MPA Galaxy Group Meetings

This page shows the schedule for the Galaxy Group Meetings at MPA. Unless otherwise specified, meetings are Wednesdays at 11:00 in room 401.

For more information and access to the mailing list, please contact Natalia Lahén or Maria Werhahn.

Winter/Spring 2024

17 January 2024 Speaker 1: Guinevere Kauffmann: The Diffuse HI around nearby spiral galaxies: new perspectives from combining VLA Interferometry with single-dish data from the FAST radio telescope (Jing Wang, Xuchen Lin et al.)
Speaker 2: Simon White: Precision MARS Mass Reconstruction of Abell 2744: Synergizing the Largest Strong Lensing and Densest Weak Lensing Datasets from JWST (Cha et al. 2023)
24 January 2024 Speaker 1: Natalia Lahén: Where do stars explode in the ISM? -- The distribution of dense gas around massive stars and supernova remnants in M33 (Sarbadhicary et al. 2023)
31 January 2024 Speaker 1: Maria Werhahn: Simulating the LOcal Web (SLOW) -- III: Synchrotron Emission from the Local Cosmic Web (Boess et al. 2023)
Speaker 2: Simona Vegetti: A massive compact quiescent galaxy at z=2 with a complete Einstein ring in JWST imaging (van Dokkum et al. 2023) The COSMOS-Web ring: in-depth characterization of an Einstein ring lensing system at z~2 (Mercier et al. 2023)
7 February 2024 Speaker 1: Sunmyon Chon: SLIDES: JWST CEERS and JADES Active Galaxies at z = 4-7 Violate the Local M-M* Relation at >3σ: Implications for Low-mass Black Holes and Seeding Models (Pacucci et al. 2023), The Redshift Evolution of the M-M* Relation for JWST's Supermassive Black Holes at z>4 (Pacucci et al. 2024)
14 February 2024 Speaker 1: Jenny González Jara (UC Chile, Santiago): Chemical fingerprints of stellar halo assembly
21 February 2024 Speaker 1: Fabrizio Arrigoni Battaia: The ALMA-CRISTAL survey. Discovery of a 15 kpc-long gas plume in a z=4.54 Lyman-alpha blob (Solimano et al. 2024)
Speaker 2: Gaoxiang Jin: JWST Reveals Powerful Feedback from Radio Jets in a Massive Galaxy at z = 4.1 (Roy et al. 2024)
28 February 2024 Speaker 1: Antti Rantala: On Binary Formation from Three Initially Unbound Bodies (Atallah et al. 2024)
Speaker 2: Bo Peng: Hot gas accretion fuels star formation faster than cold accretion in high redshift galaxies (Kocjan et al. 2023)
6 March 2024 Speaker 1: Akash Vani: A NIRCam-dark galaxy detected with the MIRI/F1000W filter in the MIDIS/JADES Hubble Ultra Deep Field (Pérez-González et al. 2024)
13 March 2024 Speaker 1: Nikolaos Shiamtanis: The SRG/eROSITA All-Sky Survey: First catalog of superclusters in the western Galactic hemisphere (Liu et al. 2024)
20 March 2024 Speaker 1: Jan Burger: A too-many dwarf galaxy satellites problem in the M 83 group (Mller et al. 2024)
Speaker 2: Silvia Rueda Vargas: Dissecting a miniature universe: A multi-wavelength view of galaxy quenching in the Shapley supercluster (Aghanim et al. 2024)
27 March 2024 Speaker 1: Daniela Galárraga-Espinosa: he structure and dynamics of massive high-z cosmic-web filaments: three radial zones in filament cross-sections (Lu et al. 2023)
3 April 2024 Speaker 1: Simon White: The mass distribution in and around the Local Group: exploring its formation history in a LCDM context
10 April 2024 Speaker 1: Bo Peng: JWST NIRSpec Spectroscopy of the Remarkable Bright Galaxy GHZ2/GLASS-z12 at Redshift 12.34 (Castellano et al. 2024), Detection of ionized hydrogen and oxygen from a very luminous and young galaxy 13.4 billion years ago (Zavala et al. 2024)
Speaker 2: Thorsten Naab: The onset of bar formation in a massive galaxy at z~3.8 (Amvrosiadis et al. 2024)
17 April 2024 Speaker 1: Aniket Bhagwat: Reionization after JWST: a photon budget crisis? (Muñoz et al. 2024)
Speaker 2: Simona Vegetti: General multipoles and their implications for dark matter inference (Cohen et al. 2024)
24 April 2024 Speaker 1: Eric Rohr (MPIA Heidelberg): Going out with a bang: the deaths of jellyfish galaxies in TNG50
Speaker 2: Wladimir Banda Barragan (Yachay Tech University): Hydrodynamic shielding in galactic winds

Fall 2023

11 October 2023 Speaker 1: Natalia Lahén: FORGE'd in FIRE: Resolving the End of Star Formation and Structure of AGN Accretion Disks from Cosmological Initial Conditions (Hopkins et al. 2023)
18 October 2023 Speaker 1: Meenakshi Moun (IUCAA, Pune, India): Modelling observational aspects of jet feedback: Ionization, emission, kinematics and polarization
Speaker 2: Simon White: Excluding fuzzy dark matter with sizes and stellar kinematics of ultrafaint dwarf galaxies (Dalal & Kravtsov 2022)
25 October 2023 Speaker 1: Maria Werhahn: Simulating the LOcal Web (SLOW) -- III: Synchrotron Emission from the Local Cosmic Web (Böss et al. 2023)
Speaker 2: Simona Vegetti: A massive compact quiescent galaxy at z=2 with a complete Einstein ring in JWST imaging (van Dokkum et al. 2023) The COSMOS-Web ring: in-depth characterization of an Einstein ring lensing system at z~2 (Mercier et al. 2023)
1 November 2023 Public Holiday: no GGM
8 November 2023 Speaker 1: Guinevere Kauffmann: Polar-ring galaxies in the Illustris TNG50 simulation (Smirnov et al. 2023)
Speaker 2: Gaoxiang Jin (Mountrichas et al. 2023)
15 November 2023 Speaker 1: Akash Vani: Quenching massive galaxies across cosmic time with the semi-analytic model SHARK v2.0 (Lagos et al. 2023)
Speaker 2: Bo Peng: SLIDES: What we (might) have learnt about galaxies in the very early universe with JWST spectroscopy.
22 November 2023 Speaker 1: Fabrizio Arrigoni Battaia: A surprisingly high number of dual active galactic nuclei in the early Universe (Perna et al. 2023)
Speaker 2: Antti Rantala: the DRAGON-II suite of N-body simulations of globular cluster evolution (Arca Sedda et al. 2023 I, Arca Sedda et al. 2023 II, Arca Sedda et al. 2023 III)
29 November 2023 Speaker 1: Devon Powell: Project Dinos I: A joint lensing-dynamics constraint on the deviation from the power law in the mass profile of massive ellipticals (Tan et al. 2023)
Speaker 2: Iker Millan Irigoyen: Dust depletion of metals from local to distant galaxies
06 December 2023 Speaker 1: Christian Partmann: An evolutionary continuum from nucleated dwarf galaxies to star clusters (Wang et al. 2023)
Speaker 2: Saleem Zaroubi: Measuring the cosmological 21-cm dipole with 21-cm global experiments (Ignatov et al. 2023)
13 December 2023 Speaker 1: Eileen Herwig: JADES: A large population of obscured, narrow line AGN at high redshift (Scholtz et al. 2023)
20 December 2023 Speaker 1: Thorsten Naab: Coevolution of Dust and Chemistry in Galaxy Simulations with a Resolved Interstellar Medium (Hu et al. 2023)
Speaker 2: Celine Peroux: Bipolar Outflows out to 10~kpc for Massive Galaxies at Redshift z~1 (Guo et al. 2023)

Summer 2023

3 May 2023 Speaker 1: Simon White: Deciphering Lyman-alpha Emission Deep into the Epoch of Reionisation (Witten et al. 2023)
Speaker 2: Akash Vani: Are the ultra-high-redshift galaxies at z > 10 surprising in the context of standard galaxy formation models? (Yung et al. 2023)
10 May 2023 Speaker 1: Koki Kakiichi (University of California, Santa Barbara): Photometric IGM Tomography Across Cosmic Time
Speaker 2: Aniket Bhagwat: Galaxy Morphology from z~6 through the eyes of JWST (Huertas-Company et al. 2023)
17 May 2023 Speaker 1: Fabrizio Arrigoni Battaia: Neutral outflows in high-z QSOs (Butler et al. 2023)
Speaker 2: Guinevere Kauffmann: Intracluster light in the core of z~2 galaxy proto-clusters (Werner et al. 2023)
24 May 2023 Speaker 1: Hannah Stacey: Recent developments in the search for candidate runaway supermassive black holes (van Dokkum 2023b, Sanchez-Almeida et al. 2023, Zaritsky et al. 2023)
31 May 2023 Speaker 1: Simon White: The Highest-Redshift Balmer Breaks as a Test of LambdaCDM (Steinhardt et al. 2023)
Speaker 2: Natalia Lahén: An extremely metal poor star complex in the reionization era: Approaching Population III stars with JWST (Vanzella et al. 2023)
7 June 2023 Speaker 1: Ritali Gosh (Indian Institute of Science): Ram Pressure Stripping in Clusters: a tale of three phases
Speaker 2: Daniela Galárraga-Espinosa: A SPectroscopic survey of biased halos In the Reionization Era (ASPIRE): JWST Reveals a Filamentary Structure around a z = 6.61 Quasar (Wang et al. 2023); The MOSDEF-LRIS Survey: Detection of Inflowing Gas Towards Three Star-forming Galaxies at z~2 (Weldon et al. 2023)
14 June 2023 Speaker 1: Claude Cournoyer-Cloutier (McMaster University): The evolution of binary populations and cluster structure during star cluster formation
21 June 2023 Speaker 1: Stavros Pastras: Colour jumps across the spiral arms of Hubble Ultra Deep Field galaxies (Martínez-Garzía et al. 2023)
Speaker 2: Joanne Tan: Constraining the Fraction of Tidal Disruption Events among AGNs hosted by Dwarf Galaxies

