[Astronomy seminar] Reminder: astro seminar Today at 10:30 in FC61

[Astronomy seminar announcements]

Welcome!
Angela

> On 7 Feb 2018, at 10:41, Angela Adamo <angela.adamo at astro.su.se> wrote:
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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.
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> Kind regards,
> Angela
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> Title:
> The Golden Age of Star Formation Physics
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> 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.
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> 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  
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> 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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