This was the presentation that I gave at Symposium Day 2010. All graduate students in the dept. of Physics & Astronomy at McMaster University must give a symposium presentation after their first year of research.

1. Simulating the Formation
of Massive Stars
Mikhail Klassen, M.Sc. Candidate 2011

2. How do stars form?
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3. How do stars form?
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4. Massive stars: not like low-mass stars
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6. The need for numerical simulation
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7. Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR)
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Banerjee, Pudritz, & Anderson 2006
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8. Sink particles
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10. Implementing radiative feedback
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11. HII bubbles
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Peters et al. 2010a
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13. Heating and gas fragmentation
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14. Sources of luminosity
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15. Protostellar evolution
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Hosokawa & Omukai 2009
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16. Magnetic fields
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17. Conclusion
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18. Thank you