as at 12 June 2018
17:00-19:30: Welcome Reception at Churchill College, Jock Colville Lawn
9:00-9:10: Welcome words (Richard G McMahon, Director of the Institute of Astronomy)
9:10-9:40: Thijs Van der Hulst: Historical overview of the early days of star formation studies
9:40-10:10: Adam Leroy: The star formation law: an observational perspective (Invited Talk)
10:10-10:30: Andreas Schruba: Physical processes that regulate star formation in nearby galaxies
10:30-11:00: Coffee break
11:00-11:30: Rob Kennicutt & Mithi Alexa de los Reyes: Revisiting the Global Star Formation Law
11:30-11:50: Juan Molina: A kinematic analysis of the molecular gas content in H-ATLAS galaxies at z ~ 0.1-0.3 using ALMA
11:50-12:10: Sarah Leslie: Bridging the gap: resolved Kennicutt-Schmidt relation at intermediate redshift z~0.3
12:10-12:30: Elias Brinks: The radio continuum - star formation relation
12:30-14:00: Lunch break
14:00-14:30: Diederik Kruijssen: The (non-)linearity of the star formation law in analytical and numerical models (Invited Talk)
14:30-14:50: Cecilia Bacchini: The volumetric star formation law: a fundamental relation for nearby spiral galaxies
14:50-15:10: Blakesley Burkhart: A new analytic model for the star formation law, from galactic clouds to galaxies
15:10-15:30: Gustavo Bruzual: State of the art population synthesis models
15:30-16:00: Coffee break
16:00-16:30: Amelie Saintonge: Molecular gas, dust and star formation across the local galaxy population (Invited Talk)
16:30-16:50: Sambit Roychowdhury: The Kennicutt-Schmidt relation in the HI dominated regime
16:50-17:10: Christine Wilson: Dense gas and star cluster formation in the Antennae merger
17:10-17:30: Sebastien Viaene: Dense gas and star formation in Andromeda
17:30-17:50: María Jimenez-Donaire: The EMPIRE survey: probing the dense, immediately star-forming gas across nearby galaxies
18:00-18:30: Special highlight talk by Richard Ellis
18:30-20:30: Wine & Cheese evening (IoA)
9:00-09:30: Yingjie Peng: Star formation quenching in the galaxy population (Invited Talk)
9:30-09:50: Brent Groves: A SAMI view of SFR profiles in galaxies
9:50-10:10: Stephen Eales: The Herschel view of the galaxy population - an emerging paradigm
10:10-10:30: Fatemeh Tabatabaei: Discovery of massive star formation quenching by non-thermal effects in the centre of NGC 1097
10:30-11:00: Coffee break
11:00-11:20: Guido Roberts-Borsani: The nature and prevalence of cold gas outflows across the local SFR-M* plane
11:20-11:40: Andrin Flütsch: Evidence for quenching in local galaxies from molecular and ionised outflow observations
11:40-12:10: Sally Oey: The interaction of radiative and mechanical feedback in LyC escape (Invited Talk)
12:10-12:30: Matthew Lehnert: The impact of radio jets on galaxies: feedback on galaxy to halo scales
12:30-14:00: Lunch break
14:00-14:30: Eva Schinnerer: Star Formation and Galactic Environment (Invited Talk)
14:30-14:50: Francoise Combes: Quenching by AGN feedback and environment
14:50-15:10: Wako Ishibashi: Triggering star formation via AGN radiative feedback
15:10-15:30: James Trussler: The star-forming progenitors of local passive galaxies quenched primarily through starvation
15:30-16:00: Coffee break
16:00-16:20: Ute Lisenfeld: Suppresion of star formation in transitioning galaxies in Compact Groups
16:20-16:40: Bianca Poggianti: Star formation and gas in galaxies undergoing stripping: the GASP survey
16:40-17:00: Jacopo Fritz: The star formation - ram pressure connection in Jellyfish galaxies
9:00-09:30: Angela Adamo: Clustered star formation from redshift ~3 to 0: linking parsec to galactic scale physical processes (Invited Talk)
9:30-09:50: Giacomo Venturi: Outflows versus star formation in nearby AGN from the MAGNUM survey
9:50-10:10: Bernd Husemann: The star formation properties of QSO host galaxies and the limited impact of outflows
10:10-10:30: Rob Gallagher: Widespread and efficient star fomation inside galactic outflows: a new major route of galaxy formation
10:30-11:00: Coffee break
11:00-11:20: Jorge Barrera-Ballesteros: SDSS-IV MaNGA: Testing the local regulation of star formation
11:50-12:10: David Fisher: Testing feedback regulated star formation in turbulent, clumpy discs
12:10-12:30: Diane Salim: A new turbulence-regulated star formation law
12:30-13:00: Clare Dobbs: Spiral arms in galaxies and GMC formation (Invited Talk)
13:00-...: Free afternoon
18:15-23:00: Conference dinner at King’s College
9:30-09:50: Jacob Ward: Not all stars form in clusters - measuring the kinematics of OB associations with Gaia
9:50-10:10: Dyas Utomo: Star formation efficiency at cloud scales in nearby galaxies
10:10-10:30: Christopher M. Faesi: The star formation law from clouds to galaxies
10:30-11:00: Coffee break
11:00-11:30: Neal Evans: The central problem of star formation: why so slow? (Invited Talk)
11:30-11:50: Miguel Querejeta: Testing the laws of star formation in a newborn galaxy
12:10-12:30: Jin Koda: Star formation and the IMF in the outskirts of nearby galaxies
12:30-14:00: Lunch break
14:00-14:20: Sean Linden: A multi-wavelength study of massive star-forming regions in luminous infrared galaxies in GOALS
14:20:14:40: Alberto Bolatto: The central engine and outflows in the nuclear starburst of NGC 253 as revealed by ALMA
14:40-15:10: Joao Alves: Lessons for the local neighbourhood (Invited Talk)
15:30-16:00: Coffee break
16:00-16:20: Jouni Kainulainen: How do the SFR models perform at the scale of individual molecular clouds?
