Philipp Gast (AIP)
Formation of dense gas cores due to supernova remnant-cloud interactions
Ewald Puchwein (Cambridge University, UK)
Cosmic reionization and the thermal history of the intergalactic medium: Confronting simulations with the latest Lyman-alpha forest, Lyman-alpha emitter and CMB data
Pavel Kroupa (Bonn)
The vast polar structures around the Milky Way and Andromeda, and the implications thereof for fundamental physics