The Jeremiah Horrocks Institute are pleased to announce that we will host a scientific meeting of the Cold Cores Consortium in the spring of 2026. This meeting will bring together observers and theorists who are experts in star formation, molecular clouds, cold cores and the interstellar medium. There will be scientific sessions on observations of cold cores, theories of core evolution and astrochemistry, to address questions around the role of cold cores in the evolution from molecular clouds to protostars.
SOC/LOC: Mika Juvela (mika.juvela@helsinki.fi; Helsinki University), Isabelle Ristorcelli (Isabelle.ristorcelli@irap.omp.eu; Toulouse University), Derek Ward-Thompson (dward-thompson@lancashire.ac.uk; University of Lancashire)
University of Lancashire webpage
The meeting will be held at Preston, UK
The nearest airport is Manchester Airport. There are direct trains from the airport to Preston. Tickets can be booked via Trainline or directly on the websites of the train companies serving this route: Transpennine Express or Northern Railway (Note that some ticket types are company-specific, so check carefully before boarding the train).
There is also a fast, direct train service from London Euston run by Avanti West Coast Trains that takes just over 2 hours.
Note that London Euston is only 10 minutes’ walk from the Eurostar Terminal at St Pancras with fast direct links to Paris and Brussels.
If flying to London Heathrow Airport you may catch the Heathrow Express to Paddington Station followed by the London Underground to London Euston and proceed as above.
Accommodation will be at the Preston Legacy International Hotel adjacent to the campus. The hotel is on Marsh Lane, opposite Darwin Building, which is marked DB at the lower left corner of the campus map.
There will be a half-day excursion, including an optional trip to Lake Windermere.