This meeting will honour the contributions to star formation of Prof. Anthony Whitworth (Cardiff University, UK), and offer the opportunity to celebrate his 66th birthday. The program will be designed so as to reflect his past and current interests and it will include both invited and contributed talks. In the spirit of ancient Greek symposia it would be full of science, but also fun and story-telling.

Topics

• The initial stages of star formation
• The formation of binary stars
• The minimum mass for star formation: low-mass stars and brown dwarfs
• The connection between star formation and planet formation
• Triggered star formation, HII regions
• The CMF-IMF relation and the statistical properties of low- and high-mass stars
• New frontiers in computational methods of star formation

Location
The conference will take place at the Orthodox Academy of Crete (OAC), which is located at the village of Kolymvari, near Chania, on the north west region of Crete, Greece. The OAC is a modern conference centre  situated in a beautiful location near the sea and next to a 17th-century monastery.

Registration
To register please visit http://www.astro.cf.ac.uk/newsandevents/conferences/antfest/Registration.html.

There will be a limit of 140 participants. The deadline for registration and payments is 1st April 2012.

For more information please email: D.Stamatellosastro.cf.ac.uk