Monday 6 September 2004
09:20 - 09:30	Welcome and opening	Douglas Gough (Director, IoA)
Session I: Local starbursts as benchmarks for galaxy evolution
Chair: Max Pettini
09:30 - 10:00	Tim Heckman R	Local Starbursts in a Cosmological Context
10:00 - 10:20	Jay Gallagher	Starbursts in an evolving Universe: a local perspective
10:20 - 10:40	James D. Lowenthal	Are there local analogs of Lyman break galaxies?
10:40 - 11:10	coffee
11:10 - 11:30	Paul A. Crowther	Massive stellar content of the metal-rich starburst M83
11:30 - 11:50	Jason L. Melbourne	Laser Illuminates Blue Compact Galaxies
11:50 - 12:10	JD T. Smith	Mid-Infrared Spectra of SINGS Galaxies
12:10 - 14:10	lunch
Chair: Linda Smith
14:10 - 14:30	Almudena Alonso-Herrero	Near-Infrared Super Star Clusters in Starburst and Luminous Infrared Galaxies
14:30 - 14:50	Marco Sirianni	High-Resolution Imaging of the Super Star Clusters in NGC 1569 and NGC 1705
14:50 - 15:10	Andrea M. Gilbert	Massive Star Clusters, Feedback, and Superwinds
15:10 - 15:30	Bernhard R. Brandl	The mid-IR Properties of Nearby Starbursts from Spitzer Spectroscopy
15:30 - 16:00	tea
Session II: The initial mass function in starburst regions; environmental dependences?
Chair: Jay Gallagher
16:00 - 16:30	Bruce Elmegreen R	The initial mass function in starbursts
16:30 - 16:50	Ian Bonnell	Dynamical models of star formation and the IMF?
16:50 - 17:10	Mark McCaughrean	Cluster star formation in the Milky Way and Magellanic Clouds: Evidence for IMF variations?
17:10 - 17:30	Ariane Lançon	Red supergiants, mass segregation and M/L ratios in young star clusters
17:30 - 17:50	Eva Schinnerer	Super Star Clusters in M51: Connection between Molecular Gas, Stars & Dust
Tuesday 7 September 2004
Session III: Starbursts as a function of wavelength
Chair: Bruce Elmegreen
09:00 - 09:30	Jürgen Knödlseder R	Colourful starbursts
09:30 - 09:50	Claus Leitherer	A Far-Ultraviolet View of Starburst Galaxies; pdf file
09:50 - 10:10	Daniela Calzetti	Local starbursts as benchmarks for the high-redshift Universe: Perspectives from the optical
10:10 - 10:30	Nils Bergvall	The starburst phenomenon from the optical/near-IR perspective
10:30 - 10:50	Paul van der Werf	Dissecting starburst galaxies with infrared observations
10:50 - 11:20	coffee
11:20 - 11:40	Neil Trentham	What fraction of stars formed in infrared galaxies at high redshift?
11:40 - 12:00	James Dunlop	SHADES - exploring dust-enshrouded star-formation in the young Universe
12:00 - 12:20	Jim Ulvestad	Compact extragalactic star formation - peering through the dust at centimeter wavelengths
12:20 - 14:10	lunch
Chair: Cathie Clarke
14:10 - 14:30	Veronique Buat	Star formation in the nearby Universe: the ultraviolet versus the far-infrared point of view
14:30 - 14:50	Michael A. Dopita	Theoretical Pan-Spectral Energy Distributions of Starburst Galaxies
Session IV: Triggering and quenching of starbursts and the effects of galactic interactions
14:50 - 15:20	François Schweizer R	Interaction-Induced Starbursts
15:20 - 15:40	Chris Mihos	Interaction-Induced Starbursts: Modeling Different
		Environments
15:40 - 16:10	tea
16:10 - 16:30	Richard de Grijs	Star and cluster formation in extreme environments
16:30 - 16:50	Curtis Struck	The Recurrent Nature of Central Starbursts; movie
16:50 - 17:10	Françoise Combes	Efficiency of the dynamical mechanism
17:10 - 17:30	Luis Colina	ULIRGs: 2D kinematics and star formation
17:30 - 17:50	Matthew A. Bershady	Internal Kinematics of Luminous Compact Blue Galaxies at $0.2<z<0.6$
Wednesday 8 September 2004
Session V: Star-formation rates in relation to the host galaxy properties
Chair: Daniela Calzetti
09:00 - 09:30	Rob Kennicutt R	Star-Formation Rates and Host Galaxy Properties: Clues from the Local Universe
09:30 - 09:50	Bob Abraham	A morphological view of star-forming vs. recently star-forming vs. red-and-dead galaxies at $1<z<2$
09:50 - 10:10	Joe Silk	The global star-formation rate in different morphological types of galaxies
10:10 - 10:30	Jarle Brinchmann	Star formation in local galaxies and the abundance of starbursts in the local Universe
10:30 - 10:50	Linda J. Smith	HST/STIS Spectroscopy of the Starburst Core of M82
10:50 - 11:20	coffee
11:20 - 11:40	Uta Fritze-v. Alvensleben	Star-Formation Efficiencies and Star Cluster Formation
11:40 - 12:00	Jason Harris	Cluster Populations in Nearby Starburst Galaxies
12:00 - 12:20	Søren S. Larsen	Massive Star Clusters in Non-Interacting Galaxies
12:20 - 12:40	Hélène Roussel	Nascent starbursts in synchrotron-deficient galaxies
	Free afternoon
Thursday 9 September 2004
Session VI: Starburst tracers: gas, dust and star formation
Chair: Rob Kennicutt
09:00 - 09:30	Natascha Förster-Schreiber R	Starburst galaxies: an infrared perspective
09:30 - 09:50	Roberto Terlevich	The star-formation history of HII galaxies
09:50 - 10:10	David Elbaz	Dusty starbursts as a standard phase in galaxy evolution
10:10 - 10:30	Daniel Kunth	Is the interstellar gas of starburst galaxies well mixed?
