Acireale (Catania), Italy
16-20 May 2005

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME



Written contributions for the IAUS227 Proceedings are available at CUP.
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Monday, May 16

Time Speaker Title
08:15-08:30 Opening remarks
08:30-09:00R. Kennicutt (photo) The Role of Massive Stars in Astrophysics (talk)
09:00-09:30J. Bally (photo) Nearby Regions of Massive Star Formation (talk)
09:30-10:00M. Morris (photo) Massive Star Formation in the Galactic Center (talk)
10:00-10:30K. Menten Initial Conditions for Massive Star Birth (talk)
10:30-11:00 Coffe Break
11:00-11:30M.E. Palumbo (photo) Ices as Tracers of Massive Star Birth (talk)
11:30-11:50J. Alves (photo) Molecular Clouds and the Formation of Massive Stars
11:50-12:10S.-Y. Liu (photo) SMA Observations of Massive Star Forming Regions (talk)
12:10-12:30A. Bik (photo) Massive YSOs in High Mass Star Forming Regions (talk)
12:30-15:30 Lunch Break
15:30-16:00R. Cesaroni (photo) Hot Molecular Cores (talk)
16:00-16:30F. Van der Tak (photo) The Chemistry of High-Mass Star Formation (talk)
16:30-17:00 Coffe Break
17:00-17:20C. Dobbs (photo) Centrally condensed turbulent cores: Massive stars or fragmentation?
17:20-17:40G. Garay (photo) Massive and Dense Cores: the Maternities of High Mass Stars (talk)
17:40-18:00I. Zinchenko (photo) Physical and Chemical Structure of Dense Cores in High Mass Star Formation (talk)
18:00-18:30R. Crutcher (photo) Magnetic Fields and Massive Star Formation (talk)




Tuesday, May 17

Time Speaker Title
08:30-09:00S. Kurtz Hypercompact HII Regions (talk)
09:00-09:30L. Rodriguez (photo) Radio Observations of Ultracompact HII Regions (talk)
09:30-10:00J. Williams (photo) Clustered Star Formation (talk)
10:00-10:30Q. Zhang (photo) Massive Star Disks (talk)
10:30-11:00 Coffe Break
11:00-11:20R. Chini (photo) Formation of Massive Stars through Disc Accretion
11:20-11:40F. Motte (photo) The Earliest Phases of Massive Star Formation within Entire Molecular Cloud Complexes
11:40-12:00M. Burton (photo) Uncovering The Earliest Stages of Massive Star Formation (talk)
12:00-12:30R. Pudritz (photo) The Disc Jet Connection (talk)
12:30-15:30 Lunch Break
15:30-15:50A. Sobolev (photo) Methanol Masers and Star Formation (talk)
15:50-16:10J. De Buizer (photo) Masers and the Massive Star Formation Process: New Insights through Infrared Observations (talk)
16:10-16:30J.M. Torrelles (photo) A Pair of Close YSOs with Strikingly Different Outflow Ejection Geometry (talk)
16:30-17:00 Coffe Break
17:00-17:30F. Palla Stellar Evolution before the ZAMS (talk)
17:30-18:00B. Whitney (photo) 2-D and 3-D Radiation Transfer Models of High-Mass Star Formation (talk)




Wednesday, May 18

Time Speaker Title
08:30-09:00R. Blum (photo) Accretion Signatures in Massive Young Stellar Objects (talk)
09:00-09:20Y. Wu (photo) Objects Earlier than Precursors of UC HII Regions: Inflow-signpost for a Common Way of Star Formation (talk)
09:20-09:40M. Krumholz (photo) Radiation Pressure in Massive Star Formation (talk)
09:40-10:00S. Lizano (photo) Photoevaporated Discs from Massive Stars (talk)
10:00-10:30D. Shepherd (photo) Massive Star Outflows (talk)
10:30-11:00 Coffe Break
11:00-11:30E. Flaccomio (photo) Chandra Observations of Massive Star Forming Regions (talk)
11:30-12:00K. Koyama (photo) X-Ray Studies of Massive Star Birth Regions (talk)
12:00-12:30I. Bonnell (photo) Massive Star Formation through Accretion and Binary Mergers (talk)
12:30-15:30 Lunch Break
15:30-20:00 Excursion to Etna or Taormina