Winter/Spring 2023

18 January 2023 Speaker 1: Adam Schaefer: PHANGS-JWST First Results: The Dust Filament Network of NGC 628 and its Relation to Star Formation Activity (Thilker et al. 2023)
25 January 2023 Speaker 1: Guinevere Kauffmann: Molecular gas cloud properties at z~1 revealed by the superb angular resolution achieved with ALMA and gravitational lensing (Dessauges-Zavadsky et al. 2023)
Speaker 2: Natalia Lahén: Fraction of stars in clusters for the LEGUS dwarf galaxies (Cook et al. 2023)
1 Feburary 2023 Speaker 1: Nahir Munoz Elgueta: Evidence for extended gaseous reservoirs around AGN at cosmic noon from ALMA CO(3-2) observations (Jones et al. 2023)
Speaker 2: Hannah Stacey: Detection of H I 21 cm emission from a strongly lensed galaxy at z 1.3 (Chakraborty & Roy 2023)
8 Feburary 2023 Speaker 1: Kwang-Il Seon: Mg II Radiative Transfer in galactic environments: the doublet line ratio and escape fraction
15 Feburary 2023 Speaker 1: Hannah Stacey: A candidate runaway supermassive black hole identified by shocks and star formation in its wake (van Dokkum et al. 2023)
22 Feburary 2023 Speaker 1: Conor O'Riordan: Strong lensing selection effects (Sonnenfeld et al. 2023)
Speaker 2: Maria Werhahn: Understanding the TeV Gamma-ray emission surrounding the young massive star cluster Westerlund 1 (Härer et al. 2023)
1 March 2023 Speaker 1: Simon White: Early Results from GLASS-JWST. XXI: Rapid assembly of a galaxy at z=6.23 revealed by its C/O abundance (Jones et al. 2023)
Speaker 2: Anna Genina: EDGE: The shape of dark matter haloes in the faintest galaxies (Orkney et al. 2023)
8 March 2023 Speaker 1: Reza Ayromlou (U. of Heidelberg): The Closure Radius (Ayromlou et al. 2023)
15 March 2023 Speaker 1: Byeongha Moon (KASI): The Properties of Galaxies within Lyman Alpha Blobs: Connections to the CGM
Speaker 2: Thorsten Naab: The rapid onset of stellar bars in the baryon-dominated centers of disk galaxies (Bland-Hawthorn et al. 2023)
22 March 2023 Speaker 1: Gaoxiang Jin: Discovery of a quiescent galaxy at z=7.3 (Looser et al. 2023); Delving deep: a population of extremely dusty dwarfs observed (Bisigello et al. 2023)
29 March 2023 Speaker 1: Jan Burger: Detailed Chemical Abundances of Stars in the Outskirts of the Tucana II Ultrafaint Dwarf Galaxy (Chiti et al. 2023)
5 April 2023 No GGM
12 April 2023 Speaker 1: Antti Rantala: Direct formation of massive black holes via dynamical collapse in metal-enriched merging galaxies at z~10: fully cosmological simulations (Mayer et al. 2023)
19 April 2023 Speaker 1: Vittoria Brugaletta: Gas and star kinematics in cloud-cloud collisions (Wurster & Bonnell 2023)
26 April 2023 Speaker 1: Christian Partmann: Active Massive Black Hole Found in the Young Star-Forming Dwarf Galaxy SBS 0335-052E (Hatano et al. 2023)
Speaker 2: Marija Minzburg: Abell 1201: Detection of an Ultramassive Black Hole in a Strong Gravitational Lens
(Nightingale et al. 2023)

Fall 2022

12 October 2022 Speaker 1: Ryan Farber: The Interplay between Radiative Cooling and Magnetic Draping
Speaker 2: Charalambos Nikolis: A Tale of Two Fluids: An Analytical Model for Multiphase Galactic Winds
19 October 2022 Speaker 1: Adam Schaefer: Observations of a Magellanic Corona (Kirshnarao et al. 2022)
26 October 2022 Speaker 1: Aniket Bhagwat: (Katz et al. 2022)
Speaker 2: Simon White : The SAMI Galaxy Survey: Physical drivers of stellar-gas kinematic misalignments in the nearby Universe(Ristea et al. 2022)
2 November 2022 Speaker 1: Ivan Cabrera-Ziri: Galactic archaeology with globular clusters in Andromeda
Speaker 2: Celine Peroux: (Parimbelli et al. 2022)
9 November 2022 Speaker 1: Simon Weng: Mapping the Gas and Metals in the CGM with Observations and Simulations
Speaker 2: Anna Genina: roning the folds: The phase space chevrons of a GSE-like merger as a dark matter subhalo detector(Davies et al. 2022)
16 November 2022 Speaker 1: Antti Rantala: Orbital and Radiative Properties of Wandering Intermediate-Mass Black Holes in the ASTRID Simulation(Weller et al. 2022)
Speaker 2: Daniela Galárraga-Espinosa: The Three Hundred project: connection between star formation quenching and dynamical evolution in and around simulated galaxy clusters(Hough et al. 2022)
23 November 2022 Speaker 1: Max Gronke: A biased review of recent papers on small scale gas dynamics (Farber & Gronke 2022, Abruzzo, Fielding & Bryan 2022, Tan, Oh & Gronke 2022, Chen, Fielding & Bryan 2022)
6 December 2022 Speaker 1: Connor O'Riordan: Scanning For Dark Matter Subhalos in Hubble Space Telescope Imaging of 54 Strong Lenses(Nightingale et al. 2022)
13 December 2022 Speaker 1: Tim-Eric Rathjen: SILCC VII -- Gas kinematics and multiphase outflows of the simulated ISM at high gas surface densities(Rathgen et al. 2022)

Summer 2022

11 May 2022 Speaker 1: Ryan Farber: Shocking interactions of supernova remnants with atomic and molecular clouds - the interplay between shocks, thermal instability and gravity in the large cloud regime (Kupilas et al. et al. 2022)
Speaker 2: Natalia Lahén: The formation and early evolution of embedded star clusters in spiral galaxies (Rieder et al. 2022)
18 May 2022 Speaker 1: Rebekka Bieri: Influence of protostellar jets and HII regions on the formation and evolution of stellar clusters (Verliat et al. 2022)
Speaker 2: Arghyadeep Basu: Variation of atomic hydrogen properties with Galactic Latitude
25 May 2022 Speaker 1: Wilma Trick: Rings and spirals in barred galaxies - I. Building blocks (Athanassoula et al. 2009)
Speaker 2: Benjamin Holzschuh: Realistic galaxy images and improved robustness in machine learning tasks from generative modelling (Holzschuh et al. 2022, subm. to MNRAS)
1 June 2022 Speaker: Jessica Hislop: Observational constraints on stellar feedback in dwarf galaxies(Collins & Read 2022)
8 June 2022 Speaker: Guinevere Kauffmann: The Galactic dynamics revealed by the filamentary structure in atomic hydrogen emission (Soler et al. 2022)
22 June 2022 Speaker: Seok-Jun Chang: Lyman alpha radiative transfer

Winter/Spring 2022

26 January 2022 Speaker: Celine Peroux: The eROSITA Final Equatorial Depth Survey (eFEDS): X-ray emission around star-forming and quiescent galaxies at 0.05<z<0.3 (Comparat et al. 2022, A&A subm.)
02 February 2022 Speaker: Simon White: Cosmology with one galaxy? (Villaescusa-Navarro et al. 2022)
09 February 2022 Speaker 1: Adam Schaefer: The role of the cosmic web in the scatter of the galaxy stellar mass - gas metallicity relation (Donnan et al. 2022)
Speaker 2: Thorsten Naab: The dynamics and outcome of star formation with jets, radiation, winds, and supernovae in concert (Grudic et al. 2022)
23 February 2022 Speaker 1: Enrico Garaldi: A Search for H-Dropout Lyman Break Galaxies at z \BF 12-16 (Harikane et al. 2022)
Speaker 2: Jessica May Hislop: Introducing EMP-Pathfinder: modelling the simultaneous formation and evolution of stellar clusters in their host galaxies (Reina-Campos et al. 2022, MNRAS subm.)
02 March 2022 Speaker: Guinevere Kauffmann: New Insights into the Evolution of Massive Stars and Their Effects on Our Understanding of Early Galaxies (Eldridge & Stanway 2022)
09 March 2022 Speaker: Anna Genina: The Dark Matter Halo of M54 (Carlberg & Grillmair 2022, subm.)
16 March 2022 Speaker 1: Christian Partmann: A hidden population of massive black holes in simulated dwarf galaxies (Sharma et al. 2022)
Speaker 2: Vale Gonzalez Lobos: The ALMA REBELS Survey: Efficient Ly-alpha Transmission of UV-Bright z~7 Galaxies from Large Velocity Offsets and Broad Line Widths (Endsley et al. 2022, subm. to MNRAS)
30 March 2022 Speaker 1: Fabrizio Arrigoni Battaia: Probing the Inner Circumgalactic Medium and Quasar Illumination around the Reddest (Lau et al. 2022, subm. to MNRAS)
Speaker 2: Ryan Farber: Cosmic-Ray Transport in Varying Galactic Environments (Armillotta et al. 2022)
13 April 2022 Speaker 1: Aniket Bhagwat: The ionizing properties of two bright Ly\BF emitters in the BDF reionized bubble at z=7 (Castellano et al. 2022)
Speaker 2: Benedetta Spina: When HI goes to HII, when HeII goes to HeIII
20 April 2022 Speaker 1: Adam Schaefer: MeerKAT uncovers the physics of an Odd Radio Circle (Norris et al. 2022)
Speaker 2: Hannah Stacey: Dynamical characterization of galaxies up to z~7 (Rizzo et al. 2022)
27 April 2022 Speaker 1: Simon White: Evidence of ram pressure stripping of WLM, a dwarf galaxy far away from any large host galaxy (Yang et al. 2022)

