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Lighting up the Cosmos:
the Origins and History of Star Formation in the Universe
The question of how stars form is one of the most
fascinating problems in modern astronomy. Star formation strongly
influences many other areas of astronomy: from the formation and
evolution of galaxies on the largest physical scales to the formation
of planets on the smallest.
In this talk, Professor Pudritz will first discuss what we have
learned about the extraordinary processes that create stars within
dark clouds in our own Milky Way Galaxy. With this knowledge, we
can begin to unravel how stars formed in other types of galaxies
in the present day, to as far back as 14 billions years ago when
the first stellar systems were formed. Our journey through time
will take us back to the conditions that may have lead to the formation
of the very first stars that lit up the cosmos.
Read The Hamilton Spectator article
by Steve Buist 
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Ralph Pudritz obtained his Ph.D. at the University of British
Columbia in 1980. He was a Natural Sciences and Engineering
Research Council (NSERC) Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute
of Astronomy in Cambridge, England from 1980-1982.
Professor Pudritz joined the faculty at McMaster University
in 1986 after further research fellowships at Berkeley and
the Johns Hopkins University. Research leaves have taken him
to Harvard, the Max-Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Germany,
the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrohysics in Toronto,
and Caltech.
In 1998 – 2000, Pudritz chaired Canada's Long Range
Planning Panel that created the Long Range Plan for Canadian
Astronomy and Astrophysics in this decade His research interests
focus on the astrophysics of star and planet formation.
Ralph
Pudritz’s home page
The Canadian Astronomical
Society’s Long Range Plan:
The Origins of Structure in the Universe
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