Start date/time

August 27, 2012, 00:00

End date/time

August 30, 2012

Place

Beijing,
China, Nanjing

Contact

You-Hua Chu
yhchu@illinois.edu

Event website

http://crescent.astro.illinois.edu/IAU_SpS12/

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Coordinating Division

Division VI Interstellar Matter

SOC Co-Chairs: You-Hua Chu (United States), Dieter Breitschwerdt (Germany)

SOC Members: Michael Burton (Australia), Miguel de Avillez (Portugal), Erwin de Blok (South Africa), Elisabete de Gouveia Dal Pino (Brazil), Ralf-Jürgen Dettmar (Germany), Edith Falgarone (France), Tom Hartquist (United Kingdom), Bon-Chul Koo (Korea, Rep of), Naomi McClure-Griffiths (Australia), Eve Ostriker (United States), J. Xavier Prochaska (United States), Laszlo Viktor Toth (Hungary), Enrique Vazquez-Semadeni (Mexico), Keiichi Wada (Japan), Mark Wolfire (United States), Ji Yang (China Nanjing)

Editors of Proceedings: You-Hua Chu (United States), Dieter Breitschwerdt (Germany)

Topics:

• Physical Structure and phase distribution of the ISM in a galaxy     
• Multi-wavelength observations of ISM in the Galaxy and nearby galaxies          
• Recent theory/MHD simulation of ISM in a galaxy: magnetic field and turbulence
• Integrated picture of interstellar structure in a galaxy: relation among gas, dust, magnetic fields, cosmic rays, etc.
• The interstellar disk-halo connection in galaxies.
• Interplay between stars and ISM: star formation and feedback
• Observations vs. Theory of the ISM
• How does the Galactic ISM help us understand the ISM in other galaxies?
• How does the nearby ISM help us understand the ISM in the distant past?