You can download the document with the final program (talks and posters) here.

The final book of abstracts, including invited and contributed talks, and posters, is available here.

The conference included four different sessions focused on the most relevant fields of star formation where cosmic rays play a crucial role:

SESSION 1: Role of cosmic rays in star and planet formation: theory and observations.

• Daniele Galli (I): Cosmic-ray ionization in clouds and disks.
• Tommaso Grassi (C): The effects of cosmic rays on microphysics.
• Alexei Ivlev (C): Cosmic-ray ionisation in circumstellar discs.
• Stefano Gabici (I): Cosmic-ray penetration in diffuse clouds.
• Dmitry Chernyshov (C): Role of self-excited turbulence in penetration of cosmic rays into molecular clouds.
• Philipp Girichidis (I): Dynamical and chemical impact of cosmic rays on the ISM.
• Soonyoung Roh (C): Propagation of cosmic rays in magnetized protoplanetary disks.
• Yuri Fujii (C): MHD simulations of protoplanetary disks with non-equilibrium ionization chemistry.
• James Wurster (C): How cosmic rays shape a protostar.
• Thomas Bisbas (C): Cosmic-ray induced destruction of CO in star-forming galaxies and implications for tracing H2 gas.
• Paola Caselli (I): The importance of cosmic rays in star and planet formation.
• David Neufeld (I): The Galactic cosmic-ray ionization rate implied by observations of atomic and molecular ions.
• Takeshi Oka (C): H3+, the ideal probe for in situ measurements of soft cosmic rays.
• Jesus Martin-Pintado (I): On the effects of cosmic rays on Galactic center molecular cloud.
• Shaoshan Zeng (C): Chemical complexity in the Galactic centre GMCs and the imprint of cosmic rays: the nitrogen-bearing family.
• Farhad Yusef-Zadeh (C): Consequences of the high rates of cosmic-ray ionization toward the Galactic center.

SESSION 2: Impact of cosmic rays on the formation of interstellar molecules (observations, models, and laboratory experiments).

• Izaskun Jimenez-Serra (I): The formation of COMs in the ISM: from cold cores to Galactic center molecular clouds.
• Maria Drozdovskaya (C): The role of cosmic rays in setting the chemical content of protoplanetary disk midplanes.
• David Quenard (C): Influence of the cosmic-ray ionisation rate on complex organic molecules chemistry.
• Will Robson Rocha (C): Chemical evolution of PPDs employing optical constants of cosmic-ray processed ice into ProDiMo code.
• Juris Kalvans (C): Cosmic-ray induced diffusion, reactions and destruction of molecules in interstellar ices.
• Wasim Iqbal (C): Nautilus multi grain model: impact of cosmic-ray induced desorption in abundances of COMs in the ISM.
• Melisse Bonfand (C): The influence of cosmic rays on the chemistry in Sagittarius B2.
• Guillermo Munoz-Caro (I): A comparison of UV, X-ray, and ion processing of icy dust analogs.
• Sergio Ioppolo (C): Solid state chemistry driven by cosmic-ray induced secondary electrons.
• Gleb Fedoseev (C): Laboratory simulations of cosmic-ray processing of N2 containing ices at dark cloud conditions.
• Maria Elisabetta Palumbo (I): Experimental studies of the role of cosmic rays in the chemistry of interstellar icy grain mantles.
• Gustavo Adolfo Cruz Diaz (C): Degradation of PAHs and radiation-induced products by cosmic-ray analogs.

SESSION 3: Cosmic rays and the origin of life (ISM, comets, planetary atmospheres, and early Earth).

• Christiane Helling (I): The effect of cosmic rays on the ionisation and chemistry of exoplanets and brown dwarfs.
• John Robert Brucato (C): Heterogeneous catalysis of organic molecules in harsh environments.
• Alexei Struminsky (C): Radiation conditions near exoplanets of G-M-stars.
• Guillaume Gronoff (I): Chemical impact of cosmic rays: towards a new vision of planetary system evolution.
• Vasily Kozhevnikov (C): The simulation of stratospheric discharges sustained by the secondary electrons from cosmic rays.

SESSION 4: Cosmic rays factories: local acceleration in protostars.

• Elena Amato (I): On the mechanisms of particle acceleration in astrophysical sources.
• Donna Rodgers-Lee (C): The ionising effect of low energy cosmic rays from a Class II object on its protoplanetary disk.
• Christian Rab (C): Modelling of high-energy ionization processes in the circumstellar environment of young solar-like stars.
• Alexandre Marcowith (I): In-situ cosmic-ray sources in young stellar objects.
• Francesco Fontani (C): Carbon-chain growth induced by cosmic rays in the Solar-type protocluster OMC2-FIR4.
• Linda Podio (C): Observational constraints on the cosmic-ray ionisation rate in the protostellar shock L1157-B1.
• Ignazio Pillitteri (C): Hot and glowing: the high energy emission of the very young stellar object Elias 29.
• Anabella Araudo (I): Particle acceleration, magnetic field amplification, and gamma-ray emission in protostellar jets.
• Jan Forbrich (I): New perspectives on high-energy processes from stellar radio astronomy.
• Rachael Ainsworth (C): Synchrotron emission in protostellar jet shocks revealed by metre wavelength observations.
• Mayra Osorio (C): Non-thermal radio emission from the jet associated with an intermediate-mass protostar.

POSTERS

• M. Chabot: PAH destruction by heavy cosmic rays and carbon chains production rates.
• L. Colzi: Carbon isotope chemistry in intermediate- and high-mass star forming cores.
• A. Domaracka: Intra-cluster molecular growth processes induced by low-energy ion processing of carbonaceous system.
• Y. Fukui: Cosmic-ray acceleration and star formation in the gamma ray SNR RXJ1713.7-3946.
• M. Hanasz: Synchrotron emission from cosmic-ray driven galactic winds in star-forming galaxies.
• Juris Kalvans: Temperature spectra for interstellar grains heated by cosmic rays.
• M. Ogrodnik: Piernik MHD code: modelling energy dependent transport of cosmic-ray electrons with energy spectrum.
• B. Ramzan: Structure of interstellar clouds with cosmic rays and waves.
• V. M. Rivilla: The role of cosmic rays and other energetic phenomena in the chemistry of P-bearing molecules in the Galactic Center.
• H. Rothard: Radiolysis and sputtering of carbon dioxide ice by swift (MeV-GeV) ions.
• H. Sano: A star-forming dense cloud core embedded within the brightest gamma-ray SNR RX J1713.7-3946.
• C. Shingledecker: Cosmic ray-driven radiation chemistry in astrochemical models.
• D. Woltanski: Synchrotron signatures from the cosmic-ray driven dynamo.
• Y. Yamane: Cosmic ray acceleration and star formation in the superbubble 30 Doradus C.