Tuesday 25 July at 2:30pm

Neill Reid - UPennsylvania

"Dark Matters"

ABSTRACT: "The last few years have seen a revolution in our understanding of the nature and number of very low-mass stars and substellar-mass brown dwarfs. In this talk I will review some of those results, concentrating on the form of the initial mass function and the likely contribution made by those objects to the local mass density. I will also summarise some recent results on the likely frequency of binary brown dwarfs."