Fall 2021

6 October 2021 Speaker 1: Monica Barrera: The Signatures of Self-Interacting Dark Matter and Subhalo Disruption on Cluster Substructure (Bhattacharyya et al. 2021)
13 October 2021 Speaker 1: Nahir Munoz-Elgueta: Multi-phase outflows in high redshift quasar host galaxies (Vayner et al. 2021)
20 October 2021 Speaker 1: Hannah Stacey: Quenching of star formation from a lack of inflowing gas to galaxies (Whitaker et al. 2021)
27 October 2021 Speaker 1: Natasha Maddox: Results from the MIGHTEE-HI survey ((paper I), (paper II), (paper III))
Speaker 2: Enrico Garaldi: (Re)Solving Reionization with Lyman-alpha: How bright Lyman-alpha Emitters account for the z=2-8 Cosmic Ionizing Background (Matthee et al., subm.)
3 November 2021 Speaker 1: (POSTPONED) Wilma Trick: Spurious heating of stellar motions in simulated galactic disks by dark matter halo particles (Ludlow et al. 2021)
10 November 2021 Speaker 1: Simon White: Event Horizon Telescope observations of the jet launching and collimation in Centaurus A (Janssen et al. 2021)
Speaker 2: Tiago Costa: The origin of extended Lyman-alpha glow around the first quasars (Costa et al. in prep.)
17 November 2021 Speaker 1: Anna Genina: Satellite mass functions and the faint end of the galaxy mass-halo mass relation in LCDM (Santos-Santos et al.)
Speaker 2: Periklis Okalidis: The two formation pathways of S0 galaxies (Deeley et al. 2021)
24 November 2021 Speaker 1: Conor O'Riordan: Core-collapse, evaporation and tidal effects: the life story of a self-interacting dark matter subhalo ( Zeng et al. 2021)
Speaker 2: Vale Gonzalez Lobos: Reference Sample XII: Morphology of extended Lyman alpha emission in star-forming galaxies ( Rasekh et al. 2021)
1 December 2021 Speaker 1: Abhijeet Anand: The CGM2 Survey: Circumgalactic O VI from dwarf to massive star-forming galaxies (Tchernyshyov et al. 2021)
Speaker 2: Guinevere Kauffmann: Evidence for the connection between star formation rate and evolutionary phases of quasars (Chen et al. 2021)
8 December 2021 Speaker 1: Fabrizio Arrigoni Battaia: Massive molecular outflow and 100 kpc extended cold halo gas in the enormous Lyman-alpha nebula of QSO1228+3128 (Li et al. 2021)
Speaker 2: Wilma Trick: Spurious heating of stellar motions in simulated galactic disks by dark matter halo particles (Ludlow et al. 2021)

Summer 2021

23 June 2021 Speaker 1: Jessica May Hislop: The IMF and multiplicity of stars from gravity, turbulence, magnetic fields, radiation and outflow feedback (Mathew and Federrath 2021)
30 June 2021 Speaker 1: Tiago Costa: Anisotropic satellite galaxy quenching modulated by black hole activity (Mart\EDn-Navarro et al. 2021)
7 July 2021 Speaker 1: Guinevere Kauffmann
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14 July 2021 Speaker 1: Adam Schaefer
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21 July 2021 Speaker 1: Reza Ayromlou
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28 July 2021 Speaker 1:
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Spring 2021

24 March 2021 Speaker 1: Guinevere Kauffmann: OzDES Reverberation Mapping Program: The first Mg II lags from five years of monitoring (Yu et al. subm)
31 March 2021 Speaker 1: Valentina Gonzalez: Tracing the simulated high-redshift circumgalactic medium with Lyman-alpha emission (Mitchell et al. 2021)
Speaker 2: Matteo Frigo: Ongoing slingshots - the orbital evolution of stellar cores in massive ellipticals with supermassive black hole binaries (Frigo et al. 2021/in prep.)
7 April 2021 Speaker 1: Simon White: Low-mass compact elliptical galaxies: spatially-resolved stellar populations and kinematics with the Keck CosmicWeb Imager (Ferre-Mateu et al. 2021)
14 April 2021 Speaker 1: Thorsten Naab: Spatial Decorrelation of Young Stars and Dense Gas as a Probe of the Star Formation-Feedback Cycle in Galaxies (Semenov et al.)
21 April 2021 Speaker 1: Antti Rantala: Resolving the Complex Evolution of a Supermassive Black Hole Triplet in a Cosmological Simulation (Mannerkoski et al.)
Speaker 2:
28 April 2021 Speaker 1: Enrico Garaldi: Galaxy Stellar Mass Functions from z~10 to z~6 using the Deepest Spitzer/IRAC Data: No Significan Evolution in thee Stellar-to-Halo Mass Ratio of Galaxies in the First Gyr of Cosmic Time (Stefanon et al. 2021)
Speaker 2: Devon Powell: Numerical simulations of dark matter haloes produce polytropic central cores when reaching thermodynamic equilibrium (Sanchez-Almeida et al.)
5 May 2021 Speaker 1: Christian Partmann: The Single-Cloud Star Formation Relation (Pokhrel et al. 2021)
Speaker 2: Hannah Stacey: Nowhere to Hide: Radio-faint AGN in the GOODS-N field. II. Multi-wavelength AGN selection techniques and host galaxy properties (Radcliffe et al. 2021)
12 May 2021 Speaker 1: Jessica May Hislop: Diversity of nuclear star cluster formation mechanisms revealed by their star formation histories (Fahrion et al. 2021)
Speaker 2: Conor O'Riordan: Strong lens modelling: comparing and combining Bayesian neural networks and parametric profile fitting (Pearson et al. subm.)
19 May 2021 Speaker 1: Natalia Lahén: A Search for Wandering Black Holes in the Milky Way with Gaia and DECaLS (Greene et al. subm.)
26 May 2021 Speaker 1: Abhijeet Anand: An Empirical Determination of the Dependence of the Circumgalactic Mass Cooling Rate and Feedback Mass Loading Factor on Galactic Stellar Mass, (Zhang et al. subm.)
Speaker 2: Anna Genina: Internal rotation of MW dSph satellites with Gaia EDR3 (Martinez-Garcia et al. subm.)
2 June 2021 Speaker 1: Alex Barreira
9 June 2021 Speaker 1: Reza Ayromlou: The Imprint of Cosmic Web Quenching on Central Galaxies (Winkel et al. 2021)
16 June 2021 Speaker 1: Periklis Okalidis
Speaker 2:

Winter 2021

27 January 2021 Speaker 1: Simon White: A cuspy dark matter halo (Shi et al. 2021)
3 February 2021 Speaker 1: Anna Genina: Quantifying scatter in galaxy formation at the lowest masses (Munshi et al. 2021, subm. ApJ)
Speaker 2: Tim-Eric Rathjen: SILCC VI - Multi-phase ISM structure, stellar clustering, and outflows with supernovae, stellar winds, ionising radiation and cosmic rays (Rathjen et al., submitted to MNRAS)
10 February 2021 Speaker 1: Wilma Trick: How the bar properties affect the induced spiral structure (Garma-Oehmichen et al. 2021)
Speaker 2: Reza Ayromlou: A new analytic ram pressure profile for satellite galaxies (Vega-Martinez et al. 2021)
17 February 2021 Speaker 1: Nahir Mu\F1oz Elgueta: Multiwavelength dissection of a massive heavily dust-obscured galaxy and its blue companion at z~2 (Hamed et al. 2021)
24 February 2021 Speaker 1: Adam Schaefer: The Fornax3D project: Assembly histories of lenticular galaxies from a combined dynamical and population orbital analysis (Poci et al. 2021)
Speaker 2: Volker Springel: The Origins of Off-Center Massive Black Holes in Dwarf Galaxies (Bellovary et al. 2021, subm. MNRAS)
3 March 2021 Speaker 1: Fabrizio Arrigoni Battaia: The MUSE Extremely Deep Field: the Cosmic Web in Emission at High Redshift (Bacon et al. 2021)
10 March 2021 Speaker 1: Wolfgang Enzi: Non-universality of the mass function: dependence on the growth rate and power spectrum shape (Ondaro-Mallea et al. 2021)
Speaker 2: Hannah Stacey: The Kinematics of z ~ 6 Quasar Host Galaxies (Neeleman et al. 2021)
17 March 2021 Speaker 1: Simona Vegetti: On the origin of surprisingly cold gas discs in galaxies at high redshift (Kretschmer, Dekel, Teyssier subm.)

