[Astronomy seminar] Astronomy Department Seminar - May 20th Ted Mackereth

[Astronomy seminar announcements]

On Friday, May 20th at *14:00* Ted Mackereth (CITA/Dunlap) will give the 
seminar via Zoom. Please note the later time.

*Unravelling the assembly history of the Milky Way: Observations, 
Simulations, Genetic Modification and... Sausages?*

In order to properly understand much of the physics that governs our 
Universe and forms the grand structures that we see in it today, we must 
understand the mass assembly of galaxies. The Milky Way is perhaps the 
only galaxy for which we might one day fully reconstruct its assembly 
history, piece by piece, star by star. In this talk, I will show how, 
through a combination of industrial-scale observational surveys and 
detailed numerical simulations, we can begin to both constrain and 
understand the effects of the Milky Way’s history of assembly. I will 
show how such simulations can provide links between the present day 
properties of Milky Way stellar populations and it’s early dark matter 
assembly, and how these predictions can be directly tested using data 
from Gaia, the SDSS/APOGEE survey and Kepler, K2 and TESS. Finally, I 
will paint a picture of the future of the mission to use the Milky Way 
and nearby galaxies as a tool for understanding galaxy formation on a 
general basis.

We are trying something new this year with leaving the Zoom call open 
after the formal hour of the seminar is up to allow the speaker, if they 
wish, to chat informally with anyone who is interested.

Thanks
Chris and Carolina

Christopher Usher is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: Astronomy Department Seminar - Ted Mackereth
Time: May 20, 2022 02:00 PM Stockholm

Join Zoom Meeting
https://stockholmuniversity.zoom.us/j/61883141606

Meeting ID: 618 8314 1606
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