CONFERENCE TOPICS

A Star Was Born will cover Mike Dopita’s favourite topics, from the physics of young stellar jets and outflows, the ISM, HII regions, planetary nebulae, supernova remnants, to galaxies (star formation, dynamical transformations, theoretical evolution), and AGN.  The conference will include theorists, computational modellers, and observers. We are encouraging all speakers to present new research and ideas, rather than reviews of a given field or topic.  There will be ample time for questions and discussion to facilitate cross-fertilization of ideas across the different topics. 

SPEAKERS & SCHEDULE

Monday

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Mike Dopita

“On Becoming
an Astronomer.”

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Luc Binette

"Evidence of a temperature problem similar in the NLR as in HII regions"

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Luciana Bianchi

“Populating the post-AGB HRD using GALEX, SDSS, PanSTARRS, HST, Gaia to solve critical puzzles in stellar evolution”

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Alejandro Raga

“Raditive jets from variable sources”

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Yu Gao

“The star formation law in dense molecular gas”

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Ortwin Gerhard

“The large-scale structure of the Milky Way's stars and gas”

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Cristina Popescu

Radiative Transfer Modelling of the Milky Way..”

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Magda Arnaboldi

“PN populations in early-type galaxies, intracluster light, tracing stellar populations &kinematics in the galaxy's outskirts.”

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Brent Groves

“Modelling dust in the interstellar medium.”

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Jeff Rich

“Spatially Resolved Spectroscopy of Very Nearby Galaxies”

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Paola Merluzzi

“Gas Stripping with WiFeS”

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Imke de Pate

“Dinner talk, a tour through our solar system, with a combination of spacecraft and our own exciting results sprinkled throughout”

Tuesday

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Ralph Sutherland
“Building a Diffuse Universe”
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Mark Allen

“All-Sky astrophysics - show me the data!”

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Stéphane Charlot

“Interpreting the combined signatures of stars, active nuclei and the ISM in UV spectra of star-forming galaxies.”

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Sultana Nahar

“The Opacity and the Iron Projects: Atomic processes in astrophysical plasmas”

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Claus Leitherer

“Escape of Lyman Photons from Galaxies”

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Molly Peeples

“Figuring Out Gas & Galaxies In Enzo (FOGGIE)”

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Mark Krumholz

“Metal Flows in Galaxies”

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Maria Pena-Guerrero

“Carbon Abundances in Strarburst Galaxies of the Local Universe”

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Rolf Kudritski

“Chemical Evolution & Distances of Star Forming Galaxies”

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Letizia Stanghellini

“Radial metallicity gradients from emisison-line probes in star forming galaxies.”

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Huub Rottgering

“LOFAR's deep and wide low frequency radio sky: news for feedback and galaxy evolution”

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David Rupke

“Spatially Resolved Properties of AGN Feedback in Nearby Galaxies”

Thursday

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David NIcholls

Abundance scaling in nebular models”

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Ángel López-Sánchez

“Dissecting stars and gas in local dwarf galaxies with the AAT”

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Giovanni Cresci

“The evolution of the Metallicity scaling relations across cosmic time”

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Sandro D’Odorico

"Discovering extragalactic Supernova Remants with Mike"

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Frank Winkler

“Surveying Supernova Remnant Populations in Nearby Spiral Galaxies”

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Frédéric Vogt

“Supernova Remanents”

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Prajval Shastri

“S7 papers - AGN looking ahead at science from 3D views”

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Geoff Bicknell

“The physics of AGN feedback: the optical-radio connection”

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Julia Scharwaechter

“Probing supermassive black holes and AGN feedback with 3D spectroscopy”

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Sylvain Veilleux

“Quasar feedback \and the circumgalactic medium around more normal galaxies.”

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Stephanie Juneau

“Galaxy Substructure Collimating AGN-driven Outflows”

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Christophe Morisset

"Photoionization models finally compatible with empirical calibrators"

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Alexandre Alaire

"Shock models database"

Friday

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Adam Thomas

"Seyfert narrow-line regions: Spatially probing metallicity
and the radiation field"

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Rebecca Davies

“Ionized Gas Outflows at z~2 with the SINS Survey”

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Timothy Heckman

“The Impact of Galactic Winds on the Curcum-Galactic Medium”

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Ingyin Zaw

"Mapping Accretion and Outflows in the Central Parsec of AGN with Water Masers"

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Wil van Bruegel

"Mike & the Cosmos"

A STAR WAS BORN!

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April 8-13, 2018,
Abbazia di Spineto,
Via Molino di Spineto
8-53047,
Sarteano, SI, Italy
For additional information:
contact Robyn McBride
Robyn.McBride@anu.edu.au

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