Name: Joel Primack
Institution: Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, UCSC
University of Washington
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Title: Galaxy Mergers: Simulations, Observations, and
Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN)
Abstract:
In this informal talk, I will summarize the large suites of
high-resolution hydrodynamic simulations of galaxy encounters that
my current and former PhD students have been running and analyzing,
and comparisons with observational data especially from the ongoing
DEEP2 survey. In particular, I will discuss what the data from
DEEP tell us about the morphologies of the galaxies that host AGNs,
and the implications for theoretical models.
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