Contact information
Name:
Scott Shelley
Phone:
6103305223
Email:
shelleys@lafayette.edu
Categories:
When:
Tuesday, April 18, 2017 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Where:
Hugel Science Center, Room 115
Presenter:
Sheehan Ahmed, Rutgers University
Price:
Free
Please join the physics department in welcoming Sheehan Ahmed from Rutgers University for a talk on Tuesday, April 18th at noon in Hugel 115. This is a particularly important event for you to attend, as he is a candidate for a visiting assistant professor position at Lafayette for academic year 2017-18. Any feedback you can provide to David Nice after the conclusion of the talk would be greatly appreciated.
The talk is entitled Baryons and their Effects on Planes of Satellites Around Milky Way-Mass Galaxies.
A description of the talk follows:
A significant fraction of the satellite galaxies around the Milky Way and Andromeda are known to lie on thin planes. Whether this comes naturally out of the Lambda-CDM paradigm of the Universe or not has been a point of contention for a while. In this talk, I will discuss whether or not similar satellite planes are found in N-body simulations of our Galaxy and how the inclusion of baryons in these simulations affects both the satellite population and the formation of these planes.
As always, lunch will be provided.
Sponsored by:
Physics Department