Dr. Chris Matzner, CITA

"Stellar feedback, the ends of the IMF, and star cluster formation"

Abstract:
Star formation is sometimes modeled as the collapse of an isothermal gas, 
but this description misses the stars' own environmental impact.  I will 
discuss feedback on two scales -- in the formation of single stars, and in 
the collective influence of stars during the birth of a star cluster -- 
concentrating on the stability of disk accretion and the consequences of 
protostellar outflows.  Feedback is significant in determining the brown 
dwarf population, the stellar upper mass limit, the relation between the 
core and star mass functions, and the overall properties of dense and 
active stellar cluster-forming regions.