CMZOOM

Motivation:

To fill the hole left by the lack of conferences during the COVID-19 pandemic, we are hosting a talk series focusing on star formation in the Milky Way's Central Molecular Zone. This series of talks aims to bring the community up-to-speed on the recent and ongoing research and provide an opportunity for discussion on this exciting topic.

Our plan is to have a talk every 2 weeks, hosted on Zoom. The talks will generally be held every other Thursday at 10am ET (3pm UTC), but we intend to include a few at different times to accommodate other time zones at speaker or attendee request (please speak up about this if you're interested in attending and the "default" time is difficult for you).

The talks should be about 30 minutes, pitched at a level for researchers with some background knowledge of the field (an extended conference talk). There will be plenty of time for open discussion.

We invite anyone interested to join the audience and especially encourage you to invite your postdocs and students to attend. Should you be interested in being kept in the loop via a mailing list, please submit your email address through the Google form in the Sign Up page.

The talk series is called CMZOOM for obvious reasons, but is not to be confused with our close friend, the large SMA CMZoom Survey.