Kennicutt-Schmidt Workshop

University of California, San Diego

Natural Sciences Building Auditorium



December 18-19, 2006





MONDAY - 18 DECEMBER 2006

9:00 - 9:40

Rob Kennicutt (IAO, Cambridge UK)

The Star Formation Law: Overview and Issues”

9:40 - 10:20

Bruce Elmegreen (IBM/NY)

Overview of KS-Law Interpretations and Cloud and Star Formation Structures”

10:50 - 11:30

Leo Blitz (UC Berkeley)

Pressure Modulated Star Formation” (ppt)

11:30 - 12:10

Chris McKee (UC Berkeley)

Theory of the Kennicutt-Schmidt Law for Star Formation in Galaxies”

2:00 - 2:40

Daniela Calzetti (STScI)

The Spatially-Resolved Kennicutt-Schmidt Law: the Case of M51”

2:40 - 3:20

Joe Silk (Oxford)

The Star Formation Rate: an Analytical Perspective”

3:50 - 4:30

Yu Gao (Purple Mountain Obs., China)

Star Formation Law in Dense Gas: from Dense Cores to Extreme Starburst”

4:30 - 5:10

Mordecai-Mark Mac Low (AMNH)

Gravitational Instability and the Schmidt Law”

5:10 - 5:50

Michael Rich (UCLA)

"UV vs H-alpha Star Formation Rates, and the Systematics of Star Formation in the SDSS Main Galaxy Sample"





TUESDAY - 19 DECEMBER 2006

9:00 - 9:40

Art Wolfe (UCSD)

The Kennicutt-Schmidt Law in High Redshift Neutral Gas”

9:40 - 10:20

Andrey Kravstov (U of Chicago)

The New Frontiers in Modeling Star Formation in Cosmological Simulations”

10:50 - 11:30

Dawn Erb (Harvard)

"Gas Masses and Gas Fractions: Applications of the Kennicutt-Schmidt Law at High Redshift."

11:30 - 12:10

Ken Nagamine (U of Nevada)

"Star Formation in Cosmological Simulations"

1:30 – 2:10

Joop Schaye (Leiden)

Star Formation Laws and Numerical Simulations”

2:10- 3:40

PANEL DISCUSSION

Shu, Krumholz, Kennicutt, Blitz, Allen, Schaye, and Martin

4:00 – 4:40

Mike Norman

Workshop Summary