EPoS 2024 - Answering the Big Questions: Are we making progress?

Beginn: 12.05.2024
Ende: 17.05.2024
Ort: Schloss Ringberg
Gastgeber: Jürgen Steinacker
Kontakt: stein@mpia.de

EPoS The Early Phase of Star Formation is a series of conferences for a field where still no paradigm has been established and consequently opposing views require intense debates. EPoS meetings have an unusual form: they devote substantial time to discussions after the presentations, after each session, in the poster sessions, and in focus groups.

Since the discovery of Bok globules in the 1940s, the initial phase of the star formation process has been the target of intense scientific research, and yet we are unable to arrive at a generally accepted paradigm. EPoS meetings cover all aspects, but EPoS 2024 is designed to especially address the aspect

Answering the Big Questions:
Are we making progress?

This includes identifying the big questions, evaluating the accomplished progress in answering them, how the remaining obstacles are dealt with, and an outlook what future path can be taken to arrive at an answer.

Individual astrophysical topics of interest are: accretion, binarity, chemistry, clustered SF, collapse, core mass function, cosmic dust, cosmic rays, cores, disks, extra-galactic SF, feedback of SF, filaments, fragmentation, high-mass SF, initial mass function, jets, low-mass SF, magnetic fields, molecular clouds, outflows, triggered SF, turbulence, and X-rays.

Protostellar disks are included, protoplanetary disks are excluded.