Cold Cores - Helsinki 9.-11.6.2025

The 15th annual meeting of the Cold Cores project will be held in Helsinki from Monday the 9th till Wednesday the 11th of June 2025. The days will consist of scientific talks, discussion sessions, and possible mini workshops.

SOC: Isabelle Ristorcelli, Mika Juvela

Practical information

The Cold Cores 2025 meeting takes place at the Helsinki university Kumpula campus, at the physics department, in the Physicum building. The address is Gustaf Hallstromin katu 2, and here is a link to the Google maps.
Information on accommodation options and public transportation can be found at the end of this page. Some information on the options for social programme can be found through this link.

Programme

The meeting begins at 9:00 on Monday the 9th of June and ends at lunch time (around 13:00) on Wednesday the 11th of June. The conference dinner will be organised in the evening of Tuesday the 10th of June, in downtown Helsinki. The name of the restaurant is Konstan Möljä. The booking is 19:45 under the name Devika Tharakkal (see also Google map and the restaurant web page).

In the list below, names and titles in italic refer to remote presentations. All times are for the EEST time zone, the local time in Helsinki.

Monday the 9th of June

Tuesday the 10th of June

Wednesday the 11th of June

List of participants

• Alina, Dana (Nazarbayev University): Magnetic field of the ring-like molecular cloud G111
• Demyk, Karine (IRAP, Toulouse)
• Doi, Yasuo (University of Tokyo): Magnetic Field Structure in the High-Mass Star-Forming Complex W33
• Falgarone, Edith (ENS, Paris): CN Zeeman mapping of the W3OH molecular cloud
• Harju, Jorma (University of Helsinki)
• Joó, András Péter (ELTE, Budapest): Earliest Stages of Star Formation in Planck Compact Sources within OMC
• Juhász, Áron (ELTE, Budapest): THESEUS and the Multiwavelength Study of YSOs
• Juvela, Mika (University of Helsinki): Modelling dust emission of Orion Molecular Cloud 3
• Kiviaho, Wilma (Paris Observatory)
• Koncz, Bendegúz (ELTE, Budapest): The history of galaxy mergers and star formation in IlustrisTNG
• Mai, Xiaofeng (Shanghai Observatory, University of Helsinki)
• Mannfors, Emma (University of Helsinki): Lambda Orionis: feedback and dust evolution in irradiated molecular ring
• Marshall, Douglas (IRAP, Toulouse): Gaia distance tool update
• Mattila, Kalevi (University of Helsinki)
• Montillaud, Julien (Besancon observatory): B-FROST
• Oers, Jonathan (IRAP, Toulouse): Statistical analysis of the relative orientation between filaments and magnetic fields using Herschel and Planck data in star-forming regions
• Pattle, Kate (UCLAN): The interaction between magnetic fields and feedback: from stars to galaxies
• Pelkonen, Veli-Matti (IAPS-INAF): Synthetic galaxy observations: first comparison with Planck and Herschel
• Pichler, Enikő and Juhász, Áron (ELTE, Budapest): HI kinematics and star formation in the nearby dwarf galaxy DDO 43
• Ristorcelli, Isabelle (IRAP, Toulouse)
• Tharakkal, Devika (University of Helsinki): Simulations of dust polarisation
• Toth, Viktor (University of Debrecen; ELTE, Budapest): Detecting gas infall to molecular clouds and cloud cores
• Tram, Le Ngoc (MPIfR, Bonn): Grain Alignment and Dust Polarization: What do we know?
• Umetaliev, Temirkul (Nazarbayev University): Deep learning approach for filaments’ position angle determination
• Varga, Nóra (ELTE, Budapest): Comparative Study of the Structure and Polarization Patterns in Heiles Clouds 1 and 2
• Vorster, Job (University of Helsinki): JOYSy+: JWST IFU Observations of Dusty Disk Winds
• Ward-Thompson, Derek (UCLAN): Latest results from the JCMT BISTRO Large Program: How magnetic fields influence star formation
• Ysard, Nathalie (IRAP, Toulouse): THEMIS 2 dust models
• Zhu, Enyi (IRAP, Toulouse): NIKA2 observation and 3D modelling of L1506C, a prestellar core in the making