Logo of sponsors
MT Thermometer:
0.46
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

Thursday February 8, 2018
08:30 Shuttle from Landis Inn Chuhu to Workshop Venue
09:00~09:15 Grain Alignment in the Ophiuchus Molecular Cloud
Kate Pattle (National Tsing Hua University)
09:15~09:30 Can we trace magnetic fields via polarized infrared emission from PAHs?
Thiem Hoang (KASI and UST)
09:30~09:45 Magnetic Field in Massive Protoclusters
Vivien Chen (National Tsing Hua University)
Session IV: Simulations of B-fields and/or turbulence 2 (Chair: Enrique Vazquez-semadeni)
09:45~10:15 Invited Study of Magnetic fields with velocity gradients
Alex Lazarian (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
10:15~10:30 Not turbulence nor magnetic fields: just global hierarchical collapse of clouds.
Enrique Vazquez-Semadeni (IRyA UNAM)
10:30~11:00 Coffee Break
11:00~11:15 Turbulence, magnetic field, and thermodynamics: what determines the IMF?
Yueh-Ning LEE (IPGP)
11:15~11:30 Energy balance between turbulence and gravity in simulations of molecular cloud fragmentation.
Vianey Camacho (Instituto de Radioastronomía y Astrofísica UNAM)
11:30~12:00 Discussion (lead by Giles Novak)
12:00~13:15 Lunch
13:15~13:30 Non-ideal magnetic fields in protostar formation
James Wurster (University of Exeter)
13:30~13:45 The link between Magnetic-field Orientation and Star Formation Rates: From a simulation prospective
Zitan Guo (the Chinese University of Hong Kong)
13:45~14:00 The effect of photoionising feedback on star formation in isolated and colliding turbulent clouds
Kazuhiro Shima (Hokkaido University)
14:00~14:15 Velocity Anisotropy in Self-gravitating Molecular Clouds
Hongli Liu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK)
14:15~14:30 The Effect of Magnetic Fields and Ambipolar Diffusion on the Column Density Probability Distribution Function in Molecular Clouds
Sayantan Auddy (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
Session V: Observations of GMCs and filaments (Chair: Hans Zinnnecker)
14:30~15:00 Invited POLSTAR survey: Magnetic fields in Pristine to Cluster Forming Filaments
Thushara Pillai (MPIfR)
15:00~15:30 Invited Magnetic fields and turbulence in the diffuse interstellar medium
Edith Falgarone (Ecole Normale Supérieure and Observatoire de Paris)
15:30~16:00 Coffee Break
16:00~16:15 Turbulent Properties in Star-Forming Molecular Clouds: Molecular Line Mapping with High-Velocity Resolution Using TRAO
Hyeong-Sik Yun (Kyung Hee University)
16:15~16:30 Pinched magnetic field in a massive and quiescent filament
Tie Liu (EAO/JCMT, KASI)
16:30~17:00 Invited The Tai Chi in Star Formation
Hua-bai Li (CUHK)
17:00~17:15 New Views on Turbulence: The Riddle of Gravitational Binding in the Disk and Center of the Milky Way
Jens Kauffmann (Haystack Observatory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
17:15~17:30 What are we learning from the relative orientation between density structures and the magnetic field in molecular clouds?
Juan Diego Soler (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy)
17:30~17:45 The Musca molecular cloud: An interstellar symphony
Aris Tritsis (Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australian National University)
ASIAA will not contact participants for credit card information. Privacy and Security Policy