Thursday, May 19

Time Speaker Title
08:30-08:50M. Andersen (photo) The IMF in Extreme Star-Forming Environments: Searching for Variations vs. Initial Conditions (talk)
08:50-09:10P. Persi (photo) High Mass Star Formation in the Giant Molecular Cloud NGC 6334: an Infrared View (talk)
09:10-09:30L. Townsley Parsec-scale X-ray Flows in High Mass Star Forming Regions (talk)
09:30-10:00H. Lamers (photo) Formation of Massive Stars at Low Metallicity: Predictions, Observations and Expectations (talk)
10:00-10:30B. Brandl (photo) Massive Clusters as Seen by Spitzer
10:30-11:00 Coffe Break
11:00-11:30J. Tan (photo) Clustered Massive Star Formation in Molecular Clouds (talk)
11:30-12:00Y. Fukui (photo) Cluster Formation and Molecular Cloud Cores in the Magellanic Clouds (talk)
12:00-12:30R. Klessen (photo) Gravoturbulent Star Formation: Effects of the Equation of State on Stellar Masses (talk)
12:30-15:30 Lunch Break
15:30-15:50A. Zavagno (photo) Triggered Massive Star Formation on the Borders of Galactic HII Regions
15:50-16:10L. Allen (photo) A Spitzer/IRAC Survey of Massive Star Forming Regions
16:10-16:30M. Robberto (photo) The HST Survey of the Orion Nebula Region
16:30-17:00 Coffe Break
17:00-17:15W.-J. de Wit (photo) Origins of Field O-type Stars (talk)
17:15-17:30L. Moscadelli (photo) CH3OH and H2O Maser Associations at Very High Angular Resolution (talk)
17:30-17:50M. Hoare (photo) The RMS Survey: Massive Young Stars throughout the Galaxy (talk)
17:50-18:10M. Hanson (photo) Quantitative Near-Infrared Spectral Analysis of Young OB Stars (talk)
18:10-18:30T. Megeath (photo) A Spitzer/IRAC Survey of the Orion Molecular Clouds (talk)




Friday, May 20

Time Speaker Title
08:30-09:00P. Crowther (photo) Near and mid IR Observations of Ultracompact HII Regions (talk)
09:00-09:30R. Indebetouw (photo) Massive Star Formation with Spitzer/GLIMPSE (talk)
09:30-10:00A. Damineli (photo) NIR Studies of Galactic Giant HII Regions (talk)
10:00-10:30K. Johnson (photo) Probing the Birth of Super Star Clusters: Implications for Massive Star Formation (talk)
10:30-11:00 Coffe Break
11:00-11:20C. McKee (photo) SEDs of Massive Protostars (talk)
11:20-11:40D. Schaerer (photo) The Earliest Phases of Super Star Clusters (talk)
11:40-12:10P. Kroupa (photo) Evidence for a Fundamental Stellar Upper Mass Limit from Clustered Star Formation and Some Implications thereof (talk)
12:10-12:30N. Panagia (photo) Detecting Primordial Massive Stars (talk)
12:30-15:30 Lunch Break
15:30-16:00A. Ferrara (photo) First Stars and the Cosmic Dawn
16:00-16:30 Coffe Break
16:30-16:50N. Evans Summary talk I: Natal Molecular Clouds: Summary and Perspectives
16:50-17:10P.S. Conti (photo) Summary talk II: Massive Star Birth Sequence
17:10-17:30H. Zinnecker (photo) Summary talk III: Massive Star Formation in Clusters (talk)
17:30 Concluding Remarks
20:00 Social dinner
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