Fall 2020

7 October 2020 Speaker 1: Celine Peroux: Predictions for the Angular Dependence of Gas Mass Flow Rate and Metallicity in the Circumgalactic Medium (Peroux et al. 2020)
Speaker 2: Simon White: Statistical Microlensing Toward Magnified High-Redshift Star Clusters (Dai 2020)
14 October 2020 Speaker 1: Guinevere Kauffmann: Can galaxy evolution mimic cosmic reionization? (Hassan & Gronke in prep.)
21 October 2020 Speaker 1: Fabrizio Arrigoni Battaia: The QuaStar Survey: Detecting Hidden Low-Velocity Gas in the Milky Way's Circumgalactic Medium (Bish et al. 2020)
Speaker 2: Celine Peroux: The Evolution of the Baryons Associated with Galaxies Averaged over Cosmic Time and Space (Walter et al. 2020)
28 October 2020 Speaker 1: Tiago Costa: Cosmological simulations of quasar fueling to sub-parsec scales using Lagrangian hyper-refinement (Angles-Alcazar et al. 2020)
4 November 2020 Speaker 1: Adam Schaefer: How do central and satellite galaxies quench? - Insights from spatially resolved spectroscopy in the MaNGA survey (Bluck et al. 2020)
Speaker 2: Wilma Trick: The mass of the Milky Way out to 100 kpc using halo stars (Deason et al. subm.)
11 November 2020 Speaker 1: Francesca Fragkoudi: Detection of the LMC-induced sloshing of the Galactic halo (Erkal et al. subm.)
18 November 2020 Speaker 1: Silvia Fiaschi: Effects of Photoionization and Photoheating on Lyman-alpha Forest Properties from Cholla Cosmological Simulations (Villasenor et al. 2020)
Speaker 2: Hannah Stacey: Ubiquitous Molecular Outflows in z > 4 Massive, Dusty Galaxies I & II (Spilker et al. 2020)
25 November 2020 Speaker 1: Devon Powell: A forward-modelling method to infer the dark matter particle mass from strong gravitational lenses (He et al. 2020)
Speaker 2: Reza Ayromlou: Galaxy formation with L-GALAXIES: Modelling the environmental dependency of galaxy evolution and comparing with observations (Ayromlou et al. 2020)
2 December 2020 Speaker 1: Periklis Okalidis
9 December 2020 Speaker 1: Ivan Kostyuk

Summer 2020

6 May 2020 No meeting due to Galaxies & Simulations meeting.
13 May 2020 Simon White: Massive disc galaxies in cosmological hydrodynamical simulations are too dark matter-dominated (Marasco et al. subm.)
Simona Vegetti
20 May 2020 Francesca Fragkoudi: Unravelling stellar populations in the Andromeda Galaxy (Gajda et al. 2020)
Nahir Muñoz Elgueta: GASP XXV: Neutral Hydrogen gas in the striking Jellyfish Galaxy JO204 (Deb et al. 2020)
27 May 2020 Jessica Hislop: The effects of subgrid models on the properties of giant molecular clouds in galaxy formation simulations (Li et al. 2020)
Wilma Trick: Unusual is the Milky Way's Assembly History? (Evans et al. subm.)
3 June 2020 Hannah Stacey: A census of baryons in the Universe from localized fast radio bursts (Macquart et al.)
10 June 2020 Meeting on strike
17 June 2020 Giulia Despali: Simulating the "hidden giant" in cold and self-interacting dark matter models (Sameie et al.)
Dylan Nelson: The imprint of dark subhaloes on the circumgalactic medium (McCarthy et al.)
24 June 2020 Guinevere Kauffmann: The Mass-Size Relation and the Constancy of GMC Surface Densities in the Milky Way (Lada & Dame 2020)
1 July 2020 Fabrizio Arrigoni Battaia: Kinematics of the Circumgalactic Medium of a z=0.77 Galaxy from MgII Tomography (Mortensen et al. 2020)
8 July 2020 Simon May: Soliton Random Walk and the Cluster-Stripping Problem in Ultralight Dark Matter (Schive et al. 2020)
15 July 2020 Abhijeet Anand: Metal enrichment in the circumgalactic medium and Lyα around quasars at z~3 (Guo et al. 2020)
Reza Ayromlou: Study of galaxies on large-scale filaments in simulations (Singh et al. 2020)
22 July 2020 Oliver Zier: Supernova feedback and the energy deposition in molecular clouds (Lucas et al. 2020)
29 July 2020 Periklis Okalidis: Gas Content Regulates the Lifecycle of Star Formation and Black Hole Accretion in Galaxies (Yesuf & Ho subm.)

Winter/Spring 2020

8 January 2020 No meeting. Virgo meeting in Durham.
15 January 2020 No meeting. Postdoctoral talks.
22 January 2020 No meeting. Postdoctoral talks.
29 January 2020 Wolfgang Enzi: Could quasar lensing time delays hint to cored dark matter halos, instead of H0 tension (Blum et al.)
Freeke van de Voort: Is Multiphase Gas Cloudy or Misty? (Gronke & Oh 2019)
5 February 2020
In the new lecture hall
Tiago Costa: Powering galactic outflows with small-scale quasar winds in AREPO
Simon White: The lifecycle of molecular clouds in nearby star-forming disc galaxies (Chevance et al. subm.)
12 February 2020 Dylan Nelson: TBA
Thales Gutcke: Can magnetized turbulence set the mass scale of stars? (Guszejnov et al.)
19 February 2020 Reza Ayromlou: Detection of Missing Baryons in Galaxy Groups with Kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect (Lim et al. 2020)
Silvia Fiaschi: Inhomogeneous HeII reionization in Hydrodynamic Simulations (Upton Sanderbek & Bird, subm.)
26 February 2020 Periklis Okalidis: Galaxy Cold Gas Contents in Modern Cosmological Hydrodynamic Simulations (Davé et al. subm.)
Francesca Fragkoudi: The nuclear disc of the Milky Way: Early formation, long quiescence, and starburst activity one billion years ago (Nogueras-Lara et al.)
4 March 2020 Enrico Garaldi: Constraining the intergalactic medium at z~9.1 using LOFAR Epoch of Reionization observations (Ghara et al. 2020)
Wilma Trick: The Strength of the Dynamical Spiral Perturbation in the Galactic Disk (Eilers et al.)
11 March 2020 Rob Yates: First Census of Sub-kiloparsec Resolution Metallicity Gradients in Star-forming Galaxies at Cosmic Noon from HST Slitless Spectroscopy (Wang et al. 2019, subm.)
Rebekka Bieri: The Obelisk simulation: galaxies contribute more than AGN to HI reionization of protoclusters (Trebitsch et al. 2020, subm.)
18 March 2020 Meeting cancelled
25 March 2020 Guinevere Kauffmann: VLT/XShooter spectroscopy of Lyman Break Analogs: Direct method O/H abundances and nitrogen enhancements (Loaiza-Agudelo et al.)
Simon White: Universality in the structure of dark matter haloes over twenty orders of magnitude in halo mass (Wang et al. 2019, subm.)
1 April 2020 Dylan Nelson: Multiphase Gas and the Fractal Nature of Radiative Turbulent Mixing Layers (Fielding et al. 2020, subm.)
Francesca Rizzo: Giant star-forming clumps? (Ivison et al. 2020, subm) AND Age-chemical abundance structure of the Galaxy I: Evidence for a late accretion event in the outer disc at z ~ 0.6 (Lian et al. 2020, subm)
8 April 2020 Reza Ayromlou: Characteristic masses in galaxy quenching: environmental versus internal effects (Pengfei et al.)
Miha Cernetic: Why do extremely massive disc galaxies exist today? (Jackson et al. subm.)
15 April 2020 Alexandre Barreira: Baryon-CDM isocurvature galaxy bias with IllustrisTNG (Barreira et al.)
Fabrizio Arrigoni-Battaia: What makes Lyα Nebulae Glow? Mapping the Polarization of LABd05 (Kim et al.)
22 April 2020 Timo Halbesma: The Fornax 3D project: Non-linear colour-metallicity relation of globular clusters (Fahrion et al.)
29 April 2020 Devon Powell:The Dekel+ profile: a mass-dependent dark-matter density profile with flexible inner slope and analytic potential, velocity dispersion, and lensing properties (Freundlich et al.)

Autumn 2019

9 October 2019 Thales Gutcke: Simulating Metal Mixing of Both Common and Rare Enrichment Sources in a Low Mass Dwarf Galaxy (Emerick et al. submitted)
Jessica Doppel: Simulating the Spatial Distribution and Kinematics of Globular Clusters within Galaxy Clusters in Illustris (Ramos-Almendares et al., submitted)
16 October 2019 Simon White: MUSEQuBES: Calibrating the redshifts of Lyman-alpha emitters using stacked circumgalactic medium absorption profiles (Muzahid et al. subm.)
Enrico Garaldi: The assembly of dusty galaxies at z>4: statistical properties (Graziani et al. subm.)
23 October 2019 Andrea Ferrara: Lyman Continuum photon escape from galaxies: do we understand it? (a presentation)
Wilma Trick: Hic sunt dracones: Cartography of the Milky Way spiral arms and bar resonances with Gaia Data Release 2 (Khoperskov et al.)
30 October 2019 No meeting. Gender forum.
6 November 2019 No meeting.
13th November 2019 No meeting. Fachbeirat is here.
20 November 2019 Ruediger Pakmor: TBA
Guinevere Kauffmann: The KMOS^3D Survey: data release and final survey (Wisnioski, E. et al 2019)
27 November 2019 Rebekka Bieri: Dense gas formation and destruction in a simulated Perseus-like galaxy cluster with spin-driven black hole feedback
Silvia Fiaschi: Towards a deeper understanding of the physics driving galaxy quenching -- inferring trends in the gas content via extinction
4 December 2019 Devon Powell: Machine learning techniques for gravitational lensing
11 December 2019 Ivan Kostyuk: Reionization history constraints from neural network based predictions of high-redshift quasar continua (Ďurovčíková et al.)
Simon May: Galaxy Formation with BECDM -- II. Cosmic Filaments and First Galaxies (Mocz et al.)
18 December 2019 Giulia Despali: Novel constraints on the particle nature of dark matter from stellar streams (Banik et al.)
Jessica May Hislop: How do bound star clusters form? (Krumholz & McKee)

