12 Questions on Star and Massive Star Cluster Formation An ESO Workshop Garching (Germany), July 3 to 6, 2007 organized by: Tom Wilson and Markus Kissler-Patig Contact: star07@eso.org

All contributed Talks (i.e. except Introductions) are 10min+questions long

Tuesday, July 3

Question 1: How are the stellar and cluster initial mass functions related and how are they influenced by the star formation history?

Question 2: What are the effects of stellar feedback?

Question 3: What is the demographics of star formation in our Galaxy and others?

Wednesday, July 4

Question 4: How did star formation proceed in Globular Clusters?

Question 5: How can we merge the galactic and extragalactic views of massive star formation regions derived from images and SEDs to a coherent physical picture?

Question 6: What governs proto-stellar mass accretion?

Thursday, July 5

Question 8: How does spiral structure affect star formation?

Question 9: How important is "primordial" mass segregation in the context of massive star cluster formation and evolution?

Question 10: What is the relationship between the properties of star clusters and the environments from which they form?

Friday, July 6

Question 11: What are the similarities and differences between star forming objects at different scales and in different environments...

Question 12: Which Physics determine the stellar upper mass limit?

Conference Summary - 14:00-16:00 - Served with Wine & Cheese

about 80 Registered Participants (as of May 25) in alphabetic order

• Alves
• Ascenso
• Attwood
• Banerjee
• Bastian
• Baumgardt
• Bik
• Bonatto
• Brandl
• Brandner
• Casali
• Colucci
• Clark
• D'Antona
• Dale
• Decressin
• Dopita
• Dottori
• Ercolano
• Espinoza
• Fritze
• Froebrich
• Galliano
• Gieles
• Gouliermis
• de Grijs
• Gritschneder
• Grosbol
• Hilker
• Johnson
• Jordan
• Keto
• Khadekar
• Khristoforov
• Khristoforova, D.
• Khristoforova, N.
• Kissler-Patig
• Klessen
• Konstantopoulos
• Kotulla
• Lamers
• Mac Low
• Malinina
• McCollum
• Moaz
• Megeath
• Melnick
• Mengel
• Milone
• Mora
• Motte
• Narbutis
• Nuernberger
• Papaderos
• Perret
• Petr-Gotzens
• Piontek
• Preibisch
• Putman
• Reines
• Rejkuba
• Sana
• Santangelo
• Scheepmaker
• Shen
• Siebenmorgen
• Sharina
• Silva Villa
• Smith, M.
• Sommariva
• Stanke
• Steinacker
• Stolte
• Testi
• Vesperini
• Villegas
• Walch
• Weidner
• Werk
• Whelan
• Whitmore
• Wunsch
• Yang
• Yu
• Zinnecker

confirmed posters as of Monday, June 25

1. Title: Spiral structure nature in the gran design galaxie IC2421
   Authors: Nobrega, Dottori, de Carvalho and Diaz
2. Title: The Contribution of Blue Stragglers to Conventional Simple Stellar Population Models -- using star clusters as working samples
   Authors: Y. Xin, L. Deng, R. de Grijs, A. D. Mackey and Z. Han
3. Title: Loci of Triggered Star Formation in the Small Magellanic Cloud
   Authors: D. A. Gouliermis, Th. Henning, W., Brandner, S. P. Quanz, M. Schmalzl, E. Henneckemper (MPIA)
4. Title: Dynamics of NGC 5461 Core: Super Star Cluster Formation"
   Authors: Chao-Chin Yang, Paul Ricker, and You-Hua Chu (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
5. Title: The first stellar cluster
   Authors: Paul C. Clark, Simon C.O. Glover & Ralf S. Klessen
6. Title: Natal Star Clusters Revealed in the Local Starburst NGC 4449 with High Resolution Radio and Optical Imaging
   Authors: Amy E Reines & Kelsey E Johnson
7. Title: Ionisation and triggered star formation
   Authors: M.Gritschneder, T. Naab, F. Heitsch, A. Burkert
8. Title: Measuring Chemical Abundances and Horizontal Branch Morphology of Extragalactic Clusters Using High Resolution Spectroscopy
   Authors: Janet E. Colucci, Rebecca A. Bernstein, Andrew McWilliam, Scott Cameron
9. Title: Spitzer/IRS Imaging and Spectroscopy of the luminous infrared galaxy NGC 6052 (Mkn 297)
   Authors: D.G. Whelan, D. Devost, V. Charmandaris, J. Marshall, & J.R. Houck
10. Title: Formation & Evolution of protostellar disks - 3D SPH simulations
    Authors: S.Walch, A.Burkert, T.Naab
11. Title: Adaptive smoothing lengths in SPH
    Authors: R.E.Attwood, S.P.Goodwin, A.P.Whitworth
12. Title: Nucleosynthesis in massive AGBs as possible source of self-enrichment in Globular Clusters'
    Authors: Paolo Ventura and Francesca D'Antona (INAF-OAR, Roma, Italy)
13. Title: Star clusters in the Andromeda galaxy.
    Authors: Donatas Narbutis, Vladas Vansevicius, Keiichi Kodaira, Ieva Sableviciute, Rima Stonkute, Audrius Bridzius.
14. Title: A 200 AU scale accretion disk in the Class 0 protostar L1641-N MM1
    Authors: Thomas Stanke, Jonathan Williams
15. Title: Hierarchical Star-formation in M33
    Authors: Nate Bastian, Barbara Ercolano, Mark Gieles, Erik Rosowlosky, Remco Scheepmaker, Rob Gutermuth, and Yuri Efremoc