Infrared Studies of Star-Forming Regions - Summary

Abstract

When Gareth Wynn-Williams first asked me to give this summary talk he specifically requested that I be “provocative.” Having already been to Hawaii three times I realized how much easier it is to be laid back rather than provocative here - indeed, I but rarely rise above the ground energy state. So, the prospect of giving this talk has so terrified me that I have been sitting in the front row taking notes for two days now - something I have never done at any meeting. I even sought out the advice of an expert summarizer and first row sitter, my colleague Virginia Trimble, who advised me not to worry, but to simply “tell them what they should have said but didn't.”