[Astronomy seminar] Next astro seminar Friday 09/02 at 10:30 in FC61

Wed Feb 7 10:41:16 CET 2018

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Dear all,
welcome to this week seminar on Friday 09/02 at 10:30 in FC61.
The speaker will be Dr. Jouni Kainulainen from Chalmers university.
Because we haven’t yet a working online agenda I include here below a list of the upcoming seminars.

Kind regards,
Angela

Title:
The Golden Age of Star Formation Physics

Abstract:
 Understanding star formation in the interstellar medium (ISM) is one of the central themes in explaining the assembly of the universe as we know it. Despite its importance, the holistic picture of star formation remains fundamentally lacking, and as a consequence, the most often-used star formation laws today are empirical relations—not models based on gas physics.  However, the upcoming decade will be the Golden Age to take a step forward. Recently, key advances have been made in our ability to probe the physical processes relevant for star formation, covering a wide range of relevant scales from macrophysics to microphysics of star formation. These advances are so far virtually unexploited; the upcoming decade will harness their potential and witness their impact on star formation laws. I will describe how the recent advances are expected to enable progress in developing physically-motivated, observationally-constrained star formation laws. I summarise our recent contributions in this field, especially in studying the processes that govern the ISM structure and form the link between the ISM and star formation. I will also introduce our on-going survey program that aims at a Galaxy-scale characterisation of the internal structure of molecular clouds, providing a Legacy database for statistical studies of molecular cloud structure and star formation.

16/02 --
23/02 Elena D’onghia
02/03 Sportlov
09/03 Sune Toft
16/03 Finoguenov Alexis
23/03 Florent Renaud
30/03 Easter break
06/04 Nina Almgren
13/04 Jim Dale
20/04 Brent Groves
27/04 Mickaël Bonnefoy
04/05 Sara Bladh
11/05 Klämdag
18/05 Anastasia Fialkov
25/05 Carolina Robustini
01/06 --
08/06 Esha Kundu
15/06 Matteo Messa
22/06 Midsommar
29/06 Summer break

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Angela Adamo  

Department of Astronomy
Stockholm University and Oskar Klein Centre
SE-10691 Stockholm - Sweden
tel: +46 (0)8 5537 8556 
email: angela.adamo at astro.su.se
http://ttt.astro.su.se/~adamo
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