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1 AGENDA Sunday, October 13, 2013 Time Event Location 17:30-19:00 Registration Muller Rear Lobby 17:30-19:00 Welcome Reception Cafe Azafran Monday, October 14, :00-09:00 Registration Muller Rear Lobby Session Chair: Michal Simon 09:00-09:15 Matt Mountain Director, STScI Welcome Address Massimo Robberto Announcements 09:15-09:45 Lynne A. Hillenbrand The Orion Nebula Cluster as a Paradigm of Star Formation 09:45-10:15 Nicola Da Rio The Pre-Main-Sequence Population of the ONC: Optical Studies 10:15-10:45 Kevin Luhman Low-Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs in the Orion Nebula Cluster 10:45-11:15 Coffee Break Muller Rear Lobby 11:15-11:45 Rob Jeffries Ages and Age Spreads in the Orion Nebula Cluster 11:45-12:15 Carlo Felice Manara The Orion Nebula Cluster as a Benchmark for the Study of the Accretion Process 12:15-12:45 Keivan Stassun Empirical Constraints on the Masses and Radii of Pre-Main-Sequence Stars from Eclipsing Binaries in Orion 12:45-14:00 Lunch Cafe Azafran 4

2 Monday, October 14, 2013 cont'd Session Chair: Jessica Lu 14:00-14:30 Stella Offner Orion Versus ORION: Comparing Simulations of Star Formation with Observations 14:30-15:00 Geneviève Parmentier Local-Density Driven Clustered Star Formation: Model and Implications 15:00-15:30 Jonathan Tan Orion's Guide to Massive Star Formation 15:30-15:35 Shaye Storm Michael Kuhn 15:35-16:00 Coffee Break Muller Rear Lobby 16:00-16:30 Bo Reipurth Binarity in the ONC 16:30-17:00 William Henney Dynamics of the Orion Nebula: ISM 17:00-17:30 Lee Hartmann Dynamics of the Orion Nebula: Stars 17:30-17:45 General Discussion 17:45-18:45 Beer and Pretzel Cocktail Hour Cafe Azafran 5

3 Tuesday, October 15, 2013 Session Chair: Nino Panagia 09:00-09:30 Dinshaw Balsara Simulating and Analyzing Two-Fluid Turbulence in Molecular Clouds 09:30-10:00 Michael Dopita Superthermal Electrons: The Solution to the Chemical Abundance Discrepancy Problem in HII Regions? 10:00-10:30 Tomoya Hirota ALMA Cycle 0 Observation of Orion Radio Source I 10:30-10:40 Lisa Frattare Cinematic Scientific Visualization of the Orion Nebula 10:40-11:20 Group Photo Coffee Break Muller Front Entrance Muller Rear Lobby 11:20:11:50 Eric Feigelson The Orion Nebula Cluster and the MYStIX Survey 11:50-12:20 Tom Megeath Zooming Out on the ONC: Spitzer and Herschel Surveys of Dusty YSOs in the Orion Molecular Clouds 12:20-12:50 Francisco Salgado The Orion Nebula in the IR as Seen by SOFIA and Herschel 12:50-13:00 Rafael Costero Ralph Shuping Konstantin Getman 13:00-14:00 Lunch Cafe Azafran 6

4 Tuesday, October 15, 2013 cont'd Session Chair: Geneviève Parmentier 14:00-14:30 João Alves Orion Revisited: The Foreground Population to Orion A 14:30-15:00 Jan Forbrich Radio Variability and the X-Ray-Radio Connection - a Deep JVLA/Chandra View of the Orion Nebula Cluster 15:00-15:30 Scott Wolk An X-Ray Survey of the Young Stellar Population of Lynds 1641, The ONC and Iota Orionis 15:30-15:35 Brian Mazur Thomas Allen 15:35-16:00 Coffee Break Muller Rear Lobby 16:00-16:30 Ann Marie Cody YSOVAR: Probing Mid-Infrared Variability in Orion and Beyond 16:30-17:00 Thomas Rice High-Amplitude Near-Infrared Variability in the Orion Nebula Cluster 17:00-17:30 Mubdi Rahman Beyond Orion: Bridging the Gap to Massive Young Clusters and OB Associations 17:30-17:45 General Discussion 17:45-18:45 Beer and Pretzel Cocktail Hour Cafe Azafran 7

5 Wednesday, October 16, 2013 Session Chair: Neill Reid 09:00-09:30 John Tobin Characterizing a Herschel-Detected Sample of Very Red Protostars in Orion 09:30-10:00 Jessica Lu Star Formation in Massive Young Clusters and the Galactic Center 10:00-10:15 Sarah Willis Early Stages of Star Formation in NGC :15-10:45 Elena Sabbi Hubble Tarantula Treasury Survey: Unraveling Tarantula s Web 10:45-11:00 Coffee Break Muller Rear Lobby 11:00:11:30 Nino Panagia & Guido DeMarchi Low-Mass Star Formation in the Local Group 11:30-12:00 Lynn Carlson Young Complexes in NGC Orion's Next Evolutionary Step at 1000 Times the Distance? 12:00-12:30 John Bally Workshop Summary 12:30 Lunch on Own Also of interest later this afternoon: 15:30-16:30 STScI Colloquium in the Bahcall Auditorium Guest Speaker: Lee Hartmann Leo Goldberg Collegiate Professor University of Michigan 8

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