Severo Ochoa postdoc M. Stringer seminar at the IAC

The Severo Ochoa postdoctoral fellow Martin Stringer, who recently joined the IAC, will give a regular seminar on 2014 April 22nd entitled Galaxy properties as a fingerprint of cosmology & fundamental physics.

Start date: 22 Apr, 2014 - 12:30
End date: 22 Apr, 2014 - 14:00
Location: Aula, IAC Headquarters, Tenerife.
Organizer: Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias

Abstract:

Any viable theory of the formation and evolution of galaxies should be able to broadly account for the emergent properties of the galaxy population, and their evolution with time, in terms of fundamental physical quantities. Yet, when citing the key processes we believe to be central to the story, we often find ourselves listing from a vast and confusing melee of modelling strategies & numerical simulations, rather than appealing to traditional analytic derivations where the connections to the underlying physics are more tangible. By re-examining both complex models and recent observational surveys in the spirit of the classic theories, we will investigate to what extent the trends in the galaxy population can still be seen as an elegant fingerprint of cosmology and fundamental physics.

The research activity of Dr. Stringer is focused around the theory of galaxy formation and evolution, including the physics of star formation, supernovae, active galactic nuclei, and in particular cosmology and the imprints that our evolving Universe leaves on the properties of galaxies.