Starbursts

Session I. Local Starbursts as Benchmarks for Galaxy Evolution

1. Local Starbursts in a Cosmological Context
Timothy M. Heckman

2. Starbursts in the Evolving Universe: A Local Perspective
John S. Gallagher

3. Are There Local Analogs of Lyman Break Galaxies?
James D. Lowenthal, R. Nick Durham, Brian J. Lyons, Matthew A. Bershady, Jesus Gallego, Rafael Guzmán, David C. Koo

4. The Disk Wolf-Rayet Population of the Nuclear Starburst Galaxy M83
Paul A. Crowther, Lucy J. Hadfield, Hans Schild, Werner Schmutz

5. Laser Illuminates Compact Galaxies
J. Melbourne

6. First Spectroscopic Results from the Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxies Survey
John-David T. Smith, Robert C. Kennicutt

7. Near-IR Super Star Clusters in Starburst and Luminous Infrared Galaxies
Almudena Alonso-Herrero

8. High-Resolution Imaging of the SSCs in NGC 1569 and NGC 1705
M. Sirianni, G. Meurer, N. Homeier, M. Clampin, R. Kimble

9. Massive Star Clusters, Feedback, and Superwinds
Andrea M. Gilbert, James R. Graham

10. 30 Doradus — A Template for “Real Starbursts”?
Bernhard R. Brandl

Session II. The Initial Mass Function in Starburst Regions: Environmental Dependences?

11. The Initial Mass Function in Starbursts
Bruce G. Elmegreen

12. Dynamical Models of Star Formation and the Initial Mass Function
Ian A. Bonnell

13. Red Supergiants, Mass Segregation and M/L Ratios in Young Star Clusters
Ariane Lançon, Christian Boily

14. IMF Variation in M82 Super Star Clusters
Nate McCrady, James R. Graham, William D. Vacca

Session III. Starbursts as a Function of Wavelength

15. Colourful Starbursts
Jürgen Knödlseder

16. A Far-Ultraviolet View of Starburst Galaxies
Claus Leitherer

17. Local Starbursts: Perspectives from the Optical
Daniela Calzetti

18. The Starburst Phenomenon from the Optical/Near-IR Perspective
Nils Bergvall, Thomas Marquart, Göran Östlin, Erik Zackrisson

19. Dissecting Starburst Galaxies with Infrared Observations
Paul P. Werf, Leonie Snijders

20. What Fraction of Stars Formed in Infrared Galaxies at High Redshift?
Neil Trentham

21. Shades: The Scuba Half Degree Extragalactic Survey
James S. Dunlop

22. Compact Extragalactic Star Formation: Peering through the Dust at Centimeter Wavelengths
James S. Ulvestad

23. Dust Attenuation and Star Formation in the Nearby Universe: The Ultraviolet and Far-Infrared Points of View
Véronique Buat, Jorge Iglesias-Páramo

24. Theoretical Pan-Spectral Energy Distributions of Starburst Galaxies
Michael A. Dopita

Session IV. Triggering and Quenching of Starbursts and the Effects of Galactic Interactions

25. Merger-Induced Starbursts
François Schweizer

26. Galaxy Collisions: Modeling Star Formation in Different Environments
Chris Mihos

27. Star and Cluster Formation in Extreme Environments
Richard Grijs

28. The Recurrent Nature of Central Starbursts
Curtis Struck

29. Efficiency of the Dynamical Mechanism
F. Combes

30. 2D Kinematics and Mass Derivations in ULIRGs
M. García-Marín, L. Colina, S. Arribas, A. Monreal

31. Internal Kinematics of Luminous Compact Blue Galaxies
Matthew A. Bershady, M. Vils, C. Hoyos, R. Guzmán, D.C. Koo

32. Fuelling Starbursts and Nuclear Rings
Johan H. Knapen

Session V. Star-Formation Rates in Relation to the Host Galaxy Properties

33. Demographics and Host Galaxies of Starbursts
Robert C. Kennicutt, Janice C. Lee, Jose G. Funes, S. J., Shoko Sakai, Sanae Akiyama

34. Star-Forming, Recently Star-Forming, and “Red and Dead” Galaxies at 1 < Z < 2
Roberto G. Abraham, Karl Glazebrook, Patrick J. McCarthy, David Crampton, Sandra Savaglio, Stephanie Juneau, Damien Borgne, Hsiao-Wen Chen, Raymond G. Carlberg, Richard Murowinski, Inger Jørgensen, Kathy Roth, Ron Marzke

