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Magnetic Fields or Turbulence:
Which is the critical factor for the formation of stars and planetary disks?
February 6(Tue)-9(Fri), 2018
National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

Program

Wednesday February 7, 2018
08:30 Shuttle from Landis Inn Chuhu to Workshop Venue
09:00~09:30 Invited Turbulent Beginnings: A Predictive Theory of Star Formation in the Interstellar Medium
Blakesley Burkhart (Harvard)
09:30~09:45 Formation of Magnetized Prestellar Cores in Turbulent Clouds
Che-Yu Chen (University of Virginia)
Session III: Non-ALMA polarimetry (Chair: Chat Hull)
09:45~10:15 Invited Magnetic Fields in Molecular Cloud Formation: A BLASTPol Polarization Study of Vela C
Laura Fissel (National Radio Astronomy Observatory)
10:15~10:30 Starlight Polarimetry and Thermal Dust Emission Polarimetry versus Zeeman Effect B-Field Strengths: Progress and Plans
Dan Clemens (Boston University)
10:30~11:00 Coffee Break
11:00~11:15 Does Scattering Contaminate Magnetic Field Observations in Star Forming Regions?
Ramprasad Rao (ASIAA Hawaii)
11:15~11:30 Early results from HAWC+/SOFIA: far-IR polarization mapping of Rho Oph A at 89 and 155 microns
Giles Novak (Northwestern University)
11:30~11:45 Intermittency and magnetic reconnections in interstellar and interplanetary turbulence
Abraham C.-L. Chian (University of Adelaide, Australia)
11:45~12:00 Probing cloud magnetic-field morphology from Atacama Desert with “APol”
Yapeng ZHANG (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
12:00~12:10 Group Photo
12:00~13:00 Lunch
13:00~18:00 Excursion
18:00~20:00 Banquet at 彭園新竹館 Peng’s Gourmet & Banquet, Hsin-Chu
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