Spring 2019

15 May 2019 Dylan Nelson: Learning the Relationship between Galaxies Spectra and their Star Formation Histories using Convolutional Neural Networks and Cosmological Simulations (Lovell et al. submitted)
Tobias Buck: TBA
22 May 2019 Guinevere Kauffman: Emission line properties of the most luminous AGN in massive galaxies at intermediate redshifts (Kauffmann & Maraston in prep.)
29 May 2019 Prateek Sharma: Non-uniqueness of cosmic ray two-fluid equations at shocks and possible remedies (Gupta et al. in prep.)
Tiago Costa: AGN-Driven Outflows in Dwarf Galaxies (Manzano-King et al. submitted)
5 June 2019 Nicola Amorisco: Revealing the galaxy-halo connection in IllustrisTNG (Bose et al. submitted)
Francesca Fragkoudi: Life in the fast lane: a direct view of the dynamics, formation, and evolution of the Milky Way's bar (Bovy et al. submitted)
12 June 2019 Fabrizio Arrigoni Battaia: A Giant Intragroup Nebula Hosting a Damped Lya Absorber at z=0.313 (Chen et al. accepted)
Devon Powell: And yet it flips: connecting galactic spin and the cosmic web (Kraljic et al. submitted)
19 June 2019 Enrico Garaldi: How to Quench a Dwarf Galaxy: The Impact of Inhomogeneous Reionization on Dwarf Galaxies and Cosmic Filaments (Katz et al. submitted)
26 June 2019 Wilma Trick: Identifying resonances of the Galactic bar in Gaia DR2: Clues from action space (Trick et al. submitted)
3 July 2019 Giulia Despali: SHARP -- VII. New constraints on warm dark matter free-streaming properties and substructure abundance from flux-ratio anomalous lensed quasars (Hsueh et al. submitted)
10 July 2019 Silvia Bonoli: Barred galaxies in IllustrisTNG and in LGalaxies

Winter 2019

16 January 2019 Melanie Habouzit (CCA, New York): Simulating supermassive black hole formation and evolution
Siddhartha Gupta (Raman Research Institute, Bangalore): TBA
23 January 2019 Thorsten Naab: Star cluster formation in galaxy simulations with feedback from individual stars (Lahen, Naab et al. in prep.)
Thales Gutcke: A mass-dependent slope of the galaxy size-mass relation out to z~3 (Mowla et al. submitted)
30 January 2019 Wilma Trick: Spiral structure in barred galaxies. Observational constraints to spiral arm formation mechanisms (Font et al. 2018)
Prateek Sharma: The Bending Feature of the Fermi Bubbles: A Presumed Horizontal Galactic Wind and Its Implication on the Bubbles' Age (Mou et al. 2018)
6 February 2019 Enrico Garaldi: Constraining the Tail End of Reionization Using Transmission Spikes (Garaldi et al., in prep.)
Robert Yates: Modelling dust production and destruction in cosmological models (Vijayan et al., in prep.)
13 February 2019 Dylan Nelson: Probing Galactic Halos with Fast Radio Bursts (Prochaska & Zheng, 2019)
Francesca Fragkoudi: On the ridges, undulations & streams in Gaia DR2: Linking the topography of phase-space to the orbital structure at the OLR of an N-body bar (Fragkoudi et al., submitted)
20 February 2019 Reza Ayromlou: Quenching low-mass satellite galaxies: evidence for a threshold ICM density (Roberts et al. accepted)
Freeke van de Voort:
Kinematics of Circumgalactic Gas: Feeding Galaxies and Feedback (Martin et al. submitted)
MusE GAs FLOw and Wind (MEGAFLOW) II. A study of gas accretion around z=1 star-forming galaxies with background quasars (Zabl et al. submitted)
27 February 2019 Postponed due to IMPRS Workshop
6 March 2019 Guinevere Kauffmann: On the origin of central abundance drops in the intracluster medium of galaxy groups and clusters (Liu, Zhai & Tozzi accepted)
A volume-limited sample of X-ray galaxy groups and clusters - III. Central abundance drops (Panagoulia et al. 2015)
13 March 2010 Devon Powell: Kinematics with Gaia DR2: The Force of a Dwarf (Carrillo et al. 2019)
20 March 2019 Celine Peroux: TBA
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27 March 2019 Tiago Costa: AGN All the Way Down? AGN-like Line Ratios are Common In the Lowest-Mass Isolated Quiescent Galaxies (Dickey et al. submitted)
SDSS-IV MaNGA: Evidence of the importance of AGN feedback in low-mass galaxies (Koudmani et al. accepted)
Fast and energetic AGN-driven outflows in simulated dwarf galaxies (Penny et al. accepted)
Simon White: TBA
3 April 2019 Fabrizio Arrigoni Battaia: The MUSE Ultra Deep Field (MUDF) - I. Discovery of a group of Lyα nebulae associated with a bright z ≈ 3.23 quasar pair (Lusso et al. 2019)
Giulia Despali: Probing dark matter structure down to 10^7 solar masses:flux ratio statistics in gravitational lenses with line of sight halos (Gilman et al. submitted)
10 April 2019 Nicola Amorisco: Butterfly in a Cocoon, Understanding the origin and morphology of Globular Cluster Streams: The case of GD-1 (Malhan et al. submitted)
Celine Peroux: The ALMA Spectroscopic Survey in the HUDF: CO luminosity functions and the molecular gas content of galaxies through cosmic history (Decarli et al. submitted)
17 April 2019 Easter Holiday
24 April 2019 Ruediger Pakmor: EDGE I: the mass-metallicity relation as a critical test of galaxy formation physics (Agertz et al. submitted)
Volker Springel: The Supersonic Project: Shining Light on SIGOs - a New Formation Channel for Globular Clusters (Chiou et al. submitted)
1 May 2019 May Day
8 May 2019 Wolfgang Enzi: Primordial power spectrum and cosmology from black-box galaxy surveys (Leclercq et al. submitted)

Autumn 2018

10 October 2018 Ruediger Pakmor: Faraday rotation maps of disc galaxies (Pakmor et al. 2018)
Devon Powell: Adaptive beam tracing for numerical radiative transfer (Powell & Abel, in prep.)
17 October 2018 Postponed due to IllustrisTNG meeting
24 October 2018 Simon White: Nearly all the sky is covered by Lyman-alpha emission around high redshift galaxies (Wisotzki et al. 2018)
Philipp Busch: Radiative properties of the first galaxies: rapid transition between blue and red (Arata et al. submitted)
31 October 2018 Rebekka Bieri: On The Nature of Variations in the Measured Star Formation Efficiency of Molecular Clouds (Grudic et al., submitted)
Rob Yates: Is there a missing iron problem in galaxy groups?
7 November 2018 -
Prateek Sharma: The Discovery of a Gravitationally Lensed Quasar at z = 6.51 (Fan et al. submitted)
14 November 2018 -
Francesca Rizzo: The [C II] emission as a molecular gas mass tracer in galaxies at low and high redshifts (Zanella et al., accepted)
21 November 2018 Tiago Costa: A population of luminous accreting black holes with hidden mergers (Koss et al., 2018)
Nicola Amorisco: The Spur and the Gap in GD-1: Dynamical evidence for a dark substructure in the Milky Way halo (Bonaca et al., submitted)
28 November 2018 Giulia Despali: The hidden giant: discovery of an enormous Galactic dwarf satellite in Gaia DR2 (Torrealba et al., submitted)
Reza Ayromlou: The Splashback Radius of Planck-SZ clusters (Zuercher et al., submitted)
5 December 2018 Postponed due to VIRGO meeting
12 December 2018 Celine Peroux: On which scales are metals mixed? (Perroux et al., accepted)
Laura Sales: GCs as dynamical tracers of the dark matter

Spring 2018

25 April 2018 Thorsten Naab: A density cusp of quiescent X-ray binaries in the central parsec of the Galaxy (Hailey)
Simon White: A galaxy lacking dark matter (van Dokkum) and supplementry material
(Special room today: 005 - the little one)
2 May 2018 Guinevere Kauffmann: An excess of massive stars in the local 30 Doradus starburst (Schneider)
Dylan Nelson: Cold Circumgalactic Gas Simulated with a super-Lagrangian Refinement Scheme (in prep.)
9 May 2018 Volker Springel: A massive core for a cluster of galaxies at a redshift of 4.3 (Miller et al. 2018)
Rob Yates: Mass-invariance of the iron enrichment in the hot haloes of massive ellpticals, groups, and clusters of galaxies (Mernier et al., submitted)
16 May 2018 Wilma Trick: Gaia Data Release 2: Mapping the Milky Way disc kinematics (Katz et al. 2018)
Philipp Busch: The SPHINX Cosmological Simulations of the First Billion Years: the Impact of Binary Stars on Reionization (Rosdahl et al., submitted)
23 May 2018 Svitlana Zhukovska:
Cosmological simulation with dust formation and destruction (Aoyama et al., submitted)
Francesca Fragkoudi:
1. Bar resilience to flybys in a cosmological framework (Zana et al., submitted)
2. In disguise or out of reach: First clues about in-situ and accreted stars in the stellar halo of the Milky Way from Gaia DR2 (Haywood et al., submitted)
30 May 2018 Reza Ayromlou: Baryon Content in a Sample of 91 Galaxy Clusters Selected by the SouthPole Telescope at 0.2 < z < 1.25 (Chiu et al.)
Simon White: Measuring radial orbit migration in the Galactic disk (Frankel et al.)
6 June 2018 Wolfgang Enzi: Modeling evolution of dark matter substructure and annihiliation boost (Hiroshima et al.)
Dominika Wylezalek: Finding and characteristing AGN and AGN feedback signatures in SDSS-MaNGA (Wylezalek et al. 2018) & (He et al., accepted)
13 June 2018 Matteo Frigo: The formation of extremely diffuse galaxy cores by merging supermassive black holes (Rantala et al., submitted)
Francesca Rizzo: Why are classical bulges more common in S0 galaxies than in spiral galaxies? (Mishra et al., accepted)
20 June 2018 Tim-Eric Rathjen: Stellar populations dominated by massive stars in dusty starburst galaxies across cosmic time (Zhang et al. 2018)
Giulia Despali:
1. The impact of baryonic discs on the shapes and profiles of self-interacting dark matter halos (Sameie et al., accepted)
2. Preliminary results on strong lensing with SIDM simulations (Despali et al., in prep.)
27 June 2018 Thorsten Naab:
1. Cooler and smoother - the impact of cosmic rays on the phase structure of galactic outflows (Girichidis et al., submitted)
2. The imprint of cosmic ray driven outflow on Lyman-alpha spectra(Gronke et al., submitted)
Anaelle Halle: UniverseMachine: The Correlation between Galaxy Growth and Dark Matter Halo Assembly from z=0-10 (Behroozi et al., submitted)
27 June 2018 Aneesh Baburaj: Stellar Velocity Dispersion: Linking Quiescent Galaxies to their Dark Matter Halos (Zahid et al. 2018)
Alice Shapley: The redshift evolution of rest-UV spectroscopic properties in Lyman Break Galaxies at z ~ 2-4 (Du et al., accepted)