35. Global Star-Formation Rates
Joseph Silk

36. Star Formation Efficiencies and Star Cluster Formation
Uta Fritze-v. Alvensleben

37. Star Cluster Populations in Nearby Starburst Galaxies
Jason Harris, Daniela Calzetti, Denise A. Smith, John S. Gallagher, Christopher J. Conselice

38. Young Massive Clusters in Non-Interacting Galaxies
Søren S. Larsen, Jean P. Brodie, Deidre A. Hunter, Tom Richtler

39. Nascent Starbursts in Synchrotron-Deficient Galaxies
Hélène Roussel, George Helou, James Condon, Rainer Beck

40. HST/STIS Spectroscopy of the Starburst Core of M82
L.J. Smith, M.S. Westmoquette, J.S. Gallagher, R.W. O'Connell, R. Grijs

Session VI. Starburst Tracers: Gas, Dust and Star Formation

41. Starburst Galaxies: An Infrared Perspective
Natascha M. Förster Schreiber

42. Dusty Starbursts as a Standard Phase in Galaxy Evolution
David Elbaz

43. Is the Interstellar Gas of Starburst Galaxies Well Mixed?
Vianney Lebouteiller, Daniel Kunth

44. Star Clusters in M51: Connection between Molecular Gas, Stars and Dust
Eva Schinnerer, Axel Weiß, Susanne Aalto, Nicolas Z. Scoville, Michael P. Rupen, Robert C. Kennicutt, Rainer Beck, Andrew Fletcher

Session VII. Starbursts at Intermediate Redshifts and the Starburst versus AGN Paradigm

45. Starbursts in Nearby Radio Galaxies
Clive Tadhunter

46. Starbursts in Low Luminosity Active Galactic Nuclei
Rosa M. González Delgado, Roberto Cid Fernandes

47. GALEX Ultraviolet Spectroscopy of Luminous Infrared Galaxies
Denis Burgarella, Véronique Buat, Todd Small, Tom A. Barlow

48. A Recent Rebuilding of Most Spirals?
François Hammer, Hector Flores, Xianzhong Zheng, Yanchun Liang

49. Evolution of the IR Energy Density and SFH up to Z ~ 1: First Results from MIPS
E. Floc'h, C. Papovich, H. Dole, E. Egami, P. Pérez-González, G. Rieke, M. Rieke, E. Bell

Session VIII. Violent Star Formation and the Properties of Star-Forming Galaxies at High Redshift

50. Understanding Infrared—Luminous Starbursts in Distant Galaxies
C. Papovich, E. Floc'h, H. Dole, E. Egami, P. Pérez-González, G. Rieke, M. Rieke

51. Starbursts in the Ultra Deep Field
Rodger I. Thompson

52. Properties of Lya and Gamma Ray Burst-Selected Starbursts at High Redshifts
Johan P.U. Fynbo, Brian Krog, Kim Nilsson, Gunnlaugur Björnsson, Jens Hjorth, Páll Jakobsson, Cédric Ledoux, Palle Møller, Bjarne Thomsen

53. The Stellar Population of High-Z Galaxies from Medium-Resolution Spectra in the FORS Deep Field
D. Mehlert, C. Tapken, I. Appenzeller, S. Noll, D. Mello, T.M. Heckman

54. Star-Forming Galaxies at Z ~ 2: Stellar and Dynamical Masses
Dawn K. Erb, Charles C. Steidel, Alice E. Shapley, Max Pettini, Naveen A. Reddy, Kurt L. Adelberger

55. Metallicity of Star-Forming Galaxies
Lisa Kewley, Henry A. Kobulnicky

56. New Metallicity Diagnostics for High-Redshift Star-Forming Galaxies
Samantha A. Rix, Max Pettini, Claus Leitherer, Fabio Bresolin, Rolf-Peter Kudritzki, Chuck C. Steidel

57. UV Luminosity Function at Z ~ 4, 3, and 2
Marcin Sawicki, David Thompson

58. Massive Galaxies at Z = 2 in Cosmological Hydrodynamic Simulations
Kentaro Nagamine, Renyue Cen, Lars Hernquist, Jeremiah P. Ostriker, Volker Springel

59. K-Luminous Galaxies at Z ~ 2
Duília Mello

60. Resolved Molecular Gas Emission in a QSO Host Galaxy at Z = 6.4
Fabian Walter

Session IX. Conference Summary

61. Conference Summary: Starbursts and Galaxy Evolution
Robert W. O'Connell

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