Frontiers in Star Formation conference held at Yale

The Yale Astronomy Department hosted a celebratory conference in honor of Dr. Richard Larson, who has retired after serving at Yale for 43 years. "Frontiers in Star Formation" was held at Yale on October 26-27, 2012. The goal of this meeting was to bring together observers and theorists in the field of star formation, at all cosmic scales, to discuss the latest discoveries and the exciting research that will be conducted in the near future. Twenty-five invited speakers gave talks on topics that were split into four sessions:

• - The First Stars
  - The Heydays of Cosmic Star Formation (SF at z~2-3)
  - Towards a Complete Picture of Galactic Star Formation
  - Bridging the Gap between Galactic and Extra-Galactic Star Formation

There was also a poster session and a banquet in honor of Richard on Friday night. More information, including the presentations and photos of the event, can be found at http://www.astro.yale.edu/sf_frontiers/.