevaporation and Disk Dispersal
	Susana Lizano, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico	From magnetized cores to protoplanetary disks
3:30pm - 4:00pm	Break
4:00pm - 5:30pm	Joan Najita, NOAO	Observations of the planet formation region of disks
	Zhi-Yun Li, University of Virginia	Magnetic Braking and Protostellar Disk Formation
	Dave Hollenbach, SETI Institute	Comments
Poster Session in HFA-Hearst Field Annex Courtyard, 5:30-7:30pm. Refreshments provided.
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
AM Session Chair: Dick McCray, University of Colorado
9:00am - 10:30am	John Bally, University of Colorado at Boulder	Stellar Feedback and the Ecology of the Galactic ISM
	Jonathan Williams, Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii	Interstellar Bubbles and Other Flat Things
	Bon-Chul Koo, Seoul National University	Environment of Young SNRs nd þe "Connections Challenge"
10:30am - 11:00am	Break
11:00am - 12:30am	Eve Ostriker, Princeton University	Self-regulation of star formation and the equilibrium state of the ISM
	Steve Lubow, STSci	Evolution of Disks with Dead Zones
	Ron Allen, STScI	Thermal OH emission as a possible large-scale tracer for the molecular ISM
12:30pm - 2:00pm	Lunch break.
PM Session Chair: Ralph Pudritz, McMaster University
2:00pm - 3:30pm	Lee Hartmann, University of Michigan	Thirty-Five+ years of protostellar collapse models
	D. Johnstone, National Research Council Canada, Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics	From cloud cores to protostars: facts, fiction, and speculation
	Stella Offner, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics	Beyond the IMF: Matching Observational Diagnostics with Star Formation Simulations
3:30pm - 4:00pm	Break
4:00pm - 5:30pm	Typhoon Lee, ASIAA	Insight on late stage supernova nucleosynthesis from Ca isotopic data
	Matthieu Gounelle, Paris Natural History Museum	Solar System genealogy revealed by meteorites
	Frank Shu, USCD / ASIAA	Comments
Celebration Dinner at The Berkeley Faculty Club Great Hall, 6:30pm reception, 7:15pm Buffet
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
AM Session Chair: Ron Taam, Northwestern University / ASIAA
9:00am - 10:30am	Charles Lada, CfA	Schmidt's Conjecture Revisited--The Relation between Star Formation Rates and Molecular Gas in Local Clouds and Distant Galaxies
	Amiel Sternberg, Tel Aviv University	HI, H2, and Star-Formation
	Sukanya Chakrabarti, Florida Atlantic University	On the McKee Method, poker & spiral structure
10:30am - 11:00am	Break
11:00am - 12:30am	Mark Krumholz, UC Santa Cruz	Physical Origins of the Star Formation Law
	Jonathan Tan, University of Florida	Forming the most luminous stars: insights from Hollenbach, McKee and Shu
	Phil Myers, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory	How does Star-Forming Accretion Stop?
12:30pm - 2:00pm	Lunch break.
PM Session Chair: Art Wolfe, UCSD
2:00pm - 3:30pm	Jack Lissauer, NASA Ames Research Center	Kepler's Multiple Planet Systems: Constraints on Planet Formation and Migration
	Moshe Elitzur, University of Kentucky	Masers and Star Formation
	Xander Tielens, Sterrewacht Leiden	The organic inventory of regions of star and planet formation
3:30pm - 4:00pm	Break
4:00pm - 5:30pm	Steve Stahler, UC Berkeley	Understanding Star Formation: 1977 versus 2012
	Doug Lin, UCSC	Magnetospheres of Young Stellar Objects and the Fate of Migrating Planets
	Chris McKee, UC Berkeley	Comments