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SUBJECT: First Announcement - "VIALACTEA 2016: the Milky Way as a Star Formation Engine", Rome 26-30 September 2016 Dear Colleague, Sorry if you receive this more than once. We would like to draw your attention on the VIALACTEA 2016 Conference, with the request to please spread the information in your Institutes and to all those who might be interested. Yours Sincerely Sergio Molinari, on behalf of the SOC of VIALACTEA 2016 ************************************************* VIALACTEA 2016 The Milky Way as a Star Formation Engine Towards a predictive Galaxy-scale model of the Star Formation Life-Cycle Rome, September 26-30, 2016 "Angelicum" Congress Centre Objectives ---------- The Milky Way Galaxy is a complex ecosystem where a cyclical transformation process brings diffuse baryonic matter into dense unstable condensations to form stars. They produce radiant energy for billions of years before releasing chemically enriched material back into the Inter Stellar Medium in their final stages of evolution. Star formation is the trigger of this process, eventually driving the evolution of ordinary matter in the Universe, from its primordial composition to the present-day chemical diversity necessary for the birth of life. Although considerable progress has been made in the last two decades in the understanding of the evolution of isolated dense molecular clumps toward the onset of gravitational collapse and the formation of stars and planetary systems, several key-questions remain elusive. - What is the relative importance of gravity, turbulence or the perturbation from spiral arms in assembling the diffuse and mostly atomic Galactic ISM into molecular dense filamentary structures and compact clumps ? - How do turbulence, gravity, external triggers, chemistry and magnetic fields interact on different spatial scales to bring a diffuse cloud on the verge of star formation ? - How do the relative weights of these different agents change from extreme environments like the Galactic Center to the quiet neighborhoods of the Galaxy beyond the solar circle ? - How can we quantitatively relate the different physical agents at work, to the rate and the efficiency with which they are able to turn gas and dust into stars ? - How these results fit in / complement the current high resolution view of star formation ? The creation of a fundamental theory or, rather, of a galaxy-scale predictive model for star formation, is a key challenge. We enter a new era where a new suite of cutting-edge Milky Way surveys of the entire Galactic Plane have already started to transform the view of our Galaxy as a global star formation engine. The combination of near-IR ground surveys data, mid-IR and far-IR dust continuum obtained by ESA's HERSCHEL and NASA's SPITZER and WISE satellites, with submillimeter and radio continuum and gas-tracing atomic and molecular spectroscopy from ground-based antennas, is for the first time unlocking access to angular scales below 30" across 4 decades in wavelength for both the dust and the three gas components of the ISM (molecular, atomic and ionised). The integrated science analysis of these massive and diverse datasets requires new concepts of 3D-based visual analytics tools that integrate data access, sources and features extraction, model fitting and source classifications. Five years after the successful MW2011 Congress in Rome, this conference marks the conclusion of the EU-funded FP7 Collaborative Project "VIALACTEA", whose objectives and aims inspire the main topics of the conference. Topics ------ VIALACTEA 2016 aims at promoting advances in a number of fields: - Inter Stellar Medium, Molecular clouds and Filaments: from the diffuse texture of the ISM to the backbone skeleton of the Milky Way - Demographics of Galactic Clumps and Cluster Progenitors: conditions, timelines, rates and efficiencies of cluster and massive star formation as a function of mass and environment - Triggering, Spiral Arms, Turbulence and Gravitation: sifting the ingredients of a Galactic Star Formation Recipe. - The 3-D Galaxy from the near-infrared to the radio - The Milky Way in the context of its surrounding environment, nearby galaxies and of extra-galactic star formation recipes. - Current high resolution view of the dynamics and chemistry of star formation from ALMA, NEOMA, etc. - Dust and gas chemistry: the role of dust, atoms, ions and molecules in the thermodynamics of star formation, and their use as diagnostic probes and chemical clocks. - Visual analytics, data mining and science gateways: new tools for an integrated science analysis of multi-wavelengths Galactic surveys in the Virtual Observatory framework We foresee stimulating formats for focused discussions, where current theoretical frameworks for each of the above topics will be critically reviewed in the light of the latest observational results. Data visualization and science analysis tools will be discussed in each topics, and we foresee sessions of demos and hands-on experience. If you want to express your interest and be sure to receive further updates about the Conference, send an e-mail with your name and Institution to vialactea2016@iaps.inaf.it or visit the website http://vialactea2016.iaps.inaf.it More information about confirmed invited speakers, registration opening and call for contributed talks and posters, logistics and accommodation, will be available on the website and circulated later this year or early 2016. Organization ============ Scientific Organising Committee: Sergio Molinari - INAF/IAPS, Rome (Italy) Laurent Cambresy - Observatoire de Strasbourg (France) Annie Zavagno - LAM, Marseille (France) Melvin Hoare - University of Leeds (UK) Anthony Whitworth - University of Cardiff (UK) Yasuo Fukui - Nagoya University (Japan) Chris Brunt - University of Exeter (UK) Grazia Umana - INAF/Osservatorio di Catania (Italy) Thomas Robitaille - MPIA, Heidelberg (Germany) Ugo Becciani - INAF/Osservatorio di Catania (Italy) Massimo Brescia - INAF/Osservatorio di Napoli (Italy) Toby Moore - John Moores University, Liverpool (UK) Alberto Noriega-Crespo - STScI, Baltimore (USA) Friedrich Wyrowski - MPIfR, Bonn (Germany) René Plume - University of Calgary, Calgary (Canada) André Schaaf - Observatoire de Strasbourg (France) Peter Kacsuk - SZTAKI, Budapest (Hungary) Riccardo Smareglia - INAF/Osservatorio di Trieste (Italy) The "ANGELICUM" Congress Center is conveniently located at the very heart of Rome, at walking distance from the Colosseo and the Roman Forum. We foresee Review, Invited and Contributed Talks, with ample space for Posters presentation. -- Dr. Peter R. Roelfsema Safari Principal Investigator HIFI project manager SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research Kapteyn Astronomical Institute Zernike Building, room 293 P.O. Box 800 9700 AV Groningen The Netherlands email: P.R.Roelfsema@sron.nl tel: +31-50-3634043 (secr: 4074) FAX: +31-50-3634033 Mobile: +31-6-23461742 WWW: http://www.sron.nl _______________________________________________ Safari-meet-cons mailing list Safari-meet-cons@sron.nl https://lists.sron.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/safari-meet-cons
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