SHOCKS IN MOLECULAR CLOUDS

A one-day workshop discussed the properties of shocks in star-forming regions. It also reviewed other physical processes in star-forming mol ecular gas, and the progress in numerical modelling of such physics. D iscussion concentrated on the complexity which instabilities in the ga s flow bring to the analysis of shocks. The consensus was that progres s will be made as the spatial/spectral resolution of shock measurement s improves, and as numerical modelling of the nonlinear growth of inst abilities becomes possible, potentially leading to statistical models of shock dynamics.