Winter 2018

31 January 2018 Rebekka Bieri: The combined effect of AGN and supernovae feedback in launching massive molecular outflows in high-redshift galaxies (Biernacki)
Philipp Busch: Painting galaxies into dark matter halos using machine learning (Agarwal)
7 February 2018 Matteo Frigo: The connection between mass, environment and slow rotation in simulated galaxies (Lagos)
Dylan Nelson: Near-ultraviolet Spectroscopy of Star-forming Galaxies from eBOSS: Signatures of Ubiquitous Galactic-scale Outflows (Zhu)
14 February 2018 Francesca Rizzo: A 3D Bayesian modelling technique: studying the kinematics of lensed galaxies (in prep)
Guinevere Kauffmann: The GALAH survey: properties of the Galactic disk(s) in the solar neighbourhood (Duong)
21 February 2018 Wilma Trick: On the relevance of chaos for halo stars in the solar neighbourhood II (Maffione)
Rob Yates: SDSS IV MaNGA - Properties of AGN host galaxies (Sanchez)
28 February 2018 Svitlana Zhukovska: After The Fall: The Dust and Gas in E+A Post-Starburst Galaxies (Smercina)
Simon White: Dust in the reionization era: ALMA observations of a z=8.38 Galaxy (Laporte), Dusty galaxies in the Epoch of Reionization: simulations (Behrens)
7 March 2018 Elisa Ritondale: Probing the nature of dark matter by forward modeling flux ratios in strong gravitational lenses (Gilman)
14 March 2018 Giulia Despali: Kinematics, Turbulence and Star Formation of z ~1 Strongly Lensed Galaxies seen with MUSE (Patricio)
Simona Vegetti: Constraining sterile neutrino cosmologies with strong gravitational lensing observations at redshift z~0.2
21 March 2018 (no galaxy meeting this week)
28 March 2018 Anaelle Halle: Radial migration in a stellar galactic disc with thick components
Francesca Fragkoudi: Formation of S0s via disc accretion around high-redshift compact ellipticals (Diaz)
4 April 2018 Reza Ayromlou: Mass functions from the excursion set model (Hiotels)
Max Eisenreich: Relativistic jet feedback III: feedback on gas disks (Mukherjee)
10 April 2018 Benedetta Ciardi: Discussion on the observation of the 21cm absorption from EDGES and its theoretical expectations
(Special day: TUESDAY, New Lecture Hall)

Fall 2017

4 October 2017 Dylan Nelson: The Size Evolution of Star-forming and Quenched Galaxies in the IllustrisTNG simulation
Max Eisenreich: The life cycle of starbursting circumnuclear gas discs
11 October 2017 Simon White: Galaxy evolution in the metric of the Cosmic Web
Ben Moster: Galaxy Sizes
18 October 2017 Chervin Laporte: A unified model for age-velocity dispersion relations in Local Group galaxies: Disentangling ISM turbulence and latent dynamical heating
Philipp Busch: (I) Simulating galaxies in the reionization era with FIRE-2: galaxy scaling relations, stellar mass functions, and luminosity functions
(II) and morphologies and sizes
25 October 2017 Fabian Schmidt: Imprints of Reionization in Galaxy Clustering
Victor Silva: Confirming chemical clocks with asteroseismology, and age dissection of the Milky Way disk
1 November 2017 No galaxy meeting (holiday).
8 November 2017 Rob Yates: Oxygen abundances from electron temperature measurements: Implications for the mass-metallicity relation
Giulia Despali: ZOMG III: The effect of Halo Assembly on the Satellite Population
15 November 2017 Guinevere Kauffmann: The Second Galactic Center Black Hole?; A Possible Detection of Ionized Gas Orbiting around an IMBH embedded in the Galactic Center IRS13E complex
Timo Halbesma: VEGAS-SSS II: Comparing the globular cluster systems in NGC3115 and NGC1399 using VEGAS and FDS survey data
22 November 2017 Matteo Frigo: SDSS-IV MaNGA: Evidence of the importance of AGN feedback in low-mass galaxies
Dylan Nelson: There is No Missing Satellites Problem
29 November 2017 Anaelle Halle: The structural evolution of galaxies with both thin and thick discs
Nicola Amorisco: Disruption of Dark Matter Substructure: Fact or Fiction?
6 December 2017 Andreas Schmidt: Declining rotation curves at z=2: A natural phenomenon in LCDM cosmology
Reza Ayromlou: Stripping of the Hot Gas Halos in Member Galaxies of Abell 1795

Spring 2017

26 April 2017 Matus Rybak: A Theory for CO Excitation in Star Forming Galaxies
Andreas Schmidt: The first galaxies in the BLUETIDES simulation
3 May 2017 Amy Jones: SDSS-IV Manga: bulge-disc decomposition of IFU datacubes (BUDDI)
10 May 2017 Simona Vegetti: New Constraints on the free-streaming of warm dark matter from intermediate/small scale Lyman-alpha forest
Anaelle Halle: Observational hints for radial migration in disc galaxies from CALIFA
17 May 2017 Giulia Despali: The Immitigable Nature of Assembly Bias: The Impact of Halo Definition on Assembly Bias
Cristiano De Boni: The splashback radius of halos from particle dynamics: II. Dependence on mass, accretion rate, redshift, and cosmology
24 May 2017 No galaxy group meeting (institute trip)
31 May 2017 Yannick Bahé: Optical colors and spectral indices of z=0.1 EAGLE galaxies with 3D dust radiative transfer code SKIRT
Rüdiger Pakmor: Simulating the interaction of jets with the intra-cluster medium
7 June 2017 Thomas Peters: SILCC-Zoom: The dynamical and chemical evolution of molecular clouds
Dylan Nelson: Small-scale galaxy clustering in the EAGLE [and Illustris] simulations
14 June 2017 Malin Renneby: A first constraint on the average mass of ultra diffuse galaxies from weak gravitational lensing
21 June 2017 Thorsten Naab: The origin of fast molecular outflows in quasars: molecule formation in AGN-driven galactic winds
Svitlana Zhukovska: Effects of dust evolution on the abundances of CO and H2
28 June 2017 Philipp Busch: Splashback Shells of Cold Dark Matter Halos
5 July 2017 Matteo Frigo: The impact of AGN feedback on two-dimensional kinematic and population properties of simulated galaxies
Salvatore Cielo: Backflows by active galactic nuclei jets: global properties and influence on supermassive black hole accretion

Winter 2017

18 January 2017 Matus Rybak: "Extended ionized and clumpy gas in a galaxy at z=7.1 revealed by ALMA"
25 January 2017 Simon White: "Assembly bias and the cosmic web"
Thomas Peters: "SILCC IV: Impact of radiation on the ISM and Hα emission"
1 February 2017 Matteo Frigo: "SAMI: Galaxy Classification through High-order Kimenatics"
Philipp Busch: "Halo assembly bias from Separate Universe simulations"
8 February 2017 Akin Yildirim: "The IMF in the Nearest Strong Lenses from SNELLS"
Maximilian Eisenreich: "Multi-phase nature of a Radiation-Driven Fountain in an AGN"
15 February 2017 Malin Renneby: "Effects of baryons and neutrinos on large-scale structure"
Guinevere Kauffmann: "Progress towards localizing FRB host galaxies"
22 February 2017 Annaëlle Hallé: "Phase-space structure of collisionless spherical systems"
Dylan Nelson: "Offsets between member galaxies and dark matter in clusters"
1 March 2017 Rebekka Bieri: "FIRE-2 simulations: physics vs. numerics in galaxy formation"
8 March 2017 Yannick Bahé: "Blue diffuse galaxies: a clearer picture"
Thorsten Naab: "Interstellar radiation fields in simulated dwarf galaxies"
15 March 2017 Andreas Schmidt: "The LAGER survey: cosmological reionization at z ~ 7"
22 March 2017 Prakriti Choudhury: "Cosmic ray feedback heating of the intracluster medium"
Amy Jones: "Environmental trends of stellar age and metallicity gradients"
29 March 2017 Facundo Gomez: "The Monoceros ring and the Tri-And overdensity"
Svitlana Zhukovska: "Modelling Dust Evolution with a Multiphase ISM"
5 April 2017 Elisa Ritondale: "A 2 keV lower bound on DM thermal relics from lensing"
Antonela Monachesi: "Variation of the stellar IMF in spirals and ETGs"

