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OATS-DAUT SEMINAR
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Speaker: Gabriella De Lucia (Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik - Garching)

Title: Modelling and observing galaxy clusters up to z~1

Date: Wednesday, April 26th, 2006
Time: 12:00 noon
Venue: Villa Bazzoni

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Abstract:
Semi-analytic models represent a tool for studying galaxy formation and evolution. Such models can be used in a powerful way in order to understand the relative importance of different physical processes in determining the ever more detailed picture of our Universe. I will review aims, limits and methods of these models and I will discuss, through a number of applications, how these models can be used to develop observational tests that can help us in understanding the physics of galaxy formation and evolution. The discussion will include some recent results obtained in the framework of the Eso Distant Cluster Survey (EDisCS), a survey of 20 clusters from redshift ~0.4 to ~1.
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