The Jeremiah Horrocks Institute are pleased to announce that we will host a hybrid scientific meeting of the Cold Cores Consortium in the summer 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.
Provisional Programme
All times in CEST (Paris). BST +1 (London). EEST -1 (Helsinki).
All talks 25+5mins
Day 1: June 16th Core Evolution and B-fields Chair: Juvela
09.30 Priestley Chemical indicators of core evolution in turbulent environments
10.00 Varga Fragmentation of core G205.46
10.30 Ferriere Three-Dimensional reconstruction of magnetic fields
11.00-11.30 COFFEE BREAK
11.30 Ward-Thompson Latest results from BISTRO
12.00 Falgarone Spinning filaments and helical magnetic fields as signposts of filament growth
12.30 Tulloh An extended polarisation study of the Eagle Nebula
13.00 End of Day 1
Day 2: June 17th Individual Regions of Star Formation Chair: W-T
09.30 Makarova Massive star formation and hub-filament systems
10.00 Toth Multi-wavelength studies of the Platypus Nebula
10.30 Vorster MIR dust emission from cavities carved by jets
11.00-11.30 COFFEE BREAK
11.30 Pattle Core mass function variations in nearby clouds
12.00 Zhu Tracing grain growth in the pre-stellar core L1506C
12.30 Juvela Radiative transfer modelling of dust and spectral lines
13.00 End of Day 2
Day 3: June 18th Star Formation on Large Scales Chair: Ristorcelli
09.30 Bendeguz Simulations of star formation history
10.00 Laschober Modelling SEDs of star-forming galaxies
10.30 Pelkonen Synthetic Galactic Planck and Herschel observations
11.00-11.30 COFFEE BREAK
11.30 Juhasza YSO variability
12.00 Pichlereniko NH3 and CO2 from Effelsberg
12.30 All Meeting Summary
13.00 CONFERENCE ENDS