Starbursts - From 30 Doradus to Lyman break galaxies
Monday 6 - Friday 10 September 2004
| SOC | Richard de Grijs | University of Sheffield, UK; chair |
| Cathie Clarke | IoA Cambridge, UK |
| Françoise Combes | Observatoire de Paris, France |
| Uta Fritze-von Alvensleben | Göttingen Observatory, Germany |
| Claus Leitherer | STScI, USA |
| Max Pettini | IoA Cambridge, UK |
| Evan Skillman | University of Minnesota, USA |
| Roberto Terlevich | INAOE, Mexico |
| Paul van der Werf | Leiden Observatory, Netherlands |
| Rosa González Delgado | IAA, Spain |
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| LOC | Richard de Grijs | Chair |
| Max Pettini | |
| Gerry Gilmore | |
| Andrew Bunker | |
| Paul Aslin | senior departmental administrator |
| Suzanne Howard | secretary |
| Andrew Batey | computer officer |
| Richard Sword | graphics officer |
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SCIENTIFIC RATIONALE
Large-scale starbursts are very common features of early galaxy
evolution. At high redshifts, the majority of the present-day "normal"
galaxy progenitors either appear to be undergoing violent gravitational
interactions, or experience very active star formation throughout.
Nearby large-scale starbursts are increasingly rare, and only with the
spatial resolution of the Hubble Space Telescope has it become possible
to study the detailed characteristics of the nearest examples, which are
often considered to be the nearest analogues to the actively star
forming galaxies at high redshifts. Starbursts in dwarf galaxies, on
the other hand, occur very frequently, both in the local Universe and
beyond. It is now becoming increasingly clear that a large fraction of
the star formation in the nearby starbursts takes place in compact, high
luminosity star clusters ("super star clusters"), rather than in
individual stars. However, the evolutionary fate of these young compact
star clusters and their possible relationship to old globular clusters
is still largely an open question.
This conference aimed at bringing together scientists (observers,
theorists and modelers) studying starbursts at a range of scales, from
small-scale, localized starbursts such as seen in the 30 Doradus region
in the Large Magellanic Cloud, through relatively nearby galaxy-wide
starbursts and interactions such as observed in, e.g., M82 and the
Antennae galaxies, to their high-redshift counterparts, in particular
the Lyman break galaxies.
We wanted to connect our relatively detailed knowledge of local
starbursts with the wealth of new data now being obtained at
increasingly higher redshifts, to address a range of scientifically
exciting topics. The conference was held at a particularly interesting
time, when major advances in fields related to active star formation and
starbursts are coming to light, from efforts such as the GOODS survey,
the GALEX explorer, and from Legacy programmes of the Spitzer Space
Observatory that produced its first science results in the months
leading up to the conference.
PROCEEDINGS
These will be published by Kluwer as part of their Astrophysics &
Space Science Library series. They will include all talks in book
form, and the poster contributions on CD-ROM.
The proceedings will be edited by Richard de Grijs and Rosa
M. González Delgado.
Deadline for manuscript submission: 15 November 2004
Because of the tight schedule we have to work to, this is a hard
deadline. Late submissions cannot be accepted!
Guidelines for authors and style files should be downloaded from the
Publisher's
web site. DO NOT ALTER THESE STYLE FILES, or your contribution
may not be accepted... (and please submit your manuscript using
MNRAS-style referencing; thanks!)
You will need two style files, kapproc.cls and
procps.sty, and you can use the template LaTeX
file, procchap.tex.
When submitting your files, please use the convention < Last
Name > < Initial >.tex or < Last
Name > < Initial > < number >.tex if you submit more than one contribution.
Figures should be labelled < Last
Name > < Initial > < number >.ps, so that we won't get confused...
Please note that we will ONLY accept papers prepared using the LaTeX
2e / LaTeX 2.09 style files provided by the publishers. Documents
prepared in ANY OTHER format will be rejected and returned to the
authors.
Page allowances:
| REVIEW talks: | 8 pages |
| INVITED talks: | 6 pages |
| CONTRIBUTED talks: | 4 pages |
Please do not exceed these page allowances. If you do, you may have
the chance to amend your submission, but this cannot be guaranteed if
we receive your submission close to our submission deadline to the
publishers... This will be at the discretion of the editors.
Please DO NOT submit figures in colour;
make sure they display well in black-and-white or grey-scale. We
will not publish ANY figures in colour, except where the authors are
willing to pay for the (significant) surcharge this incurs.
Alternatively, you may submit additional material (colour figures,
animations, movies, etc.) to be included on the accompanying
CD-ROM. Please mark these materials
clearly!
POSTER papers will be published on an accompanying CD-ROM. Poster
presenters are welcome to use the same Latex style files as talk
presenters, with a page allowance within reason (we suggest to limit
poster papers to 6 pages). Alternatively, you may send us an
electronic version of your poster, including animations, movies,
etc. Colour figures are allowed for the poster proceedings. The
final decision here rests with the editors.
Submission instructions:
Please submit your contribution to our ftp site, as follows:
ftp astro1.shef.ac.uk
login: ftp or anonymous
password: email address
cd /pub/grijs/upload
bin
put your_file.name
quit
/pub/grijs/upload is a hidden directory so users cannot see it; the
directory contents are also hidden. Users logging in via ftp cannot
delete a file that is uploaded, and neither can they overwrite an
existing file - we suggest that you use your name and perhaps a revision
number for the filename in case you make a mistake.
Please let us know (sb2004@ast.cam.ac.uk) when you
have uploaded your files. We prefer that you do not send us your files
by email, in view of the expected large file sizes.