10:30 - 10:50	Johan Knapen	Morphology and fueling of circumnuclear starbursts
10:50 - 11:20	coffee
Session VII: Starbursts at intermediate redshifts, and the starburst versus AGN paradigm
11:20 - 11:40	Guinevere Kauffmann	The Formation of Bulges and Black Holes: lessons from a census of active galaxies in the SDSS
11:40 - 12:00	Clive Tadhunter	Starbursts associated with luminous AGN
12:00 - 12:20	Rosa González Delgado	Starbursts in Low Luminosity Active Galactic Nuclei: Implications for the Starburst-AGN connection
12:20 - 14:20	lunch
Chair: Clive Tadhunter
14:20 - 14:40	Denis Burgarella	UV Spectroscopy of Luminous IR Galaxies
14:40 - 15:00	David C. Koo	Studies of Luminous Blue Compact Galaxies at Redshifts $z \sim 1$ in the DEEP Project
15:00 - 15:20	François Hammer	Did most present-day spirals form during the last 8 Gyr?
15:20 - 15:40	Lin Yan	The Spitzer 24-micron Properties of optical/near-IR selected EROs
15:40 - 16:10	tea
16:10 - 16:30	Philip N. Appleton	The Infrared and Radio Properties of Starburst Galaxies in the Spitzer First Look Survey out to $z = 1.5$: The effects of collisions and mergers
16:30 - 16:50	Jiasheng Huang	The Spitzer observation of Lyman Break Galaxies
16:50 - 17:10	Emeric M. Le Floc'h	Spitzer discovery of luminous infrared galaxies at $1<z<2.5$
17:10 - 17:30	Nate McCrady	IMF Variation in M82 Super Star Clusters, A Population Study
Friday 10 September 2004
Session VIII: Violent star formation and the properties of star-forming galaxies at high redshift
Chair: Guinevere Kauffmann
09:00 - 09:30	Daniel Schaerer R	Stellar populations and star-formation histories of distant starbursts
09:30 - 09:50	Casey Papovich	The Role of Infrared-Selected Starburst Galaxies in Galaxy Evolution
09:50 - 10:10	Rodger I. Thompson	Starbursts in the Ultra Deep Field
10:10 - 10:30	Johan Fynbo	The properties of Ly$\alpha$ and Gamma-ray burst selected starbursts at high redshift
10:30 - 10:50	Dörte Mehlert	The stellar population of high-$z$ galaxies from medium-resolution spectra in the FORS Deep Field
10:50 - 11:20	coffee
11:20 - 11:40	Dawn K. Erb	Kinematic and Stellar Masses of Star-forming Galaxies at $z\sim2$
11:40 - 12:00	Lisa J. Kewley	Star Formation and Metallicity in Galaxies: Evolution Between $0<z<3$
12:00 - 12:20	Samantha A. Rix	New Metallicity Diagnostics for High-Redshift Star-Forming Galaxies
12:20 - 14:20	lunch
Chair: Evan Skillman
14:20 - 14:40	Marcin Sawicki	The Differential Evolution of the Luminosity Function of Star-Forming Galaxies from $z\sim4$ to $z\sim1.7$ using Multi-wavelength Imaging
14:40 - 15:00	Kentaro Nagamine	Massive galaxies at $z = 2$
15:00 - 15:20	Duília de Mello	Metal Enrichment in Galaxies at $z\sim2$
15:20 - 15:40	tea
15:40 - 16:10	Malcolm Bremer	Properties of star-forming galaxies at $z>5$
16:10 - 16:30	Fabian Walter	Resolved Molecular Gas Emission in a QSO host galaxy at $z=6.4$
16:30 - 17:00	Bob O'Connell	Conference summary