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Knapen, J. H.
Bibliographical reference
Pathways Through an Eclectic Universe ASP Conference Series, Vol. 390, proceedings of the conference held 23-27 April, 2007 at Santiago del Teide, Tenerife, Spain. Edited by J. H. Knapen, T. J. Mahoney, and A. Vazdekis San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2008., p.330
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This is the written account of the first of two panel discussions, on
Star formation in galaxies: how do we continue? The chair of the panel
was Phil James, and panel members were John Beckman, Torsten Böker,
Daniela Calzetti, Angeles Díaz, and Rob Kennicutt. The panel and
audience discussed the following four questions: 1) What are the most
critically needed techniques to give accurate measurements of total
rates and efficiencies of star formation? 2) Do we understand the form
of the initial mass function and its variation as a function of redshift
and environment? 3) Are there multiple modes of star formation in
galaxies (bulge vs disk, burst vs continuous) or does the Schmidt law
explain everything? 4) How do we bring together our understanding of
star formation in our Galaxy and in external systems?