From First Light to Newborn Stars

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1. Are SF laws (as in Kennicutt/Schmidt) uniform across all scales and environments?
   What is the physical basis for such a law?
   Issues: formation of molecular clouds, star formation in molecular clouds, measures of star formation rates, initial conditions, turbulence, spatial distributions
   Chairs: Tom Megeath, Benjamin Weiner
2. How important is feedback and regulation ? Issues: Feedback from Sf during galaxy formation, regulation of SF through outflows (on both galactic and stellar scales), cold streams, AGN
   Chairs: Fred Adams, Dave De Young

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1. How does SF occur in regions of extreme metallicity ?
   Issues: Both low and high metal, DLAs, faint Lya emitters, Pop III stars, LSB, dwarf galaxies, extended SF, IGM, extended disks. Emphasis primarily on low-metallicity.
   Chairs: Amanda Kepley, David Silva
2. How does SF occur in environments of extreme density and or luminosity?
   Issues: formation of super star clusters, formation of globular clusters, formation in clusters near the Galactic center, dynamics, LIRGs, ULIRGs, mergers
   Chairs: Bob Blum, Alexandra Pope

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1. Star Formation over cosmic time Issues: gas-rich mergers, environments of high-redshift galaxies, effects of interactions/starbursts as a function of redshift, Young, sub-L* and L* galaxies at high-z
   Chairs: Mark Dickinson, Greg Rudnick
2. History of Star Formation in nearby galaxies and the Milky Way Issues: the IMF, binaries, observational constraints, shape and evolution, metallicity, histories in local group galaxies
   Chairs: Knut Olsen, Andrew Dolphin