Upcoming Era in Numerical Galaxy Formation - New Possibilities and Challenges

Astronomy Colloquium (2018 Spring Semester)

* Date: May 24
* Speaker: Ji-Hoon Kim (SNU)
* Title: Upcoming Era in Numerical Galaxy Formation – New Possibilities and Challenges
* Abstract

When experimenting with stars and galaxies is humanly impossible, numerical experiments are often the only means to test our theory of galaxy formation — the building block of cosmological structure formation. Fortunately, the community of numerical galaxy formation has benefited a lot from the ever-improving computing technology over the past decades. In this talk, I will discuss the new possibilities in the upcoming era of high-resolution numerical galaxy formation, and highlight efforts to overcome the accompanying challenges. I will also describe the AGORA initiative — the community effort to guarantee the “reproducibility” of galaxy formation simulations, and to raise the predictive power of numerical cosmology.

Date	Speaker	Title	Remarks
Feb. 28 (Wednesday)	Andre-Nicolas Chene (GEMINI Staff members)	The Journey of a Gemini Observer	Special Colloquium
March 8		No colloquium (replaced by the event on Mar 20)
March 15	Sungryong Hong (KIAS)	Network Cosmology : What I have learned from galaxy `Facebook`.
March 20 (Tuesday)	Marios Karouzos (Nature Astronomy)	What is Nature Astronomy and how do I get published in it?	Special Colloquium
March 22	Sangwook Park (Univ. Texas Arlington)	Chandra X-Ray Kinematics Study of Young Supernova Remnants
March 29	Myoungwon Jeon (Kyung Hee Univ.)	Formation of the First Galaxies and their Connection to Local Dwarfs
April 5	이강환 (서대문자연사박물관)	과학커뮤티케이터가 본 과학과 사회	Speech in Korean
April 12	Aeree Chung (Yonsei Univ.)	Molecular Gas Properties of HI Monsters
April 19		중간고사 (No Colloquium)
April 26	Jihye Shin (KASI)	Introduction of Horizon Run 5 project and the other ongoing projects using numerical simulations	Speech in Korean
May 3	Allard Jan van Marle (UNIST)	Magnetohydrodynamics of the circumstellar medium
May 10		한국 천문학회
May 17	Ann Zabludoff (Univ. Arizona)	Attack of the Lyman-Alpha Blobs: A Multi-Wavelength and Polarization Study
May 24	Ji-Hoon Kim (SNU)	Upcoming Era in Numerical Galaxy Formation – New Possibilities and Challenges
May 31	Myungshin Im (Astronomy program, SNU)	Electromagnetic Radiation from the Gravitational Wave Source GW170817: Dawn of Multi-Messenger Astronomy
June 7	Deokkeun An (Ewha Womans Univ.)	Demographics of Stellar Populations in the Milky Way Galaxy

2018 Spring semester detail