December 14, 2018 7-9PM

Event Type: Lecture and Stargazing
Title: Understanding the Formation and Evolution of Galaxies
Lecturer: Cameron Hummels
Position: Prize Postdoctoral Fellow
Institution: Caltech
Abstract:
Galaxies, like our own Milky Way, are among the basic building blocks in our universe. Discovered only one hundred years ago, galaxies are complex systems consisting of billions of stars, along with gas and dark matter. They occupy much of what we see when we point our telescopes up in the night sky. I will discuss what scientists have learned about galaxies both from telescope observations as well as sophisticated computer simulations to better understand how galaxies form and evolve since the birth of our universe.