Autumn 2016

28 September 2016 Nicola Amorisco: "The globular cluster systems of 54 Coma Ultra-diffuse galaxies"
5 October 2016 Simon White: "Quiescence and black hole mass in central galaxies"
Yannick Bahé: "The origin of the alpha-enhancement of massive galaxies"
12 October 2016 Elisa Ritondale: "Dark matter and IMF normalization in Virgo dwarfs"
19 October 2016 Anabele Pardi: "Magnetic fields and chemical evolution of the ISM"
Prakriti Choudhury: "Stability of cold gas in cluster cores"
26 October 2016 Mika Rafieferantsoa: "Tidal stripping as a test of satellite quenching"
Guang-Xing Li: "The formation of star clusters in turbulent media"
2 November 2016 Dylan Nelson: "Bursty star formation feedback and cooling outflows"
Antonela Monachesi: "GIBS III. Metallicity and kinematics of 26 Galactic bulge fields"
9 November 2016 Rob Yates: "Chemical evolution and the SNe Ia delay time distribution"
Fabrice Durier: "MUFASA: Star formation, gas, and metal properties across cosmic time"
16 November 2016 Guinevere Kauffmann: "AGN feedback and MgII absorption around massive galaxies"
Rebekka Bieri: "Quasar-driven high-z outflows with Radiation Hydrodynamics"
23 November 2016 Giuila Despali: "Local group galaxies with sterile neutrino dark matter"
Facundo Gomez: "The rich structure of nearby stellar haloes revealed by Gaia and RAVE"
30 November 2016 Max Eisenreich: "AGN feedback, quiescence, and CGM enrichment in ETGs"
Andreas Schmidt: "Subhalo Demographics in the Illustris Simulation"
7 December 2016 Bernhard Röttgers: "Insights into CGM absorption line analysis using simulations"
Annaëlle Hallé: "Star formation triggered by galaxy interactions in modified gravity"

Spring 2016

6 April 2016 Yannick Bahé,"The evolution of metallicity and metallicity gradients from z=2.7-0.6 with KMOS3D"
Amy Jones, "On the OVI Abundance in the Circumgalactic Medium of Low-Redshift Galaxies"
13 April 2016 Andreas Schmidt,"Monsters in the Dark: Predictions for Luminous Galaxies in the Early Universe from the BlueTides Simulation"
Ryan Endsley, "Physical Properties of Local Star-Forming Analogues to z~5 Lyman Break Galaxies"
20 April 2016 Thomas Peters, "Simulating the Formation of Massive Protostars: I. Radiative Feedback and Accretion Disks"
Giulia Despali, "Revealing the z~2.5 Cosmic Web With 3D Lyman-Alpha Forest Tomography: A Deformation Tensor Approach"
27 April 2016 Chia-Yu Hu, "The EMPIRE Survey: Systematic Variations in the Dense Gas Fraction and Star Formation Efficiency from Full-Disk Mapping of M51"
Dylan Nelson, "The connection between galaxy morphology, halo spin, and merging history in the Illustris simulation"
4 May 2016 Mika Rafieferantosoa,"Linear relation between HI circular velocity and stellar velocity dispersion in early-type galaxies, and slope of the density profiles"
Amy/Miranda (report on Galaxies 2016 conference)
11 May 2016 Rob Yates, "A sub-solar metallicity threshold for superluminous supernova progenitors"
Dijana Vrbanec, "Intensity Mapping of the [C II] Fine Structure Line during the Epoch of Reionization"
18 May 2016 Matus Rybak, "A Magellanic Origin of the DES Dwarfs"
Guinevere Kauffmann, "The imprint of radial migration on the vertical structure of galaxy disks"
25 May 2016 Simon White," Detection of the Splashback Radius and Halo Assembly bias of Massive Galaxy Clusters"
Bernhard Röttgers, "Bimodality of low-redshift circumgalactic O VI in non-equilibrium EAGLE zoom simulations"
1 June 2016 Maximilian Eisenreich, " Cosmological Galaxy Evolution with Superbubble Feedback II: The Limits of Supernovae"
Matteo Frigo, "Suppressing star formation in quiescent galaxies with supermassive black hole winds"
8 June 2016 Special Universe Talk on spiral patterns in galaxies by Jerry Sellwood
15 June 2016 Ryan Endsley, "Effects of Local Environment and Stellar Mass on Galaxy Quenching Out to z~3"
Koki Kakiichi, "Cosmic Galaxy-IGM HI Relation at z~2-3 Probed in the COSMOS/UltraVISTA 1.6 deg^2 Field"
22 June 2016 Thorsten Naab, "The SILCC project: III. Regulation of star formation and outflows by stellar winds and supernovae"
Svitlana Zhukovska, "Large and small-scale structures and the dust energy balance problem in spiral galaxies"
29 June 2016 Cancelled: external review
6 July 2016 Miranda Jarvis,"Reconciling the Stellar and Nebular Spectra of High Redshift Galaxies"
Facundo Gomez, "The effects of bar-spiral coupling on stellar kinematics in the Galaxy"

Winter 2016

13 January 2016 Postdoc Interviews
20 January 2016 Philipp Girichidis, "Vertical Equilibrium, Energetics, and Star Formation Rates in Magnetized Galactic Disks Regulated by Momentum Feedback from Supernovae"
Simona Vegetti, "Constraints on the identity of the dark matter from strong gravitational lenses"
27 January 2016 Matus Rybak, "Dispersal of tidal debris in a Milky-Way-sized dark matter halo"
Rob Yates, "Iron in the ICM of groups and clusters: Confronting a newly homogenised dataset with galaxy evolution models"
3 February 2016 Ryan Endsley, "Gas rich and gas poor structures through the stream velocity effect"
Matteo Frigo, "The fate of high-redshift massive compact galaxies"
10 February 2016 ROOM CHANGE TO 401! Antonela Monachesi, " The Eating Habits of Milky Way Mass Halos: Destroyed Dwarf Satellites and the Metallicity Distribution of Accreted Stars"
Svitlana Zhukovska, " Cosmic Reionization On Computers. Ultraviolet Continuum Slopes and Dust Opacities in High Redshift Galaxies"
17 February 2016 No Meeting (IMPRS Workshop)
24 February 2016 Anne Klitsch,"Metallicity gradients in Local Universe galaxies: time evolution and effects of radial migration"
Philipp Busch, "The Effects of Lyman-Limit Systems on the Evolution and Observability of the Epoch of Reionization"
2 March 2016 Bernhard Röttgers, "How Environment Affects Galaxy Metallicity through Stripping and Formation History: Lessons from the Illustris Simulation"
Maximilian Eisenreich, "It's not easy being green: The evolution of galaxy colour in the EAGLE simulation"
9 March 2016 Chiara Spinello, "Radial Trends in IMF-Sensitive Absorption Features in Two Early-Type Galaxies: Evidence for Abundance-Driven Gradients"
16 March 2016 Canceled

Autumn 2015

16 September 2015 Arpita Roy (RRI Bangalore): "Superbubbles: energetics, feedback, and escape paths"
Andreas Peterson: "The Assembly of Stellar Galactic Halos"
23 September 2015 (No meeting)
30 September 2015 Yannick Bahé: "Gas dynamics in tidal dwarf galaxies"
7 October 2015 Philipp Girichidis, "Magnetic and gaseous spiral arms in M83"
Matus Rybak, "Dark influences: imprints of dark satellites on dwarf galaxies" and "Dark influences II: gas and star formation in minor mergers of dwarf galaxies with dark satellites"
14 October 2015 Andreas Schmidt, "Large fluctuations in the hydrogen-ionizing background and mean free path following the epoch of reionization"
Amy Jones, "Halo dust detection around NGC 891"
21 October 2015 Koki Kakiichi, "Large-scale clustering of Lyman-alpha emission intensity from SDSS/BOSS"
Maximilian Eisenreich, "Neutral hydrogen in galaxy clusters: impact of AGN feedback and implications for intensity mapping"
28 October 2015 CANCELLED (MPA OUTING)
4 November 2015 ROOM CHANGE TO 401! Antonela Monachesi, "The mass profile of the Milky Way from the Illustris simulations"
Bernhard Röttgers, "The fundamental plane of star formation in galaxies revealed by the EAGLE hydrodynamical simulations"
11 November 2015 Mike Anderson, "A Deep XMM-Newton Study of the Hot Gaseous Halo Around NGC 1961"
Nicola Amorisco, "An attempt to deconstructing contributions to the accreted stellar halo"
18 November 2015 ROOM CHANGE TO 005! Facundo Gomez, "Stellar streams around the Magellanic Clouds"
Richard D'Souza, "The massive end of the stellar mass function"
25 November 2015 Svitlana Zhukovska, "Measures of galaxy dust and gas mass with Herschel photometry and prospects for ALMA"
Chia-Yu Hu, "The Relationship Between Molecular Gas, HI, and Star Formation in the Low-Mass, Low-Metallicity Magellanic Clouds"
2 December 2015 Thomas Peters, "Impact of supernova and cosmic-ray driving on the surface brightness of the galactic halo in soft X-rays"
Dylan Nelson, "The APOSTLE simulations: solutions to the Local Group's cosmic puzzles"
9 December 2015 Nicola Amorisco, "Modeling GD-1 Gaps in a Milky-Way Potential"

