Astronomy Colloquium: James Bullock
Date: Wed. April 13th, 2016, 11:00 am-12:00 pmLocation: Sears 552
Cosmology and the Local Group
James Bullock (UCalifornia, Irvine)
The Local Group and the tiny galaxies that surround the Milky Way provide unique and detailed data sets for testing ideas in cosmology and galaxy formation. In this talk I will discuss how numerical simulations coupled with local “near-field” observations are informing our understanding of dark matter, the formation of the first galaxies, and the physical processes that act at the threshold of galaxy formation.