Galaxies' Lunch Topic Series / Spring 2012
Galaxies' Lunch is held every Thursday @noon in RM 1402 (Astronomy Library). Please bring a lunch and join us if
you are interested in and/or study:
1) Observations of
2) Simulations of
3) Theories of
galaxy formation, growth, and evolution. It is an informal meeting with an aim to bring together various viewpoints
and expertise in the areas of galactic and extragalactic astronomy. The meetings cover a range of ideas including star
clusters and gas clouds as integral parts in the understanding of galaxy structure and evolution up to how galaxies
themselves serve as parts of the Universe in a cosmological context.
We will select a couple of people each week to lead an INFORMAL discussion for the following week with the
understanding that anyone should bring up science ideas, pertinent to the group, at any time. This semester's
schedule of topic coordinators is listed below:
| Date | | Topic Coordinator | | Topic(s) | | References/Links
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| May 3 | | Open discussion | | Organization of Summer / Evidence of MOND vs DM from MW satellites | |
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| May 17 | | Ximena & others | | May Symposium at STScI: Gas Flows in Galaxies | |
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| May 24 | | Josh Peek | | Disks 2012 conference in Heidelberg | |
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| June 7 | | Jerry Ostriker | | "Galaxy Mergers: How Much, What Kind & What Effects" | | 1) arXiv e-print (arXiv:1106.5490), Oser et al; "The Cosmological Size and Velocity Dispersion Evolution of Massive Early-type Galaxies" [] 2) Lackner, Cen, Ostriker & Joung: "Building galaxies by accretion and in-situ star formation" [] 3) Hilz, Naab1, Ostriker, Thomas, Burkert & Jesseit: Relaxation and Stripping: "The Evolution of Sizes, Dispersions and Dark Matter Fractions in Major and Minor Mergers of Elliptical Galaxies" [] 4) Hilz, Naab & Ostriker: "How Do Mergers Transform the Size, Shape and Dark Matter Content of Giant Elliptical Galaxies? " []
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| June 21 | | Maureen | | Great Andromeda Workshop at Princeton June 18-20th | |
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| June 28 | | Christine | | Star Formation in Dwarf Galaxies meeting at Lowell Observatory | |
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| July 12 | | Greg Bryan | | Baryon Flows conference | |
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| July 19 | | Ryan Joung | | Gas for cosmology in the nearby Universe | |
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