We are going through the first period of what will be a revolutionary decade for Astrophysics and Cosmology. JWST and ALMA are both giving an unprecedented view and the deepest possible understanding of star formation inside the Milky Way and the distant Universe. The near- and mid- infrared cameras of JWST have already changed our view both in nearby clouds and in galaxies of the Early Universe. At the same time, innovative and very advanced computational approaches allow the simultaneous solution of radiation-magnetohydrodynamics (RMHD) coupled with chemistry, offering the most complete picture of how the interstellar medium evolves across the epochs.

The aim of this conference is to bring together the communities that observe the Universe through the “eyes” of state-of-the-art telescopes and interferometers with those that use cutting-edge RMHD and chemical simulations, whose mutual goal is to study the origin and evolution of the local and distant interstellar medium. The conference will take place at the foot of the world famous Mt. Olympus from Monday 29 May to Friday 2 June 2023. This is the third Olympian Symposium focussing on star-formation, a series of Symposia that started in 2014.

Angela Adamo (Stockholm University, Sweden)
Daniela Calzetti (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)
Kalliopi Dasyra (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)
Mike Grudić (Carnegie Observatories, USA)
Yuichi Harikane (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Tereza Jerabkova (European Southern Observatory, Germany)
Pamela Klaassen (UK Astronomy Technology Centre, United Kingdom)
Yueh-Ning Lee (National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan)
Daniel Price (Monash University, Australia)
Elena Sabbi (STScI Science Mission Office, USA)
Karin Sandstrom (University of California, USA)
Rowan Smith (University of Manchester, United Kingdom)
Vivian U (University of California Irvine, USA)
Freeke van de Voort (Cardiff University, United Kingdom)