16:20-16:40: Miaomiao Zhang: Star-forming content of the Galactic giant molecular filaments
16:40-17:10: Stefanie Walch: Molecular cloud formation and dispersal by stellar feedback (Invited Talk)
17:10-17:30: Melanie Chevance: A systematic characterisation of the evolutionary cycling between molecular clouds, star formation, and feedback in nearby galaxies
17:30-17:50: Samuel Geen: Delving past chaos and stochasticity in Galactic star formation
9:00-09:30: Florent Renaud: Cosmic evolution of star formation (Invited Talk)
9:50-10:10: Gary Mamon: The frequency of very young galaxies in the Local Universe: do models agree with observations?
10:10-10:30: J.D.Smith: PAH emission and star formation: a census and prospectus
10:30-11:00: Coffee break
11:00-11:30: Emanuele Daddi: Star formation law(s) in the distant Universe (Invited Talk)
11:30-11:50: Miroslava Dessauges-Zavadsky: Molecular cloud properties at z=1
12:10-12:30: Marianne Girard: Kinematics of low mass and/or low SFR galaxies at 1.4<z<3.5 with the KMOS Lensing Survey (KLENS)
12:30-14:10: Lunch break
14:10-14:30: Matt Bothwell: Atomic carbon: a better way to observe high-z molecular gas?
14:30-14:50: Chentao Yang: Molecular gas in high-redshift strongly lensed dusty starbursts as traced by multiple-J CO lines
14:50-15:10: Rodrigo Herrera-Camus: Powerful molecular and ionised outflow in a massive, main-sequence galaxy at the peak of cosmic star formation activity
15:10-15:30: Kate Rowlands: Caught in the act: using post-starburst galaxies to chart galaxy transformation over cosmic time
15:30-16:00: Coffee break
16:00-16:20: Omar Almaini: Structural transformation and quenching in high-redshift post-starburst galaxies
16:20-16:40: Philipp Lang: Gas fraction and depletion time of massive star-forming galaxies beyond z=3 in COSMOS
16:40-17:00: Irene Shivaei: A thorough study of star formation rate diagnostics at intermediate redshifts
17:00-17:20: Final words by Evan Skillman and Daniela Calzetti
Posters
Poster 2: Extreme depletion time variation across the disc of the mildly interacting galaxy NGC 2276
Poster 9: Multiwavelength study of the star formation in NGC 628
Poster 11: Revisiting the M-Z-SFR relation in emission line galaxies
Poster 16: Star formation quenching in the CALIFA galaxies
Poster 20: Radial star formation histories in nearby galaxies
Poster 23: Star formation in type II quasar host galaxies
Poster 34: Multiphase modelling of star forming regions in the Magellanic Clouds
Poster 37: CO isotopes in nearby EMPIRE galaxies
Poster 38: Star-forming regions in nearby galaxies with SITELLE
Poster 41: Bar effects on chemical properties of HII regions
Poster 50: Co-evolution of black hole accretion and star formation in galaxies
Poster 51: PAHs trace the molecular gas in star-forming galaxies
Poster 56: First high-resolution comparison of [CII]/CO emission in z~3 galaxies
Poster 61: Reproducing the evolution of the galaxy star-forming main sequence
Poster 62: Measuring hydrostatic balance in the FIRE galaxy formation simulations