Spring 2015

22 April 2015 Andreas Peterson: "Surface photometry of BCGs and intracluster stars in LCDM"
29 April 2015 Alex Hagen (Penn State): "What makes a Lyman-alpha Emitting Galaxy?"
6 May 2015 Matus Rybak: "Probing high-redshift starburst galaxies with strong lensing"
Guinevere Kauffmann: "Zooming in on accretion: The structure of halo gas"
13 May 2015 Dijana Vrbanec: "Studying reionisation with Lyman alpha emitter surveys"
Maximilian Eisenreich: "X-ray scaling relations of core/-less E/S0 galaxies"
20 May 2015 Bruno Henriques: "Star formation in SAMs with Multiphase Gas"
27 May 2015 Simon White: "A large-scale AGN-driven outflow at z=4.1 observed with MUSE"
Svitlana Zhukovska: "Shaping the Dust-Mass - SFR Relation"
3 June 2015 Amy Jones: "Stellar population trends out to large radius in massive ETGs"
Simona Vegetti: "Kinematic classifications of local interacting galaxies: implications for high-z"
10 June 2015 Thorsten Naab: "Introducing the 'rVINE' regularized tree code"
Antonela Monachesi: "Discovery of ~1000 Ultra-Diffuse Galaxies in the Coma Cluster"
17 June 2015 (No meeting)
24 June 2015 Andreas Schmidt, Facundo Gomez
1 July 2015 Nelson Padilla (Chile)

Winter 2015

14 January 2015 Simona Vegetti: "Measuring the power-spectrum of DM substructure with lensing"
Bruno Henriques: "Sub-mm properties of Lyman-break galaxies at z = 3-5"
21 January 2015 Simon White: "Collisionless Cosmological Simulations"
Yannick Bahé: "Dragonflies and Ultra-Diffuse Galaxies"
28 January 2015 Antonela Monachesi: "Formation of In Situ Stellar Haloes in Milky Way-Mass Galaxies"
Thomas Peters: "The Origin of the Hot Gas in the Galactic Halo"
4 February 2015 Andreas Schmidt: "Structure and Core Properties of Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies"
Maximilian Eisenreich: "AGN-stimulated Cooling of Hot gas in Elliptical Galaxies"
11 February 2015 Chia-Yu Hu: "Equilibrium view on dust and metals in galaxies"
Claudia Lagos: "Molecular hydrogen in EAGLE galaxies"
18 February 2015 Anabele Pardi: "Simulating the LifeCycle of molecular Clouds"
Andrea Gatto: "GMCs in the Early-Type Galaxy NGC4526"
25 February 2015 Rob Yates: "Using GRB afterglows to probe the metallicity of their host galaxies"
Bernhard Röttgers: "Gravitational instability in turbulent multi-component galactic discs"
4 March 2015 Sambit Roychowdhury: "Low-Metallicity Dwarf ISM from Herschel/PACS"
Thorsten Naab: "Magnetized Gas Clouds can Survive Acceleration by a Hot Wind"
11 March 2015 Chiara Spiniello: "Connecting DM Haloes with Galaxy Centres"
Guinevere Kauffmann: "New Results from the GASS Survey"
18 March 2015 Mei-Ling Huang: "The CALIFA survey: A panoramic view on galaxy properties"
Amy Jones: "P-MaNGA: Full spectral fitting and stellar population maps"
25 March 2015 Facundo Gomez: "New ultra faint satellites near the Magellanic Clouds"
Koki Kakiichi: "Redshift-space distortion of galaxy-absorber pairs"

Autumn 2014

1 October 2014 Richard D'Souza: "Assembly Histories of Quiescent galaxies since z = 0.7"
Yannick Bahé: "HI filament in NGC 2403: interaction or accretion"
8 October 2014 Dijana Vrbanec: "How DM haloes grow their potential wells"
Bruno Henriques: "The Eagle simulation"
15 October 2014 (No meeting -- Planned Institute hike)
22 October 2014 Julio Navarro: "The effect of radial migration on galactic disks"
Jo Bovy: "Modeling tidal streams"
29 October 2014 Gergö Popping: "Evolution of atomic and molecular gas in galaxies"
Sambit Roychowdhury: "Inefficient star formation in metal-poor galaxies"
5 November 2014 Thorsten Naab: "Accretion driven metallicity gradients"
Mei-Ling Huang: "Molecular gas depletion time in nearby galaxies"
12 November 2014 (No meeting)
19 November 2014 Chia-Yu Hu: "GIZMO: Accurate Mesh-Free Hydrodynamic Simulations"
Yu Luo: "Resolution problems in Semi-Analytic Models"
26 November 2014 Koki Kakiichi: "Properties of z ~ 3 - 6 Lyman break galaxies"
Facundo Gomez: "Fixing the MW Centre-of-mass with a massive LMC?"
3 December 2014 Guinevere Kauffmann: "Outer stellar populations and environments of HI-rich galaxies"
Andreas Schmidt: "Modelling AGN in cosmological simulations"
10 December 2014 Amanda Ford: "MagiiCAT III: Self-similarity of the CGM with virial mass"
Philipp Girichidis: "Dynamics and outflow properties of the SN-driven ISM"
12 December 2014 (FR) Richard Bower (Durham): "Robert Grosseteste, the first cosmologist?"

Spring 2014

30 April 2014 Richard D'Souza: "Properties of cool circumgalactic gas probed by SDSS, WISE and GALEX"
7 May 2014 Thomas Greif: "The Chemothermal instability in primordial star-forming clouds"
14 May 2014 (No meeting)
21 May 2014 Bruno Henriques: "The Illustris Simulations"
Koki Kakiichi: "Is the local dwarf galaxy count consistent with reionisation?"
28 May 2014 Rob Yates: "The BPT Diagram and MZR at z ~ 2.3 from KBSS-MOSFIRE"
Alejandra Muñoz: "Properties of Sub-mm Galaxies in Semi-Analytic Models"
4 June 2014 Andreas Pawlik: "SN Feedback and Chemical Enrichment by the First Stars"
Claudia Lagos: "Neutral gas in Early-Type galaxies: Comparisons with SAMs"
11 June 2014 Guinevere Kauffmann: "Distribution of α-Elements in M31 Dwarf Galaxies"
Matus Rybak: "Self-interacting DM and baryons in dwarf galaxies"
18 June 2014 Andrea Gatto: "ISM Simulations with SN explosions and magnetic fields"
25 June 2014 (No meeting)
2 July 2014 Chiara Spiniello: "VIMOSaiK-SP study of the ETG NGC 4697"
Bernhard Röttgers: "Stellar orbits in cosmological galaxy simulations"
9 July 2014 Andy Chung: "Lyman-α propagation and shocks"

Winter 2014

15 January 2014 Bruno Henriques: "Galaxy evolution in groups and clusters"
Dante Paz: "Two-point correlation function tests for voids and galaxy groups"
22 January 2014 (No Meeting)
29 January 2014 Andrea Gatto: "Evolution of multiple supernova remnants"
Guillermo Blanc: "The VENGA IFU survey of nearby spiral galaxies"
5 February 2014 Wei Hao: "Secular dynamics in hierarchical three-body systems"
Jing Wang: "Radial distribution of HI gas in Galaxies"
12 February 2014 Shi Shao: "The local Void: For or against ΛCDM?"
Everyone: General discussion about improvements to the meeting
19 February 2014 Andrés Ruiz: "SAM calibration with Particle Swarm Optimisation"
Yu Luo: "Ram pressure stripping in SAMs"
26 February 2014 (No meeting - IMPRS workshop)
5 March 2014 Chervin Laporte: "Galactic Nuclei with Multiple Supermassive Black Holes"
Simona Vegetti: "The Luminosity Function at z ~ 8"
12 March 2014 Guinevere Kauffmann: "The impact of mechanical AGN feedback"
Yannick Bahé: "Evolution and Assembly of GaLaxies and their Environments"
19 March 2014 Mei-Ling Huang: "Molecular gas depletion time of nearby galaxies"
Sambit Roychowdhury: "A study of low-metallicity DLAs at high redshift"
26 March 2014 Fu Jian: "The HI gas and radial profiles in semi-analytic models"
Jarle Brinchmann: "Is there a fundamental mass-metallicity-something relation?"
2 April 2014 Philipp Girichidis: "How cosmic rays from SNR can accelerate the ISM"
Simon White: "A hypervelocity star cluster toward M87"
9 April 2014 Mike Anderson: "Detection of sterile neutrino decay in galaxy clusters?"

Autumn 2013

2 October 2013 Stefan Hilbert: "Lensing and structure of DM haloes"
Jorge Moreno: "Galaxy pairs in a cosmological setting"
9 October 2013 Sambit Roychowdhury: "Star Formation in Atomic Hydrogen Dominated Gas"
Mike Anderson: "Hot Gaseous Haloes Around Galaxies"
16 October 2013 No meeting
23 October 2013 Simona Vegetti: "Milky Way Satellite Properties from Hierarchical Mass Modelling"
Richard D'Souza: "Stellar Haloes of Galaxies"
30 October 2013 Yannick Bahé: "Star Formation Quenching in Group and Cluster Galaxies"
Luca Graziani: "X-rays and Secondary Ionisation Implementation in CRASH"
6 November 2013 Philipp Girichidis: "Galaxy Formation with Local Photoionisation Feedback"
Nelson Padilla: "Void Dynamics from Redshift Space Distortions"
13 November 2013 Ali Rahmati: "Strong HI absorbers and Galaxies at z ~ 3"
Rob Yates: "Dilution in Massive Elliptical Galaxies"
20 November 2013 Diederik Kruijssen: "The Breakdown of Spatially Resolved Star Formation Relations: A Probe of Star Formation Physics"
Kyle Westfall: "Disk Stability and Star Formation"
27 November 2013 Bogdan Ciambur: "Halo properties of galaxies hosting radio-loud AGN"
Chiara Spiniello: "The Initial Mass Function of Massive ETGs"
4 December 2013 Andreas Pawlik
Chia-Yu Hu: "SPH with improved accuracy and its influence on disk galaxies"
11 December 2013 Jonas Johansson: "Diffuse Gas in Galaxies Sheds New Light on the Origin of Type Ia Supernovae"
Koki Kakiichi: "OI absorption systems and reionisation"