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X-WR-CALNAME: IAC Talks: Open Astronomy Seminars
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X-WR-CALDESC: IAC Talks upcomming talks
SUMMARY:Models of our Galaxy: why, how and what they do for us
DESCRIPTION:Models of our Galaxy: why, how and what they do for us\nProf. J
 ames J. Binney\n\nThe study of the Milky is expected to have a major impac
 t on our understanding of how galaxies form and evolve. "Near-field cosmol
 ogy" is being vigorously pursued through a series of major surveys of the 
 Galaxy's stellar content (2-MASS, SDSS, RAVE, Hermes, Apogee, Gaia) that a
 re either in hand or pending. It will be argued that what we want to know 
 is deeply buried in these data and can only be extracted by comparing the 
 surveys with a hierarchy of dynamical models of ever increasing complexity
 . Work currently being done to build such hierarchical models will be desc
 ribed, and some early results from this work will be summarised.
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