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Registration
Registration for posters and simple attendance:
The official registration deadline is now passed, and registrations for oral presentations are no longer accepted. However, we will continue to accept registrations for poster contributions or simple attendance for some time. The official registration form must be completed to register and an abstract submitted for poster contributions. Payment for the registration fee, block-booked accommodation, conference dinner, etc, is required immediately.
Core Topics
The final programme is now available, and was intended to cover the following main topics:
- Molecular Gas Census:
- Galactic Center and Milky Way
- Magellanic Clouds and local galaxies
- Dwarf, spiral, lenticular, elliptical galaxies
- (Central) cluster galaxies and cooling flows
- High-redshift galaxies, radio galaxies, QSOs
- Cosmological accretion
- Molecular and Atomic Line Diagnostics:
- Physical conditions
- Excitation mechanisms (PDRs, XDRs)
- Inter-relationships of molecular tracers
- Atomic-molecular balance
- Starburst and AGN evolution
- Chemistry
- Star Formation:
- SF census (normal galaxies, LIRGS, ULIRGS; field vs clusters)
- SF rate, efficiency and history
- SF laws
- SF feedback and outflows
- Dust:
- Formation and evolution
- Dependence on environment (Milky Way, low-metallicity galaxies, high-z galaxies)
- Molecular gas-dust relationship
- PAHs
- FIR/sub-mm lines and diagnostics
- Early Herschel results
Invited Speakers
- Leo Blitz
- Martin Bureau
- Daniela Calzetti
- Bruce Draine
- Dusan Keres
- Mark Krumholz
- Fred Lahuis
- Crystal Martin
- Mikako Matsuura
- Chris McKee
- Desika Narayanan
- Erik Rosolowsky
- Marco Spaans
- Gordon Stacey
- Linda Tacconi
- Jean Turner
- Fabian Walter
- Christine Wilson